The Medusa Fora

There are still Barnes & Noble stores? Wow. I need to get out more.

DzM wrote:There are still Barnes & Noble stores? Wow. I need to get out more.

If you need to pee in SF, DC, NYC or San Diego they got you covered, for now.


is gonna be there after the .

Jimmy Page will be hand-stamping his book with a design, envisioned by Page, consisting of his signature 'Zoso' logo

I went to a "signing" in Vegas because it's fucking Grumpy Cat! Her minions were stamping the book, for obvious reasons. Beyond the fact that she was asleep. Is the author not signing his opus? Hmmm.

Frances wrote:
I went to a "signing" in Vegas because its fucking Grumpy Cat! Her minions were stamping the book, for obvious reasons. Beyond the fact that she was asleep. Is the author not signing his opus? Hmmm.

Hey, it's Jimmy Freaking Page. Should he risk a repetitive strain injury in on of his guitar-playing hands just to sign a stack of books?

Still, would be cooler if he made a brand new unique potato stamp every day. That's how i would handle it.

Low D wrote: Hey, it's Jimmy Freaking Page. Should he risk a repetitive strain injury in on of his guitar-playing hands just to sign a stack of books?

Still, would be cooler if he made a brand new unique potato stamp every day. That's how i would handle it.

Jimmy Page will be signing... ???
and stamping

Satanists do have to take extra precautions.

I think he's goofy. But I don't want all his fans to turn their attention from calling in trying to win concert tickets from the local FM radio station
to hassling me, so.....

Prompted by a Medusan crewmate (thanks, SF), I finally reread Ray Bradbury's Something Wicked This Way Comes, which I first read around 40 years ago, when I thought it was the best book ever. I've been a bit scared to open it again until now, just in case it wasn't as good as I remembered. But no such problem, it's still a stunning book. So I'm now on a revisiting of Mr Bradbury's stuff.

firehazard wrote:

Doktor Avalanche wrote:Continuing with Bradbury:



Something Wicked This Way Comes

Be interested in your reflections on this. I read it when I was in my mid-teens (approx) and thought it was just about the best thing I'd ever read. I've never dared read it again in more recent years, just in case it turns out not to be as good as I remember it.

I never got back to you, I did enjoy it. I hadn't read it before this, so it wasn't a revisiting as in your case, but I could see where Stephen King got some of his style from.

Motived by an excerpt used in "On this Date..." I"ve just finished

Bare-faced Messiah: The True Story of L. Ron Hubbard, a posthumous biography of Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard by British journalist Russell Miller.

Even crazier than you thought. And that is key, for although Hubbard was both clever and manipulative, he was also clearly crazy. Also has a bit of the story of his "Messengers", who formed the core of the power structure of Scientology after he passed, which is a crazy story on it's own (but fully explains how they have continued as a paranoid authoritarian institution).

The story of the pogues by Carol Clerk

Just finished "The Thrill of It All", by Joseph O'Connor. A fictional memoir by the founding member of a once briefly popular band, it's lovely if a bit full of middle-aged melencholy. But then, so am I, so I loved it. Dedicated to our dear Philip, who cameos twice.

Look Who's Back by Timur Vermes it's about Hitler waking up in Berlin in 2011 and becomming a tv star.

Just finished re-reading James Ellroy's American Tabloid...fantastic!

Just finished this:



A great read, especially due to the author's writing skill. It's nice to read a rock bio that isn't a "I'm so great" or "my bandmates were terrible" tell-all. David does have things to say about Peter, Daniel and Kevin, but in a more objective (rational?) way that seems more factual then emotional. He also gives himself a bit of ribbing for some poor choices and odd behavior.

I tried re-reading Kafka's 'The Trial'..but I must have less patience in my old age, rambling load of old bollocks!

old barney greyheron wrote:I tried re-reading Kafka's 'The Trial'..but I must have less patience in my old age, rambling load of old bollocks!

Mmm, re-reading stuff like that hasn't really worked for me. Not knowing where it's going is what makes it good!

On a related note, If you've not see it, check out the 1991 movie "Kafka" by Steven Soderbergh (with Jeremy Irons, Theresa Russell, Joel Grey, Ian Holm). I recently re-watched it and THAT, at least, held up. I liked it way more than the 1993 film of "The Trial".

Low D wrote:

old barney greyheron wrote:I tried re-reading Kafka's 'The Trial'..but I must have less patience in my old age, rambling load of old bollocks!

Mmm, re-reading stuff like that hasn't really worked for me. Not knowing where it's going is what makes it good!...

I've reread Kafka's Trial once, but only really because the first time I read it was in German, at school, several years earlier. I do like Kafka, but haven't been minded to read it again since.

Just finished Harvest by Jim Crace, the story of a medieval English village torn apart by suspicion, mistrust of outsiders and the arrival of "progress".

Haven't decided what to read next...