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David Given Schwarm (davidschwarm) | 166 comments Mod
1. Attendees
Ronnie, David, Mike, Fred, Marie, Brian, Shelly meet at Strawberry Farms Golf Course

1. Candace did not come
2. Steadman got a new piano
3. James was in Costa Mesa



2. Status

1. Next Book is a Comic

1. Read for three weeks
2. 08/10/13 End Of Book Party @ Shelly's

1. Shelly is registered online at Amazon
http://amzn.to/17tcYZq



2. Field Trip to Bookmans

1. Maybe for next End of Book Party

3. Next Book after Shelly Pick

1. Brian will pick
2. Aaron will pick after everyone picks
3. Lesbian Literature?

4. Ted Talk on the perveived deterioration of language
http://binged.it/12STQED
5. Need more calendaring on the goodreads





* Review reading


1. Shelly was accused of being Tandy by our next author

1. However there was cake

2. Book is episodic

1. Hard style to follow

3. Longing that cannot be met
4. No intact families
5. Anderson published a book

1. courage to tell a tale

6. Who is the Narrator
7. Who is the Audience
8. Wash the Women Hater

1. Naked Wife / Daughter as metaphor or real

9. Spiritual -> Material

1. Where is spiritual

10. Village -> City

1. Where is utopia

11. Myths of the past
12. Ambition
13. Religion to just endure
14. Pastoral

1. Mook

15. 100,000 high schools were built

1. Fred to fact check

16. Tandy

1. Drunk sets the idea
2. Sometimes drunks do have insight

17. Indipendence of urbanization

1. Mary Tyler Moore

18. Treatment of Women

1. Both had unmet desire
2. Kate was one thing to one guy and another thing to the other guy
3. This is a male writer, that is clear

19. Lack of ethnicity
20. Cannot transmit what you do not have

1. Don't play with words

21. Queer knows that he is being observed

1. He knows

22. Sophistication

1. He survived

23. You cannot just sit there

1. "why not?!?"

24. Individualism -> Hedonism

1. Hedonism as the return to human values





* Quotes


1. "Cocaine Women"
2. "However there was cake"
3. "I would like to see some statistics"
4. "Siri is a bitch"
5. "Poverty is a bitch"
6. "The reality is that my ex son is serving time for rape"
7. "You cannot have a baby--you do not have a womb"
8. "My husband is going to freak out!" "what is his name?"




* Recommendations


1. Swerve by Greenblatt
http://bit.ly/16R1YTG

2. Energy by Apples in Stereo
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u7jxJy...
3. Kid President by YouTube
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l-gQLq...


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