Better Than Friday - 142 (Patreon)

Good evening ya'll! Hope you're well. 

Gearing up for the move to FL in the coming months on this end, trying to get out there and enjoy the PNW while we still have it (see no. 4, can't wait to visit).

I'll soon be uploading a review of Lichtenberg's 'The Waste Books' and 'Reading Between the Wines' by Terry Thiese. 

Thank you so much for your support. 

1. Book I'm looking forward by the author of 'Stoner' - John Williams' "Butcher's Crossing" 

A kind gift from a friend and fan Dana - Thanks man, looks phenomenal. 

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In his National Book Award–winning novel Augustus, John Williams uncovered the secrets of ancient Rome. With Butcher’s Crossing, his fiercely intelligent, beautifully written western, Williams dismantles the myths of modern America.It is the 1870s, and Will Andrews, fired up by Emerson to seek “an original relation to nature,” drops out of Harvard and heads west. He washes up in Butcher’s Crossing, a small Kansas town on the outskirts of nowhere. Butcher’s Crossing is full of restless men looking for ways to make money and ways to waste it. Before long Andrews strikes up a friendship with one of them, a man who regales Andrews with tales of immense herds of buffalo, ready for the taking, hidden away in a beautiful valley deep in the Colorado Rockies. He convinces Andrews to join in an expedition to track the animals down. The journey out is grueling, but at the end is a place of paradisal richness. Once there, however, the three men abandon themselves to an orgy of slaughter, so caught up in killing buffalo that they lose all sense of time. Winter soon overtakes them: they are snowed in. Next spring, half-insane with cabin fever, cold, and hunger, they stagger back to Butcher’s Crossing to find a world as irremediably changed as they have been.

- Amazon

2. Dead Man Theme Song by Neil Young 

I feel like I may have posted this here but maybe not. So good.00:57 gets me every time. 

3. Military Language Learning 

Am I the only one who is really into the idea of doing this?I wonder if there are any immersion programs this intense. 

Business opportunity? :P

4. Hiyu Winery 

This place looks beautiful.

5. Poison Books 

Apparently some old books contain arsenic, gold, lead, wow...Careful out there with old books...especially the green ones. 

So how dangerous are these enchanting emerald reads?

“I like how Dr. Tedone put it,” said Watson paraphrasing. “She says that you should be aware that these books can kill you… but you’d have to eat it.

- from the article

Recently made a trip up to Astoria and lucked out with the weather. Still love that place.