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Skriven 2007-02-10 02:37:59 av Michael Harper (15407.babylon5)
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"John Duncan Yoyo" <john-duncan-yoyo@cox.net> wrote in message
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> On Fri, 9 Feb 2007 21:27:30 -0600, "Michael Harper"
> <michaelharper05@comcast.net> wrote:
>
> >
> >"John Duncan Yoyo" <john-duncan-yoyo@cox.net> wrote in message
> >news:pi0qs25aj7v6ifqdu0fki9072l7kt54hmi@4ax.com...
> >> >
> >> I saw Simon Green at Worldcon a few years ago and he was the funniest
> >> author I'd seen in years.  Apparently one of his Deathstalker books
> >> has a long digression that is essentially the Muppets in Apocalypse
> >> Now.  I have yet to get around to reading it but it is on the pile.  I
> >> like the Nightside books as well.
> >
> >He comes up with odd little bits like that all through the Nightside
books.
> >In one of the later ones, there's an auction and one of the items is an
> >umbrella stand made from a yeti's foot. During the auction a yeti stomps
in,
> >grabs the foot, and stomps out. Apparently it was a relative...
> >
> >And in a different book, Taylor mentions a record shop that sells stuff
from
> >alternate dimensions. Among them are a Stones album where Marianne
Faithfull
> >is the lead, and a Janis Joplin album from her Vegas lounge singer period
in
> >the late Eighties...
> >
> Yeah he has a suitably twisted sense of humor.
>
> I just finished the third one about the nightclub singer.  I'm taking
> it slow on those just to guarantee a good read when I really need one.
>
> >> Have you read Jim Butcher's Dresden Files yet?  It took three or so
> >> books to really get rolling but after that they are all pretty solid.
> >> The TV show on Sci-Fi is about 80% faithful so far but that is pretty
> >> good for this sort of thing.
> >> <http://www.jim-butcher.com/books/dresden/>
> >
> >I've got that hot librarian chick looking for me. East branch has
nothing.
> >Nashville Public has some painfully obvious gaps in their collection; no
> >Fairport Convention, until I bitched about it no Dave Edmunds, and not
> >nearly enough PG Wodehouse.
> >
> I'm spoiled; we have a wonderful Library system that I can place
> requests in at all hours on line and have books show up in a week or
> so.  As for attractive librarians ours are mostly standard issue
> cliche with a cute volunteer working the desk every once and a while.

We have two hotties that I know of in the Nashville system, Linda the Babe
and a really sweet redhead named, I think, Crystal, who works downtown at
Main. I won't say she's the prettiest woman I've ever seen, as that honor
goes to my wife, but she's really cute. And about the right age to be my
daughter, so I push those thoughts right outta my head read fast...

Mike
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