You are indeed the most longwinded (long-inked?) when it comes to journal entries.
Anyway, I hope you remain healthy for a while now.
The Zune had a t first shut off midsong and went black. I plugged it into the computer and opened the software but it didn't light up and the software didn't recognize it as being connected.
However, the tow daze later I loeft it plugged in for an hour and it registered and showed the charging icon. I let it charge and it registered as full.
The next morning I gleefully walked the 3 miles to work listening to a Wilco concert from last month and planned on doing the same on the way home. But, alas and allack a-day! 'Twas not meant to be. During my break I paused a song and it froze. Wouldn't unpause. Registered 3/4 charged too. :/ I pressed the button that turns it off for a few seconds and it shut off, but would not reboot.
So I'm wondering if it's like some cellphones and has to completely discharge then charge for 24 hours or so and then work fine.
It's very new, so . . .
and I'd hate to have to ship it back in and all that crap if I can handle it on my own.
Now if I can find the darn manual when I get home. (I'm at work getting paid to talk to you.)
Translation and Intro by Helen M Mustard and Charles E Passage. It's published in 1961, Vintage Books. ISBN: 394-70188-7
I've never been to Madison or Marquette. I've been to Milwaukee....I've been to several other places in the UP.....
You know, my first thought was, "How the fuck could there be a good bookstore in Marquette?" Then I remembered the fact that they're snowed in for the better part of the year. Did you go to NMU or something?
A.T. Hatto translated my Neibelungelund (or however it's spelled.....I feel less obligated to spell it correctly when I haven't read it yet and when it's 4am.)
I'm happy to be out of Michigan. I have no intention of ever living there again. I am thankful that I didn't live any further north than I did. Damn do I hate snow. Sure, it's fun to drive in, but it still annoys the piss out of me.
The bookstore down here actually kind of sucks. It's four floors. The place is huge. The selection is somehow still pretty fucking crappy. The first time I went in there I had a list of about 20 authors. Most of them were Nobel winners, Classics, shit like that. I wasn't looking for some obscure mid-15th Century stuff or anything. I ended up finding one book by one author on my list. Four fucking floors of books and that's all I found. I hear there are some decent ones out in the suburbs or closer to the universities, but my car's dead and I haven't gotten around to learning the bus routes.
King will always have a very special place in my heart. When I was a wee lad I read Firestarter and it was the first "adult" book that I read solely for fun. I started devouring books from there and that's what turned me into such a huge reader. I read everything I could get my hands on of his. By the time Dark Half or Needful Things came out, I was caught up with him and reading things when they were new. I've read everything up until about five years ago. I think From a Buick 8 was the last novel I read except for finishing up The Dark Tower series. The thing that irks me is that Wizard and Glass is the last one I have really loved. It's been 10 years since he put out a book that I think is excellent. The first 15 or so are outstanding, but in the last 20 years he really hasn't done much and in the last 10 he hasn't done anything I've liked. I cannot even read him anymore. It's not just that I've become a huge snob about literature. I can still read his early stuff and see it as great and love it. The Stand is still one of my favorite novels ever (the early version, I never liked the expanded version). IT is right up there too. I'm a huge fan of the Dark Tower despite how sad books 6 and 7 made me.....I really hate the direction he took it in.
Anyway, like I said, I've no problem with people who want to consider him one of the top writers of our day. He is very underrated on the whole. He does get a lot of shit for the type of books and that's unfair. I agree with you that 50 or 100 years from now, people will still be reading him. I'd like to think he will eventually get the respect he deserves. That said, without even breaking a sweat, I can probably rattle off 50 authors better than him. My biggest complaint is that he isn't very innovative, he's not doing anything new. The whole underlying theme that connects half of his writing is kind of new, but even that has its predecessors. Also, it gets kind of irritating when he seems to go out of his way to force the connection.
