So there is a woman in the chorus that I've joined who has kind of taken me under her wing -- she's fabulous, and we've talked of hitting up the piano bars in Denver some night. (One of the themes in Boulder is that you must leave Boulder to have fun, but I digress.) Anyway, contrary to my parenthetical statement, she was recently in a bar here ( Read more... )

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I finally read the original Dune series last year, at the prompting of littlepinch, which was excellent and which I quite enjoyed. I proceeded on to reading the (first six) prequels written by Herbert's son and another author, of which the first three (set directly before the original six) were mediocre and next three (set even further in the past) were mind ( Read more... )

I'm keeping a list of people who have finished the book and haven't lent me their copy. :(