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  • PaloAltoCougar
    Semper infra dignitatem
    • Nov 2008
    • 16922
    #181
    Originally posted by Color Me Badd Fan View Post
    I've alluded to this article from Michael Lewis on Tom Wolfe before, but I thought it was quite interesting. I think both guys see the really big picture better than just everyone else.

    http://www.vanityfair.com/culture/20...came-tom-wolfe
    Thanks for the link, which I'll read later this evening. Those are two of my favorite contemporary writers.

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      • LA Ute
        Receiver of Memory
        • Nov 2008
        • 19512
        #182
        Originally posted by Color Me Badd Fan View Post
        I've alluded to this article from Michael Lewis on Tom Wolfe before, but I thought it was quite interesting. I think both guys see the really big picture better than just everyone else.

        http://www.vanityfair.com/culture/20...came-tom-wolfe
        Great find, thanks. I enjoy Tom Wolfe. He's kind of a modern Dickens.
        “There is a great deal of difference in believing something still, and believing it again.”
        ― W.H. Auden

        "God made the angels to show His splendour - as He made animals for innocence and plants for their simplicity. But men and women He made to serve Him wittily, in the tangle of their minds."
        -- Robert Bolt, A Man for All Seasons

        "It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye."
        --Antoine de Saint-Exupery

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          • BigPiney
            Huge Member
            • Nov 2008
            • 12344
            #183
            Originally posted by LA Ute View Post
            Great find, thanks. I enjoy Tom Wolfe. He's kind of a modern Dickens.
            I still have A Man in Full sitting on my desk in my to read pile. Need to get to that someday.

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              • YOhio
                Hipster Mode
                • Nov 2008
                • 26165
                #184
                http://mobile.nytimes.com/2016/04/05...s-make-us.html

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                  • Jeff Lebowski
                    Corporate lackey for Jesus
                    • Nov 2008
                    • 69581
                    #185
                    Some guy in Denver bought a hotel and rigged up some vents so he could peek on this guests (with his wife's help). He observed guests for fifty years and kept a detailed journal. Yowza.

                    The Voyeur’s Motel
                    http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2016/04/11/gay-talese-the-voyeurs-motel?mbid=nl_160405_Daily&CNDID=38343301&spMailingID=8750590&spUserID=MTA5MjQyMjQyMTAzS0&spJobID=900542084&spReportId=OTAwNTQyMDg0S0
                    Fifty years ago, Gerald Foos bought a motel and rigged it up in order to watch his guests having sex. He saw a lot more than that.
                    "There is no creature more arrogant than a self-righteous libertarian on the web, am I right? Those folks are just intolerable."
                    "It's no secret that the great American pastime is no longer baseball. Now it's sanctimony." -- Guy Periwinkle, The Nix.
                    "Juilliardk N I ibuprofen Hyu I U unhurt u" - creekster

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                      • I.J. Reilly
                        Nobody's Fool
                        • Apr 2009
                        • 2949
                        #186
                        Originally posted by Jeff Lebowski View Post
                        Some guy in Denver bought a hotel and rigged up some vents so he could peek on this guests (with his wife's help). He observed guests for fifty years and kept a detailed journal. Yowza.

                        http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/20...OTAwNTQyMDg0S0
                        He was helped in his act by two wives. I'll go out on a limb and say that the guy isn't going to have the outcome he'd hoped for with the publication of this article and subsequent publication of the book.

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                          • Applejack
                            Senior Member
                            • Aug 2012
                            • 3812
                            #187
                            Originally posted by Jeff Lebowski View Post
                            Some guy in Denver bought a hotel and rigged up some vents so he could peek on this guests (with his wife's help). He observed guests for fifty years and kept a detailed journal. Yowza.

                            http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/20...OTAwNTQyMDg0S0
                            Unreal. People are the worst.

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                              • creekster
                                It is NOT a monkey!
                                • Nov 2008
                                • 22661
                                #188
                                Originally posted by Jeff Lebowski View Post
                                Some guy in Denver bought a hotel and rigged up some vents so he could peek on this guests (with his wife's help). He observed guests for fifty years and kept a detailed journal. Yowza.

                                http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/20...OTAwNTQyMDg0S0
                                Does reading that article make me a voyeur of a voyeur?
                                PLesa excuse the tpyos.

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                                  • falafel
                                    loves to talk on things
                                    • Mar 2009
                                    • 37920
                                    #189
                                    Originally posted by creekster View Post
                                    Does reading that article make me a voyeur of a voyeur?
                                    I think it makes you a voyeur of a sex addict.
                                    Ain't it like most people, I'm no different. We love to talk on things we don't know about.

                                    Dig your own grave, and save!

                                    "The only one of us who is so significant that Jeff owes us something simply because he decided to grace us with his presence is falafel." -- All-American

                                    "I know that you are one of the cool and 'edgy' BYU fans" -- Wally

                                    GIVE 'EM HELL, BRIGHAM!

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                                      • Art Vandelay
                                        Striving for mediocrity
                                        • Jul 2009
                                        • 10516
                                        #190
                                        Originally posted by Jeff Lebowski View Post
                                        Some guy in Denver bought a hotel and rigged up some vents so he could peek on this guests (with his wife's help). He observed guests for fifty years and kept a detailed journal. Yowza.

                                        http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/20...OTAwNTQyMDg0S0
                                        Ha. I read heard about that article yesterday, and was going to post but didn't want to seem too creepy. Jeff on the other hand has no problem being creepy. I bet he has a marauders map of this place.

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                                          • Jeff Lebowski
                                            Corporate lackey for Jesus
                                            • Nov 2008
                                            • 69581
                                            #191
                                            Originally posted by Art Vandelay View Post
                                            Ha. I read heard about that article yesterday, and was going to post but didn't want to seem too creepy. Jeff on the other hand has no problem being creepy. I bet he has a marauders map of this place.
                                            You're so very special, Art. I wish I was special.
                                            "There is no creature more arrogant than a self-righteous libertarian on the web, am I right? Those folks are just intolerable."
                                            "It's no secret that the great American pastime is no longer baseball. Now it's sanctimony." -- Guy Periwinkle, The Nix.
                                            "Juilliardk N I ibuprofen Hyu I U unhurt u" - creekster

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                                              • Art Vandelay
                                                Striving for mediocrity
                                                • Jul 2009
                                                • 10516
                                                #192
                                                Originally posted by Jeff Lebowski View Post
                                                You're so very special, Art. I wish I was special.

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                                                  • creekster
                                                    It is NOT a monkey!
                                                    • Nov 2008
                                                    • 22661
                                                    #193
                                                    Originally posted by Jeff Lebowski View Post
                                                    You're so very special, Art. I wish I was special.
                                                    You don't belong here,.
                                                    PLesa excuse the tpyos.

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                                                      • Flystripper
                                                        Degenerate Gambler
                                                        • Nov 2008
                                                        • 14089
                                                        #194
                                                        what the hell am I doing here?
                                                        Dyslexics are teople poo...

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                                                          • Art Vandelay
                                                            Striving for mediocrity
                                                            • Jul 2009
                                                            • 10516
                                                            #195
                                                            I AM F***ING SPECIAL.

                                                            Deal with it guys.

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