Comments on: Spring Cleaning http://susiemadrak.com/2008/05/10/15/38/spring-cleaning/ Keeping a jaundiced eye on the corporate media. Sun, 06 Jul 2008 10:32:05 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: votermom http://susiemadrak.com/2008/05/10/15/38/spring-cleaning/#comment-143202 votermom Mon, 12 May 2008 12:42:57 +0000 http://susiemadrak.com/?p=24797#comment-143202 I keep the books I think I will reread. Most of them are fiction favorites and references. And I keep cookbooks. Joy of Cooking is my favorite. I love how it explains stuff. I keep the books I think I will reread. Most of them are fiction favorites and references.
And I keep cookbooks. Joy of Cooking is my favorite. I love how it explains stuff.

]]> By: Lloyd http://susiemadrak.com/2008/05/10/15/38/spring-cleaning/#comment-143195 Lloyd Mon, 12 May 2008 06:11:14 +0000 http://susiemadrak.com/?p=24797#comment-143195 Playing a Strat all night has to be good for you. I remember visting a girlfriend's apartment once, after she had moved in with a new roomate. I felt something wrong and didn't know what it was. After a bit, I realized there wastn't single book, magazine or newspaper to be seen. I always read. I'll read the assembly directions to a TV cart. It was creepy. The relationship didn't last. Playing a Strat all night has to be good for you.

I remember visting a girlfriend’s apartment once, after she had moved in with a new roomate. I felt something wrong and didn’t know what it was.

After a bit, I realized there wastn’t single book, magazine or newspaper to be seen. I always read. I’ll read the assembly directions to a TV cart. It was creepy.

The relationship didn’t last.

]]> By: foolishmortal http://susiemadrak.com/2008/05/10/15/38/spring-cleaning/#comment-143154 foolishmortal Sun, 11 May 2008 06:42:36 +0000 http://susiemadrak.com/?p=24797#comment-143154 There's also a Seinfeld: Bizarro world. Elaine walks in to the room, puzzled:"What are you doing?" All reply: "Reading...". This is supposed to represent the antithesis to the Seinfeld ethos. That people should read. Recreationally, no less. I keep a barrage of books to recommend at my place, but I inevitably end up reading them more than I lend them. The rest I store in my folks' garage, and which they do donate every so often, and make me help. All I'm saying is, don't hoard, but don't mistake your intellect for those of the target audience of Seinfeld, however funny it may be, because the two are engaged in different enterprises. There’s also a Seinfeld: Bizarro world. Elaine walks in to the room, puzzled:”What are you doing?” All reply: “Reading…”. This is supposed to represent the antithesis to the Seinfeld ethos. That people should read. Recreationally, no less. I keep a barrage of books to recommend at my place, but I inevitably end up reading them more than I lend them. The rest I store in my folks’ garage, and which they do donate every so often, and make me help. All I’m saying is, don’t hoard, but don’t mistake your intellect for those of the target audience of Seinfeld, however funny it may be, because the two are engaged in different enterprises.

]]> By: Linkmeister http://susiemadrak.com/2008/05/10/15/38/spring-cleaning/#comment-143151 Linkmeister Sun, 11 May 2008 05:38:02 +0000 http://susiemadrak.com/?p=24797#comment-143151 Other than it being 30 years old and unused for the last 25 of those, who knows? Maybe I'll dust it off and give it a try. I bought it in a little music shop in Chinatown out here, I suddenly remember. Somehow I think that shop has been replaced by one selling ducks (you know, the kind that has them hanging from the ceiling). Other than it being 30 years old and unused for the last 25 of those, who knows? Maybe I’ll dust it off and give it a try.

I bought it in a little music shop in Chinatown out here, I suddenly remember. Somehow I think that shop has been replaced by one selling ducks (you know, the kind that has them hanging from the ceiling).

]]> By: DBK http://susiemadrak.com/2008/05/10/15/38/spring-cleaning/#comment-143148 DBK Sun, 11 May 2008 04:28:45 +0000 http://susiemadrak.com/?p=24797#comment-143148 About fifteen or so years ago I donated all of my books, and there were a lot of them (though not 3,000, but I did have over 200 detective novels and a couple of hundred history books) to the library. I was moving for about the fifth or sixth time to yet another apartment and the thought of hauling all that weight again, and making room for it, well, it was time to cull the herd. I wound up with a couple of dozen essentials (Joy of Cooking, the Riverside Shakespeare, Ray Chandler's Philip Marlowe novels, and so on) and I have made a point of using public libraries ever since. if you don't use them, they'll go away. About fifteen or so years ago I donated all of my books, and there were a lot of them (though not 3,000, but I did have over 200 detective novels and a couple of hundred history books) to the library. I was moving for about the fifth or sixth time to yet another apartment and the thought of hauling all that weight again, and making room for it, well, it was time to cull the herd. I wound up with a couple of dozen essentials (Joy of Cooking, the Riverside Shakespeare, Ray Chandler’s Philip Marlowe novels, and so on) and I have made a point of using public libraries ever since. if you don’t use them, they’ll go away.

]]> By: Susie http://susiemadrak.com/2008/05/10/15/38/spring-cleaning/#comment-143105 Susie Sat, 10 May 2008 22:34:25 +0000 http://susiemadrak.com/?p=24797#comment-143105 I have an amp for acoustic guitars, that's what I use for the Strat. Sure would be nice to have one of those little suckers, though. What's wrong with it? I have an amp for acoustic guitars, that’s what I use for the Strat. Sure would be nice to have one of those little suckers, though. What’s wrong with it?

]]> By: Linkmeister http://susiemadrak.com/2008/05/10/15/38/spring-cleaning/#comment-143103 Linkmeister Sat, 10 May 2008 22:17:37 +0000 http://susiemadrak.com/?p=24797#comment-143103 Susie, what do you use as an amp? I think I still have a (probably not-functional) <a href="http://www.pignose.com/pignose/pig.htm" rel="nofollow">Pignose</a> around the house. Susie, what do you use as an amp? I think I still have a (probably not-functional) Pignose around the house.

]]> By: Karen http://susiemadrak.com/2008/05/10/15/38/spring-cleaning/#comment-143102 Karen Sat, 10 May 2008 22:15:09 +0000 http://susiemadrak.com/?p=24797#comment-143102 I have always been grateful to the roof leak that ruined my law school books right before I graduated or I'd still have most of them with me. I have thousands of books, plus four or five hundred my father gave me when he retired from teaching college history. They're in a box somewhere. I can rationalize keeping my own college texts because my husband and I were both English majors, so our texts were classic literature. Cookbooks are always useful, and the knitting pattern books, but why in the name of Heaven I cling to every silly murder mystery I've ever read is far more of a mystery than contained in any of those novels. I have always been grateful to the roof leak that ruined my law school books right before I graduated or I’d still have most of them with me. I have thousands of books, plus four or five hundred my father gave me when he retired from teaching college history. They’re in a box somewhere. I can rationalize keeping my own college texts because my husband and I were both English majors, so our texts were classic literature. Cookbooks are always useful, and the knitting pattern books, but why in the name of Heaven I cling to every silly murder mystery I’ve ever read is far more of a mystery than contained in any of those novels.

]]> By: Hecate http://susiemadrak.com/2008/05/10/15/38/spring-cleaning/#comment-143101 Hecate Sat, 10 May 2008 22:09:28 +0000 http://susiemadrak.com/?p=24797#comment-143101 Six Stickley bookcases and counting. I give a lot every year to the local library, get a receipt, take the tax deduction. Books and plants. My weaknesses. Six Stickley bookcases and counting. I give a lot every year to the local library, get a receipt, take the tax deduction. Books and plants. My weaknesses.

]]> By: Bob http://susiemadrak.com/2008/05/10/15/38/spring-cleaning/#comment-143099 Bob Sat, 10 May 2008 21:40:33 +0000 http://susiemadrak.com/?p=24797#comment-143099 I'm 50 years old and still lug my college text books with me. Why? Cause I have some strange disease - there is NO earthly reason for holding onto them. I’m 50 years old and still lug my college text books with me. Why? Cause I have some strange disease - there is NO earthly reason for holding onto them.

]]> By: k http://susiemadrak.com/2008/05/10/15/38/spring-cleaning/#comment-143096 k Sat, 10 May 2008 21:16:50 +0000 http://susiemadrak.com/?p=24797#comment-143096 I've decided to call it "setting them free to do more good in the world." We'll see what my daughter does. She might not be ready. I’ve decided to call it “setting them free to do more good in the world.”
We’ll see what my daughter does. She might not be ready.

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