pirates & if jonathan was pillaged, instead of willfully inclined to lend me books, these would be the "booty"

first off:

is anyone else souring on pirates in general? i feel as though i've been rolling my eyes a lot more the last five years. i don't think i laughed out loud once at the last pirates of the carribean movie...

gideon defoe (author of pirates! in an adventure with [whaling/communists/scientists])is wonderful enough to enjoy, pirates or no pirates. his footnotes are charming, the book with all its nice illustrated covers, witty and tounge-in-cheek-weird etchings on the insides of the covers, and hidden amusements... is a delight. it will be a dark day if gideon ever defers from communists and scientists and pairs the pirates! up with something like ninjas. you'd be surprised how many people haven't caught on that it's no longer a novelty.

still, i would marry him.

second:
met for coffee & conversation with jonathan at higher ground. at a very tensy island table in the middle of the floor, "entirely too small for my knees" (mysterious island mis-quote) and my mammoth, bound, nytimes sunday. jonathan, you are pretty awesome company.

it doesn't hurt he hates frankenstein too and happens to agree on what's the best Poe story, the cask of amatillo. i mean, of course, the poe that doesn't mudwrestle–to my knowedge.

i gave away
days between stations & our ecstatic days by steve erickson

i got
the robber by robert walser
coming through slaughter by michael ondaatje
the crying of lot 49 by thomas pynchon
and the object stares back: on the nature of seeing by james elkins

also, i have wound up with a pay from charles bonjour, la, bonjour by michel tremblay.