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Pretty Spry for... June 13, 2012 - 5:58am

As someone who didn't contribute anything but my hard-earned dollars to Warmed and Bound, I just want to say there's good stuff to be found within its pages.

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Chester Pane from Portland, Oregon is reading The Brief and Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz June 13, 2012 - 6:01am

Manda lynn'd again.

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manda lynn from Ohio is reading Of Love and Other Demons (again) June 13, 2012 - 6:14am

thanks, bret.

 

and no, i didn't take a picture of me signing my story. but i made sure to get a nice clear one of me signing craig clevenger's :)

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Chester Pane from Portland, Oregon is reading The Brief and Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz June 13, 2012 - 6:22am

But I took DNA samples and well...

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Chester Pane from Portland, Oregon is reading The Brief and Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz June 13, 2012 - 6:43am

Pete,

Correct!

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Chester Pane from Portland, Oregon is reading The Brief and Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz June 21, 2012 - 11:58pm

Special Thanks to Livius Nedin for providing this and many photos to follow.

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misskokamon from San Francisco is reading The Moonlit Mind June 22, 2012 - 1:30am

@Matt I'm so frickin' amused that SLJ and his crazy stare has made a reappearance in the forum. 

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Richard from St. Louis is reading various anthologies June 22, 2012 - 10:19pm

^photo above is of Robb Olson, me (Richard Thomas) and Chris Deal. photo by Livius (Liv and Robb are BookedPodcast.com). we were on our way to see Frank Bill read in southern indiana. got many signatures for chester's book there, including guest Donald Ray Pollock. good times. the KV library is sweet.

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Chester Pane from Portland, Oregon is reading The Brief and Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz June 22, 2012 - 10:49pm

Thank you Richard. I hoped you might provide the story behind the shot.

I think I am falling in love with you. And for the Record, this really isn't "my" book. This is for all of you. I am just along for the ride. And "if" and when it actually manages to get needled with every single authors' ink, I plan to do something special with it.

Shit Pollock signed the fucker.

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Andrez Bergen from Melbourne, Australia + Tokyo, Japan is reading 'The Spirit' by Will Eisner June 23, 2012 - 4:26am

;)

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Richard from St. Louis is reading various anthologies June 23, 2012 - 9:25am

it was a fun trip, chester. glad the book survived, i was worried when it was in amanda's hands. 

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Chester Pane from Portland, Oregon is reading The Brief and Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz June 23, 2012 - 10:05am

He-he. She took one of the best shots of her not signing the book. Well I think it is getting nice and rested for July 3rd at Powell's. Jeremy Robert Johnson said he is going to teach it how to drink Whiskey properly. And it is going to need it with all the ink that will be staining its skin that night.

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GaryP from Denver is reading a bit of this and that June 23, 2012 - 12:14pm

Hey, I want my own Vonnegut window.

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underpurplemoon from PDX June 23, 2012 - 12:43pm

Special Thanks to Livius Nedin for providing this and many photos to follow.

That dude on the far right, I think I know him. What's his name?

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Richard from St. Louis is reading various anthologies June 23, 2012 - 1:35pm

@roaringjen - Chris Deal

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Chester Pane from Portland, Oregon is reading The Brief and Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz June 25, 2012 - 5:39am

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Gordon Highland from Kansas City is reading Secondhand Souls by Christopher Moore June 25, 2012 - 6:27am

Is that a cock lamp?

By which I mean rooster.

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Chester Pane from Portland, Oregon is reading The Brief and Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz June 25, 2012 - 10:23am

Some people have referred to Richard as a cock lamp from time to time, yes.

Yes folks, this is where Richard's magic happens. His office is his muse. Everything just so.

Beware of all enterprises which don't allow cock lamps.

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Gordon Highland from Kansas City is reading Secondhand Souls by Christopher Moore June 25, 2012 - 11:06am

He illuminates the world through his nethers, one might say. Shining a light on injustices. And making porn cinematographers' jobs a helluva lot easier. The man's downright laproscopic.

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. June 25, 2012 - 12:44pm

Everyone's office is so clean! My desk looks like a morning after party.

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Richard from St. Louis is reading various anthologies June 25, 2012 - 2:48pm

that's me typing on the same typwriter that Vonnegut typed on. all of the books in the picture are from his actual library, painstakingly recreated in exact detail. that's also at the Vonnegut library in Indy.

if anybody can guess the line that i typed, i will send you a mixed bag of really cool comic books from the last year or so.

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Pete from Detroit is reading Red Dragon June 25, 2012 - 2:58pm

"I must be dead for there is nothing but blue snow and the furious silence of a gunshot."

Either that or,

"They say Jimmy made it out. But the postcards we get don't seem real. Wish you were here and all that. Whereever here is. New York City, really? So I play along and wait for my break."

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bryanhowie from FW, ID is reading East of Eden. Steinbeck is FUCKING AMAZING. June 25, 2012 - 3:37pm

So it goes.

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Nikki Guerlain from Portlandia June 25, 2012 - 9:40pm

I bought this on kindle. :-)

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Richard from St. Louis is reading various anthologies June 25, 2012 - 10:45pm

great guesses, pete. i couldn't remember the Baer and to quote my own work? how pretentious. :-) but you're on the right track! (and not, so it goes, howie, but excellent guess).

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Jay.SJ from London is reading Warmed and Bound June 26, 2012 - 1:59am

All work and no plays makes jack a dull boy.

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Richard from St. Louis is reading various anthologies June 26, 2012 - 6:19am

^good guess, and you're CLOSE.

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Gordon Highland from Kansas City is reading Secondhand Souls by Christopher Moore June 26, 2012 - 7:55am

I just realized that "laproscopic" was perhaps not the best compliment I could endow upon Richard's manhood. And for that, I apologize. But I've heard the tip does light up like E.T., so there's that.

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bryanhowie from FW, ID is reading East of Eden. Steinbeck is FUCKING AMAZING. June 26, 2012 - 9:48am

"There's only one rule that I know of, babies—God damn it, you've got to be kind."

or

"We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be."

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Richard from St. Louis is reading various anthologies June 26, 2012 - 11:36am

lol...thanks, g.

nope, howie. one clue: it's not vonnegut. that would be too obvious. JSJ was closer.

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bryanhowie from FW, ID is reading East of Eden. Steinbeck is FUCKING AMAZING. June 26, 2012 - 11:41am

How about:

"The clocks stopped at 1:17. A long shear of light and then a series of low concussions." 

from The Road, by Cormac McCarthy

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avery of the dead from Kentucky is reading Cipher Sisters June 26, 2012 - 11:41am

Redrum

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Jay.SJ from London is reading Warmed and Bound June 26, 2012 - 6:52pm

I've never been what you'd call a crying man - 11/;12/63?!

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Richard from St. Louis is reading various anthologies June 26, 2012 - 7:06pm

lol...nope. but JSJ is on the right track still. it IS the opening lines to a novel. i'll give you that much.

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bryanhowie from FW, ID is reading East of Eden. Steinbeck is FUCKING AMAZING. June 26, 2012 - 7:33pm

How about one of my favorites ever:

“I can count my overdoses on one hand:”

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Pete from Detroit is reading Red Dragon June 26, 2012 - 7:34pm

"I can count my overdoses on one hand:"

"I panicked and swallowed a handful of fireflies and black widows the inferno had not."

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Pete from Detroit is reading Red Dragon June 26, 2012 - 7:34pm

Oh damn howie beat me to it!

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Richard from St. Louis is reading various anthologies June 26, 2012 - 8:47pm

lol...good ones, but no. PAY ATTENTION. :-) what author is JSJ quoting in his guess? 

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bryanhowie from FW, ID is reading East of Eden. Steinbeck is FUCKING AMAZING. June 26, 2012 - 8:57pm

My last guess.

"The man in black fled across the desert, and the gunslinger followed."

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avery of the dead from Kentucky is reading Cipher Sisters June 27, 2012 - 4:51am

I bet that's it.

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Pete from Detroit is reading Red Dragon June 27, 2012 - 5:14am

Yeah, I didn't have any King on my nook to quote from. haha

I only had my nook in my office to go off of.

And Howie, great guess. I hope that's the one.

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Richard from St. Louis is reading various anthologies June 27, 2012 - 12:18pm

ding, ding, ding...we have a winner. Howie, PM me your address and i'll put a package in the mail.

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bryanhowie from FW, ID is reading East of Eden. Steinbeck is FUCKING AMAZING. June 27, 2012 - 12:23pm

Had to be that one.  I had a lot of guesses, though.  

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Pete from Detroit is reading Red Dragon June 28, 2012 - 6:44am

Nice! Good quote. Good guess.

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Chester Pane from Portland, Oregon is reading The Brief and Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz July 1, 2012 - 3:37am

Sweet Pete. I like this idea. Keep hitting us, these are great.

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Chester Pane from Portland, Oregon is reading The Brief and Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz July 1, 2012 - 3:41am

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Chester Pane from Portland, Oregon is reading The Brief and Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz July 4, 2012 - 3:49am

My camera sucks.You can't even tell that is Stephen's skull pen.

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Chester Pane from Portland, Oregon is reading The Brief and Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz July 4, 2012 - 3:51am

Bradley Sands always looks like this. Permagrinned. Well, actually he had just taken that book in his hand to the bathroom stall. 

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Chester Pane from Portland, Oregon is reading The Brief and Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz July 4, 2012 - 3:54am

Cameron Pierce reminisces about his Pterodactyl affair.

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Chester Pane from Portland, Oregon is reading The Brief and Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz July 4, 2012 - 3:59am

 

Jeremy Robert Johnson made out with W&B longer than anyone. And, according  to the book's account, it liked it...a lot. When we got home it tried to poke him on FB,