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DevP
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What's the book about? I'll check it out...
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Clinton R. Nixon
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Quote from: Dev
What's the book about? I'll check it out...
It's essays on everything from why Al Gore should have watched
Buffy
to Abraham Lincoln to why Salem makes her feel bad and good at the same time to why Tom Cruise makes her nervous.
It's ramblings about history and modern life by a really cute, pretty neurotic, very smart woman.
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Vaxalon
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Have you seen the Sarah Vowell ... erm... thing on the Incredibles DVD?
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joshua neff
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Quote from: Clinton R. Nixon
To lighten things a bit, did you know that
Sarah Vowell
did the voice of Violet in the movie? Did you know that Sarah Vowell makes my heartstrings pluck like a well-tuned ukulele? Did you know that that made me feel odd during the movie, as the voice that makes me all swoony belonged to, like, a 13-year-old girl?
Also, did you know that the audiotape of her book
The Partly Cloudy Patriot
is like the best album ever? It's filled with They Might Be Giants music, and Norman Lear's on it. Really.
Man, Sarah Vowell. I can't figure out what it is about her, but man, oh man.
Oh, man, do I agree with everything you said. Except for the part about her book, since I've only read bits & pieces of it, out of order. Sarah Vowell is going to be at one of the Borders in Madison next Wednesday night, and I'm sorely tempted to make the drive there, even though I've never read any of her books from cover-to-cover and I have loads of schoolwork to do. But she's so cute and cool...
Have you seen the
Incredibles
DVD with the video essay by Sarah Vowell? It's very cool and funny.
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Vaxalon
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Video essay? Is that what it is? It seemed a bit too stream-of-consciousness to call an essay.
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joshua neff
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April 07, 2005, 07:41:19 AM »
Quote from: Vaxalon
Video essay? Is that what it is? It seemed a bit too stream-of-consciousness to call an essay.
Have you read Montaigne? Essays were originally pretty damn stream-of-conciousness.
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Clinton R. Nixon
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Oh, man, do I agree with everything you said. Except for the part about her book, since I've only read bits & pieces of it, out of order. Sarah Vowell is going to be at one of the Borders in Madison next Wednesday night, and I'm sorely tempted to make the drive there, even though I've never read any of her books from cover-to-cover and I have loads of schoolwork to do. But she's so cute and cool...
DO IT. And if you let me PayPal you the cash for her new book, Assassination Vacation, and you get it signed (hey! if you live in Madison and aren't Josh, e-mail me about this) to me, with a little heart or something, I swear I will always be your bestest friend in the whole world.
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Quote from: Dev
Aside from questions of the social justice of how to reward CEOs / working class workers / etc., I still don't think most liberals/leftists are actually opposed to an individual freedom to be truly excellent, and a lot of that is motivated by a society harming an individual.
Indeed, that is quite right. The claim that Left wants to "level down" or "suppress individuality" is simply gross propaganda. Theres not a shred of fact in the claim whatsoever, as anyone who read Capital would be able to see for themselves.
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Andrew Norris
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April 07, 2005, 08:14:12 AM »
Ah, Sarah Vowell. If any of you like David Sedaris or listen to
This American Life
on NPR (which I highly recommend), you'll love her work, and probably vice versa.
Thanks for the information on her books!
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