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in the spirit of the parent board's recurring threads, i suppose. i don't know, there's not really a lot i can do to elaborate on the question. helps some people to have faces to match names with, sort of thing.

― tom west (thomp), Thursday, 15 December 2005 22:04 (nineteen years ago)

here is me but tiny:

― tom west (thomp), Thursday, 15 December 2005 22:04 (nineteen years ago)

(chris if you'd rather not have one of these threads feel free to get rid of it, i guess)

― tom west (thomp), Thursday, 15 December 2005 22:05 (nineteen years ago)

If I were to post a picture, I would run the risk of having someone recognize me as I stood in Powell's Books poetry section staring dumbly at the shelves, whereat they would approach me with a quizzical look saying faintly, "Aimless? Are you Aimless?", at which I would then be forced to acknowlege myself to be Aimless, leading to the distinct possibility I might be asked into the coffee shop for an espresso drink, an invitiation it would be rude to refuse, thereby causing me to make an utter fool of myself in the coffee shop by not knowing any of the arcane terminology used by the addicts of caffeine when speaking to baristas, and consequently covering myself with shame.

I'm not sure I could bear that.

― Aimless (Aimless), Thursday, 15 December 2005 23:15 (nineteen years ago)

Oh for pity's sake, Aimless. I always ask for "a medium coffee". It seems to work out OK. Anyway, you did post a picture already at some point.

I'm fine with this thread, although I wish my "pictures of your book collection" thread had gone better, even though it's not like I contributed to it.

Here's me, the same pic I used of late on the ILE thread, because I don't get that many photos taken, these days, it seems:

http://www.theminorthirds.com/ilx/cp-la.jpg

― Casuistry (Chris P), Thursday, 15 December 2005 23:24 (nineteen years ago)

I was going to post pictures of my to-read pile but the camera was buggered. So I did not.

I like that photo, and it makes my photo feel less lonely, albeit small.

― tom west (thomp), Thursday, 15 December 2005 23:26 (nineteen years ago)

Are sure that's not supposed to be metranio or mediolarium or some such?

― Aimless (Aimless), Thursday, 15 December 2005 23:35 (nineteen years ago)

Well, I don't go to Starbucks if I can help it. And even there they gave up their cup-size fascism years ago.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Thursday, 15 December 2005 23:39 (nineteen years ago)

Doesn't Powell's have its own coffee shop anymore? RJM and I sat in there for a few hours on our last buying spree (admittedly, 2 years ago).

― Jaq (Jaq), Thursday, 15 December 2005 23:42 (nineteen years ago)

I'm eyeing up the digital cameras at the pawnshop down the block and thinking, do these people really want to see the state of my apartment?

― Ann K.F. Sterzinger, Friday, 16 December 2005 01:04 (nineteen years ago)

Me, blurry after a long week:

http://www.theilliterate.com/archives/illiterati/jsm1.JPG

― Jaq (Jaq), Friday, 16 December 2005 02:16 (nineteen years ago)

I thought you were blonde!

And yes, Powell's of course still has the coffee shop.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Friday, 16 December 2005 06:19 (nineteen years ago)

I look like che guevera.

― Fred (Fred), Friday, 16 December 2005 08:08 (nineteen years ago)

A literary one: me and Patrick Kavanagh
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v384/lucyald/Dublin8.jpg

― Mädchen (Madchen), Friday, 16 December 2005 10:14 (nineteen years ago)

he turned to stone!

― Fred (Fred), Friday, 16 December 2005 15:26 (nineteen years ago)

Looking positively feverish (someone get me an icepack, STAT):

http://static.flickr.com/38/74149759_019830bc7d_m.jpg

― Laurel (Laurel), Friday, 16 December 2005 16:46 (nineteen years ago)

Cute!

― Mikey G (Mikey G), Friday, 16 December 2005 17:13 (nineteen years ago)

What an open, engaged, and intelligent face! Beautiful smile, too. I am completely won over.

― Aimless (Aimless), Friday, 16 December 2005 17:48 (nineteen years ago)

I think you misspelled "red as a beetroot", Aim. Also notice I am hovering over cheese & crackers tray, the better to snap up all the Irish white cheddar.

― Laurel (Laurel), Friday, 16 December 2005 17:57 (nineteen years ago)

I am hovering over cheese & crackers tray, the better to snap up all the Irish white cheddar

Hmmmm. I had missed that. But that only confirms my initial impression of intelligence. It explains the 'engaged' part and justifies the broad smile, too. As for your rubicundity, it is nowhere as pronounced as your self-deprecation.

― Aimless (Aimless), Friday, 16 December 2005 19:02 (nineteen years ago)

I thought you were blonde!

Sometimes, but generally reddish/brownish. Your photo looks like you stopped mid-chopstick!

― Jaq (Jaq), Friday, 16 December 2005 22:07 (nineteen years ago)

I thought you were blond too, Jaq!

― remy (x Jeremy), Saturday, 17 December 2005 03:02 (nineteen years ago)

I was blonde as a little kid (I think I posted a photo of when I was 5 or so), but it became less so in my teens. It lightens in the summer, but mostly, it's red (to match my temper, as an ex-boss observed!)

― Jaq (Jaq), Saturday, 17 December 2005 03:23 (nineteen years ago)

I'm not sure the food had even come yet, at that point. But do I usually look that kind of grumpy? I think I might, more and more these days. That was in LA of course, which never helps.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Saturday, 17 December 2005 06:56 (nineteen years ago)

Also, hey, can we stop acting like I want to decide what threads live and what threads die? I'm only interested in deleting threads that everyone wants deleted. ILB isn't, you know, mine (I just post here far, far too frequently) and I feel uncomfortable with the idea that I somehow had the right to choose to kill this thread if I didn't like it. That's not how I like to run my benevolent dictatorships.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Saturday, 17 December 2005 08:07 (nineteen years ago)

SPARE US YR LRDSHIP

― Josh (Josh), Saturday, 17 December 2005 16:32 (nineteen years ago)

I, for one, welcome our ILB overlord.

― Jaq (Jaq), Saturday, 17 December 2005 17:52 (nineteen years ago)

We first three are all rather glum. Or perhaps pensive. Madchen smiles! And Laurel glows.

― Jaq (Jaq), Saturday, 17 December 2005 18:00 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.tryfoneblog.com/photos/34/7e/f99efa76dcb8.jpg
I got your pensive here, pal.

― accentmonkey (accentmonkey), Saturday, 17 December 2005 21:00 (nineteen years ago)

Funny, I could have sworn that photo was square.

― accentmonkey (accentmonkey), Saturday, 17 December 2005 21:02 (nineteen years ago)

Outstanding! I love those glasses, accentmonkey.

― Jaq (Jaq), Saturday, 17 December 2005 22:10 (nineteen years ago)

am i glum? i don't think i'm glum.

― tom west (thomp), Saturday, 17 December 2005 22:34 (nineteen years ago)

This was taken last summer in NE Oregon at a place called Frances Lake. (Most likely you can't get there from here.) If you look very carefully, you may be able to detect me standing behind the camera.

http://www.costaltown.nildram.co.uk/escape/Frances_Lake_sunset_small.jpg

― Aimless (Aimless), Sunday, 18 December 2005 20:02 (nineteen years ago)

Oops. Let me try that again:

― Aimless (Aimless), Sunday, 18 December 2005 20:26 (nineteen years ago)

Here's what I look like when tired and a bit drunk:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v208/slightlyfoxed/Rach4.jpg

― Archel (Archel), Monday, 19 December 2005 10:06 (nineteen years ago)

Arch, I think that might be my favorite of your pictures. It makes me think that previous shots haven't actually given me a proper idea what you look like from day to day, when you're animated and reacting to things. Also, I'm kind of into that wallpaper!

― Laurel (Laurel), Monday, 19 December 2005 15:24 (nineteen years ago)

Thanks! You can see my expression (er, drunk and tired) better there because I'm not wearing my glasses maybe?

(Those are my bathroom tiles in fact.)

― Archel (Archel), Monday, 19 December 2005 15:42 (nineteen years ago)

one month passes...

http://static.flickr.com/35/88733795_9a53cadb8e_m.jpg

(mostly because I'm surprised no-one did this)

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Friday, 20 January 2006 00:31 (nineteen years ago)

che guevera. check my profile.

― Fred (Fred), Friday, 20 January 2006 05:18 (nineteen years ago)

i did not realise you could do that.

― tom west (thomp), Saturday, 21 January 2006 01:50 (nineteen years ago)

Tom, I'm not sure that Wittgenstein quote in the New Pornographers song is so bad, but I don't know the song.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Saturday, 21 January 2006 04:05 (nineteen years ago)

haha okay

that one of their songwriters has a habit of rather arch & often irrelevant quotations and self-quotations throughout pretty much everything he's released, and in that song - uh, 'chump change', if you're bothered - it really bugs me. it's probably not so much the line in itself.

― tom west (thomp), Saturday, 21 January 2006 15:04 (nineteen years ago)

hey i've been meaning to ask - how can i order some of the minor thirds stuff to an english address?

― tom west (thomp), Saturday, 21 January 2006 15:23 (nineteen years ago)

I also would like to know this.

― Gravel Workelsworth, Tuesday, 24 January 2006 10:37 (nineteen years ago)

If you're talking about Dan Bejar, yes, I am a huge fan of Destroyer, I just think the NPs are toooooo poppy-down-your-throat by far.

Anyone in the world can just order from the label (or the other label) and you don't even have to throw in extra money for shipping (although if you can figure out a way to do that in PayPal and feel like it, you know, much obliged). All orders come with vintage stickers! Possibly of rainbow unicorns.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Tuesday, 24 January 2006 17:42 (nineteen years ago)

ah okay - i assumed the postage-included meant it was just a one-continent job. i will put in an order soon, although it probably depends on my getting around to re-fixing my paypal account. anything else on there you'd particularly recommend?

& yeah, it's one of bejar's songs. have you heard the new destroyer yet? i was listening to it more-than-daily but that trailed off and i haven't in a while: still not having any idea what the first track was about at all was bugging me, just as a bunch of the others were slotting into place. oh & props props props to "i was just another West Coast maximalist / exploring the blues" as a first line. (also his new band sounds pretty hot.)

― tom west (thomp), Wednesday, 25 January 2006 03:57 (nineteen years ago)

I have not heard the new D. at all, as I am so out of the loop on that sort of thing. I was relistening to Streethawk the other day, because after watching a few Herzog films I had the "Was it the movie or the making of Fitzcarraldo where someone learned to love again?" line stuck in my head -- there is some amazing stuff on that album. That and Thief are my favorites by him.

tM3-wise you would want Dishwasher Thief and possibly Saskatchewan; also the Ned Raggett is of course delectable. Endless fun is to be found at the Tape Mtn site, but much of it is now downloadable.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Wednesday, 25 January 2006 04:21 (nineteen years ago)

(But if you just want to make one order, throw another $3 on a Sad Penguin order and Sask will by mysteriously added to the package.)

― Casuistry (Chris P), Wednesday, 25 January 2006 04:22 (nineteen years ago)

that song mostly reminds me that i have yet to start watching the herzog-kinski box set i bought in the sales last year, because i am terrible with that sort of thing.

(& i sort of meant recommendations of stuff that isn't the minor thirds. it seemed, uh, classier.)

― tom west (thomp), Wednesday, 25 January 2006 04:56 (nineteen years ago)

(Well, uh, since I co-run Sad Penguin, I have to recommend all of it. Tape Mtn is generally great, but Celesteville's Malmo and Spirit Duplicator are great, and the Raunchy Young Lepers is notorious, and you should at least try luv[sic] and see if they're your scene, the Scott Jacobson is nice, etc., etc. God, most of it is downloadble now, including Sask, but Sask has really lovely packaging.)

― Casuistry (Chris P), Wednesday, 25 January 2006 06:57 (nineteen years ago)

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fyi: jeff is a comic genius:

http://www.jl13.com/

― scott seward (scott seward), Sunday, 26 February 2006 00:54 (nineteen years ago)

When we go to friends' homes, I will always find myself at their bookshelves. Just looking. If they don't have any books in the house, I get a bit lost.

― Jaq (Jaq), Sunday, 26 February 2006 00:59 (nineteen years ago)

if they don't have books, i know i'm not wanted there.

― scott seward (scott seward), Sunday, 26 February 2006 01:22 (nineteen years ago)

I was dating this guy, and then I went over to his place to have the sex, and I realized he didn't have any books, and I asked him about it, and he said in fact he didn't have any books, and then, well. I wish I could say we didn't have the sex, for any number of reasons, but it was a cavalcade of disappointments after that.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Sunday, 26 February 2006 06:59 (nineteen years ago)

I have a nasty habit of not just looking at people's books, but valuing them as well. Usually by the time I leave I can give you a pretty good estimate of what your books would fetch in my shop.

This would be a useful skill if Ireland had any tax back incentives for charitable donations, but sadly we don't.

Wow, look at Jeff all clever and talented!

― accentmonkey (accentmonkey), Sunday, 26 February 2006 11:37 (nineteen years ago)

That is actually pretty awesome. I'd love to know how much my library would go for on the Irish used book market.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Sunday, 26 February 2006 17:14 (nineteen years ago)

wait - which books? The ones with the ugly multi-colored spines? If so, those would be a few Steve Erickson books...

― Jeff LeVine (Jeff LeVine), Sunday, 26 February 2006 22:18 (nineteen years ago)

Okay, this is an experiment. I'm trying to put a photobucket picture here. It may not work. Any number of snafus could occur. Snafi?

― Beth Parker (Beth Parker), Monday, 27 February 2006 21:59 (nineteen years ago)

Whoa! That's one helluva snafu! Not only do you know what I look like now, you know what my PORES look like!

― Beth Parker (Beth Parker), Monday, 27 February 2006 22:01 (nineteen years ago)

― Beth Parker (Beth Parker), Monday, 27 February 2006 22:04 (nineteen years ago)

Earth to Photoshop! That is NOT three inches wide!

― Beth Parker (Beth Parker), Monday, 27 February 2006 22:06 (nineteen years ago)

― Beth Parker (Beth Parker), Monday, 27 February 2006 22:11 (nineteen years ago)

Hmmph. So much fro photobucket's "resize to 25% of original" option.
And why have my scanned photos, when saved for web, suddenly become a yard wide? WTF?

― Beth Parker (Beth Parker), Monday, 27 February 2006 22:12 (nineteen years ago)

I need a cup of tea. I took the ginormous picture off photobucket, so it should go away for y'all, though not for me as long as I'm on this computer wherein the horrific image lives.

― Beth Parker (Beth Parker), Monday, 27 February 2006 22:14 (nineteen years ago)

Can you specify the width in pixels? I usually size the vertical ones about 250 pixels wide and the landscape ones about 400.

― Jaq (Jaq), Monday, 27 February 2006 22:16 (nineteen years ago)

I think what the photobucket resize option does is just reduce kbs, not area. I resized all the them in photoshop, though. Did that big horrible picture go away? How embarassing!

― Beth Parker (Beth Parker), Monday, 27 February 2006 22:38 (nineteen years ago)

all OF them.

― Beth Parker (Beth Parker), Tuesday, 28 February 2006 00:05 (nineteen years ago)

che guevera.

― Fred (Fred), Tuesday, 28 February 2006 11:09 (nineteen years ago)

Surprisingly few pictures on this thread.

Though I suppose people could write ... ink polaroids instead.

― the bellefox, Tuesday, 28 February 2006 21:39 (nineteen years ago)

You are all spared by my camera-less-ness.

― Laurel (Laurel), Tuesday, 28 February 2006 21:49 (nineteen years ago)

The flashing light! It steals our souls, precious.

Oh wait, I did post a photo. Don't mind me.

― accentmonkey (accentmonkey), Tuesday, 28 February 2006 22:45 (nineteen years ago)

Here I am, on the left, with my friend Linda. People constantly mistake us for each other—launch into whole conversations meant for the other person. I have different glasses now. Those were too huge. They were the first pair of middle-age, and I wanted a big windshield.

― Beth Parker (Beth Parker), Tuesday, 28 February 2006 22:48 (nineteen years ago)

http://static.flickr.com/27/53848825_ba766375c6.jpg?v=0

― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 28 February 2006 22:49 (nineteen years ago)

Jordan, can I adopt you?

― Beth Parker (Beth Parker), Tuesday, 28 February 2006 22:53 (nineteen years ago)

that cat reads damn slowly

― tom west (thomp), Tuesday, 28 February 2006 23:16 (nineteen years ago)

OMG CUTE KITTY.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Wednesday, 1 March 2006 01:29 (nineteen years ago)

The cat reads comics. Loser cat.

― Mikey G (Mikey G), Wednesday, 1 March 2006 08:34 (nineteen years ago)

it looks a bit like a less terminally frightened version of the cat that hangs around here, actually. pointier tail, though.

― tom west (thomp), Wednesday, 1 March 2006 12:27 (nineteen years ago)

three weeks pass...

http://static.flickr.com/19/116690044_502795ac4a.jpg

― Casuistry (Chris P), Thursday, 23 March 2006 08:19 (nineteen years ago)

Oh good, it worked.

A bad photo of my new bookshelves. Quick, how many books can you name? Don't use my LibraryThing for help, neither!

Mason & Dixon is pretty obvious, and the Pinsky Inferno.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Thursday, 23 March 2006 08:21 (nineteen years ago)

i see alphabetizing!

wcw, vol 1
wcw, vol 2
...
zukofsky, "a"

i think i might recognize 'wittgenstein's ladder' on another shelf? but if so they're not completely in alphabetical oder.

― Josh (Josh), Thursday, 23 March 2006 08:33 (nineteen years ago)

It is alphabetized, after many years of nonalphabetizing. AND by subject. Go for it.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Thursday, 23 March 2006 08:50 (nineteen years ago)

Wittgenstein's Ladder is on the middle case, 2nd shelf down. I don't know how you recognized it in the pic tho.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Thursday, 23 March 2006 08:53 (nineteen years ago)

aw, then i was wrong. i see one on the first case, second shelf down that looks like it though.

― Josh (Josh), Thursday, 23 March 2006 09:10 (nineteen years ago)

Oh! No, you're right, I misread you as saying "Wittgenstein's Mistress".

― Casuistry (Chris P), Thursday, 23 March 2006 09:16 (nineteen years ago)

I don't think I recognise any of them!

Me and one of my bookcases (I think Middlesex is maybe the only recognisable volume there?):
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v208/slightlyfoxed/sleepygrin.jpg

― Archel (Archel), Thursday, 23 March 2006 13:57 (nineteen years ago)

I have a photo of me standing in front of my bookcases and I'm wearing my lucky pants (that's pants in a UK sense).

Not sure the world is ready.

― Mikey G (Mikey G), Thursday, 23 March 2006 17:23 (nineteen years ago)

Archel, I can't make out what the Penguin volume is there. It looks like the author has three names, maybe, with a short middle name, possibly "the". And then the name of the book is short. But I'm not sure. If the photo were at a slightly more head-on angle it would be easier.

Mikey, What makes them lucky?

― Casuistry (Chris P), Thursday, 23 March 2006 17:33 (nineteen years ago)

Actually, I don't even know what that is! Hm, alphebetised so... oh I think it's Emma.

― Archel (Archel), Thursday, 23 March 2006 17:35 (nineteen years ago)

Aw, come on Mikey - the world might not be ready, but the internets probably are.

Those are great looking shelves C! I like the detail of the top moulding.

And Archel looks so contented!

― Jaq (Jaq), Thursday, 23 March 2006 17:36 (nineteen years ago)

No it can't be Emma because it's clearly after Jill Barklem there.

― Archel (Archel), Thursday, 23 March 2006 17:39 (nineteen years ago)

chris, maybe it's 'keak the sneak'.

― Josh (Josh), Thursday, 23 March 2006 18:00 (nineteen years ago)

The shelves are all pressboard (and from Office Despot, no less), but the moulding details obscure that for a half-second when you look at them.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Thursday, 23 March 2006 18:11 (nineteen years ago)

A good friend of ours is the head stage carpenter at UW - when we move back to civilization, I'm going to have him come make all our cheap shelves look classy with trim and FX and whatnot.

― Jaq (Jaq), Thursday, 23 March 2006 18:18 (nineteen years ago)

my parents have offered to get me some bookshelves installed at the new family home. ideas?

― tom west (thomp), Thursday, 23 March 2006 18:22 (nineteen years ago)

When my friend moved into his new loft last summer, he got a bunch of his friends (including me) to come and build wooden bookshelves. We made something like 20+ standard tall bookshelves. (He is both a bibliomanaic and an ex-bookstore owner. It is fun to housesit for him.) (Also, his bed is a loft bed that is built on top of three bookshelves, so he's literally sleeping on his books. It's all fantastic.)

― Casuistry (Chris P), Thursday, 23 March 2006 18:24 (nineteen years ago)

Wow! Just - wow!

― Jaq (Jaq), Thursday, 23 March 2006 18:28 (nineteen years ago)

tom: idea: build extra.

― Josh (Josh), Thursday, 23 March 2006 18:46 (nineteen years ago)

I am DEFINITELY going to sleep on bookshelves one day if I can. Wow.

(Oh having arrived home I can reveal that it's Alice in Wonderland/Through the Looking Glass.)

― art vandelay (what?), Thursday, 23 March 2006 21:33 (nineteen years ago)

Yeah, I forgot M was logged in, not me.

― Archel at home (what?), Friday, 24 March 2006 20:05 (nineteen years ago)

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