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Saturday, March 03, 2007 Various Things Tangled Bank #74 is finally up at Neurotopia. Go read some cool science articles which range from moths to metabolic diseases. Dang it, I got to the book sale late. I got to the fairgrounds at 8:15 and found the place already buzzing with people (the sale started at 8 AM). My excuse for not getting there earlier was that I woke up late. I had stayed up the previous night attempting to finish Sin and Syntax (good, but definitely not as succinct as Strunk and White) but failing miserably. I had to return it to the public library today since I've already renewed it the maximum number of times. This is just a setback--I'm going to find a copy at the university library so I can check it out for the entire semester (the perks of a grad student, bwahaha!). Anyways, back to the book sale. I was sort of disappointed that I was late because everyone who was already there were dumping gobs of books into paper bags as if there was no tomorrow. Which meant that a lot of the good stuff was already gone. I did, however, find a few books that looked interesting: All There Is To Know (basically a bunch of excerpts from the Encyclopaedia Britannica) and The Devil in Texas by Wolf Mankowitz (which I mainly got for the drawings by Ralph Steadman). I overheard one woman exclaim, "I come to these things because I loooove to read!" I almost rolled my eyes at the comment because that is the obvious reason why anyone would want to go to a book sale. It's either that or they're a book collector, they don't want to pay full price at a retail bookstore, they have new shelves in their house to fill, or a family member dragged them there. On one of the local radio stations, I heard an ad for the large club in town. They're having wet t-shirt contests and g-string/bikini contests for Mardi Gras. And there's going to be beer. Am I the only one who thinks this is a stupid idea? (But wait! You might say. This is Mardi Gras. It's almost expected for people to do crazy things. Sure. But I object to the idea that only women are paraded around for men to ogle at. It's like those ridiculous beauty pagents--just a whole lot more crass.) [posted by S. Y. Affolee on 9:01 PM : ]
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