Comments for Rule, Brittaniea

Comment on Cars sliding down icy hill by Andrew

Andrew — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 16:43:59 +0000

I was waiting for a creepy old man to get out of one of the cars and chase a bunch of half nekkid girls.

Comment on Have a little common sense by brentabousko

brentabousko — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 21:41:28 +0000

oh yes tell alls like say, motley crue a must. just can’t stand courtney.

lots of good picks but get hemmingway,esp sun also rises

oops now i’m adding to your list

Comment on Have a little common sense by Brittanie

Brittanie — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 21:31:01 +0000

C’mon. Trashy celebrity tell-alls are a guilty pleasure. Starting Devil in the White City tonight. This list is a “want to,” not a “must.” I mainly keep it so I don’t blank out when I go to the library and forget what I went there for in the first place.

Comment on Have a little common sense by brentabousko

brentabousko — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 21:25:47 +0000

i have to admit it was hard to read anything after the words courtney love

but yes cut the list down sizeably. unless you live on an island with a library then by all means.

on your immediate reads the devil in the white city is great fun. i want to read hunter s thompson’s book on the hell’s angels.

good stuff like the blog.

Comment on Have a little common sense by Brittanie

Brittanie — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 21:21:17 +0000

Seriously? Whoa boy. As of Dec. 17, 2008 (copied and pasted directly from my iPhone notes:

Currently Reading:
The Artists Way Workbook
Dirty Blonde: The Diaries of Courtney Love
Harriett the Spy
The Golden Notebook

Authors to Read:
Sherman Alexie
Nik Cohn
Dr. Dean Cornish
Harry Crews
Lydia Davis
William Faulkner
Patricia Highsmith
Theodora Keogh
Kiki de Montparnasse
Grace Paley
Calvin Trillin
Christine Vaite (Tahitian writer)
Sarah Vowell
Dr. Andrew Weil

Future Books to Read:
Alabama Song
Alberta and Freedom by Cora Sandal
American Psycho
American Youth
Amy Amy Amy the Amy Winehouse story
Another Bullshit Night in Suck City by Nick Flynn
Apartment Therapy 8 Week Cure
Art of Urban Cycling
Atomized by Michel Houellebecq
Bad Grass Never Dies by Chuck Barris
Basketball Diaries
The Beach
Blue Highways
Blue Latitudes
Body Drama
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
Cakes and Ale by Maugham
Daisy Miller
Daughters of the North
Dead Poets Society
Death in Venice by Thomas Mann
Devil in the White City
Diaries of Kenneth Williams
Disquiet
Dogland
Double Door
Dud Avocado
Eat Pray Love
Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test
Electricity by Ray Robinbson
Electroglide in Blue by Fitz Carraldo
Fun Home by Alison Bechdel
Ginger Man
Giovanni’s Room
Great Gatsby
Grifters
Gypsy: Memoirs of America’s Most Celebrated Stripper
He died with a falafel in his hand
Hell’s Angel by Sonny Barger
High Fidelity
House of Dolls
House of Mirth
I Was Told There’d Be Cake
I Hate You, Don’t Leave Me
If An A Winter’s Night A Traveler by Italo Calvino
Interview with a Vampire
The Island
Island of Dr Moreau
Lady Chatterly’s Lover
Laika
Last Days of dead celebrities
Last Samurai
Learning to Drive by Katha Pollitt
Liars Club by Mary Karr
Lincoln by Gore Vidal
Lolita
Love Machine
The Lover by Marguerite Dura
Lunar Park
Man Who Fell to Earth
M’as-tu vue by Sophie Calle
Meaning of Sunglasses
Memoirs of an ex prom queen
Memoirs of Montparnasse by John Glassco
Miss Lonelyhearts by Nathanial West
Moll Flanders
Mother Night by Vonnegut
The Mystery Guest
The Now Habit
On the Road
On Writing by Steven King
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
One Hundred Siberian Postcards
One Thousand Chestnut Trees
Oulipo Compendium
Outsiders
Painted Veil
The Pigman
Possession
Revolutionary Road
Rock to the Top by Danya Steele
Running with Scissors
Severence
Sewing Circle
Sex and the Single Girl
Show that Smells
Sophie’s Choice
Stop Walking on Eggshells
Strange Voyage of Donald Crowhurst
Sweet Soul Music by Peter Guralnick
Take the Cannoli by Sarah Vowell
Tales of the City by A. Maupin
Telex from cuba
That Summer in Paris by Morley Callaghan
Thy Neighbors Wife by Gay Talese
Under the Big Top
Underworld by Don Delillo
Vagabond by Colette
Vagabonding
Voluptuous Panic
Wasted
When You Are Engulfed in Flames by Sedaris
Wild at Heart
Wild Sheep Chase
World According to Mimi Smartypants
Writing Without Teachers
Wuthering Heights
You Shall Know Our Velocity

I also have a more immediate queue on Goodreads.

Comment on Have a little common sense by brentabousko

brentabousko — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 20:49:23 +0000

what’s on your list?

Comment on Enjoy it while it lasts by Brittanie

Brittanie — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 16:45:13 +0000

I’m flattered by the question bu the answer is neither. I was there with my husband while he was working at a shipyard.

Comment on Enjoy it while it lasts by Lorenzo

Lorenzo — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 06:02:00 +0000

were you working as an english teacher in Korea; or were you a model? christmas away from home has a strange flavor, not in a bad way necessarily, just special.

Comment on Enjoy it while it lasts by Andrew

Andrew — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 17:40:34 +0000

Holy cow! I had no idea it could snow down there. It’s friggin’ cold up my way (currently 31 degrees). I HATE snow - too many near-death experiences on the roads will do that to a person - but I think I could learn to love it if it never accumulated and was bookended by 70 degree days.

Comment on Take my pen knife, my good man! by Formica

Formica — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 16:34:14 +0000

*Whoa*!
I never knew about that! How COOL!
Thanks for posting that, Brit! I love learning more about my hometown, especially the Futurama stuff.

Still waiting for the Jet-Pak they promised us by the year 2000,
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