Slog - Comments on It's Pronounced CHOOT. Seriously. http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/11/its_pronounced_choot_seriously This New York Times profile of Carolyn Chute, the author of The Beans of Egypt Maine, is pretty fascinating stuff. The 2nd Maine Militia, or Your Wicked Good Militia, as it’s sometimes known, is progun, against corporate lobbying and campaign contributions, and opposed to tax subsidies for big business. The group has been known to meet in a hired hall, but more often it assembles in the woods behind the Chutes’ home, where the members shoot at cans and other targets, talk about what’s wrong with the world and dine on potluck. In 1996, in an incident recreated in “The... Copyright 2008 Wed, 05 Nov 2008 17:00:00 -0800 Thu, 06 Nov 2008 08:43:46 -0800 http://www.movabletype.org/?v=3.34 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Comment by ducki3x Nobody disrespects Joshua Lawrence Chamerlain and gets away with it. I will not rest until I've smashed every last kazoo in Maine for this egregious slight.

]]> ducki3x http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/11/its_pronounced_choot_seriously#c1196428 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/11/its_pronounced_choot_seriously#c1196428 Books Wed, 05 Nov 2008 17:16:01 -0800 Comment by Mr. Poe I bet I'd enjoy one of her readings!

]]> Mr. Poe http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/11/its_pronounced_choot_seriously#c1196444 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/11/its_pronounced_choot_seriously#c1196444 Books Wed, 05 Nov 2008 17:24:25 -0800 Comment by rob A British expat co-worker turned me on to Carolyn Chute around the time The Beans of Egypt, Maine first came out. Gotta get this new book.

]]> rob http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/11/its_pronounced_choot_seriously#c1196559 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/11/its_pronounced_choot_seriously#c1196559 Books Wed, 05 Nov 2008 18:41:44 -0800 Comment by hillside_hoyden I mutter to myself in the tampon aisle all the time. It transitions nicely into muttering to myself by the lube. Can I be a writer too?

]]> hillside_hoyden http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/11/its_pronounced_choot_seriously#c1196617 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/11/its_pronounced_choot_seriously#c1196617 Books Wed, 05 Nov 2008 19:45:34 -0800 Comment by Kalakalot This is the bit that blew my mind:

"Mr. Chute, her second husband, is illiterate and used to work as a woodcutter and gravedigger. They married in 1978 ..."

Illiterate and married to a writer for 30 years? I can't imagine.

]]> Kalakalot http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/11/its_pronounced_choot_seriously#c1196889 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/11/its_pronounced_choot_seriously#c1196889 Books Thu, 06 Nov 2008 08:43:46 -0800