everything!

Yes, shoes, socks, or not tell a lot, and everything in between.

New QoD, unless Brynn's great conversation starter wants more.

What does a hairstyle say?

-I am disheveled and require combing
-I am combed satisfactorily
-I need a trim
-more gel please!
-less off the bangs next time
-remind haircutter about the sides sticking up if cut too short...i can't do it for you.

high maintenance


high opinion of himself


high

where do you live?

Mostly on land, sometimes on sea and occasionally in the air.

New ?qotd?

Of the classic books you've read, which was your favorite?

The classic "books that I have read":

-ALL the zoobooks
-The Long, Dark Teatime of the soul
-ALL the books that are like zoobooks, but with planes
-Cat's Cradle

Oohhhh, like Bman, I can't pick just one.

Also like Bman, a Vonnegut is on my list, but it's Slaughterhouse Five, and the Douglas Adams for me is Hitchhiker's - a cliche perhaps, but I just love it so much.
And Catch-22, The Master and Margarita, and A Movable Feast.

From this list of classic books I like the Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde the most.

It's hard to say, I'd have to read them all again.

From the list, maybe Bleak House. Certainly one of my favourite first pages of a book.

I am loving the Iliad at the moment
(the rendition by Alexander Pope)
maybe I haven't really actually gotten

through a classic unless the Bible counts
somewhere near the first of the iliad it states
that first the dogs will become ill
and after that... the humans
i wonder if the smartest people*
knew better than to actually think
illness meant someone had cast
a spell
on you....

*way back when :)

¿ Why do you read books?

Either escapism or study

I hope to find out things I don't know. My Mom was a librarian and died on June 6 at almost 91 and she said, "Only read the best books because there isn't time to read them all."

Yeah I think I need to take some of that advice. Reading keeps me human in some way, or maybe that was the first form of being human I knew, so it feels natural to go back to it, even though, you know, you can't read Philip José Farmer by torchlight anymore.

^^ xfox,
at approximately the same time you were posting
your response i was driving
in my car thinking :
what can i possibly say besides
i love to read
when this popped in
"find stuff out":)

^Amazing!

Sorry to hear about your mom, xfox - my condolences. That's good advice from her, too.

I guess I read fiction because I can be completely alone in silence, except for the voice of the author and the voices of the characters inside my brain. It's probably the most intimate intellectual experience, anyway, that I can have as a human being.

Because the human experience is infinitely variable, and I can always learn about another.

xfox: It is nice that your mother left you the gift that you can go to the library, and it's like looking at the same moon from the same location as hers. Yours is an enviable heritage all around.

:) Trisherina and Brynn Thank you for your condolences. You're both so dear. The SEA-TAC airport has a free book corner & I so regret I didn't have time to go there today. I sobbed at this display because Mom would have enjoyed it, alas. But while we are here we can fin d the best things. Even thought I'm traveling for work and dread leaving home when I do home is way far away. With any luck it will be there upon my return. In the meantime I heart you two. And a few other old timers, an, of course, Mo.

Am I forgiven for messing up this therad?

If you don't care to answer, here's another QoD:

What era or year old you choose to be born I you had the choice?

You did not mess up the thread. You showed us some of the light inside you.

Today I would like to have been born in 1989, the same age as the waitress hitting on my husband right now. I'd give her a run for her money.

^ Thread-killer.
BOOYAH!

Actually, living during the Stone Ages might not have been real fun, but it certainly would have been quite the experience around the campfire.
I wonder how much b.s. they had to deal with from each other.
"Gun-gun, you forgot to collect water two sunrises in a row."
"I no like. You go."
"Baby sick now. No meat for you."
"I want meat! Shut up!" (runs off)

i++;

New QOD:

What are all the motivations a person could have for posting long passages from books in the image association thread so people can't connect the images together?

Hmmm.

To be noticed (no matter what way or at what price) is a basic human desire






originating from an even deeper need: to be appreciated, respected, loved.

It is much easier to be seen than to be.
Unfortunately.

Not sure if this counts for anything
or not
but I did *check*
as to whether
Stella mcCartney
even had bathing suits

In her line

prior to posting her most beauteous and flawless

some people just like to poop on the coffee table.

Precisely why I moved onto a boat...no table.

But seriously, I think we aren't all wired upstairs quite the same...which doesn't bother me in the least so long as they are "nice".
Viva la difference.

^ Yep. I don't think I'll ever understand everyone or even mostly anyone.

I need to stop getting triggered. I'm tired of letting everything bug me. I wish I could get off the "irritable" train.

The new question of the day is.........

what are you wearing?