250,000 presold copies to be delivered around the globe by 9,000 Amazon.com ordered FedEx trucks? I'm gonna have to read one of those Harry Potter's someday. Until then, however, let me suggest one from a transplanted Brooklyner by the name of William Kowalski, his '99 novel, EDDIE'S BASTARD is a real fine "coming of age" story. Also I would like to express my regrets for not being at Bill's Fourth of July Bash and would like to be the first--or if not the first, the skinniest--to say, Happy Birthday Lady Liberty.
Marybeth's niece Theo (who lives here in our building) LOVES Harry Potter. I'll get her review of this latest.
I don't know about that skinniest part... :)--|---<
You have to say "Happy Birthday Lady Liberty," the more times the better, to be considered in the competition.
Bag It, guilt free, please.
Ya'll didn't miss too much. Only one Manhattanite showed and no bklnites. The rest of us were all JC homies including B and Jarred from PM Dawn my neighbors. We climbed the fire escape to get up on top of the roof and had a spledid pan-o-rama up the Hudson to GWB and down to Statin Island and straight accross (dont mind the NYC skyline) to the east river. Of course they were each sync'd clone copies of each other so you were best off to pick a favorite view and let the periphery fill. No saturn shapes but half and half (blue/green, etc) chrysanthimums were cool. Top favorites were cyberie graphic lookin' smilie faces and a "USA" that came and went too quick. Nothin' more useless than 1/2 a tepid bud beer ball. May be I'll put it up on e.bay. Otis programed the music, first Jay Giles and then Thin Lizzy and then Hawkwind.
I know both of these Jim's here and I'll call it a toss up on who's skinnier although I aint seen neither nekid. One Jim has to jump around in the shower to get wet and the other Jim has to shower lying down so he don't slip down the drain. (appologies to Homer and Jethro and Lady Liberty).
The Harry Potter phenomenom was a discouraging thing to me for a long while, with its hogging of the bestseller list because there had been in the last year or two some actual literature that made the list (not to diss pop fiction, I read and enjoy a lot of it), but on reading up on Ms. Rowling and her witchcraft I have to say I myself have fallen under the spell because what could be a better thing for the future of mankind than that there are now unprecedented numbers of kids, and young adults, reading books.
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- jimlouis 7-03-2000 5:04 pm
Marybeth's niece Theo (who lives here in our building) LOVES Harry Potter. I'll get her review of this latest.
I don't know about that skinniest part... :)--|---<
- jim 7-03-2000 10:46 pm [add a comment]
You have to say "Happy Birthday Lady Liberty," the more times the better, to be considered in the competition.
- jimlouis 7-04-2000 3:13 am [add a comment]
Bag It, guilt free, please.
Ya'll didn't miss too much. Only one Manhattanite showed and no bklnites. The rest of us were all JC homies including B and Jarred from PM Dawn my neighbors. We climbed the fire escape to get up on top of the roof and had a spledid pan-o-rama up the Hudson to GWB and down to Statin Island and straight accross (dont mind the NYC skyline) to the east river. Of course they were each sync'd clone copies of each other so you were best off to pick a favorite view and let the periphery fill. No saturn shapes but half and half (blue/green, etc) chrysanthimums were cool. Top favorites were cyberie graphic lookin' smilie faces and a "USA" that came and went too quick. Nothin' more useless than 1/2 a tepid bud beer ball. May be I'll put it up on e.bay. Otis programed the music, first Jay Giles and then Thin Lizzy and then Hawkwind.
I know both of these Jim's here and I'll call it a toss up on who's skinnier although I aint seen neither nekid. One Jim has to jump around in the shower to get wet and the other Jim has to shower lying down so he don't slip down the drain. (appologies to Homer and Jethro and Lady Liberty).
- bill 7-06-2000 9:15 pm [add a comment]
Oh yeah, well how 'bout the Jims are so skinny you could tie rags to their butts and a string around their necks and fly 'em like kites, on a windy day.
- jimlouis 7-07-2000 9:36 pm [add a comment]
The Harry Potter phenomenom was a discouraging thing to me for a long while, with its hogging of the bestseller list because there had been in the last year or two some actual literature that made the list (not to diss pop fiction, I read and enjoy a lot of it), but on reading up on Ms. Rowling and her witchcraft I have to say I myself have fallen under the spell because what could be a better thing for the future of mankind than that there are now unprecedented numbers of kids, and young adults, reading books.
- jimlouis 7-04-2000 3:26 am [add a comment]