I've actually looked at How To Shit In the Woods, and it is quite a useful book. It has a whole section on dealing with menstruation, too.
That's beautiful. Or taken literally, incredibly gross.
Buffy ,'Potential'
Literary Buffistas 3: Don't Parse the Blurb, Dear.
There's more to life than watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer! No. Really, there is! Honestly! Here's a place for Buffistas to come and discuss what it is they're reading, their favorite authors and poets. "Geez. Crack a book sometime."
flea - Oct 06, 2008 1:53:37 pm PDT #7720 of 28406
information libertarian
Barb - Oct 06, 2008 1:57:00 pm PDT #7721 of 28406
“Not dead yet!”
I'm kind of surprised that Fuck didn't make the list. Perhaps not exotic enough.
Calli - Oct 06, 2008 2:09:12 pm PDT #7722 of 28406
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs
I like Bomb-proofing your Horse.
sarameg - Oct 06, 2008 3:19:14 pm PDT #7723 of 28406
I gave my dad How to Shit in the Woods!
Pix - Oct 06, 2008 4:57:23 pm PDT #7724 of 28406
The status is NOT quo.
I find it enormously funny (and rather sad) that we have "evolved" to the point that we need help shitting in the woods.
Barb - Oct 07, 2008 8:59:11 am PDT #7725 of 28406
“Not dead yet!”
x-posted with Bitches: Amazing article about a new photography/oral history book that's just been released, The Oxford Project
sumi - Oct 08, 2008 4:17:31 am PDT #7726 of 28406
Art Crawl!!!
BBC is re-releasing their radioplay of The Lord of the Rings.
Kathy A - Oct 08, 2008 7:07:51 am PDT #7727 of 28406
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
I've got the 2002 release of that radioplay, and the reviewer doesn't even mention my favorite performance in it--Bill Nighy as Sam! The reviewer admits he'd only listened through FotR, so he still hasn't gotten to the part that breaks my heart every time I hear it: The Choices of Master Samwise. Nighy just nails every nuance in this chapter.
DavidS - Oct 09, 2008 8:39:07 am PDT #7728 of 28406
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
I've never heard of this year's winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature, but he seems interesting. From Wikipedia:
Le Clézio was born in the French Riviera city of Nice to an English father and French mother.[2] His ancestors emigrated from Brittany to the île de France—today's Mauritius—in the 18th century. During World War II, the family was separated, his father being unable to join his wife and children in Nice.[3] Le Clézio moved with his family at age 8 to Nigeria[4] where his father served as a surgeon in the British army.[5]
After studying at Bristol University from 1958 to 1959, he finished his undergraduate degree at Nice's Institut d’etudes Litteraires.[4] After several years spent in London and Bristol, he moved to the United States to work as a teacher. He was assigned to Thailand in 1967 for his military service, but was quickly expelled for protesting child prostitution and sent to Mexico to finish his military obligation. From 1970 to 1974, he lived with the Embera-Wounaan Indians in Panama.
Le Clézio earned a master's degree from the University of Aix-en-Provence in 1964, and wrote a doctoral thesis in 1983 on Mexico’s early history for the University of Perpignan (he is a specialist on Michoacan).[4] He has taught at numerous universities around the world. He has been married since 1975 to Jémia, who is Moroccan. Since the 1990s they have divided their residence between Albuquerque, New Mexico, Mauritius, and Nice.[6]
megan walker - Oct 09, 2008 11:21:46 am PDT #7729 of 28406
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist
I haven't read any of his fiction, but he wrote a number of essays during the GATT film dispute in the early 90s, so I know of him through that.