What are you reading?

[TakeAsNeededForPain24]

This Isnt Going To Shock Anyone But Im Reading Cancer As A Social Activity By Mike Williams.

[badcarburetor]

So, did you make it through that inspirational read, yet? Was that a vanity press or a real deal publisher?

Oh, I read it. But I waited until she left. It's very similar to those activity books they give you in Sunday School where you learn the moral du jour and then do some related activity. The other lapsed Catholics in the room know what I'm talking about. The publisher is one of those deals where you order like 50 at a time and they run them off as ordered.

Yeah, that's a vanity press. In my work I'm given a lot of that kind of stuff. It's nearly always bad. And moralistic. Funny, that. I always take my promo copies back to my desk and promptly list them for sale on Amazon. They never sell. Good for your sister that she has a hobbie, I suppose.

I'm still reading this Darkness horror collection because the servers are buzzing and I keep falling asleep. My job is hard.

My husband does similar work, but works well over fifty hours a week. How do so many other people in that line of work seem to have it so much easier. Y'all hiring?

This Isnt Going To Shock Anyone But Im Reading Cancer As A Social Activity By Mike Williams.

Is there any narrartive or prose in that book or is all more freeform/poetry? I've been looking for a copy for a while, but not come across one yet.

[WREKage-Paul]

The other lapsed Catholics in the room know what I'm talking about.

I prefer the term "recovering Catholic," myself.

[Diana]

The other lapsed Catholics in the room know what I'm talking about.

I prefer the term "recovering Catholic," myself.

Me too, babe. It correctly implies harrowing trauma, flashbacks and night sweats.

My husband does similar work, but works well over fifty hours a week. How do so many other people in that line of work seem to have it so much easier. Y'all hiring?

NO WAY, BITCH. This shit's like the Supreme Court -- one of us has to die before we give it up. DON'T EVEN TRY. I WILL CUT YOU.

I finished the horror collection, now the husband wants me to read "A Drifting Life" by Yoshihiro Tatsumi. Not sure why, but whatever, it's two inches thick so it should keep me busy for a while. At my awesome job. That badcarburetor cannot have.

[badcarburetor]

Dizzamn...when a reaction like that that job has to be totally cush. Needless to say, I'm totally putting a cyber flatfoot on your trail, STAT. My ol' man will be under-employed pronto.

[V03GTLIN]

What the hell do you "do," Diana?

[Holiday Rambler]

I tried reading some of the neighborhood paper that I don't subsrcribe to but gets nonetheless chucked into my driveway every day. "The Brookhaven Reporter", I believe.

It's basically what I expected: community announcements and lots of right-wing drivel on the opinion page.

/great story, I know

[Diana]

Dizzamn...when a reaction like that that job has to be totally cush. Needless to say, I'm totally putting a cyber flatfoot on your trail, STAT. My ol' man will be under-employed pronto.

HA! Tell you what, he can handle all the phone calls. I'm not a "people person."

What the hell do you "do," Diana?

Some days even I'm not sure. It kind of goes like this:

We have an AS/400 system that has to be monitored 24/7. There are four of us, and we each work exactly one quarter of the week. I'm day shift Wednesday through Saturday. We're basically security guards for this thing. Messages pop up all day long and we're trusted to know the important ones from the useless ones. Important ones get escalated to folks with actual power (not us), otherwise we just hit ENTER and ignore them. We run reports, swap tapes, free up passwords (Mr. Badcarburetor can have that one too), unstick printers (and this), and very minor hardware support.

If nothing is happening it means we've been successful in maintaining the status quo, and I get to spend all day reading and knitting and dicking around with y'all on this forum. But if we're busy, that means the shit has hit the fan, HAL is pissed off, and people are shouty. Those are the sad times.

[V03GTLIN]

Whoa. What? You're like the black guy (not the limo driver) in Die Hard. Or something like that.

"THE QUARTERBACK IS TOAST."

[Diana]

Whoa. What? You're like the black guy (not the limo driver) in Die Hard. Or something like that.

"THE QUARTERBACK IS TOAST."

I don't know how you did it, but that's exactly the analogy my brain was searching for. I'm that dude.

[Diana]

Wait, let's go back to this:

I tried reading some of the neighborhood paper that I don't subsrcribe to but gets nonetheless chucked into my driveway every day. "The Brookhaven Reporter", I believe.

It's basically what I expected: community announcements and lots of right-wing drivel on the opinion page.

/great story, I know

I had to pick up the "Snellville Shopper" or whatever it's called because Chris needed ad rates for a client. I flipped through the thing and it was all about dowagers attending social events and why a stop sign had to be moved. I recommend it if you're having second thoughts about suicide -- it should do the trick.

[Holiday Rambler]

"THE QUARTERBACK IS TOAST."

"Clay. Bill Clay."

"I pull billion-dollar deals for breakfast, I think I can handle this euroTrash."

waugh-ha-ha

[TakeAsNeededForPain24]

Is there any narrartive or prose in that book or is all more freeform/poetry? I've been looking for a copy for a while, but not come across one yet.




its just pretty much freeform/poetry. i had to order it online.

[Diana]

Pursuant to our previous conversation re Glenn Danzig is a tool:



This photo is larger than actual size. Of Glenn Danzig and of the comic. It's really funny, it's only $4, and it made Danzig sad:

Igloo Tornado

[Knucklehead]

Those book titles are killing me: Werewolves, Hitler's Mom, Twilight, etc.