Book, authors: Julian Barnes & more.
I noticed the name at the top of piece of fiction in a recent [i]New Yorker[/i] magazine, and I read the article on the flight to Tulsa. Near as I can recall, I’ve only read one Julian Barnes book, [url=http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0679309764/fishinguideto-20]England England, which I found drily amusing as only a decent British comedy of manners can do.
As I recall, I lifted that article from the magazine and stashed it someplace. Meant to post it along, as I thought it was decent little piece of fiction. With a romantic walker as the protagonist, and all the failed relationships, I thought it was a good little story.
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I keep getting queries from folks who don’t seem to understand the subscription model. What’s wryly amusing to me is that this has been in place since last April? [url=http://astrofish.net/weblog/comments.php?id=553_0_1_0_C]April 9, 2003. [url=http://astrofish.net/weblog/comments.php?id=554_0_1_0_C]April 10, 2003. One reason to keep a journal, I suppose – so I can keep record of what and when. “You [b]expect[/b] me to pay?” Dunno, you expect me to pay you to read it?
[url=http://www.rollingstone.com/features/featuregen.asp?pid=2529]Steve Jobs on iTunes – the storefront I’ve looked at – but haven’t bought there – yet. All said and done, though, it looks like [url=http://www.apple.com/itunes]iTunes isn’t really making direct money. Price is too low. But that’s the sticking point. Why I priced my subscriptions at $2.95. (As compared to some sites that charge twice as much or maybe ten times as much for a monthly fee.)
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The weather was set for one of those drastic changes. I was watching a remote thermometer in Ft. Worth, and the temp dropped from 68 to 48, so I knew it was headed this way. Originally, I’d planned to fish in the morning, but a light rain was falling, and I never did properly figure out rain fish. But a just after noon, I snagged this little feller, just as the wind was about to shift around to the north. Hard to believe that I was standing on the river’s edge in shorts and no shirt at 2 in the afternoon, and it’s below freezing by now.
Bubba “Dude you’re getting a [url=http://www.astrowhore.org/weblog/00000646.htm]DELL” Sean popped by after his 12-hour shift. He didn’t seem to impressed with my catch-of-the-day. Nor was he impressed with the delicate Aries serving us dinner, but I was. Aries always impress me. So do Gemini, but that’s a different tale.