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grigorss - 2007-07-02 01:48:11
I like to read a Nero Wolfe or Raymond Chandler short story from time to time, and have heard nothing but good things about the Maigret series; will have to pick one up, and this sounds like a pretty good one to start with.
I've also played my share of board games, but never Boggle; this exceptionally silly one was my favorite as a kid.
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chris - 2007-07-02 07:33:34
No scrabble fan? I would think someone as in love with words would be partial to Scrabble.
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Erich Kuersten - 2007-07-02 09:40:07
I hear you about Joanna Newsom Vs. Becky Stark. Stark's voice is operetta-trained, bell clear - Newsom's more quirky.
The Lavender Diamond EP is acres better than their new full-length though, in my opinion. While the four songs on the EP are full of sweet back-up harmonies - neo-hippie sing-along choruses and so forth, the new album has very conventional song formats, like playing it safe for mainstream acceptance and lryics that don't seem tossed off.
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Erich K - 2007-07-02 09:51:25
They SEEM tossed off rather.
As for that Newsom album from last year, man, do those orchestral arrangements from Van Dyke Parks suck. Like doodling in the margins of someone else's poetry and then calling it a collaboration.
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Greg - 2007-07-02 13:13:56
Board Games.... on of my favorites was a little known game called Balderdash. It was like a cross between Trivial Pursuit and a bluffing game. If you were playing with clever people... particularly wasted clever people, it could be riotously funny.
Can't stand Joanna Newsom. I tried. I really tried.
Tossed off--slang for masturbation? Is this intentional, like the lyrics seem pretentious and self indulgent?
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Greg - 2007-07-02 13:15:34
Chris--for a long time I was addicted to the online version of scrabble that Yahoo runs... called Literati. I would sit up all night and play with strangers. It was an obsession.
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Paula - 2007-07-02 15:39:09
No scrabble fan?
Weirdly, not really. I find it kind of tedious, especially when I'm playing with people who know all those stupid 2-letter words, and it becomes more about placement strategy and less about parading your mad vocabulary skillz.
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Jens Carstensen - 2007-07-02 17:21:42
Am i ever with you on the Boggle / Scrabble axis. Holy crap. The only game worse than Scrabble is poker.
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Greg - 2007-07-02 18:43:13
I was seeing a woman a couple years ago that ruled the Scrabble seas. She came up with triple world scores that left me gasping. I found that really intensely sexy.
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