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Name: erik anderson
Homepage: www.strengthnet.com
Notes: For those who don't know me, I am one of "the hottest new models in fitness entertainment" and am currently persuing a masters degree in Pectoral Management at the University of St. Andrews Department of Fitness Entertainment.
Recent diary entries for oldpossumus:
Wow, Pedro, that would be awesome. I've seen the show once and have to admit I wasn't even close to being as smart as a fifth grader. I remember talking to you and some others about glaciers once and I was like "who the hell learned about glaciers in middle school?" and every single person was like, "um, I did?"Bags and BigJ, you both would also kick hairless armpit on that show.
Summer has come to Minnesota and we've found our favorite swimming hole! We miss all y'all -- if any of you hit the TC come see us and we'll take you swimming.
Hey! Congratulations to Big J and Medium B! That is wonderful news - brightens up even the rainy Monterey weather. I would recommend reading them some Yeats whilst they hibernate, and if the wives agree, get some wide-berth headphones and let the RL Burnside roll. Money back guarantee on the coolest kids ever.How excellent to get news like this.
Come one come all!The new and only Slow Learners album is now available, on your format of choice. Your format of choice includes: cd. They are the bargain bin price of 7 dollars per unit. They are hand produced and, stupidly, individually hand stamped. The first printing of 100 copies is surely a collectors item. We only have 20 left so please act now. Tell your friends. Especially those who don't frequent this diner, because we can't find them or reach them. We would love for you to hear our wonderful singing, our lightning fast guitar riffing, and our Beethoven esque sense of Sturm und Drang. If you would like to learn more, please visit the website below which I can't link to because I don't understand what the hell PAHPIII is talking about with all those //&%#@ which he has the gall to write "easy, huh?" Not for us slow learners. The website, in glorious non-html, is:
www.slowlearners.net
If you are interested in being lulled to rapture tonight or soon, you can also email us at:
slowlearners@gmail.com
Peter just told me that the line breaks I just typed won't even show up because I can't do the ///A,A> thing.
And, when we previewed this, we realized Peter didn't know what the hell he's talking about because the line breaks do show up! Ha!
Appy Mamorell Dei!So Wags, that Infinite Jest you found. It needs to have the words first edition. There should also be a number line present, like:
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
or
2 4 6 8 9 7 5 3 1
or
1 3 5 7 9 8 6 4 2
It must have the numeral '1' present. For instance:
3 5 7 9 8 6 4
can be thrown in the fire.
4 5 6 7 8 9 10
is worthless and can be used as a raft for smaller pets like hamsters or well trained birds. It may also be a book club edition, so you should make sure that the price is present on the inside book cover. And the truest of true first editions has a misprint on the rear of the dustjacket - instead of "Vollmann", it reads "Vollman".
So there you go Wags, but I recommend loving your book whether its a "first edition/first printing with first state dust jacket" or "first edition/first printing with second state dust jacket" or even "first edition/later printing" or by God even a simple little book club edition with the little blind stamp on the rear board often shaped like a maple leaf and in less inspired book clubs just a square or circle.
P.S. everyone should read Cormac McCarthy's "Blood Meridian". Its like Herman Melville writing a novel based on "The Good, The Bad and the Ugly" and "Dawn of the Dead".
I'm not very good at keeping up with this place, and I don't think I've ever done one of these diaries, but I realized tonight that this is a perfect place to let all my beloved friends in Chicago know that I'm safe and sound and that things are well here in Carmel.We have a beautiful house to live in - seemingly dropped onto a hill in a thick forest. It is impossible to find my way around and I drive by sixth sense alone. The streets are literally like a plate of vermacelli, with no rhyme or reason or right angles to be found. I have my own room with a big bed (the decor is a bit like my great aunt verna's place, lots of pinks and teddy bears), and you can actually see the ocean from my bedroom window. Pete's brother Andrew is awesome, and I can now say that the entire Carlson clan is comprised of superior individuals.
For Phil: walking into our living room is like walking into a studio - grand piano, marshall halfstack, bass amp, digital eight recorder, and two of the more beautiful guitars I've ever played, a Taylor acoustic and an SG which looks very expensive. There's also a Rickenbacher (spelling?) twelve string and an Ibanez seven string, for those thick slow learner death metal riffs. I think it will be a world record for the crappiest music ever recorded with awesome equipment.
Peter and I spent the first eight days in LA working on a British television show called "The Grill", which is an access hollywood kind of show on the BBC. And the first guests the morning we got there - none other than GWAR!. It was so perfect, its hard to describe. But I hope I never have to pack up the sweaty rubber GWAR-gear into a box again - each time I pushed down on the box to tape it, a rush of GWAR-sweaty air flew up my nostrils and singed my brain. We also met Micheal Madsen, who I thought was going to break my face open when I asked him if he wanted coffee. He looked like he wanted to, and then smiled and said "black". I sighed. Peter talked with his limo driver for a long time (while he guarded the parking lot) and the stories are classic. And the first day I got to pick up a contortionist from the airport - all in all, a very surreal week.
So we worked a week of fourteen hour days and got to hang with Mercurymouth (who treated us to great food the entire time, and a comfortable place to stay) and my friend Travis from St. Andrews in our spare time. It was a good week, if long and a little hard at times.
Saw Kevin in Arizona for those who know him, and he is doing well.
This seems more like an email than a post, so sorry if I cluttered the airwaves. Just wanted to let you all know that we are fine and Carmel is beautiful if a little lonely without all you good folk to populate it. Hope things are well in Chicago (and wherever everyone else is), and know you are missed. Hi Wags!
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