Axis Mundi X discussion

Amy
Self entertaining
Jane Eyre
Tales of the Alhambra
Ummm, hard one...Abraham Lincoln? or, The Bronte sisters.
Tasslehoff Burrfoot

1) your name - Jackie
2) one line self description - Hopeful Pessimist
3) favorite book - Mandy by Julie Edwards
4) least favorite book - Wuthering Heights
5) favorite historical figure - Queen Elizabeth
6) favorite fictional figure - Jane Eyre

Amelia, "self entertaining"?

Fine. Sorry.

Dave
I'm a dancer man, I just can't lose
The Great Gatsby
The Piano Teacher
Ulysses S. Grant
Superman

Nick
Always looking for the next event to push me over the edge into ruin.
Cosmic Banditos
Counting Heads
Patton
Joshua Culvert

Summer
Perpetual motion.
Brave New World
The Giving Tree
Teddy Roosevelt
Jean-Luc Picard

Kelly
Quixotic
Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell
The Catcher in the Rye
Talleyrand
Jane Austen's narrative voice

Logan
Perpetually wondering
Stranger in a Strange Land
Handmaid's Tale
Nikola Tesla
Jubal Harshaw

I'm not very good at meetings...I get bored and walk out sooner or later, but I'll do my best.

Since we have many members who are not active participants in posting our meeting will require name tags. YOUR NAME TAG SHOULD CONSIST OF THE FOLLOWING:
1) Randomanthony
2) Uh...
3) Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
4) Don't have one, but I'm not big into Henry James or excessively formal prose unless it's Shakespeare or Bronte or whatever...
5) Hm. Edward Hopper, lately...
6) Um...off the top of my head...Alice in Wonderland.

Dave, Yeah...so?

Logan, really? Stranger in a Strange Land? I was with you up to section three...then...well, suffice it to say I was glad when Michael Valentine Smith died! I would have only liked it better if I'd have been able to pelt him with something myself...

RA, how did I know you were going to say Alice? :)

Summer, Rock On Next Gen!!! Data was my fav tho.

Jacks, you gotta read it again. I hated Wuthering Heights the first time too...then a few years later I re-read it and loved it. The first time I actually stopped half way through, threw it at my roommate who gave it to me to read in the first place and refused to read further. Heh!

Amelia, I can definitely understand a strong dislike for Smith. I wasn't too keen on his cult either. Still, I don't think that Smith is the main character. He's more of the foil that leads to Jubal and Jill's growth as characters. I dream of being as crotchety as Jubal one day, though I know I'll never have three buxom assistants.

I actually didn't know what to list as my favorite book, so I asked my wife and she told me. After a few seconds thought it made sense- I reread it about once a year, I buy multiple copies to give to friends and I'll talk about it from here to eternity.

1. Gus
2. Professional Asshat.
3. As Bad As I Wanna Be, by Dennis Rodman.
4. Roget's Thesaurus. I thought it was about dinosaurs. Boy, was I wrong.
5. Neville Chamberlain.
6. Baron Vladimir Harkonnen.

Gus, you are so "the shit" man!

1 - Hayley
2 - Blonde and dizzy
3 - Harry Potter (the whole Series)
4 - ? not sure I'll come back and answer later
5 - Joan of Arc
6 - Mina Harker (Dracula)

Thank you! I try to please. I'm a people-pleaser, you know.

1) Rex
2) comfortably predictable
3) Odyssey
4) anything Mary Higgins Clark
5) Robert E. Lee
6) Odysseus

1) your name - Charissa (some people think it's cute to shorten it to Char but I must say that I find it frightening... )
2) one line self description - the sand in everyone's bikini
3) favorite book - Poisonwood Bible (probably)
4) least favorite book - Henderson the Rain King (fucking Saul Bellow you pretentious wanker)
5) favorite historical figure - Boudicca
6) favorite fictional figure - Captain Augustus "Gus" McCrae

CHAR, I almost put Henderson as my favorite fictional character. Ugh, now I have sand in my bikini over your post. Damn you, CHAR.

1) your name: J (Josey)
2) one line self description: still thinking...
3) favorite book: Game of Kings by Dorothy Dunnett. Or Jane Eyre. Or what I read this morning.
4) least favorite book: umm...
5) favorite historical figure: Abraham Lincoln. No wait, Elizabeth I.
6) favorite fictional figure: Lymond (Game of Kings)

EDIT: one line description: sometimes indecisive

I like Saul Bellow, but he is a pretentious bastard.

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4. The Enigma of Arrival by V.S. Naipaul
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Ha! I live up to my name already.

Charly, if you are wearing a bikini I definitely you should remove it, if only to exchange it for something less disturbing. kthnxbye

T-shirt and jeans for me. And flip-flops.

I have a hard time walking in flip-flops. Those Nike sports sandals work better. But I agree on the t-shirt and jeans part. That's what I wear to work, usually, except maybe a collared shirt with the jeans, and better shoes in the winter.

Charly... are you one of those nudists? How shocking. I'm aghast!

at the moment me and flannel are reliving the grunge era. too tired to wear anything less comfy.

They are trying to brush the Charissa out of their bikinis. Have you ever had sand in an unwanted spot? Sand is fun on the beach not so much when it is hanging out in taint town.

1) Catamorandi
2) Always curious
3) The Hobbit
4) The Lord of the Flies
5) Abraham Lincoln
6) The Little Mermaid

1.Willie (Willa)
2.Fozzie Bear...muppet personality test
3.Momotaro
4.Cures "They" Don't Want You To Know About
5.Queen Lydia Liliuokalani
6.Momotaro

Least favourite book - The Shipping News - I couldn't think of it earlier.

I agree with Nick, sand on a beach is fine but I don't tend to venture onto beaches - I went to Turkey in May and for about a week I was finding sand everywhere - I went on the beach once. Which means Charissa that you where not only the sand in my bikini but in my shoe's, bag, purse and god no knows what else lol

RA, I don't like flip-flops either and I'm little so I live in high heels all year round.

Yeah, David! Stick it to the misogynist Napaul! :)

Hayley: As a person not that much over five feet, I also believe in the magical powers of high heels. It's like a whole 'nother world a four inches up those stilettos. :)

Kelly - I so agree. I went to watch Bon Jovi on Sunday, he was in Manchester,UK and I was standing and made the mistake of wearing flats (for comfort) and couldn't see a thing - not good when I'd been waiting since November to see him live.

Exactly! What is the well being of arches and heels and toes when a good concert is at risk? Pshaw, I say.

I wore flats because I thought 7+ hours in heels would leave me crippled for life instead the flats did worse damage and I am using the power of the heel to repair the damaged caused.

By the way the concert (of what I could see) was brilliant, Bon Jovi are amazing live.

Willa, are you Hawaiian?

My gran was a Kumu.

I dig girls in heels, but they look tough in which to walk. I feel badly for you girls when you have to put those suckers on.

Yeah, I feel badly for me too, but only after about five hours in them. Before then, heels are in every way awesome. I generally don't subscribe to lipstick feminism, but I make an exception for the power of high heels. :)

Mmmm, I'm with Kim on this one, no heels for me. There would be nothing sexy about me wabbling around on my weak ankles! I feel more "powerful" in my camo DMs, thanks.

Life is too short for heels. But I did love the 70s when we wore those big platforms. I'm not short, but it was so cool to be taller.

Lynette
Crazy
too many to list
Away
Theodore Roosevelt
Scooby Doo

No heels for Jackie, shoes or otherwise.

In professional wrestling the people who are the villains are called "heels".

Just thought you'd want to know.

(It's hard to be a good heel, and your success is measured by how much people boo for you.)

Amy - I am 1/4 Hawaiian and went to school on Oahu at Kamehameha. What kind of teacher was your gran?

Polynesian dance. I was forced into a grass skirt and bra top for 10 years of my childhood...UGH! It's beautiful, don't get me wrong. Grams could dance Brown Eyes and make me cry, but I have a distinct lack of rhythm and could never remember the steps.

I am sooooo jealous, Amy! I already told Willie about how disappointed I was as a kid when the hula dance class I was signed up for got cancelled because there weren't enough students.
I've never, ever, ever, ever gotten over that. HULA!!!

I got out of learning the Hula some how, and it was not on my list of things I really wanted to do. I do like to watch others dance. I just could never get into the outfits and the seriousness with all the hip and knee movements. Sorry Jackie about the class cancellation...you would have been cute at it, where I just sucked and looked out of place and kept getting in trouble for laughing.

I do hula, but it's made up hula. In jeans and t-shirt, not a grass skirt.
Lovely hula hands, graceful as the birds in motion,
Gliding like the gulls over the ocean,
lovely hula hands...

Hey, wait a minute! There aren't seagulls in Hawaii, it's the wrong habitat for them. What kind of Hawaiian song is this??

No seagulls in Hawaii?

Not usually. Sometimes they get blown there by a storm, and apparently some migrate through, but no gulls actually LIVE in Hawaii. Weird, huh?

Hawaii has an albatross that looks like a seagull.
http://www.hawaiiaudubon.com/pix/alba...
albatross

I would probably trip over the bells on my toes and do a belly FLOP. And I like leis. Plumeria leis smell heavenly!

*edit - AL-batross!!