Stinks and Smirks and Sticks

There’s been a lot of smirking going around lately – must mean that spring is here.  Yesterday and today, roadies were smirking at each other on the streets and paths of DC.  Yes, terrible snobbery, as often the mountain bikers are not included, but there’s nothing like zipping along the Potomac, sunlight on your bare(!) legs, with all the govt buildings visible in that clear bright light.  It makes the civic-minded geek in me tear up a bit. 

However I am a stinky stinky unshaven man, given all my recent zippings about.   This will be rectified, but first – the Stick.

Ginger has passed the stick to me.  A brief genealogy: Barrie unleashed the stick on 3/7/05 - Amanda - scooterdeb - Brian - Karma Police - Evelio - Ivy - Suzanne - Jeff - Patricia Lockwood - Frank - Amy - Steve - Ginger - me

The Stick:

You're stuck inside Fahrenheit 451, which book do you want to be?

Fahrenheit 451.  Of course. 

Have you ever had a crush on a fictional character?

I believe that deep down we’re all fictional characters.  So that’s a yes.  I currently have two massive crushes, a middling crush, and 3 ghost crushes. 

I’m not really sure it qualifies as a crush (more of a paternal/avuncular thing) but Ender, from Ender’s Game.  Man.  You just want to hug the kid.

The last book you bought is:

Martha Wells, Wheel of the Infinite

The last book you read:

Garcia Lorca, Selected Poems

What are you currently reading?

Seth Abramson, The Suburban Ecstasies
Mark Doty, School of the Arts
Richard Siken, Crush
Jack Gilbert, Refusing Heaven
Joseph Campbell, Myths to Live By
Dukeminer and Krier, Property
Subrin, Minow, Bodrin, and Main, Civil Procedure: Doctrine, Practice, and Content
Robert Stevens, Law School: Legal education in America from the 1850s to the 1980s.
Assorted cases and law review articles. 

And yes, my brain fucking hurts.

Five books you would take to a deserted island:
Assuming that I’m stranded there for some time?  Assuming that I’ve taken a kayak out to chill for an afternoon?  Wimpy stick.

Hmm.  Long term stranding I take: TLOR, The New Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics, one of the bigger classical canon Poetry Anthologies, Boatbuilding for Beginners (And Beyond) by Jim Michalak and a really huge blank book, because even with the Michalak book, I might like it there.

Who are you going to pass this stick to (3 persons)? And Why?
Flashes of Panic, because we gotta get our tech boys on board.
Pat Rosal, because he’s a clever motherfucker (unlike myself) who knows the difference between a mango and an orange.
AI, cause he knows how to read.

Comments

[yew]

Did I miss a memo? Seth has a book? Need more detail! And (belated) congrats Seth!

[Scoplaw]

It's a manuscript. And a damn fine one.

[Tony]

Heh. I was gonna say the same thing about Seth. Well, let's hope it gets published somewhere.