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100.00 dollars eh? paypal?

How so, in your opinion? Just curious.

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!@#$ the haters, LSI. I missed you :w00t: :devil:

:devil: I believe this falls under the jurisdiction of the "Ministry of Silly Walks"

Linkin Park Sucks. It's the truth and you all know it. You can still like them because that's your prerogative but they still suck. This has been an unauthorized segment of THE TRUTH.

:devil: Who knew the truth was so much stranger than the fiction!

Yes, as Exiled noted, I did specifically say "two most influential and original" 20th Century American Authors. Fitzgerald, Kerouac, Salinger, and Irving (I assume you mean John) I would definitely put on a shortlist of the Great 20th Century American Authors. Ken Kesey is another to be mentioned. Saul Bellow would be on there if he wasn't Canadian. Philip Roth is definitely on there. Norman Mailer. So there's been a lot of great authors. But in terms of the uniqueness of their prose and the influence that their unique styles had on writers that came after them, I would have to say Faulkner and Vonnegut. Faulkner is an absolute no-brainer, imo. Vonnegut takes the number 2 slot because, as Slothrop noted and I would agree with, he bridged the gap between all the post-modernesque writers that came after him and the modernist writers of the past through his combination of so many different genres and styles of writing while still keeping his prose as sparse and succinct as it was. Edit: I also find Thomas Wolfe to maybe be the most overrated author out there, so he's definitely not on my shortlist. IMO

You should of RaChaCha'd this thread into the RIGHT FORUM!

Youboty will be most likely ready when he actually steps on the field and we have the chance to see if he is capable of performing like a starting NFL CB.

But when I wear the hat, I'm going to drink lots of beer and get really drunk and get thrown in jail for a P.I. How is that empowerment?

You're right, now I want one. And a beer or ten. And a football game. !@#$ the offseason!

You will not be disappointed when you get into it!

Sounds like a great set to own. And what I meant to say was "Hand Bound", of course I'm pretty tense about the past in general, you understand

Hand binded, I assume?

I am flattered that you would find me capable of digesting such magnificent tomes of literature.

Yes, I can very much understand that. I have absolutely zero love for Sharpeton, as well. I could not agree more.

There's a difference between caring about an issue and the method one takes to address the issue in the public sphere, imo. Al Sharpeton's method is what should be very much questioned and dissected, and I am very much interested in doing that. But to say that Sharpeton the human being is solely motivated by a desire to be Ego King of the Race War Universe is to say that a person is solely constituted by their actions in the public sphere, which I find to be a very shallow and superficial interpretation of human nature. One could very much make the argument that the reason for Sharpeton's "deluded" or "egotistical" manner of addressing race relations comes out of the fact that he cares too much, that the sheer level of his own internal desire to see an end to what he sees as discrimination blinds him to a degree that he forsakes a more rational and open-minded approach in favor of an almost religious narrow minded zeal that priveleges his own internal sense of rightness in favor of broaching a more appropriate discourse among varying peoples and interests.

Willis McGahee was our Don Imus. And we ran that !@#$ right the !@#$ out of here!

Just because Sharpeton's modus operandi is highly questionable does not mean that part of what motivates him to aggrandize himself in the public sphere does not come out of a real desire to quell discrimination as he sees it.

Yes, Vonnegut was a master of distillation, imo. His prose was so streamlined that what lay underneath it was free to burst forth with a more vibrant intensity. I have not read any other writer who was or is as gifted as Vonnegut in displaying this fundamental possibility of the printed word.

I haven't seen that episode.

I would argue it's naive to think that a human being acts solely out of one motivation. The more likely case is that Sharpeton does care, but the manner in which he chooses to act upon this care is often in the most self-aggrandizing way possible, which most of the time blunts his own ability to achieve the results he says he desires (which in itself always supplies him with further reason to be, thus maintaining his egoistic image of himself as the crusader against racial inequality). This makes him misguided in his approach and an egoist in his speech and bearing, but it does not make him a person devoid of real care about the issue of racial relations or a person who doesn't care deeply about things.

I just hope that this newfound expression of being "sick and tired" is channeled towards the real roots of issues and not just in smacking down one DJ so that everyone can feel better about themselves that they "spoke" up.

To drown the creationists in of course!