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Getting Things Done:... 07/09 cal is currently reading:
Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity (Paperback)
by David Allen
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August 09
981829 cal godot added American Book of the Dead to the book list Unjustly Forgotten, Wrongly Ignored
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July 30
4042 cal godot added Godless: The Church of Liberalism to the book list The worst books of all time
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July 09
1137 cal godot made a comment in the group Dead Poets SocietyTom Disch Photo topic:
410102 cal wrote: "In honor of Tom Disch, poet, the Dead Poets Society will be flying his photograph as our banner for ...more "
4448 cal godot made a comment in the group Harlan EllisonTom Disch R.I.P. topic:
410102 cal wrote: "Thomas M. Disch never had a large mainstream following but was considered one of the most important ...more "
4440 cal godot made a comment in the group Philip K. DickTom Disch R.I.P. topic:
410102 cal wrote: "Thomas M. Disch never had a large mainstream following but was considered one of the most important ...more "
1137 cal godot made a comment in the group Dead Poets SocietyTom Disch R.I.P. topic:
410102 cal wrote: "Thomas M. Disch never had a large mainstream following but was considered one of the most important ...more "
April 29
4440 cal godot made a comment in the group Philip K. DickIntroduction - Read Me First topic:
410102 cal wrote: "This folder is for threaded discussions of The Man in the High Castle, by Ph...more "
April 27
Gravity's Rainbow cal godot gave 5 of 5 stars5 of 5 stars5 of 5 stars5 of 5 stars5 of 5 stars to:
Gravity's Rainbow (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
by Thomas Pynchon
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April 09
193310 cal godot read and liked brian's review of Last Evenings on Earth (New Directions Paperbook):

"1) viva susan sontag! bolano is the 'it' writer of the moment - and my rebellious and bratty self wanted to hate him. or just not read him. then i saw sontag's seal of approval and knew i had to. holy shit, this woman might have the best taste ever. ...more "
January 25
133661 cal godot read and liked Tosh's review of The Society of the Spectacle:

"It only took 154 pages to change our world. Guy Debord's manifesto/book length essay that is truly a masterpiece of political writing that borders on the poetic. It is also a crystal clear view how culture is formed in the 20th (and of course the...more "




cal's favorite quotes

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"If you do follow your bliss you put yourself on a kind of track that has been there all the while, waiting for you, and the life that you ought to be living is the one you are living. Follow your bliss and don't be afraid, and doors will open where you didn't know they were going to be."
Joseph Campbell

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"Whoso would be a man must be a nonconformist."
Ralph Waldo Emerson

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"Magick is the science and art of causing change to occur in conformity with will."
Aleister Crowley (Magick in Theory and Practice)

"In the very end, civilizations perish because they listen to their politicians and not to their poets."
Jonas Mekas

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"Read, every day, something no one else is reading. Think, every day, something no one else is thinking. Do, every day, something no one else would be silly enough to do. It is bad for the mind to be always part of unanimity."
Christopher Morley




cal's writing

Stories (Literature & Fiction)
3 chapters   —   updated 09/24/2007 10:27AM
description: Unpublished Short Fiction



cal's groups (recent posts)

233 ¡ POETRY ! — 1040 members — last activity 40 minutes ago
No pretensions: just poetry.

Stop by, recommend books, offer up poems (excerpted), tempt us, taunt us, tell us what to read and where to go (to re...more

220 Goodreads Librarians — 1552 members — last activity 1 hour, 48 min ago
A place where people can work together to correct book issues on Goodreads. Examples include combining editions, contacting librarians, fixing book an...more
120 Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn — 77 members — last activity 21 hours, 26 min ago
A group for Lovecraft aficionados and Horror/Genre apologists.
6252 IN GOD(ard) WE TRUST — 25 members — last activity 1 day ago, 05:25PM
a cubist fuckall of... well, to paraphrase sam fuller from Pierrot Le Fou, "a battle ground... love, hate, action, violence, death. In one word: ...more
4448 Harlan Ellison — 15 members — last activity 7 days ago, 05:03AM
Discussing the numerous works and antics of one of America's greatest living short story authors and most notorious literary raconteurs.
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from Jeremy
01/23/2008 08:08PM

630905 I want to apologize for the all the recommendations from me today. I wanted to share the Stoker Award news, and I only pressed the send button once--I'm not sure what happened to create so many messages. Some weird glitch.

Argh...this is terrible...

Again, I'm very sorry.

-Jeremy

from Jeremy
01/01/2008 12:40PM

630905 Here’s wishing you a nifty New Year filled with noiseless noses, neato nicknames, noble Nebraskans, gnarly narcoleptic nebulas, and novel novels about nut-eating narwhals and novercaphobic gnats.

-Jeremy :)

P.S.—I’m currently offering autographed/personally-inscribed copies of my novel, Vacation, with free shipping for those in the US. If there’s anything you could do to help me spread the word about this, I’d really appreciate it. Feel free to click here for details:
http://hauntedhousedressing.co...

from Jeremy
12/25/2007 02:01AM

630905 Thanks for sharing some of your favorite books/authors with me. Slaughterhouse-Five is also one of my favorite novels.

Thanks very much for the feedback and the interest in my book. Your words honor me. Carrying my novel would be awesome. I live about two hours from LA--so the local support would mean a lot to me. Let me know if there's anything I can do.

Here’s wishing you a yippee-filled Yuletime overflowing with yard-long yams, yapping yoyo-yanking yetis, yak-milk yeast-cakes, and yellow yarn-yielding year-end yard-gnomes.

-Jeremy :)

from cal
12/22/2007 10:30AM

410102 Favorite novel? It's an impossible question for me to answer. Even the plural is tough for me. Favorite novels: Gravity's Rainbow. Slaughterhouse-5. Wonder Boys. The Transmigration of Timothy Archer.

Favorite novelists is a much easier question. Vonnegut. Margaret Atwood. Pynchon. Philip K. Dick. Joseph Heller.

Lately I've been reading Pullman's His Dark Materials trilogy. Fun stuff, well-written and somewhat deeply philosophical literature for young adults.

I'd like to read your novel. Your writing style is snappy and vibrant. It feels like each word is actually there. I'm a bit of an old-timer - started writing decades ago on an old manual typewriter (still use a battered 1948 Royal to compose some poems). Sometimes words written on a computer don't seem to really be there the way words on a page, hammered into place by physical mechanics and force of will.

I'm also a manager at an independent bookstore in LA, and handle the ordering for our science fiction titles (as well as graphic novels). I'd be interested in carrying the book, as you appear to be a California (i.e. local) author.



from Jeremy
12/21/2007 09:02PM

630905 Thanks for the friendship, cal!

If you don't mind sharing--I'm curious, what's your favorite novel(if you have one)?

Some of my favorites--1984, Slaughterhouse-Five, A Clockwork Orange, and The God of Small Things.

Also, I was wondering if you'd do me the honor of reading about my debut novel, Vacation. Your support would mean a lot to me. If you'd like to do me this honor, feel free to click here:
http://www.hauntedhousedressin...

Here’s wishing you a fantastic day filled with fabulous fates, fanciful festivities, and frolicking phantom footstools.

-Jeremy :)

















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