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From: higgins@fnalo.fnal.gov (Bill Higgins-- Beam Jockey)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.written
Subject: Re: easy-to-confuse author names
Date: 22 Dec 92 18:40:01 GMT
Organization: Fermilab Grossforschungenseinrichtungen
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In article <1992Dec22.000632.26449@pbhyc.PacBell.COM>, djdaneh@pbhyc.PacBell.COM (Dan'l DanehyOakes) writes:
> Who did I used to confuse?
> 
> Fredric Brown and Frederik Pohl, for two.  Dick and Dickson.  And -- this is
> really weird -- I used to think Murray Leinster and Lester delRey were the
> same person.  (I was very young at the time, and was basing this on their
> novels for the Scholastic Book Services, notably TUNNEL THROUGH TIME and THE
> RUNAWAY ROBOT.  

Both books had del Rey's name on the cover, but were really ghosted by
Paul Fairman, according to the Nichols encyclopedia.  SBS *also* sold
a novel, possibly by Murray Leinster, called (I think) *Time Tunnel*--
but it may have been *Tunnel through Time* or some variation. 
Confused the heck out of me, because at the time I was looking at
these catalogs, there was a TV show called *Time Tunnel*.  Eventually
novels associated with *that* came out, and I think Leinster wrote at
least one.  Excuse me, I have a headache.

> An interesting reversal:  writers who people used to think were two people but 
> weren't.  For example, Robert A. Heinlein and Anson McDonald, who were serious 
> competitors for "the best ANALOG writer" for a while.  They were very amused by 
> this, since "McDonald" was in fact Heinlein.  I gather that John Campbell's "Don
> A. Stuart" masquerade worked for a while, after all.
> 
> And, of course, everyone still thinks L. Ron Hubbard was the same person.

What about the horrible case of Lewis Padgett?  Was *he* the same
person?

(Not to be confused with Sinclair Lewis or Upton Sinclair, of course.)

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From: bleys@wisdom.bubble.org (Bill Cavanaugh)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.written
Subject: Re: Niven/Mote in God's Eye
Date: 23 Dec 92 04:41:49 GMT
Organization: Xanadu Enterprises, Inc.

In article <lys27fr@rpi.edu> kasprj@rpi.edu writes:
> 
> Footfall scary? I didn't really find it to be so - aside from the assumption
>that the President would call in a group of SF writers as the people best 
>qualified to deal with the alien threat. "They write about it all the time,
>so they must be experts." Yeah, and the police departments ask mystery writers
>for advice all the time. 
> 
> Actually, what's even scarier is that I don't find it impossible to imagine
>Bill Clinton doing this. 

Um, I'm sure I won't be the first to point this out, but Pournelle has
served on that kinda committee under Reagan and Bush.

My two cents on Niven suggestions:  N-Space and Playgrounds of the Mind.
They're collections of some of his stuff from over the years with
Asimov-like autobiographical text surrounding them.

As for collaborations, how about the three Dream Park books?  Niven/Barnes
make a helluva team, and I'm >sure< there's some unattributed Pournelle
lurking in there somewhere...

bill
 
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From: pciszek@nyx.cs.du.edu (Paul Ciszek)
Subject: Re: Recommendation wanted: Books about magicians
Organization: University of Denver, Dept. of Math & Comp. Sci.
Date: Wed, 23 Dec 92 06:18:58 GMT

Don't forget Larry Niven's "Warlock" stories:  "Not long before the end",
"What good is a glass dagger?", "Lion in his attic", "The Wishing Game",
and the novel _The Magic Goes Away_.  The collection _The Magic May Return_
is not as good in my opinion.
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Subject: Re: SF + PC
From: markrose@spss.com (Mark Rosenfelder)
Date: Thu, 31 Dec 1992 17:49:47 GMT
Organization: SPSS Inc.

In article <1992Dec31.022613.17317@netcom.com> mvp@netcom.com (Mike Van Pelt) writes:
>In article <1992Dec30.125910.13054@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU> prs9k@brain.med.virginia.edu 
(Phil Scarr) writes:
>>Many of the arguments for inclusion ARE based upon some form
>>of merit or deservedness.  BUT, we, as literati should PUSH the non-DWM
>>or even non-WM for inclusion FIRST, because they have been left out so
>>long.  Kind of a literary affirmative-action if you will.
>
>And just like affirmative-action in the "real world", such a policy
>will perpetuate racism and whatever other -ism you're trying to
>overcome.  If you push non-DWM works, not because they're good, but
>solely because the racial/ethnic/whatever membership of the artist is
>"in" this year, you will produce the effect of placing the best DWM
>works side-by-side with inferior non-DWM works.

This is only a worry if non-DWM works really are inferior.  If not, you're
not going to suffer much by reading the best of them.  

For that matter, one of the merits of a non-DWM book, above and beyond the
usual ones (story, character, style), may be that it illuminates an unusual
or unfamiliar culture.  Instead of reading one more novel about (say) 
some white suburban boy discovering Life, Art, and Decadence in New York,
or one more book about the anxieties and anhedonia of French intellectuals,
or one more Shakespeare play, what's wrong with checking out something by 
Chester Himes, or Wole Soyinka, or Maya Angelou, or Garcia Marquez?

That said, I think the whole canon thing is overblown.  That it matters much 
which four or five books you make college freshmen buy is a notion of
startling absurdity.
From: pnh@panix.com (Patrick Nielsen-Hayden)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.written
Subject: Re: Geoffrey Landis/SF Age #2
Date: 21 Dec 92 23:35:47 GMT
Organization: PANIX Public Access Unix, NYC

The "Dirac Sea" story also won a Nebula, I recall.

-- 
Patrick Nielsen Hayden      :     senior editor, Tor Books
pnh@panix.com : CIS 72701,1344 : GEnie PNH : opinions mine
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From: dyer@spdcc.com (Steve Dyer)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.written,rec.arts.books
Subject: Re: SF + PC
Date: 3 Jan 93 06:37:13 GMT
Article-I.D.: spdcc.1993Jan3.063713.10000
Organization: S.P. Dyer Computer Consulting, Cambridge MA

In article <1i3afsINN8ll@agate.berkeley.edu> curtis@cs.berkeley.edu (Curtis Yarvin) writes:
>Hmm.  How about:
>	Expose students to whatever the hell they want to read.

This is a joke, right?  I suppose I'd prefer them to be reading
some kind of science fiction pulp trash (or the National Enquirer
or the Weekly World News) versus watching music videos and playing
video games versus not reading at all.  However, I think it's worth
aspiring to more than that.

>And when the classics become no longer relevant to modern men, they
>will die off; as, perhaps, they should.

Another educational failure...  Anyone who claims that the classics
aren't relevant to today hasn't read the classics.  Anyway, don't
people stop saying that the classics aren't relevant once they
leave high school?

-- 
Steve Dyer
dyer@ursa-major.spdcc.com aka {ima,harvard,rayssd,linus,m2c}!spdcc!dyer
From: cm260@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Bill Leach)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.written
Subject: Re: Ellison
Date: 26 Dec 1992 03:54:43 GMT
Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH (USA)
Reply-To: cm260@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Bill Leach)
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In a previous article, DCHANG@uhccmvs.BITNET (Doreen Chang) says:

>Does anyone know where I can find Philip K. Dick's "We Can Remember It for
>You Wholesale"?
>
It was published in the anthology _The Preserving Machine_, which may be
out of print;  I'm not sure.  It was originally published (according to 
the credits page) in the April 1966 issue of Fantasy and Science Fiction.
It is also most probably included in one of the volumes of his complete 
short stories.  Good Luck!
From: jahb@ns1.cc.lehigh.edu (JENNIFER A. HEISE)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.written
Subject: Re: Political Correctness + Sci-fi
Date: 30 Dec 92 16:53:17 GMT
Organization: Lehigh University

>>Now there is also a harder edge to this thought, a more radical side
>>which seeks to undermine the cannon, to toss it out as fundamentally
>>flawed.  I don't agree with this argument, but I still consider myself
>>to be "politically correct."
>
>How about all the Stanford students and faculty parading around
>chanting "Hey, Hey, Ho, Ho, Western Culture's got to go." It seems
>to me that the "radical fringe" is more mainstream among the
>"multiculturists" than you seem to believe.

Why doesn't someone write a book about what happens if we DO toss out the
DWEMs? A society in which the contributions of all dwems are regarded as
flawed, since "everyone knows it's a man's world-- and look what they've done
to it?"  Suppose the women's studies departments take over European culture.
What effect will they have? Will they change their hard-line stance? or will
they become just as crusty and prejudiced as the DWEM professors?
-- 
Jennifer Heise                           Net: jahb@lehigh.edu
Reference Dept.,                         Phone: (215) 758-3072
Fairchild-Martindale Libraries #8A,  Lehigh University, Bethlehem, PA 18015
My opinions are my own. No one else would HAVE them anyway.

"The toad beneath the harrow knows Exactly where each tooth-point goes;
The butterfly upon the road Preaches contentment to that toad."  Kipling
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From: Crawford_Kilian@mindlink.bc.ca (Crawford Kilian)
Subject: Re: Political Correctness + Sci-fi
Organization: MIND LINK! - British Columbia, Canada
Date: Sun, 3 Jan 1993 04:31:52 GMT

Jennifer Heise asks:

Why doesn't someone write a book about what happens if we DO toss out the
DWEMs? A society in which the contributions of all dwems are regarded as
flawed, since "everyone knows it's a man's world-- and look what they've done
to it?"  Suppose the women's studies departments take over European culture.
What effect will they have? Will they change their hard-line stance? or will
they become just as crusty and prejudiced as the DWEM professors?

That, essentially, is what happened in China during the Cultural Revolution.
The Red Guards, at Mao's instigation, destroyed not only European works but
Chinese works as well--and killed, crippled or ruined people who had given
their lives to producing or analyzing such art. In the 5 years from 1965 to
1970, with another 5 years of diminishing aftershocks, China damn near
destroyed itself as a coherent culture. As a teacher in Guangzhou in 1983, I
met some of the survivors; they didn't have kind words for the people who
tried so hard to do what Chairman Mao told them to.

Hardly anyone in the west realizes what a catastrophe the Cultural Revolution
was. The kinds of people who venerated Mao in those days, out of the most
terminal ignorance and wishful thinking, justified his foolish cruelty in
terms very close to those now used to attack the "oppression" of dead white
European males.

When you have taught in a society where 1984 is not a fantasy, you're
reluctant to see the same kind of folly rear its cross-eyed head in North
America.


--
Crawford Kilian   Communications Department   Capilano College
North Vancouver BC Canada V7J 3H5
Usenet: Crawford_Kilian@mindlink.bc.ca
Internet: ckilian@first.etc.bc.ca
From: comrade@uniwa.uwa.edu.au (Peter Cooper)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.written
Subject: Re: Paranoia Novel?
Date: 29 Dec 1992 17:14:42 +0800
Organization: The University of Western Australia
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phaedrus@halcyon.com (Mark Phaedrus) writes:

>In article <725556976.AA00739@tdkt.kksys.com> John.M..Ford@f341.n282.z1.tdkt.kksys.com (John M. Ford) writes:
>>        There was also supposed to be a PARANOIA comic series, but 
>>Marvel dithered for an extended period of time and decided against 
>>it.

>     There is indeed a Paranoia comic series, put out by Adventure Comics.
>(Yes, there are indeed other comic publishers besides Marvel. :) )  I only
>bought the first two issues, but I know they put out at least four or five.
>(At least the first two were quite a bit grimmer than most Paranoia stuff,
>which turned me off on them.)

IMHO, the series went downhill quite fast when they changed artists at
the end of ish 2.  I really liked the humour - even though it was a bit
blacker than the game, it was true to the spirit.

Peter	
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From: frank@fnbc.com (Frank Mitchell)
Subject: Re: SF + PC
Organization: First National Bank Of Chicago, Chicago IL, USA
Date: Wed, 30 Dec 92 16:10:01 GMT

In article <1992Dec29.232115.24785@netcom.com> solovay@netcom.com (Andrew  
Solovay) writes:
> How can Huckleberry Finn possibly be non-PC or anti-PC? It was,
> and is, one of the most strongly anti-racist books in American
> literature. I would think Huck Finn would be the one part of the
> canon the PC types were happiest with.

I think the PC faction objects to Jim's dialect and general ignorance.  Mind  
you, one would assume that a slave of that era would be uneducated, and  
probably have a pronounced African-American dialect ...

The soapbox looks tempting, but I have to get to work.

--
Frank Mitchell,	Business Systems Analyst, First National Bank of Chicago
email:frank@fnbc.com (NeXTmail)

"'I am that merry wanderer of the night'?  I am that giggling, dangerous,  
totally bloody psychotic menace to life and limb, more like it."
-- Peaseblossom, _Sandman_ #19
From: HMUSAMWS@admin.uh.edu (SUMBERA, MICHEAL W.)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.written
Subject: Re: New Ace SF Specials (was Re: Literary SF)
Date: 21 Dec 1992 14:23:43 GMT
Organization: University of Houston Administrative Computing
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In <1992Dec20.173451.4864@eff.org> write@eff.org writes:

> The books that made up the new series were:
> 
>    Kim Stanley Robinson, THE WILD SHORE
>    Lucius Shepard, GREEN EYES
>    William Gibson, NEUROMANCER
>    Howard Waldrop, THEM BONES
>    Michael Swanwick, IN THE DRIFT
>    Sholtz and Harcourt, PALIMPSESTS

These are all right but...

> After Terry died, a few that he had bought and had been working on were
> released:
> 
>    Jack McDevitt, THE HERCULES TEXT
>    Claudia O'Keefe, (Something about Ice)
>    Loren McGregor, THE NET
>    Michael Kandel, STRANGE INVASIONS

There were three sets of releases for the New Ace SF Specials.  This first
you've got right. The second was:

     Jack McDevitt, THE HERCULES TEXT
     Richard Kadrey, METROPHAGE
     Loren McGregor, THE NET

These were the last ones edited by Carr.  After his death Knight purchased and
edited three more:

     Claudia O'Keefe, BLACK SNOW DAYS
     Gregory Feeley, (Who really cares)
     Someone whose name I can't remember

The Kandel novel you mention was the second book published by Bantam as part of
the Spectra Special Editions.

MWS
hmusamws@admin.uh.edu
Down in the basement, we hear the sound of machines.

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From: dani@netcom.com (Dani Zweig)
Subject: Re: David Eddings: The Sapphire Rose
Organization: Netcom Online Communications Services (408-241-9760 login: guest)
Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 22:25:39 GMT

mcmahan@cs.unca.edu (Scott McMahan):
>This is the biggest rip-off ever! No paperback book is worth $6!!!
>I almost fainted right there in the book store when I saw that.

I picked up four paperbacks the other day:  $3.99, $4.50, $5.99, $5.99.
You don't see many $3.99 paperbacks these days.  $5.99 is pretty much
the high end of the going rate, with the more expensive ones clocking in
at $6.99.

Paperback prices havclimbed a good deal faster than the general rate
of inflation.  A ripoff may indeed be taking place, but neither the
authors nor the publishers seem to be the beneficiaries.

As for no paperback being worth $6, there are two senses in which this
could be meant.  If you mean that it's offensive to pay far more than
you feel the price 'ought' to be, I can sympathize.  If you mean that
no paperback gives you $6 worth of enjoyment, you don't speak for me
or for those who are still buying those paperbacks.  I'll grant that
readers who prefer hardcovers may be more likely to get them, now that
the cost advantage of paperbacks is diminishing (in relative terms).

-----
Dani Zweig
dani@netcom.com

Roses red and violets blew
  and all the sweetest flowres that in the forrest grew -- Edmund Spenser
From: saruman@cats.ucsc.edu (Nicholas Patrick Popoff)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.written
Subject: Re:  Name this Book.....*pleeezze!*
Date: 22 Dec 92 04:29:23 GMT
Organization: University of California; Santa Cruz
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In article <15195.2b35e47f@ohstpy.mps.ohio-state.edu> herbert@ohstpy.mps.ohio-state.edu writes:
>...Sounds kind of like "The Forever War" by Joe Haldeman, but it sounds
>more like "Bill the Galactic Hero" by ??? Harrison (?) (I can't remember
>the author).  It's the funny part that tips you off


	Hmm...theres no chance it's Harrison, but both "armor" and 
"forever war" sound like likely candidates, so I think i'll go pick
em both up.  They both sound good.
	Thanks to everyone who wrote...
	-nick
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From: kasprj@isaac.its.rpi.edu (Jim Kasprzak)
Subject: Re: On the useful ness of Canons 
Reply-To: kasprj@rpi.edu
Organization: The Big Wedge 
Date: Sun, 3 Jan 1993 13:20:11 GMT


 As far as Canons go, I find that a German war surplus 88 does wonders for
keeping the neighbors from becoming too obnoxious. I never even have to use
much ammunition -- just having it out on the front porch makes the point 
subtly but effectively. Unfortunately it's not much good against squirrels.
 
 What? 
 
 Oh. Never mind.
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From: wrr3118@tamsun.tamu.edu (Rick Russell)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.written
Subject: Re: Title of "Short-short" story collection?
Date: 3 Jan 1993 20:34:33 -0600
Organization: Texas A&M University, College Station, TX
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Keywords: Asimov, 100 short-short stories

In article <1993Jan3.175725.2658@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu> pciszek@nyx.cs.du.edu (Paul Ciszek) writes:
>I once saw a book edited by Asimov and someone else, titled something
>like "100 Great Science Fiction Short-Short Stories".  In order to find
>this book, it would help to know a) both the editors, and b) the exact
>wording of the title.  If you know this book, please reply.  Also, does
>anyone know if it is still in print?

My copy of '100 Great Fantasy Short Short Stories' (Asimov, Carr,
Greenberg, 1984) mentions:
 
Also available from Avon Books:
 
_100 Great Science Fiction Short Short Stories_, edited by Isaac
Asimov, Martin Greenberg, and Joseph D. Olander.


-- 
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From: hora@ecf.toronto.edu (HO ROBERT ANDREW)
Subject: Re: Niven/Mote in God's Eye
Organization: University of Toronto, Engineering Computing Facility
Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 22:19:39 GMT

In article <1h7q1eINNgp0@menudo.uh.edu> HADCRJAM@admin.uh.edu (MILLER, JIMMY A.) writes:
>In <BznwIA.1CI@ecf.toronto.edu> hora@ecf.toronto.edu writes:
>
>> Some of Niven's worst stuff has also emerged from his collaborations with
>> Pournelle; _Fallen Angels_ and _The Barsoom Project_ were terrible, as was
>> _Achilles' Choice_, which he wrote with Barnes.  This if of course, MHO...
>
>  _Barsoom Project_ did not include Pournelle.
>

Apologies... I didn't read over my post carefully.  It was of course Barnes
who collaborated with Niven on _Barsoom Project_.  Thanks for the
correction.

-- 
Robert Ho
Univ. of Toronto
hora@ecf.toronto.edu
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Subject: Re: Auto-buy lists 
From: hairy@sloth.equinox.gen.nz (Phil Anderson)
Date: Fri, 25 Dec 92 09:18:54 GMT
Distribution: world
Organization: Lethargy Inc.


My two cents worth:
   Iain M. Banks
   Zelazny (except for Amber these days)
   Terry Pratchett
   Gibson

And kudos to the person who wrote up the summary - please update it as 
the thread goes on.

Phil

 ----------------------------------------------
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From: lpj@col.hp.com (Laura Johnson)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.written
Subject: Re: Niven/Mote in God's Eye
Date: 21 Dec 1992 23:32:27 GMT
Organization: HP Colorado Springs Division
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harit@kripalu.com writes:
> 
> Check out the other Niven/Pornelle colaborations: Lucifer's Hammer, Legond of  
> Herot (If you are willing to be scared), Footfall.
> -- 

Yes, I agree with this. Niven/Pournelle books are not the same as Niven
books. Many people like both, of course, but I find that I quite enjoy
the collaborative efforts but can't finish most books by Niven alone. My
perception is that Niven has these great ideas, and Pournelle adds stuff
like plot and characterization. Your mileage may vary. Flames to /dev/null.
IMHO. Insert favorite disclaimer. 
-- 
Laura Johnson
lpj@col.hp.com
Opinions expressed are my own, but may be licensed for a nominal fee.
From: drg@biomath.mda.uth.tmc.edu (David Gutierrez)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.written
Subject: Re: SF + PC
Date: 30 Dec 1992 21:35:02 GMT
Organization: Univ. Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center

In article <C0382v.EMJ@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu> cstringe@silver.ucs.indiana.edu
(Chuck Stringer) writes:
>drg@biomath.mda.uth.tmc.edu (David Gutierrez) writes:
>| >How can Huckleberry Finn possibly be non-PC or anti-PC? It was,
>| >and is, one of the most strongly anti-racist books in American
>| >literature. I would think Huck Finn would be the one part of the
>| >canon the PC types were happiest with.
>| 
>| Irrelevant to the Politically Correct. The book contains the word "nigger",
>| therefore it is evil - never mind what the words surrounding it say.
>
>Apparently you haven't understood the words surrounding it if
>you actually believe that Clemens was advocating racism. Read Pap's
>'You call that a gov'mint?' speech again. You've missed the entire
>point of the work.

Apparently you haven't understood my words. I've never believed that Clemens
was advocating racism. Having actually read the book (unlike many of its
detractors), I know that it was a condemnation of racism. You've missed the
entire point of my posting.

David Gutierrez
drg@biomath.mda.uth.tmc.edu

"Only fools are positive." - Moe Howard

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From: tmaddox@netcom.com (Tom Maddox)
Subject: Re: Auto-buy lists
Organization: Netcom Online Communications Services (408-241-9760 login: guest)
Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 08:34:30 GMT

In article <1992Dec18.234307.20756@ninja.zso.dec.com> rcrowley@donne.zso.dec.com (Rebecca Crowley) writes:
>I really liked _Halo_ -- I'll likely buy the next Maddox novel I 
>see.  :-)

	There's a good chance that the cover will say something like
_Wildlife, or, The Worlds to Come_.

	It'll be a little while yet--you can reread _Halo_ while you're waiting.
-- 
				Tom Maddox
		    	    tmaddox@netcom.com
	"That's a bird bone, chair, Bob.  I don't know if I should sit there."
				Tom Waits