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jimmyjimmy

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  1. Seemed like a good time to revisit this. Coincidentally, Salon touched apon the McCain essay today.
  2. I'm horrible at these things. Doesn't help that I get confused as to "what came out in which calender year" either. In the running. Constantines Kinsington Heights Okkervil River The Stand Ins Sigur Ros Me
  3. I've been listening to my vinyl copy at home all week. Sounds brilliant. NP:
  4. Ruptured my achillies tendon about 8-10 yrs back. My scar looks kinda like the laces on a football, which is cool by me. Nurses are the swell-est ppl in the world too BTW. Just needed to throw that out there. And I'm a big fan of drugs. Wonderful wonderful stuff.
  5. Peghead comes from a variety of models...I associate it w/ Les Paul Customs mostly(looks like an ebony fingerboard too). Upper torso, SG, yeah, lower bout a tapered edge Flying V. Gibson design as of late has been pretty horrific. Zakk gained notoriety with Ozzy and has gone on to do his own thing over the years.
  6. Earlier, I looked up the composition of Staff as a building material. With it's accuracy in question, I'd direct you to this wikipedia artice where it references the term "temporary buildings". Apparently not a very hearty material. It is hard to understand given the size, scale and our vantage point all that effort with the mindset of destroying it later. It's a good question, could it be done again and as quickly. Modern issues of infrasturcture, and a lack of regard for safety issues certainly give an advantage to the designers during the late 1890s. Our methods of construction to
  7. link Tesla Motors to build electric sedan in California By MARCUS WOHLSEN
  8. Additionally, @ 40 miles per charge strictly on battery ( which is the point of an electric vehicle anyway ) it would leave me uncomfortable with a 37 mile commute each way. Plus, the Volt is butt ugly. Aesthetics are a consideration in any car purchase. It would be interesting to see where it would fall dollar wise, @ MSRP and with Gov./State incentives factored in. Betting it would be cheaper than one would think.
  9. I think it is, yes. GM has already demonstrated that it can bring a fully electric passenger car to market, but are unwilling to abandon a platform that is sans a combustion engine. To do so would relinquish a great deal of profit obtained from the maintenance of that traditional powertrain. I'd love to own a fully electric car and think there are a great many others who'd be willing to take that leap if it were affordable enough. GM has the opportunity to really move ahead of the pack here, and seriously capitalize on the EV1's success. I just don't think they have the balls to do it.
  10. Yeah, sorry. Been to busy lately to reply. Real quickly, Pendagrast is the only element within the entire book I could've lived without. At least I didn't feel he brought enough to the story to continue to reference to him continually throughout. While interesting, Larson could have just gone into a summation of the man, his psychosis, his infatuation with sending postcards to prominent citizens and the lead up to the murder of Carter Harrison and how that tied into the fair. Again with the trivia stuff: I love the tie-ins with Pabst Blue Ribbon, Cracker Jack, etc.
  11. There's a 192kbps rip of this out there BTW for those interesting in steering away from myspace.
  12. I can't recall were exactly in the book the details of the Ferris wheel gets flushed out, so I hope I'm not jumping ahead too far. 2000 passengers at full capacity. 30+ "Pullman" cars (very heavy). You can almost understand why people were awed to the point of standing below on the platform during the machines first revolutions, loose hardware and other untethered debris raining down.
  13. Olmstead is the one whom I most drawn to this time around (second time through the book). Probably due to having spent a great deal of time in Central Park over the last couple of years and from really trying to recognize what's still evident from the origins and what's changed. And he's such a tormented man. His conscience, his integrity and vision. The fragile physicality. Really makes you appreciate the suffering people had to deal with, especially in his case juxtaposed against his relentless schedule. Your gonna love part III.
  14. We had a local station (WTJU) do a Breakfast w/the Beatles on Sunday mornings for years and years. Long absent now from the programming schedule. Curiously enough, I spun Abbey Road this past Sunday AM...
  15. Well said. He mentions the quotes/source material in the preface also. So for me that goes a long way in capturing an idea, or the essence, of the individual's character, motivations and demeanor within the story. They could have, but they are inexplicably linked. Although you had a situation within a densely populated area growing exponentially due to the influx of people moving into the area the Fair, in ways we probably can't really wrap our heads around now days, amplified that condition considerably. Taking into consideration the chaos generated by all these new people, businesses an
  16. This has turned out to be the case for me over the years as well. I've still got everything through Back in Black left over from my youth. The one I tend to pull out most often is the 1978 live If you want blood you got it. Besides including "Riff Raff" and "Whole Lotta Rosie" I've just always dug that ridiculous campy-ass cover of Angus impaled by an SG.
  17. I'm in also. See if I can get started by weeks end. Assuming I can remember where my copy is??
  18. Three days? Man. That would be a thing. Wake up in the middle of the night half asleep, head for the fridge, click on the light and and spot dead guy chillin in the corner.
  19. This statement is leaving me feeling slightly conflicted. I'll get past it tho. Yeah, me too. But I liked it lots and it's been a few years. This might be a good pick considering all the hype and praise it's received recently. I haven't read it yet but am certainly planning on getting to it at some point in the near future. That said, I'm in and I'm down for whatever the gang picks or HRM Oprah2.0's proclamation.
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