Member: floyd_dangle

Hi What a wonderful collection of novel and literature books!

posted by CraigChaffin123 at 6:37 am (EST) on Apr 10, 2009

well floyd...i think a year is about the right time to add books.

posted by crazycritter at 4:13 am (EST) on Mar 6, 2009

And a pop of snap-top back to ye, Floydimir. Or, as is our quaintness on Independence Day, a rusty mug of Colt 45, a trusty dollop of Rock N Rye, and a well lit cherry bomb. Just say "aahhh!" No tiresome wrist lifting or elbow bending required.

A bad time of year for mallards, alas, they're all off cavorting amongst the cattails and drilling their little flotillas. Lots of roadkill, bear meat,and remains of the occasional trespasser (aka "tourist"), but nothing I'd charbroil for an amicus curious. Anyway, it all goes to provision the local soup-kitchen, or - on the black market - to Wendy's. Just berries and nuts till autumn.

Stay cool, and avoid flames and floods,
-G

posted by Ganeshaka at 2:08 am (EST) on Jul 5, 2008

Like it?...I fill my pool with it, splash like a child, and live off the meat of the malingering mallards.

posted by Ganeshaka at 10:31 pm (EST) on Jun 1, 2008

My great-grandmother collected vikings too, until the Swedish authorities stepped in...(pause, flick of cigar ash, wiggle of eyebrows)...be a pal Dangle, you wouldn't happen to have a nice cold beer in that fridge, would you?

posted by Ganeshaka at 9:13 pm (EST) on May 29, 2008

I share that dream too, Floyd, I share that dream too!

posted by aliciawheeler at 4:55 pm (EST) on Feb 19, 2008

And may I add that you have an impressive collection of pipes yourself. You're obviously a man of means, despite being a hobo.

Speaking of hobos, I read that William Vollman has a new book about riding the rails, athough the NYT didn't give it very high praise. I jumped a train once in West Texas, but didn't have the nerve to go very far. Lucky that I still have two legs.

posted by Makifat at 1:18 am (EST) on Feb 6, 2008

As a matter of fact, I just finished off a bowlful of "crazy horse" in my Sumerler 2000, my long-time pipe of choice, and am now settling in with a nightcap of Jameson's. I have a small collection of pipe books under the tag "nicotine".

I've got quite a few pipes laying around - Petersons, a couple of Jirsa's (Czech manufacture), a nice big bowled number from a fellow named Boswell in Chambersburg, PA, and several of your more generic bents. I moved to Arizona in the mistaken belief that one could comfortably smoke out-of-doors in the wintertime. I see a fire pit in my future.

Glad to hear you are alive and kicking. A fellow night-owl, eh?

posted by Makifat at 1:15 am (EST) on Feb 6, 2008

First of all, let me compliment you on your poem! I especially liked the "Oracle of Nielsen" bit. Genius! :)
Second, no worries about the waning Librarything interest. Now that Dalton's back from vacation, I'm finding I too have a bit less idle time on my hands. I'm sure you can relate. Our spouses leave us alone for two weeks and we go off and catalog every book we own! Sheesh! And, as we've already discussed, my reading has suffered from the addiction to this site. I think we'll both have to cool our heels a bit. ;)
See you around the cell block.
~Olive

posted by olive_anne at 1:54 am (EST) on Jan 29, 2008

Yep, I really had to read The Bridges of Madison County for multiple lit classes in Iowa. Didn't help that half my profs were good buddies with Robert James Waller - they even got him to come speak at one of our Celebrating Critical Conferences. I won an award at that one and Waller himself presented it to me. Whoo hoo. (He was sort-of an ass.) Anyway, I know one of the classes we read Bridges for was a Seminar in Iowa Writers, which makes sense. I can't quite remember what the other two were...I think one was Film and Lit (studying movie adaptations of books).

As for Joyce Carol Oates, yes, I have read "Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?" I contend that it's one of the best contemporary short stories outside of Carver. (But, yes, creepy as hell.) Haven't read the other story you mentioned, though. I'm kinda funny when it comes to Oates - she runs hot and cold with me. Some stuff of hers I practically worship - and then I'll hit a novel that makes me wonder why she feels she has to publish every single word writes, and I have to take a little break from her. :)

posted by defygravity47 at 5:13 pm (EST) on Jan 26, 2008

Oh ye gods on Olympus most high, this is a most unfortunate day. I regret to inform those of you who have shewn most keen interest in my epic verse rendering of Columbo that the project has been cancelled due to issues of copyright infringement and a fallout with my collaborator Gravybelly Dunstan. Regrettably, those of you who have already paid the initial subscription fee of 5.98 for Season One will not be refunded. However, I will gratefully keep your literary patronage foremost in my thoughts as I convalesce from this disheartening setback in Cabo San Lucas with friend and fellow roustabout, Robert James Waller, and Rhonda Byrne, best-selling author of The Secret.

As consolation to those of you whose appetite for the versification of classic TV shows has been irreparably whetted, the invocation of Rockfordeus Filiad will soon be posted here on LT for free.

Also still working on my Juvenal and Johnson inspired poem, LA: an Imitation of an Imitation.

posted by floyd_dangle at 3:05 am (EST) on Jan 26, 2008

Glad to meet you, floyd dangle! I hope to prove your notion that Iowans are a literate people, rather than force you to retract it. I still have a couple hundred books on my shelves to add to my library, so we'll see how I fare in your mind once those are loaded! I'm impressed by your library and your excitement for books -- not to mention your RAGRAI history and haiku skills! There should be more haikus about corn, in my humble opinion. Sadly, I'm a bad Iowan and have no clue where Clarinda and Atlantic are. But, in all fairness, I'm from a teensy town called Calmar in the very northeast corner, and no one from Iowa's ever heard of that, either!

Happy reading!

posted by defygravity47 at 11:38 am (EST) on Jan 22, 2008