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I should've checked teh VC before I went apeshit* on Foxwell's fb status.

*not really

I'm about to head to bed and pick up with the "Zooey" section of Salinger's Franny and Zooey

You know my thoughts on that book! Zooey's my favorite of the two stories.

(PS to others -- my cat is named Zooey. )

Happy birthday, Maggie!!!

Hope your day's filled with lots of IPAs and of course the musical stylings of this guy:

Plus the Sears Tower is a globally-known building, being the tallest in the world until very recently.

This is a lot of shit.

he ruptured his achilles in August (he originally had a target return date of June).

Ugh, I had just about put that out of my mind... of course Sooie likes to describe what this is like to watch my reaction...

I couldn't get into Chronicles either.

It's Spring Break, so taking a quick break from the history books:

Bloomington: ORCH-D, row 2! Taking my siblings since my baby brother's a Hoosier.

Happy birthday!!!!!!!!!! :party

bump. Opening it up to non VCers by mid week.

Ted will join if you do!

Cubs/Phillies for me!

Got one for the 7:00!

Probably. It doesn't matter anyway. I'll go to any games. Hell I actually went to White Sox games last year.

 

 

In!

I'd also be interested in a head-to-head league.

Are you in Bloomington? Have you seen or heard any on sale info?

 

Thanks!

No I'm in Chicago... but I've got my brother sleuthing it on the IU student web.

Looks like they're kicking off Little 500 week again. They put on a great show here 3 years ago. (Man, has it been that long?) Jeff had some classic stage banter with the crowd. Even referencing a tread here on Via Chicago about rowdy drunk students. Hilarious.

My brother's competing in the Little 500 this year! Can't wait to take him to this show.

Funny you revived this thread today... yesterday the author of Chicago's Polish Downtown was a guest speaker in my public history class.

Happy birthday!!

Love you sooooooooo much!!

Or, in Fluffy post language:

Franny and Zooey / J.D. Salinger

The Things They Carried / Tim O'Brien

A Rumor of War / Philip Caputo

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy / Douglas Adams

A Tale of Two Cities / Charles Dickens

Honorable mention to O'Brien's If I Die in a Combat Zone, which fills in some of the gaps in TTTC. And also to anything Salinger wrote, ever.

Speaking of Salinger, I'm curious how many of you who listed Catcher in the Rye have read any of his other stuff. Specifically his stories about the Glass family.

Sat a few rows behind Renic & crew.

That would be me.

You're moving here aren't you?

Sooie is!!!!!

Happy birthday!!

Birthday latte!!

I don't. Classic red herring. Daniel's mom is in Oxford. Mrs. Hawkins wasn't in Oxford, she was in LA with Ben.

You're thinking too linearly. There's nothing that says the chronology of all the stuff we saw was a normal timeline.

ALthough last night's episode seemed to hint that Locke really does die, I still think they may have faked his death with the spider that made everyone think Paulo and Nikki were dead. It's possible they just simply dropped their storyline completely when people bitched, but the spider would give their existence SOME meaning.

I listened to a podcast with Cuse and Lindelof last week where they said they wished the time travel rules of Lost made it possible for them to go back and erase Nikki and Paulo from the show, but alas, they still exist on our DVDs.

Happy birthday!!!

then there's the ominous bookstore on wellington & clark. nowhere else does my bookseller personality come out stronger then walking into that joint. he's got books stacked everywhere waiting to be shelved & the prices are really good.

Oh yeah! What does the window say... something about well-done and rare books.

There's also one on Belmont between the train station and Clark, south side of the street. Another one of those cluttered, stacks of books places.