Posts by Jolisa
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Yours, in return for the new Laurie Anderson record. Everybody happy.
Except possibly Bob, but then we don't know for sure that he's not the one actually calling in the hit, using Rob as a message man.
Laurie Anderson - I saw her live in 86 and to this day it remains a treasured memory.
Lucky Mike! And those are some good words; at my end of the world, it's time for falling upstairs and onto my pillow.
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Kyle, how much? The exchange rate is pretty good right now.
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Especially since Julia Donaldson is the best rhyme-and-meter person since Rudyard Kipling. And I mean that as a compliment. You haven't lived until you've heard Imelda Staunton reading Tiddler.
(That said, the Gruffalo is kind of excessively meta -- I mean, it's cunningly wrought, but I think it took both my boys, who are not total idiots, some years to twig to the many ironic dimensions of the mouse's strategy and the shock-horror twist at the end of Act I).
(And Stick Man is possibly more terrifying than the Wicker Man, despite the supposedly happy ending).
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(So, so cool. And I'm excited about Homeland as well...}
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Here come the planes. They're American planes.
And they know where you live, Haywood.
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Because you're secretly in love with... Michael York?
Who isn't?
Uh... minority taste?
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the only thing that kept me going for that long was the desire to be known as *Dr Moreau* which is just impossibly awesome. Particularly if you live on an island.
We can't necessarily supply the island, but perhaps David could be persuaded to open one of those US-style 'academic credit for life experience' degree-mills as part of his online stationery shop? Then, for $24.99 (plus p & p) you could be Dr Moreau!
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Or even an anagram. Disappointed, myself. Comp Lit Ph.D. FAIL.
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Don't call it FairBooks. The name implies a grievance, as if something is deliberately unfair, rather than inefficient. It would be a millstone.
What Russell said. And you'd probably want to avoid "fair books" as in "fair to middling books."
But Bookfair, on the other hand, has a not unhappy ring to it. Candy floss, balloons, Ferris wheel, toffee apples...?
(Send payment for services to Semantics 'R' Us Literary Consulting & Strict Lexicographical Correction For The Discerning Gentleperson, Comp. Lit. Ph.D. FTW!, New Haven, CT, USA.)
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I too hide under my real name
As do most of us here... it's like a heavily ironic version of deep cover.