http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/05/reading_tonight_81 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... Copyright 2008 Fri, 30 May 2008 10:00:00 -0800 Fri, 30 May 2008 14:24:18 -0800 http://www.movabletype.org/?v=3.34 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 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.

]]> Joe Tex http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/05/reading_tonight_81#c1035467 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/05/reading_tonight_81#c1035467 Books Fri, 30 May 2008 10:32:07 -0800 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.

]]> laterite http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/05/reading_tonight_81#c1035505 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/05/reading_tonight_81#c1035505 Books Fri, 30 May 2008 10:38:25 -0800 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.)

]]> Lobot http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/05/reading_tonight_81#c1035547 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/05/reading_tonight_81#c1035547 Books Fri, 30 May 2008 10:43:55 -0800 Damnit, 'Fun' not 'fund'

]]> Lobot http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/05/reading_tonight_81#c1035562 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/05/reading_tonight_81#c1035562 Books Fri, 30 May 2008 10:45:06 -0800 Owning a boat often requires lots of funds though!

]]> laterite http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/05/reading_tonight_81#c1035699 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/05/reading_tonight_81#c1035699 Books Fri, 30 May 2008 11:09:21 -0800 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.]]> Fnarf http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/05/reading_tonight_81#c1036085 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/05/reading_tonight_81#c1036085 Books Fri, 30 May 2008 13:00:08 -0800 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.

]]> laterite http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/05/reading_tonight_81#c1036291 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/05/reading_tonight_81#c1036291 Books Fri, 30 May 2008 14:24:18 -0800