“In the tradition…”

Don’t even think about getting a pet bear

nobody@vox.com(finn) — Mon, 27 Aug 2007 12:04:17 -0400

Pets banned by New York State in 2005: • Monitors (big lizards), including these five types: water, black throat, white throat, crocodile and Nile. • Venomous reptiles, including all venomous snakes and two lizards with poison bites. • Cr...

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Advice

nobody@vox.com(finn) — Thu, 22 Mar 2007 16:47:19 -0400

“Nobody's brought off the Eastern novel recently, my view, Greene managed it, if you can take Greene, which I can’t—too much popery. Malraux, if you like philosophy, which I don't. Maugham you can have, and before that it's back to Conrad. Cheers....

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Latest Read

nobody@vox.com(finn) — Thu, 22 Feb 2007 13:14:54 -0500

Book: Show us the latest book you bought, borrowed or received. I borrowed this book a year or more ago (with a different cover, seen here), got halfway through, abandoned it, was spurred to start from the beginning again by the BAM series on G...

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Born in a crossfire hurricane

nobody@vox.com(finn) — Wed, 10 Jan 2007 12:33:40 -0500

De Niro's slow motion entrance as Johnny Boy in Mean Streets, set to Jumpin' Jack Flash. No John Ford references, but with De Niro, the Stones, and a slow motion tracking shot, there are plenty of Scorsese signifiers in less than a minute of scr...

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Books

nobody@vox.com(finn) — Fri, 08 Dec 2006 16:11:09 -0500

My birthday plus some book shopping while on vacation resulted in nine new (to me) books in the past week. I finished off Protector on the plane back to NYC (Niven's early hard sf remains a guilty pleasure for me) and am most of the way through T...

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Vox Vodka

nobody@vox.com(finn) — Sun, 22 Oct 2006 16:25:33 -0400

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Notes from Underground

nobody@vox.com(finn) — Fri, 13 Oct 2006 15:31:12 -0400

I'm almost done with Ripley Under Ground wherein Tom Ripley dabbles in art forgery and murder (again). The title is literal, and I don't think it gives much away to say that it looks like Ripley is going to get away with it.

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The Disappointment Artist

nobody@vox.com(finn) — Mon, 28 Aug 2006 16:36:16 -0400

I recently finished The Disappointment Artist and very much enjoyed it. While trying to see what other people had thought of it I came across this review. I want to start out by saying up front that this is not a collection of essays recommende...

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Best. Villain. Ever.

nobody@vox.com(finn) — Mon, 28 Aug 2006 15:49:16 -0400

Who's your favorite movie villain? I am wary of saying "favorite," but I love The Third Man and Harry Lime's speech on the ferris wheel may be the archetypical "villain explains his motivations" scene: Victims? Don't be melodramatic. Look down ...

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I'm reading (or about to read)...

nobody@vox.com(finn) — Sun, 27 Aug 2006 23:32:22 -0400

What books are on your nightstand? I just finished The Disappointment Artist and am halfway through a bunch more of these, but the book I've been reading the most lately is Soldier of Arete by Gene Wolfe.

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