RIP Robert Altman / atd coming tomorrow / (np) plumbing

[Joe Allonby]

Your plumbing description was absolutely post-modern.

On 11/22/06, mikebailey at speakeasy.net <mikebailey at speakeasy.net> wrote:
>
> Ready to Wear, anyone?  great variety-filled soundtrack, lots of goodies
> ("this is Kitty Potter")
>
> Player's ok but although Tim Robbins is likeable his character isn't.
> Short Cuts and Nashville are among the best movies ever, though.
>
> Couldn't get into McCabe past about 5 minutes, might have to give it
> another try.  Anyway, wow, he did leave a lot of good movies.
>
> ----------
>
> I ordered AtD from Powell's (union-friendly) and it should be arriving
> tomorrow or Thursday.  But I might not be able to read it right away, having
> decided now is the time to replace the leaky main stack: will be fussing
> with soil pipe cutters (I think I've broken the one I rented, or badly
> maimed it. Have cut almost all the above-ground stuff and jackhammered to
> get down behind the fricking house trap and that cut is the most unkindest
> cut of all...got the chain around it, tightened like mad but no satisfying
> snap - this is old 4" cast iron - discovered the thing wasn't fastened
> right, due to narrow dark cramped conditions --- may have bent the chain,
> may have to cut the pipe with a reciprocating saw which supposedly takes an
> hour or more and wears out carborundum blades, because the cutter won't even
> come loose now) and ABS and the fragrant glue, for time period only known to
> the Deity.
>
> While buying a plumbing book at a major bookstore this evening, thumbed
> thru a few pages of AtD and began to get a little smile playing around my
> lips and face...oboy oboy
>
> I'm truthfully going to stop posting for a discernible number of weeks,
> until I meet my personal goals for firming up position at work, doing some
> wife-wooing (taking Terrance's recent comment to heart), reading "The
> Education of Henry Adams", and finishing the plumbing --- I know I said I'd
> leave weeks ago but it's so nice to read and write about Pynchon with people
> who understand.
>
> I hope that John Carvill and J Porter iron out their differences, which I
> may have inadvertently provoked while the attempted GR group read of 2005
> was getting started.  JC indicated several times that he'd like an organized
> "host-per-section" read.
>
> I was going at GR like never before: have never learned so much about the
> 1st part of a book as from that "group read" both from the attention to and
> rereading of the text I put into my own posts and from the (needed)
> corrections to my misapprehensions, and all the other points of view that
> came in daily mail.
>
> As a new poster, I made what I considered to be a lighthearted response
> indicating I liked the anarchic mode but would fall in with whatever anybody
> else did that seemed to work.  JP wrote what seemed to me like a fairly
> lighthearted post (more expressive of velleity than volition, as was mine)
> supporting anarchy (rather tongue-in-cheekly) but  apparently something in
> the verbiage didn't sit right with JC, whereupon he - and, I remember
> sensing (& joining) at the time, a quorum of others - disavowed the group
> read.  (it's all in the archives, you could look it up)
>
> I'm not aware of any other negative dynamic between those 2, both of whose
> posts are worthwhile.  (for that matter, I could imagine pynchonoid and jbor
> coexisting peacefully. again, both have worthwhile things to say)  I
> apologize if I've contributed to any misunderstanding or ill will.  However,
> some good did ensue: in the space that opened up in the consensus that the
> GR group read had failed, Toby's voyage thru M&D was a superb means of
> wiling away the countdown to AtD.
>
> mike
>
> "down the toilet, look at me - what a silly thing to do;
>
> hope nobody takes a pee.  Ippy-dippy-dippy-do."
>
>
>
>
>
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Jay Herzog [mailto:zogboy at gmail.com]
> > Sent: Wednesday, November 22, 2006 01:37 AM
> > To: pynchon-l at waste.org
> > Subject: Re: RIP Robert Altman
> >
> > I'm partial to the mix of comedy and doomed romanticism in McCabe and
> > Mrs. Miller, which is probably one of the best seventies revisionist
> > westerns.
> >
> > The expertly placed Leonard Cohen tunes on the soundtrack don't hurt
> either.
> >
> > J.
> >
> > On 11/21/06, ang leterre <angleterre at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > THE PLAYER, is maybe his best work?,
> > > certainly some of the best of that decade
> > >
> > > - - from anybody.
> > >
> > >
> >
> >
> > --
> > Check out the best in under-the-counter culture at corkscrew:
> > http://www.mekonista.blogspot.com
> >
>
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