If she won't cut loose... induce!!

[captqitn]

yay!  todays the day!   

[bebopbalogna]

actually we go in at 5:00 am tomorrow.  but that's less than 24 hours...so  i guess theoretically, today's the day!

 

[captqitn]

oh shit.. whoops.

well... WHAT YOU SAID!!!

 

[bebopbalogna]

diggin the baseball chick, cap.   kinda geena davis-ey from a league of their own.   

[Poop Fresh-Herbed Pickles]

If she will not squirt it, then you must must insert it....your cock I mean.

[Poop Fresh-Herbed Pickles]

diggin the baseball chick, cap.   kinda geena davis-ey from a league of their own.   

Gams!

[Doctor Rock]

diggin the baseball chick, cap.   kinda geena davis-ey from a league of their own.   

What baseball chick? 

[Tripp]

If she will not squirt it, then you must must insert it....your cock I mean.

the ole shoehorn

[captqitn]

Yep, I been saving Marilyn for our first win of the season.

Suck it and Love me, Boston!!!!

[Doctor Rock]

Ah!  That baseball chick! 

I see her now. 

[Poop Fresh-Herbed Pickles]

She can touch all my bases if she wants.

[Doctor Rock]

All your base are belong to us! 

[Poop Fresh-Herbed Pickles]

I successfully fought my way through Thomas Pynchon's "Against the Day."  I didn't like it nearly as much as Mason & Dixon.

It was this review by Steven Grant that made me really want to read it:

best science fiction novel I've read in a long, long time. Aetherpunk, really, and Pynchon cannibalizes gobs of pulp genres; it's also a western, a boys' adventure novel, a hard boiled detective story, a men's adventure novel set against the Mexican revolution, several varieties of romance novels, 20s style scientifiction, Lovecraftian horror, as well as an historical novel (it begins with the Chicago World's Fair of the 1880s and ends sometime in the 1920s) and a prequel to Pynchon's classics V and GRAVITY'S RAINBOW. It's all kinds of bizarre and very funny, esp. in the last quarter of the book when Pynchon, having introduced a sprawling cast for 800 pages, jumps into his "there are only 500 real people in the world and they all know each other" mode. It has numerous stylistic shifts to match the content that are part of the fun, even as it's arguably Pynchon's most accessible novel, a heartbreaking saga about numerous damaged visionaries dreaming at distances of building a brilliant future for everyone, and about the future they get. I very strongly recommend it.

I really thought it was Pynchon's LEAST accessible book.  There are 1,000,000 characters all over the place and it rarely seems connected.  I thought it was slapdash and I can't really say why everything was in the same novel.  It felt like 4 or 5 different novels mixed together for no discernible purpose.

The "Aetherpunk" that Grant mentions is The Chums of Chance, a group of boy adventurers in a hydrogen balloon which perhaps can time travel...that bit may be of interest to a certain crappiteer.

No, seriously, don't read it.  It's 1100 pages long.

[Poop Fresh-Herbed Pickles]

I admit that I'm reading too much pulp and sci-fi lately, so I've been trying to mix in some literary stuff that has some association to pulp and sci-fi.

[Jesse]

Pynchon is consistently on my "should read" list. The only one I've ever read was Lot 49. I can't tell you how many times I've started V, only to get distracted 30 pages in...