PUT THAT DICK IN MY MOUTH!

Giving someone a book is, to me, a much more personal gesture than buying a CD for someone. This is especially true when you're giving books to, like, your girlfriend or kid or student or whatever. Like, when I was little my mom gave me a bunch of old, beat up Dr. Seuss books that she had when she was a kid. Similarly, there have been more than a few times when I've gone to a professor asking about secondary reading for a paper and they've pulled a book off their shelves and lent it to me to peruse. I don't see how e-books could ever replicate this kind of stuff. Listen, I'd love to some day have a searchable archive of every book I own stored on a computer somewhere, but even if that becomes possible I'm still going to want to keep my physical library because I'm a big fag who attaches sentimental value to bound volumes of paper.

-1 I feel that you're reiterating your personal preference for the "experience" of holding/writing in a paper book rather than making an objective prediction about when and whether e-books will ultimately replace paper. Why are you insulting me with this "I don't need to explain myself because I'm obviously right" tone? You're emulating Brody and Molotov? The Bulb isn't who I thought he was. He has sided with elitism instead of exchange of ideas. Three sentences would do. You could say, "2020 is likely too early to completely switch to e-books. The technology needs further improvements in visual clarity, writability, wireless transferability, and general ease of use. Logistically, it will take a long time to make every book available, and the change will be resisted by the anti-technology subculture as well as Barnes & Noble." I would reply, "Excellent post; I agree that 2020 is probably too early. But, my greater goal in that post was to raise the idea that paper books may become a thing of the past in the not-so-distant future rather than predict precisely when it will happen." I don't think paper books are ever going to become a thing of the past. No matter how much the technology improves, no e-book reader thing will ever be able to fully capture or replicate all the various inherent qualities that make reading actual books a unique experience. You can't give a dogeared e-book to your friends or write notes in its margins. You can't line nice mahogany shelves with e-books. Call me a book fetishist or part of "the anti-technology subculture" or whatever, but I simply don't see paper books ever become obsolete.

Nope.

lol

If I had any say in the matter I'd try to get them to let you in, but I don't think anyone actually listens to me

I resigned.

Thanks.

You also distributed c**** p*** on an internet messageboard.

One of these days, BUTT, you're going to push me too far. And then you'll be sorry.

As for the thread's actual topic: "Light My Fire" gets my blood boiling.

I knew that was coming as soon as I saw your name at the bottom of the thread. You're so predictable, BUTT.

"Sweet Caroline" owns. You guys are dumb.

Oh how the mighty have fallen...

If I threw up every time I got a hangover I think I'd probably just stop drinking. To fill the void I'd start doing other drugs, I suppose.

I never said that. Stop being dumb.

Did that last weekend (not on purpose) at the end of the night and it didn't make a bit of difference. Yeah. The few times I've drunk to the point of vomiting I've just felt doubly worse the next day. That "cure" is a crock of shit!

Oh man, those are the pits. That slow decline from "still sorta buzzed; feelin okay" to "oh my god i want to die" is like the worst experience in the entire world.

This sounds like it's going to be more in the Lot 49/Vineland mold than the V./Gravity's Rainbow mold. I'll still read it, but I'm not expecting a masterpiece. edit: It is nice to see that the guy's is still alive and working. It's going to be a sad day for American letters when he finally kicks the bucket.

I wasn't actually advocating for either of these things, btw. I apologize if it came off like that. Isolationism is, to my mind, just as wrong-headed and pernicious as imperialism. Both of them ultimately grow out of the same injurious Us vs. Them line of thinking, and it's that line of thinking that I'm ultimately opposed to. I fully agree that America has a huge role to play in combating those threats I mentioned, and with our resources it's only logical that we lead the charge. The problem comes when we equate "leading the charge" with "telling other countries what to do." We need to engage the globe on its own terms, not just on ours