Some unrelated topics

[brigdh]

There are several books I need this semester which I'm not particularly interested in and which I doubt I will ever read again once their class is over. Since I was walking by the Strand today, I thought I'd stop in and look, on the off-chance that they happened to have a cheap, used copy of any. Off of their lovely dollar racks outside, I bought:

Love's Labor's Lost, Shakespeare
Brideshead Revisted, Evelyn Waugh
Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?, Beverly Daniel Tatum (which I've wanted to read for several years)
Spoon River Anthology, Edgar Lee Masters (used book stores have been doing particularly wonderful things to my poetry collection)
The Norton Anthology of English Literature (the entire, complete, giant thing!)

I spent $4.50. Ha! Clearly I win at life. Of course, they didn't have any of the books I actually needed, but that's unimportant.

Randomly, I hate that no one on fst puts up individual song downloads anymore. I don't always want the whole zip. And really, people, with the prevalence of free upload sites, all it says about you is that you're too lazy to upload your songs, or don't actually care all that much about your playlist, neither of which are particularly appealing things to advertise.

springkink's prompts have gone up! First set here, second set here. You can't start claiming prompts to write until Sunday, but now's a good time to go through and pick out which ones you want. I'm having a great time trying to guess who submitted which based on the pairing and quotation given. And look: there are Swordspoint requests that weren't me! Given enough time, I will convert you all.

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[ranalore.livejournal.com]

Heh, yeah. I think mine turned out terribly obvious as being, well, mine, but perhaps that will only make people more likely to write them. *grins*

That was my theory. *G* And it's not like there was pressure to be anonymous on this one.

Ha! I don't have much of one, because I've always relied mostly on the internet for getting poetry.

The internet's missing a lot of the good stuff, and you don't get the heft of the poetry in your hands, the interplay and connections of which poem follows which, and what comes before, and how, flipping through, random phrases catch your eye, building a new poem in your mind. The internet isn't as conducive to poemancy. ;-)