And the SF Public Library resident requirement is just the state. I never would have thought to check!
And Oakland
Hey, I live in that state! (Not that there's anything wrong with San Diego libraries, but more is better!
Spike: Heard what happened up top, offing your dad and all. Don't know if you know this, but, uh…I killed my mum. Actually, I'd already killed her, and then she tried to shag me, so I had to-- Wesley: Thank you. I'm…very comforted.
'Lineage'
Literary Buffistas 3: Don't Parse the Blurb, Dear.
There's more to life than watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer! No. Really, there is! Honestly! Here's a place for Buffistas to come and discuss what it is they're reading, their favorite authors and poets. "Geez. Crack a book sometime."
EpicTangent - May 17, 2017 3:36:52 pm PDT #24593 of 28769
Why isn't everyone pelting me with JOY, dammit? - Zenkitty
Steph L. - May 17, 2017 5:17:44 pm PDT #24594 of 28769
It's actually been a really hard year, when you stop and do the math. Eliot would cry, too, if it didn't take him seventy minutes of therapy, two cocktails, and a Sondheim medley before he can experience a human emotion through the haze of his PTSD.
Tim stole my library copy of the graphic novel of A Wrinkle in Time and is reading it (he never read the book, even as a kid). I'm so proud.
Also, it's a fantastic adaptation. Highly recommended.
Steph L. - May 17, 2017 5:25:11 pm PDT #24595 of 28769
It's actually been a really hard year, when you stop and do the math. Eliot would cry, too, if it didn't take him seventy minutes of therapy, two cocktails, and a Sondheim medley before he can experience a human emotion through the haze of his PTSD.
Heh. He just yelled "TESSERACT!" from the other room. That was a little unnerving.
SuziQ - May 17, 2017 5:44:15 pm PDT #24596 of 28769
Back tattoos of the mother is that you are absolutely right - Ame
My bff's son turned 12 yesterday and I bought him a few of the graphic novel compilations of Guardians of the Galaxy (2013). He is not a big reader and I always like to get kids books - so I thought this might perk his interest since he is a big fan of the movies.
Jessica - May 18, 2017 5:10:02 am PDT #24597 of 28769
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
He just yelled "TESSERACT!" from the other room. That was a little unnerving.
Should you go check to make sure he's still there?
Calli - May 18, 2017 5:14:49 am PDT #24598 of 28769
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs
Thanks for the link, Sophia. I've passed it along to my niece.
juliana - May 18, 2017 7:49:43 am PDT #24599 of 28769
I’d be lying if I didn’t say that I miss them all tonight…
From what I understand, a lot of the European version of Mongol history is wildly inaccurate. I haven't studied it in depth, but I find that plausible (even trying very hard to set aside my deep-seated Mongols! My people! bias)
Correct. Much like the European/American version of Vikings-as-ravening-berserkers, or the mental picture of Medieval peasants wallowing in their own filth. I blame the Victorians (mostly because it's fun to say).
(M is most probably descended from Mongols, as well, so I get the My people! reaction.)
Toddson - May 19, 2017 7:13:28 am PDT #24600 of 28769
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"
In re Vikings, I remember several years ago someone teaching a college-level course in medieval Scandanavian history (yes, Vikings) found that at least one of her students had done a search and found a site by Viking recreators (not the SCA) and had used that as their primary source for a report ... it did not turn out very well, since they were not as accurate as one would wish.
Connie Neil - May 19, 2017 7:19:12 am PDT #24601 of 28769
brillig
Should have gone with the SCA, we regularly publish pamphlets with full documentation. One of them at least was used as someone's Ph.D. dissertation.
-t - May 19, 2017 8:05:39 am PDT #24602 of 28769
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
::Fistbump of Mongol solidarity with M::