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cowboyjesus January 3 2013, 01:50:01 UTC
Having read the recent boigraphy on Wallace I discovered Franzen as a great writer. I had previously only thought well of him as along-time friend of Dave.

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cowboyjesus January 3 2013, 01:52:28 UTC
Have you watched any Treme' yet?

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cowboyjesus January 3 2013, 02:05:58 UTC
I suppose I ask because I wonder if you've ever heard of Olie and the Nightingales. In Episode Four, Season One Tommy Tate gets his due at least by one of the lead characters. He was a giant, but nobody remembers the name...or the song "A Little Overcome".

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lostcosmonaut January 3 2013, 14:23:30 UTC
great singing, gotta hear more from these guys, salamat po

Still waiting for this guy's comeback album:

--mza.

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lostcosmonaut January 3 2013, 13:23:21 UTC
not much, only Season 1, Episode 1 -- though I did get to play an extra on th show a few weeks ago -- a bar scene while th band Trombone Shorty plays. Be on th lookout for th back of my head as th guy who played Bunk in Th Wire has a conversation over drinks @ a circular table ...

--mza.

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cowboyjesus January 4 2013, 01:00:48 UTC
What? Are they shooting a Fourth season? Three was completed last fall.

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low ratings lostcosmonaut January 4 2013, 13:28:43 UTC
yup. It looks like Season 4 will be its last, and is going to be only 5 episodes long

--mza.

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tdaschel January 3 2013, 06:37:18 UTC
(i had no idea that Joelle Van Dyne is supposed t'be a loose base-on Mary Karr. it is not, for me, helpful knowledge as i have traditionally regarded JVD as a great character of fiction, but the *idea* of MK as some kinda shadow/supplement/what-have-you leads me down all sorts of .. dead alleys, as a reader: "oh, the character could have been so much MORE" or "did he not 'get' Mary Karr at all" or - better yet - mebbe he "got" at something in Karr that she is unable/unwilling to reveal about herself. yes, this is the sort of stuff that makes Pynchon's choices about personal disclosure seem all-too-reasonable ..)

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never read karr have you lostcosmonaut January 3 2013, 13:15:37 UTC
... but I did find that another el jayer found th connection more meaningful:

http://zenithblue.livejournal.com/87817.html?thread=758793#t758793

--mza.

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tdaschel January 4 2013, 05:54:40 UTC
whoa! that's pretty good / thanks !

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