Slog - Comments on Reading Today http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/04/reading_today_12 An open mic, three authors reading work that celebrates the body alongside portions of a documentary titled Got Breast? and then some actually interesting-looking readings going on today. Grant Baille is reading at Elliott Bay Book Company at 2 pm. He's reading from his second novel, Mortarville, which is about a test tube baby found in the wreckage of a mad scientist's lab. When the government realizes that he's just a normal human being born in a jar, they send him off to the Secret Government Home for the Products of Mad Science. Eventually, he gets a job as... Copyright 2008 Sat, 05 Apr 2008 08:25:20 -0800 Sat, 05 Apr 2008 09:03:54 -0800 http://www.movabletype.org/?v=3.34 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Comment by ecce homo They should ban Fnarf from the reading today.

God has appointed him the arbiter of what can and cannot be called literature.

He likely will attack the authors for their over use of ellipses or some other nonsense.

This happens when you get old. You start getting a little testy.

Good luck to the authors. These sound like some great events! The one on Braile sounds particularly interesting.

]]> ecce homo http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/04/reading_today_12#c990737 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/04/reading_today_12#c990737 Books Sat, 05 Apr 2008 08:41:03 -0800 Comment by Brave and mighty SAVAGE warrior Dan Photo at:http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/

Beverly Morris, bottom right, screams and collapses as the casket carrying her brother, U.S. Army Spec. Charles Jankowski, arrives at the Panama City-Bay County International Airport in Panama City, Fla., on Friday. Comforting Morris are her sister, Felicia Kirkland, left, and Jankowski's girlfriend, Karen Hainley. Jankowski died from wounds from an exploding improvised explosive device near Baghdad, Iraq, on Friday, March 28, 2008. He will be buried on Monday, April 7, 2008.
(April 04, 2008)

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