Nov. 7th, 2001

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lubricious \loo-BRISH-us\, adjective:
1. Lustful; lewd.
2. Stimulating or appealing to sexual desire or imagination.
3. Having a slippery or smooth quality.

Lubricious derives from Latin lubricus, "slippery, smooth."
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Man... sofla.com is dead. :(

Boo!
Ah well, here's a different window to where I live.

http://southflorida.sun-sentinel.com/webcam/fullsize.jpg

This is a view from the Sun-Sentinel.com offices in downtown Fort Lauderdale looking southwest along the New River.

On the right is the bandshell for DDA/Bubier Park. The Riverwalk area and the Andrews Avenue Bridge (the pink structure) are also visible.
The image is updated every five minutes.

courtesy of sun-sentinel.com cam
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[Poll #9365]

It seems to me that (in general) folks post replies more to life comments, only minimally to prose, and hardly at all to poetry... I wonder why that is.
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Recommended Reading



Catch-22, Joseph Heller
Slaughterhouse-5, Kurt Vonnegut
Cat's Cradle, Kurt Vonnegut
Brave New World, Aldous Huxley
1984, George Orwell
Animal Farm, George Orwell
Lord of the Flies, William Golding
Catcher in the Rye, J.D. Salinger
The Chocolate War, Robert Cormier
The Man in the High Castle, Philip K. Dick
On the Road, Jack Kerouac
Three Musketeers, Alexandre Dumas
Siddhartha, Herman Hesse

Othello, William Shakespeare
Richard III, William Shakespeare
The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald
Crime and Punishment, Fyodor Dostoevsky
The Stranger, Albert Camus
Fear and Trembling, Soren Kierkegaard
The Complete Stories, Franz Kafka
Ficciones, Jorge Luis Borges
The Last Temptation of Christ, Nikos Kazantzakis
Moby Dick, Herman Melville

Snow Crash, Neal Stephenson
Black Dahlia, James Ellroy
Sewer, Gas and Electric, Matt Ruff
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Hunter S. Thompson
Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail '72, Hunter S. Thompson
Junky, William S. Burroughs
Messiah, Gore Vidal
Illusions, Richard Bach
Behold the Man, Michael Moorcock
Foucault's Pendulum, Umberto Eco
The Essential Harlan Ellison, Harlan Ellison
In Infinite Jest, David Foster Wallace
The Crossing, Cormack McCarthy

The Chess Garden, Brooks Hansen
The Book of the Dun Cow, Walter Wangerin, Jr.
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay, Michael Chabon
Kissing the Beehive, Jonathon Carroll
The Alienist, Caleb Carr
The Last Unicorn, Peter S. Beagle
Unlocking the Air, Ursula K. LeGuin

E. E. Cummings: Complete Poems 1904-1962, e. e. cummings
Poems for the Millenium, Jerome Rothenberg and Pierre Joris

The Watchmen, Alan Moore
Lankhmar: Tales of Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser, Fritz Leiber
Thieves' House: Tales of Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser, Fritz Leiber

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