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Can Scottie beam up a mean message about relations? After that this word dance ... a cluster of unknowns let loose like Ochman ... defined as expletive ... many great power despise heaps of words ... this Occam ... To*me ... and **giggle** running bare and white doves ... a;ways giving some humor to the elders as they recall such bliss ... as mellowed they thought ignorance about relating was stupid too ...

Life a learning experience about what we we blissful about and not knowing what ? ... just about everything ... that's all, everything that is out there as gods ... thus the imaginary cognate of OBI as OBI-vous when the word is rendered ... evolves ... prescience that was not seen! Twas dark ... raises shadows of conscience ...
 
Discovered an interesting comic series on Hoopla. It's called Planet of the Apes, based not on the current trilogy but rather on the classic 5-film series from the sixties-seventies. It's a prequel to the 1969 Planet of the Apes (starring Charlton Heston) that fills in some of the time period between the last movie prequel in that series, Battle for the Planet of the Apes (1973 starring Roddy McDowall), and the arrival of Heston's character. Well-written piece about how the attempt to have a society of apes and humans living side-by-side in peace (the dream that ape society founder Caesar pursued in Battle) falls apart. There aren't really any heroes or villains in the classic sense. Everyone makes bad decisions and pursues agendas that exacerbate the situation. Definitely allegorical on too many levels and one of those series that show that comics aren't just for kids anymore. It's compiled into graphic novel form with 4 issues per collection. Never read a comic on Hoopla before but I like how it handles it. It lets you go panel by panel instead of page by page, which would make the text unread-ably small on my Galaxy.
 
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Picked up Against Memoir, by Michelle Tea, at the library yesterday. It was on the staff pick shelf, and I’d seen the cover in the bookstore. It’s autobiographical, feminist, lgbtq sympathetic, and rebellious...so far. The few pages I read on the bus yesterday were about how she was abused by her stepfather...she found out he had carved holes in the walls of bedrooms and bathrooms to peep at her and her sister...which, she had long suspected she was being watched. When she confirmed it, mom took stepdad’s side. She ran away as a teen, having learned, in her experience and that of the girls and women she knew, that men get away with everything. Moved in with her girlfriend (she’s a lesbian), and both supported themselves with prostitution. They were call girls, who had sex with men. She describes the vulnerability she felt, and the resentment towards her johns because of what they got away with so she could survive. She and her girlfriend would take turns calling each other’s clients wives to snitch on them, and she said she would steal mementos from their houses before she left calls...just as a way to claim a bit of power back. ...Quite a packed few pages, so far.
 
“At a very simple point, the Reacher stories are revenge stories,” says Child. “Somebody does a very bad thing, and Reacher takes revenge.” When Reacher gives the bully his comeuppance — in the way Jim Grant longed to do — Child’s prose seems to slow down, so that we leisurely savor the act of the enemy’s kneecap exploding or his nose caving in. “Smashed the boss man’s balls like I was trying to punt a football right out of the stadium … I jammed my thumb into his eye. Hooked the tips of my fingers in his ear and squeezed.”

“The guy is just obliterated,” Child says. He smiles. “That’s certainly cathartic for me.”
 
Okay, I'm going to preface this by saying that what I have been reading is very, very NSFW (Not Safe for Work, Wondercafe2, or anywhere else where it might upset or offend). If you are offended or upset by explicit sexual humour or kink, do not go looking for it. I am not linking to it to avoid violating Code so if you go looking, it's on your head.

I have just finished reading the webcomic series Oglaf (Well, finished to date. It's an ongoing series and they come out every Sunday apparently). It's basically XXX rated fantasy stories with some very funny, very inventive takes on both sex and fantasy tropes. It is also very sex-positive, LGBTQ friendly, and generally open-minded. This means, of course, that it occasionally ventures into territory where some of us would rather not go (lots of BDSM in particular). They do, by and large, keep things consensual and of age though. The storytelling varies. Most are single, 8 panel comics but they also do serial stories of varying lengths. Sometimes these are consecutive, sometimes they weave in and out of other stories. There are recurring characters and folks who pop in once and are never seen again. As I said, it's fantasy, heavily influenced by D&D, so some of the humour may fall flat if you're not at least somewhat up on that genre (seeing the Lord of the Rings movies and similar would be enough for some of them).
 
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Okay, I'm going to preface this by saying that what I have been reading is very, very NSFW (Not Safe for Work, Wondercafe2, or anywhere else where it might upset or offend). If you are offended or upset by explicit sexual humour or kink, do not go looking for it. I am not linking to it to avoid violating Code so if you go looking, it's on your head.

I have just finished reading the webcomic series Oglaf (Well, finished to date. It's an ongoing series and they come out every Sunday apparently). It's basically XXX rated fantasy stories with some very funny, very inventive takes on both sex and fantasy tropes. It is also very sex-positive, LGBTQ friendly, and generally open-minded. This means, of course, that it occasionally ventures into territory where some of us would rather not go (lots of BDSM in particular). They do, by and large, keep things consensual and of age though. The storytelling varies. Most are single, 8 panel comics but they also do serial stories of varying lengths. Sometimes these are consecutive, sometimes they weave in and out of other stories. There are recurring characters and folks who pop in once and are never seen again. As I said, it's fantasy, heavily influenced by D&D, so some of the humour may fall flat if you're not at least somewhat up on that genre (seeing the Lord of the Rings movies and similar would be enough for some of them).
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How Machiavellian or down the pipes as the celts would describe dark tubes or tunneling ...
 
I just started "Meet Me At the Museum" by Anne Youngson. Told in a series of letters between an English farm wife and a Professor/Curator of a Museum in Denmark - an exchange of tales & insights of life. I wasn't sure when I began it, but have become quite attached to the characters and story. It's one that causes me to pause & reflect as they do on aspects of life. Will be interesting to see how it develops.
 
Reading the short story collection Zolitude by Paige Cooper. Rather strange, surreal stories. Some have actual fantasy elements (mounted police riding what seem to be griffins in one case), others just have a dream-like quality to them.
 
I just got finished reading through a story competition on another site. I had thought about entering myself but I'm fairly busy these days and didn't really have an idea that fit. The requirements were a bit odd as it is a tribute to a member of the site who passed away a while ago so incorporates a lot of his interests and eccentricities. The maximum length for the stories is 420 words and the number 420 has to appear in the story so that tells you something right there, assuming you know the significance of that number. The stories range from melancholy to hilarious and I'm glad I opted out. I have no idea how I would top some of what I have been reading. Still a few to go but I'm a bit burned out on it right now. Link below for those who may be interested. If you read, please at least score even if you don't sign up to comment. Comps on this site and a sister site that I write for require a minimum number of scores for a story to make the "long list".

Stories Space Dirty Martini 420 Competition
 
So, I opened up Libby, the library e-reading app, to see if there was anything new and wonderful. Didn't have high hopes because London Public really is not doing a good job of selection in ebooks. But, to my delight, they had a few new ones including a very special one: The Flame, Leonard Cohen's final book. He had been working on selecting material for it when he died nearly two years ago but the final arrangement fell to two editors from his publisher and his son Adam. Apparently, the poems which make up the first part of the book were all selected and organized by Leonard. He also picked most of the selections from his vast collection of notebooks (Adam writes about his father's penchant for note keeping in the Foreward). The rest is the editors' doing, including the arrangement of the notes and the selection of Cohen's art that illustrates the book. They do an introduction where they are quite clear on what parts are his work and what are theirs.

Only read the first few poems and they are vintage Cohen. I am missing him all over again.
 
I am back to Barrie Wilson's How Jesus Became a Christian. Giving it another try because I am interested in what he has to say. He is trying to appeal to a non-scholarly readership but I still find it a bit dry.
 
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I am back to Barrie Wilson's How Jesus Became a Christian. Giving it another try because I am interested in what he has to say. He is trying to appeal to a non-scholarly readership but I still find it a bit dry.
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Jesus became Christian by collapsing to the earth ... a Lucid fallacy! Sometimes a metaphor of great essence ... right out of the dark ... an enlightening aspiration ... or fearful experience considering the relating to humanoids? Essence yuol pain ...
 
I've started on Thomas Berry's "The Great Work", because I'm leading a discussion series on it starting in less than 2 weeks.
 
Just something out of past exposure ... that may bear on present conditions:


Of course this will be labelled as falls logic by those with quicker reacting psyches ... a variant to the hinds eight!

Is political correctness in an alternate polity a differing God of idealism? Such chaos to filter through ... especially for those of simple BS! Tis a Minas thingy ... cretian, or deeper myth than apparent? In carnate form ...

A Moor to read implicitly ...
 
Mendalla said:
So, I opened up Libby, the library e-reading app, to see if there was anything new and wonderful. Didn't have high hopes because London Public really is not doing a good job of selection in ebooks. But, to my delight, they had a few new ones including a very special one: The Flame, Leonard Cohen's final book. He had been working on selecting material for it when he died nearly two years ago but the final arrangement fell to two editors from his publisher and his son Adam. Apparently, the poems which make up the first part of the book were all selected and organized by Leonard. He also picked most of the selections from his vast collection of notebooks (Adam writes about his father's penchant for note keeping in the Foreward). The rest is the editors' doing, including the arrangement of the notes and the selection of Cohen's art that illustrates the book. They do an introduction where they are quite clear on what parts are his work and what are theirs.

Only read the first few poems and they are vintage Cohen. I am missing him all over again.
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Some great poems, some of them actually going back a ways. Others are quite recent. There's even a "diss track" where he rips into Kanye West. Not his best, but still one of the most poetic diss tracks ever.
 
This book seems interesting



(I not only like books for whats in them but I also am a fan of design of books)

One of my fav "books" is online
253

By Geoff Ryman
1996
253 people on 7 tube trains
Click on each car to see the lives of the passengers
Their desires
Hopes
Despairs
Fears
And so forth
The descriptions are limited to 253 words as well from 3 different perspectives; outward appearance, inside info, thoughts...
It looks like it isn't up anymore...I am glad I got to read this important work in hypertext

I am surprised to hear that it actually somehow became a book...which won the PK Dick award...

EDIT: thanks 2 archiving
Here is the actual interactve book
Have fun!
253 - interactive novel home
 
Just completed a rereading of Sidney Sheldon's The Other Side of Midnight ... raising some curiosity about his allusions about Noor in Arabic and Thor (Aur) in Nordic evolutions of the story following the dark beginnings indicated by allayl ... that may have been a forerunner of Eve (Ad'm) or Daw pronounced ... "DA" ABBA'd perspective in some views that deny a pile of words as given information and intellect ... and thus anti literacy programs! \

May leave us afloat in a'dhow ... as the oral tradition evolves as lore ... a surrounding bait? Fetcher man right out of the hills 've Kadush ... a vessel of fools as in Lord Jim (ginn)? Opposing the ginn was Golem ... wandering hearts? You may impact on one in the vast array of time ... eternally the chances are large that you cannot avoid't ... such is the nature of essence 've myth and myrrh'd Ur ... and how the lights go out down in GEO Ghia ...

Examine all the alternates ... there's much buried there ... so we could experience absence ... devoid space? Appears where thoughts go in the obscure periods ... blackout!

After that a flash ... as elf heh ... gnome attics from Attica! Greek slippery tale ....
 
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