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Frustrating, isn't it? LINK URL

that'll learn you

Since there's not just one internet, we're talking a lot of linkage: web page

If I got my news from PP's links, I'd be pretty depressed.

Damn, scoped on the page bottom and the page top. I'll leave this sport to the younger generation.

and take that, Camilo!

I'd be pretty depressed if I got my news from news sources, though.

For a lot of folks, their hardest climb might be their favorite...maybe the challenge is what makes it extra-special.

onsite free solo as opposed to an off-site free solo? As opposed to an off-site expensive solo. Of course. As opposed to an off-site expensive guided climb... of course!

I've been looking forward to the 2nd edition - sent you a PM.

Safer than driving, probably.

For Clash fans, "Rude Boy" is a movie that one could watch more than once.

Yo Ireno- Burn one for me! CD, that is. Squid, I'd love to burn a copy for you, but sadly it's no longer in my collection. It was on vinyl and didn't make it on my last cross-country move.

The OC always knows what the ladies need.

I used to have the Straight to Hell soundtrack. It had a couple good songs on it - one by Joe Strummer called "Evil Darling" I liked a lot. The movie's terrible, though! Movies I've seen several times and could watch again: The Holy Mountain, Leon/The Professional (right on, knotzen), Point Break, Night on Earth, Spinal Tap...

Send us a postcard from Kabul, then.

People just don't get worked up over mistakes these days. Innocent people getting shot in the head by cops, countries getting invaded on the basis of faulty or phony intelligence, whatever. Mistakes happen. Oh, and yeah, the terrorists have won:

there was a pit?

You're right. It's like this all over the world. It's the morons and racists that make the news, though. The best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity.

It's because they're morons and racists.

the so-called "holy land" is the closest thing we've got to hell on earth. what a screwed-up hopeless place. I'm glad I don't live there.

Winter and the Llama are right. Go by way of Yakima/the Gorge whenever possible.

John Cheever. I picked up his collected short stories a couple weeks ago, then read Falconer, now I'm on to the Wapshot Chronicle. I don't know why I never read his stuff before. Before that I read David Foster Wallace's short story collection Oblivion, which was great, and Sherman Alexie's The Toughest Indian in the World (another short story collection), which was downright awful.