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This is exactly why we're going there.  I need to thaw out!  I want big
decisions to be weather we should get in the car and drive maybe four
miles over to Doc Ford's, which of the next five types of rum we should
try and what ratio of raw oysters to steamed shrimp we want.
 
In Maryland, looking out the guest bedroom window and realizing that
over half our yards are still covered in snow-
Donnie 

 
If you read Cat's Cradle in a tropical paradise
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> the ice is slowly melting......
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is not going to be your final thought.

Richard 

 
Do the CAKE at the Bubble Room!!

I second the recommended Lit, or anything by Mary Karr, ( except her  
poetry, which I can't get into)  and Let The Great World Spin, and  
will add that I am now reading Roberto Bolano's 2666, and I can hardly  
bear to put it down. Happily, it's 898 pages long! His writing just  
flows and is a joy to read.

RIP: Mark Linkous of Sparklehorse. :-(

Karen

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What it comes down to is this. If every station/group tries to blackmail the
cable companies and they fold, it is a fixed number of dollars per
subscriber per station. Say 1 dollar a month per person (not 7 as fox
demanded and got from time warner). For only 100 of the 200 plus that come
in, that's 100 per month per subscriber (subscriber=you.) Who will pay for
that? It will either mean many fewer channels, pick and choose of only a
relatively few, or drastically increased monthly rates. GFY, stations. You
can't make your ad dollars if you're not being carried on cable.

 

Cat's Cradle, great choice for an island read. And some Grateful Dead music
in the background would round it off. You'll understand why by checking any
Dead album after you've read it. 

 

Don, I just finished Let the Great World Spin, as well, in fact, just this =
past Friday on an airplane. I loved it so much that I was mad at the book f=
or ending. It's hard to explain what it is about that book, but I can't rem=
ember being so affected by something I've read in a long time, maybe ever. =
It's somehow epic and intimate at the same time. Everyone should read it. S=
eriously, I've been telling everyone I speak to about it. I might buy a cas=
e and start handing it out...

- Karla

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I just finished a book that I cared about more than almost
any other for the past several years: =91Let the Great World Turn Spin=92 b=
y Colum
McCann.  The connective tissue
involves Philippe Petit=92s tightrope walk
between the two World Trade Towers in 1974, but the book is steeped in huma=
nity and a wonderful homage to
NYC.  At one point I was gob smacked
that I had such an emotional reaction to something relatively early in a bo=
ok.
And I can also concur with iddiots who=92ve touted
the recent documentary about Phillipe Petit
=91Man on Wire=92; but don=92t be misled, the book is not about him
or the walk.
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If you're ever interested, go to the Paley Center for Media in NYC and watc=
h their copy of "Prometheus 5 or Between Time and Timbuktu", a compilation =
of dramatized stories by Vonnegut that was cobbled together with his blessi=
ngs for PBS.  Stars William Hickey, Bob and Ray, Hurd Hatfield, and Kevin M=
cCarthy as Bokonon.

--- In iddiots@yahoogroups.com, "Don Abrams"  wrote:
>
> The autodidactic part of me has initiated a process whereby every third
> book I read, I read a classic that I don't know. So I'm taking 'Three by
> Vonnegut' with me to Captiva Wednesday.  The collection includes: Cat's
> Cradle, Slaughterhouse-Five and Breakfast of Champions.  Since all the
> Vonnegut I've read so far are just short stories, I'm wondering which
> one of these would be the best first read for a newbie? 

 
Don, note that after you've finished Cat's Cradle, you'll spend some 
time wondering whether the IDD is a karass or a granfalloon.

Eliot 

 
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Friday, March 12, 2010  7:30 PM

Dream Lovers

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Anna Keefe, PhD

Noel Meehan, MSW
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Senior Supervisor & Faculty Member, Training Institute for Mental Health.
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