Comments on: FIRE WEATHER 2: The Wind Shifts….Toward Granada Hills – UPDATED

By: Celeste Fremon

Celeste Fremon — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 19:47:19 +0000

Thanks, Woody, for the very kind sentiment. And thanks for the good wishes, Randy. We’re fine. I was worried about Kate and Mark but things seem to have calmed down.

We just get very nervous in Topanga during Santa Ana weather, even when the fire is very unlikely to get to us, as so often copy cats emerge during those creepy days.

Evan, if you have a signed book of David Foster Wallace’s work, I’d sure snatch that too.

I have some of that nature, which are to me irreplaceable. One is a copy of Sir Alfred Russell Wallace’s The Malay Archipelago, the 1885, version with all WallaceÃ¢â‚¬â„¢s original drawings. ItÃ¢â‚¬â„¢s something to which, for a variety of complicated reasons, I have a personal attachment. I also have a 1911 Globe edition of the complete works of William Shakespeare that was my grandfatherÃ¢â‚¬â„¢s. Both those, I packed in the 1993 Topanga Malibu fire when it was the real thing. And there are the books I love and would not want to be without, but all those I could get again.

But I would definitely bring several books of poetry.

By: Woody

Woody — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 17:14:44 +0000

G-Dog and the Homeboys, but it would have to be autographed by the author.

By: Evan

Evan — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 15:53:59 +0000

Infinite Jest and my signed copy of Brief Interviews with Hideous Men by David Foster Wallace
A book on Jean-Luc Godard that my wife brought back for me from Paris
My beat-up copies of Slaughterhouse-Five and Breakfast of Champions by Vonnegut–I bought them a long time ago at Acres of Books, and they have a lot of sentimental value to me.

By: Randy Paul

Randy Paul — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 01:55:09 +0000

Ross MacDonald’s The Underground Man: a great book with great SoCal ambiance.

Hope it all works out okay for all, but especially for you, Celeste.

By: Rebel Girl

Rebel Girl — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 00:26:03 +0000

When we evacuated (twice now) – I took all the poetry and only some of the fiction/nonfiction – though the last two genres clearly dominate our home. Maybe I didn’t want to have to choose.

By: RR

RR — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 23:27:01 +0000

For purely sentimental reasons, I’d grab my old copies of Ken Kesey’s “The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test,” Hunter Thompson’s “Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail ‘72,” Michael Herr’s “Dispatches,” and a Henry Beard-autographed copy of “Bored of the Rings.”

By: Ishmael

Ishmael — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 23:04:28 +0000

Had to drive down I-5 Monday. Crossed over the grapevine and into north SF valley around 11 am. Things were getting crazy. The Santa Ana winds were incredible. Saw the planes trying to do water drops. They kinda looked like sea gulls hovering.

Got to office in Calabasas right before noon. Seemed like it was dusk. Had to have a good healthy cigarette just to clear my lungs.

Book? Moby Dick, of course.