Slog - Comments on Reading Tonight

Comment by Jeff Stevens

Jeff Stevens — Mon, 19 May 2008 10:17:25 -0800

And that there use of discourse-initial "and" was darn prosaically kind of you, Paul. Were you being self-consciously Irish there, or did it just "sound cool"?

I do mean that curiously, not snarkastically...

Comment by Paul Constant

Paul Constant — Mon, 19 May 2008 10:45:05 -0800

Jeff: I saw a play set in Ireland this past weekend; I think it must've stuck.

Comment by EssBee

EssBee — Mon, 19 May 2008 10:52:42 -0800

I like Josh Kilmer-Purcell's "I Am Not Myself These Days" though so you guys should go anyway to see him and leave when Frey comes on.

Comment by jhell

jhell — Mon, 19 May 2008 11:34:20 -0800

Paul, I shouldn't go, even if I get a personal invite on myspace from Josh Kilmer-Purcell? I think I'm gonna check it out.

Comment by Paul Constant

Paul Constant — Mon, 19 May 2008 11:38:00 -0800

@3: I am totally in favor of people going to see Kilmer-Purcell and then walking out before James Frey. I think that would be awesome. I love it when opening acts trump the main show.

@4: See @3. Although, I would like to point out that 'personal invites' on MySpace aren't all they're cracked up to be. I think that Robert Downey Jr. personally invited me to see Iron Man, too.

Comment by Jeff Stevens

Jeff Stevens — Mon, 19 May 2008 12:08:09 -0800

Wouldn't Margaret Seltzer make a better opening act for James Frey?

Perhaps we can arrange, by analogy with all those Ozzy-Metallica-Judas Priest sorts of mega-things that seem to manifest themselves locally every summer, a Wham Bam Thank You Ma'am Grand Slam Creative Fiction Summer Jam, at the Gorge if it's available, with James Frey and Margaret Seltzer as the headliners.

Who else would fit on that bill? We'll need at least seven creative fiction superstars and/or also-rans to make it truly Flick-yr-Bic-worthy, no?

Comment by Frey = Fuckwad

Frey = Fuckwad — Mon, 19 May 2008 14:40:35 -0800

I'm going to throw eggs at him while screaming obscenities in Hungarian.

Comment by Aislinn

Aislinn — Mon, 19 May 2008 15:00:32 -0800

I listened to Stuart Kauffman on KUOW this morning, and he is not religious, in that he specifically stated that he does not believe in God and that humans create gods, not the other way around. I didn't get a "posits that there is room for religion in science"-vibe from him AT ALL. He was actually a pretty interesting interviewee, if not quite adept at explaining his ideas in layman's terms.

Comment by Aislinn

Aislinn — Mon, 19 May 2008 15:09:37 -0800

Kauffman is best known for arguing that the complexity of biological systems and organisms might result as much from self-organization and far-from-equilibrium dynamics as from Darwinian natural selection. His new book, Reinventing the Sacred�A New View of Science, Reason, and Religion, proposes that divinity can be found in a scientifically based understanding of the world and urges that we rethink everything from how cells manage work to how economies grow.

Well, that's his blurb from the Town Hall site. Color me wrong. That still didn't sound like what his interview was about, though.