Hungry Monkey

[lillibet]

Any of the parents, or parents-in-waiting or interested-in-thinking-about-food people on my f-list interested in a copy of Hungry Monkey: A Food-Loving Father's Quest to Raise an Adventurous Eater?

Comments

[buxom-bey.livejournal.com]

Oo, oo, me, me! *raises hand*

[lillibet.livejournal.com]

If I give it to you tonight, can you pass it on to wellstar when you're done?

[wellstar.livejournal.com]

I would love to at least borrow this--Sarah had it out of the library and I was reading it, but she returned it before I finished.

[lillibet.livejournal.com]

I'm thinking I can hand it off to buxom_bey, she can pass it to you when she's done, and then you can give it to trowa_barton...that sound ok?

[wellstar.livejournal.com]

buxom_bey might do better giving it straight to trowa_barton. I'm not entirely sure when I'd actually get to read it, what with one-acts and schoolwork and travel and all, so I don't want to hold up the chain. If it's available when I am, great; if not, I'll just get it from the library.

[trowa-barton.livejournal.com]

I would like to borrow it once buxom_bey is done.

[spatch]

Hey, I know this author! He's a great guy. I know him as mamster from the Interactive Fiction MUD. We go back a long ways. I think the last time I saw him in person was in the late 90s and I've never met Iris, but I am so not surprised a smart guy like him would try to give his kid as many opportunities as possible to approach food with an open mind and a healthy imagination. (The ifMUDders on the whole are an interesting culinary and creative bunch to be sure.)

And I really think it's awesome that y'all think it's awesome, too. Rock on!

On an entirely non-kid-culinary note but one I think is worth sharing: mamster wrote for one of our ifMUDder's zine projects on living in Seattle during the WTO protests and riots. He and his wife were teargassed in their own neighborhood while trying to get home, among other tribulations. It's a lengthy and at times disturbing read, but it's an amazing and powerful first-person account of how insane the police response was in 1999.

[lillibet.livejournal.com]

Nifty! I'm tempted to try to get you to hook us up when we're in Seattle--definitely seems like our kind of guy.