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Friday, May 30, 2008

Reading Tonight

posted by on May 30 at 10:00 AM

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There are three readings tonight. It’s kind of a choose-your-poison kind of thing.

If you’re into fly fishing, Lou Ureneck reads from Backcast: Fatherhood, Fly-fishing, and a River Journey Through the Heart of Alaska up at Third Place Books. Are there any fly-fishing fans on Slog?

Elliott Bay Book Company brings us The Scalpel and the Soul: Encounters with Surgery, the Supernatural, and the Healing Power of Hope, which is a memoir from a neurosurgeon who believes in the supernatural. I don’t know if I’d want my neurosurgeon to believe in the supernatural, frankly, but there you go.

And at the University Book Store, Troy Denning reads from his new Star Wars spin-off novel, about Luke Skywalker’s niece and nephew. The 501st Division of Storm Troopers,who I wrote about here, will be in attendance. Those of you who left these comments on that post:

Can those storm troopers remove just their codpiece? i’m just sayin.

and

(W)e are so on the same page. Can one of those Storm Troopers fuck my brains out?

This is your chance, ladies and/or gentlemen. Go get ‘em!

Full readings calendar, including the next week or so, is over here.

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I love fly fishing. Actually, I love to hunt as well, but only so I don't have to buy the expensive, diseased meat from the supper markets.

Posted by Joe Tex | May 30, 2008 10:32 AM
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Fly fishing is the best form of solitary recreation. It takes patience and precision to outwit a creature with a brain the size of a thimble. I wish I could dedicate more time to its practice, but alas, I have put shamefully low hours into it in the last couple of years.

Posted by laterite | May 30, 2008 10:38 AM
3

Fly fishing is the best. It's the most active form of fishing because you can actually walk around in the river, rather than just sit in a boat. (Fishing from a boat is fund too though.)

Posted by Lobot | May 30, 2008 10:43 AM
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Damnit, 'Fun' not 'fund'

Posted by Lobot | May 30, 2008 10:45 AM
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Owning a boat often requires lots of funds though!

Posted by laterite | May 30, 2008 11:09 AM
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It takes patience and precision to outwit a creature with a brain the size of a thimble.
The fish don't have any trouble outwitting me.
I love to flyfish but I NEVER catch anything, because I suck worse than any fisherman who ever lived, and because I'm going after steelhead in the North Fork of the Stillaguamish, which is hard. But I don't care; it's the pleasure of standing up to my nipples in fast-moving freezing water in February in a beautiful, peaceful place that makes it worthwhile.
Posted by Fnarf | May 30, 2008 1:00 PM
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Witnessing a truly great fly fisherman is something to behold. My ex-father-in-law is one of those people. Next to him, I always felt like a huge clumsy oaf waving a tree branch around the water.

Posted by laterite | May 30, 2008 2:24 PM

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