Where I've been, where I am

[Michael Bailey]

Lawrence Bryan wrote:
>
> Not sure why anyone cares, but here goes.
>
> Got started reading Pynchon while living in the UAE, teaching mathematics
> and CS to Muslim students at the UAE's national university. Nothing to do in
> the evenings, makes taking on OBA a lot easier.

reminds me of a good sf story, Green Day in Brunei...superficially
anyway, a computer guy in an Arabian setting...

>
> I travel a lot. Been around the world twice. Love classical (serious) music.
>  Been married to the same woman for forty one years.
>

Congratulations!

> Politically a Chomskyite.
> Think Obama is a nice man whose politics are barely to the left of Bush's. I
> see this bailout business as being Obama's Bay of Pigs.
>

not to be a gadfly, but doesn't it seem like Chomsky is a heckuva good
critic of social ills, but might be doing the same about the
inevitable abuses of an anarcho-syndicalist regime if  one were in
place?

> Jeez, I could go on, but really, who cares what I've done, lived, or
> currently think?
>

Kevin Dunn wrote:

>Likewise: but who really cares what i've done, have thought, do, currently think, will do or will >end up realizing?

-- so this seems to be the thread for people who are a wee bit self-effacing...

 so ... errm ... when I was a kid, we'd go after church a couple times
a year out to an old cider mill (this was in southeast Michigan, where
I grew up), and my folks'd buy cider and donuts and my sister and I
would go to this playground they had there and even though I'm pretty
asocial it'd be easy enough to find somebody to play with and have a
good time...
now I live in Florida though we just moved back last summer from
Kansas which was nice

so, Pynchon is sorta like the cider mill and the list is sorta like
the playground there...

and I always wanted to go to the cider mill more often, so I find
myself coming back to the list here a lot
the only real axe I have to grind is I think Vineland is really a
wonderful book; though have been known to rave about other things as
well (or as ill)

and I think most of us like to hear about each other


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