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My wife received a note this week that her first book is being remaindered. It sold about 800 copies in its ten-year life, which is fairly good for poetry. There's still a copy at Powells if you want it.

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QotD: Can you hear me now?

nobody@vox.com(Blue Hole) — Tue, 01 Aug 2006 19:42:32 -0700

What's your cell phone's ringtone? What made you pick it?

Ha ha. People with cell phones are tools. I've never owned one. I do have a GPS, a Palm Pilot, and a laptop, but I will not succumb to your evil plot to call me every single waking moment. Bugger off.

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QotD: Good Advice? Not so much.

nobody@vox.com(Blue Hole) — Mon, 31 Jul 2006 15:38:45 -0700

What was the worst advice you ever received? Did you follow it?
Someone who was a devout Christian when I was a semi-devout Christian told me to break up with someone because she was possessed. I did break up with her, which was stupid, but we would have broken up anyway because I'm possessed by Satan now.

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I've Even Heard Her Singing in the . . .

nobody@vox.com(Blue Hole) — Sun, 30 Jul 2006 16:22:30 -0700

Mt, Angel Abbey Library

On Friday I had a meeting at the Mt. Angel Abbey Library, which was designed by the great Finnish architect Alvar Aalto. Because my wife is 100% Finnish American, we have several Aalto-designed glass pieces in our home, and we'd seen some of his buildings in Finland. The library, fairly close to Portland, is one of a handful of buildings/places designed by Aalto in America. Another, Harvard's Poetry Reading Room, has recently sparked controversy because some <editorializing> DIMWITS </editorializing> want to alter it. Of course, Harvard poetry is often entangled in poorly-planned schemes.

The library looks like it dropped out of a time machine from 2007, but it was designed in 1963 and completed in 1970. It's a perfect kind of place for monks, librarians, Finns, and more. My photos didn't turn out well, so I've borrowed one from the first site linked above.

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