what should the ilb board descrip be?

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hm?

Bill Steer (roxymuzak), Monday, 15 September 2008 18:47 (seventeen years ago)

A steamin' heapin' helpin' o' literary discussion.

Where the elite meet to dish lit crit.

Bookish erudition - now in a rhomboid format!

Come talk about books. (Testicles optional.)

Wordier than any lolcat you've ever encountered.

Aimless, Monday, 15 September 2008 19:13 (seventeen years ago)

If you can read this, you're qualified.

Contextualizing authors since circa 2005.

Aimless, Monday, 15 September 2008 19:28 (seventeen years ago)

The Wheetabix analog of ILX.

Aimless, Monday, 15 September 2008 19:28 (seventeen years ago)

Judy Blume, etc

celebrated pop troubadour Stefan Dennis (Roberto Spiralli), Monday, 15 September 2008 19:30 (seventeen years ago)

ILE sparknotes edition

El Tomboto, Monday, 15 September 2008 20:03 (seventeen years ago)

!!!

Bill Steer (roxymuzak), Monday, 15 September 2008 20:08 (seventeen years ago)

News that stays news

Doghouse O RLY (G00blar), Monday, 15 September 2008 20:12 (seventeen years ago)

I read part of it all the way through.

Doghouse O RLY (G00blar), Monday, 15 September 2008 20:12 (seventeen years ago)

The only message board in Harold Bloom's Western Canon.

Øystein, Monday, 15 September 2008 20:28 (seventeen years ago)

I preferred the movie.

›̊-‸‷̅‸-- (ledge), Tuesday, 16 September 2008 00:35 (seventeen years ago)

"better than cliterature"

cozen (cozwn), Tuesday, 16 September 2008 00:51 (seventeen years ago)

"What are you readin' for?"

milling through the grinder, grinding through the mill (S-), Tuesday, 16 September 2008 00:54 (seventeen years ago)

UH

King Boy Pato (Autumn Almanac), Tuesday, 16 September 2008 01:07 (seventeen years ago)

surely we can do better

Everything is Highlighted (Hurting 2), Tuesday, 16 September 2008 01:17 (seventeen years ago)

How about "Is J. Alfred Prufrock Insecure?"

Everything is Highlighted (Hurting 2), Tuesday, 16 September 2008 01:26 (seventeen years ago)

Reader's Blecch

Retrato Em Redd E Blecch (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 16 September 2008 02:12 (seventeen years ago)

Dusty-dusty him sad

Aimless, Tuesday, 16 September 2008 04:09 (seventeen years ago)

roland barthes thread 2008

winnebago silver (Lamp), Tuesday, 16 September 2008 15:16 (seventeen years ago)

Dusty-dusty him sad

^^^^^ this

Jaq, Tuesday, 16 September 2008 15:21 (seventeen years ago)

Or "Ask us about Without Seeing the Dawn. We're very helpful, you know."

Jaq, Tuesday, 16 September 2008 15:22 (seventeen years ago)

Can you find the made-up book on this board?
Molly/Blazes shippers welcome
Fotherington-Thomas corner
Like ILM, for grown ups
Polls are vulgar
Surprisingly open-minded about genre tat
Just regular folks who all like The Orange Box
With or without pictures and conversations

(Really, I'm another fan of 'Dusty-dusty him sad', also 'Judy Blume, etc')

woofwoofwoof, Tuesday, 16 September 2008 21:27 (seventeen years ago)

A nun went to bed with an ilxor
whose manners were like an elixir
'just beware my young lass
of that volume of Gass
if the spine breaks, alas
I must tear up your ass'
so uttered that bibli-o-ilxor

(Don't look for my volume of poetry any time soon)

Øystein, Tuesday, 16 September 2008 21:52 (seventeen years ago)

"Get stewed: Books are a load of crap." Philip Larkin

Michael White, Tuesday, 16 September 2008 22:13 (seventeen years ago)

"For answers to your homework, please Paypal $100 to..."

Casuistry, Tuesday, 16 September 2008 22:15 (seventeen years ago)

the Cormac McCarthy backlash starts here

you don't make friends with salad (Jordan), Tuesday, 16 September 2008 22:41 (seventeen years ago)

literary musings by illiterate musos

Everything is Highlighted (Hurting 2), Wednesday, 17 September 2008 00:13 (seventeen years ago)

"What are you readin' for?"

― milling through the grinder, grinding through the mill (S-), Tuesday, September 16, 2008 12:54 AM (Yesterday) Bookmark

lol

art tatum HOOS & chopped (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Wednesday, 17 September 2008 00:21 (seventeen years ago)

"...What am I reading for?"

art tatum HOOS & chopped (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Wednesday, 17 September 2008 00:26 (seventeen years ago)

"I Love sets or collection of written, printed, illustrated, or blank sheets, made of paper, parchment, or other material, usually fastened together to hinge at one side"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Book

Zeno, Wednesday, 17 September 2008 00:26 (seventeen years ago)

Why does I Love Books people never want to Prufrock?

Retrato Em Redd E Blecch (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 17 September 2008 04:47 (seventeen years ago)

so i guess theres a winner (without a poll?...)

Zeno, Wednesday, 17 September 2008 11:59 (seventeen years ago)

We drink the NYRB's milkshake.

Aimless, Wednesday, 17 September 2008 17:56 (seventeen years ago)

what is that a reference to? dusty dusty i mean

genital grinder (roxymuzak), Wednesday, 17 September 2008 18:14 (seventeen years ago)

it's the Cliff Notes version of The Waste Land

Mr. Que, Wednesday, 17 September 2008 18:17 (seventeen years ago)

HAW!

genital grinder (roxymuzak), Wednesday, 17 September 2008 18:19 (seventeen years ago)

Prufrock in Memphis.

Retrato Em Redd E Blecch (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 17 September 2008 18:35 (seventeen years ago)

in re: dusty-dusty

I did some searching for the thread, but didn't get a hit. It described a conversation one ILBor had with his toddler about the Dostoevsky book he was reading. (Notes From Underground?)

Aimless, Wednesday, 17 September 2008 18:36 (seventeen years ago)

i've gotta see that

genital grinder (roxymuzak), Wednesday, 17 September 2008 18:37 (seventeen years ago)

oh, i found it! The two year old's guide to Dostoevsky

genital grinder (roxymuzak), Wednesday, 17 September 2008 18:38 (seventeen years ago)

Another vote for Dusty-Dusty!

James Morrison, Thursday, 18 September 2008 00:20 (seventeen years ago)

"him sad in his room" maybe better

genital grinder (roxymuzak), Thursday, 18 September 2008 13:42 (seventeen years ago)


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