book clubbers! we are meeting on monday, september 12 to chat about CoyotePace's pick "just kids", by patti smith. we are meeting at 6:30 pm slt as we have the last couple of times unless there are objections.
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where should we meet? any suggestions?
a shitty apartment with catholic junk and drugs all over
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i am confident we can find a place like that on SL
My ebook expired, so I haven't finished yet, but I have a hard copy and should finish this weekend.
my ebook expires in 3 days so i'd better get on it!
I had to renew mine lol 
i have to say now when i read it, i LOL because i think of how you would / did react to a certain line
like, ohhh boy, i bet this drove mako nuts
lol
i even highlighted a few passages with that in mind!
"I was getting to know him. He had absolute confidence in his work and in me, yet he worried incessantly about our future, how we would survive, about money.
I felt we were too young to have such cares. I was happy just being free."
lol I have never felt that way ever in my goddamned life
patti just wanted to be FREE
patti is killing me
"He didn’t fall asleep during that movie. Instead, he wept. And when we went home he was unnaturally quiet and looked at me as if he wanted to convey all he was feeling without words."
I just don't have time right now 
"There was something of us that he saw in the movie but I wasn’t certain what. I thought to myself that he contained a whole universe that I had yet to know."
seriously i cannot read this without thinking of you and LOLing right now, so: thanks 
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you come to the meeting anyway, PollyPaperclip?
lol "...he contained a whole universe that I had yet to know." He was probably the most shallow guy on the planet.
I'll try!
See, Polly understands lol
I feel like she had an entire relation totally in her head
*relationship
Everything was said without words lol
yeah
i'd be like, wtf this dudes just weeps and look at me? what is happening?
wouldn't you ask him? no. patti just knew.
i also wonder how much of this is like... looking back on those early days she gives it so much meaning
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that there before? retroactive meaning
omg i'm lolcrying!!
I am going to have to carefully craft some discussion points
I didn't read it but I am going to try and make the meeting!
It's too bad the old Downtown sim doesn't exist anymore but I feel like there is another one with a subway of sorts.
And I tracked down my book... but feel like if I go in SL it will need to be as a new alt without the baggage so we'll see. I may just interact in plurk!
There is a Toronto sim with a mini subway
i am actually really enjoying the book!
i am really worried about patti though lol... i feel like she needs to get her act together asap.
lol well she's still kicking, so she survived
ilovemesomesharks yeah! one of the bigger mysteries for me is how she ever made it into adulthood
ikr
like her one friend who was homeless but really from another planet. that could have gone terribly wrong, but oh everything was ok because they both had on trenchcoats in july or some shit? 
and like she steals all the time
ok white girl lol
she has just been pretty damn lucky, that's all i'm saying
yeah that could have gone so badly
lol i asked Handsome Dorothy if he was a fan and he bit his lip, said nothing, and just forwarded me this link Flashback: See Gilda Radner Spoof Patti Smith on 'SNL'
Flashback: See Gilda Radner Spoof Patti Smith on 'SNL' misscat I had moved a bunch of photos and notecards to my librarian alt at one point, kind of as an archive, so her files are just as bad. Ha! Too bad I deleted my orb app.
alas, the Toronto build appears to be gone. That's too bad because it was really quite accurate for Yonge & Dundas 
however, I did find New York! Second Life Maps | Tombstone Winslow
forgive the horrible snapshot: 
and now I am nostalgically skating.
does the new york sim have good places for two weirdos to be dangerously "free" together? lol
There's nowhere to sit but stairs that I could find
ah, that is good to know
thanks for doing the scouting trip!
But, I was able to rez to unpack my skates...
Oh! so maybe chairs!
I wonder if the virtual Chelsea Hotel is still around?? The Virtual Chelsea Hotel
Hmmm, maybe not
Perhaps someone can take a look SLurl: Location-Based Linking in Second Life
I have just a few pages left. I'm glad I got the push to finally read this as it's sat on my shelf at home for a few years, ever since winning the non-fiction National Book Award.
Thanks, CoyotePace
And I am going to have QUESTIONS about this era; is anyone old enough?
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i don't think so?
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also, i forgot to check that slurl, coy, i will today
I think the Chelsea Hotel build is still there! Was a few weeks ago?
As always and ever, my land is your land for hanging out or meeting or acting the fool or whatever you like, too. I have a reading room with a deck-on-stilts and comfy pillows.
thank you so much, ceejay! we will take you up on that!
There's free rum down by the campfire, too! And a couple of random cats. 
Maybe I should try to come along. I am old enough for your QUESTIONS. I graduated High School near Los Angeles in 1972!
haha perfect!
yes please come lol
I'll try! I haven't read the book, but I can be the Mandatory Old Broad Reference Touchstone.