Slog - Comments on Reading Today http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/06/reading_today_34 It is a packed-with-readings Saturday including an open mic, a children's book about an elephant, and a book about utopia. At Seattle Mystery Bookshop, James Rollins signs from his newest book, The Last Oracle. That's not an important fact about James Rollins. An important fact about James Rollins is that he wrote the Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull novelization. If, like me, you left that movie wanting to hold someone accountable, this is probably your only chance to meet someone even tangentially related to the movie. If you go, make sure to ask him if... Copyright 2008 Sat, 28 Jun 2008 10:00:00 -0800 Sat, 28 Jun 2008 12:45:15 -0800 http://www.movabletype.org/?v=3.34 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Comment by Hark I love the readings too, but if someone hasn't already learned that the Stranger has all readings, online, every week, they never will. slog need not be a summary of the newspaper.

Recap a particularly awesome week's readings once every couple months, not every week. Same goes for the other stuff.

]]> Hark http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/06/reading_today_34#c1061983 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/06/reading_today_34#c1061983 Books Sat, 28 Jun 2008 10:45:48 -0800 Comment by ica About Gary Vaynerchuck - he really does talk like that. He does a video podcast called Wine Library TV, and it's all high energy, sports loving, wine educating east coast guy talk. It's weird and awesome.

http://tv.winelibrary.com/

]]> ica http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/06/reading_today_34#c1062001 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/06/reading_today_34#c1062001 Books Sat, 28 Jun 2008 12:22:11 -0800 Comment by stinkbug I disagree, I like the daily reading announcements.

I will skim the weekly announcements, but often a name or book title doesn't jump out at me when it should. Here we get a little context, which can help a lot ("Oh, that's the book that blah blah..." or "hm, that actually sounds interesting..." or "shit, I had forgotten all about this reading", etc.).

]]> stinkbug http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/06/reading_today_34#c1062006 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/06/reading_today_34#c1062006 Books Sat, 28 Jun 2008 12:35:32 -0800 Comment by Victoria I disagree as well, even though I never go to readings. Paul rocks and I'm always happy to read his stuff.
People like #1 can just scrollthefuckdown.

]]> Victoria http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/06/reading_today_34#c1062007 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/06/reading_today_34#c1062007 Books Sat, 28 Jun 2008 12:45:15 -0800