I'd go with toys, Jess. I know there are other places, but Exit 9 on Ave A has a ton of funny/kitchy/etc. stuff, much of which I bought last night.
Doesn't winter seem more like archiving season?
Willow ,'Lessons'
Natter 48 Contiguous States of Denial
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Jesse - Dec 14, 2006 8:40:11 am PST #6216 of 10007
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Connie Neil - Dec 14, 2006 8:40:40 am PST #6217 of 10007
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Anyone know much about the very early history of the Bible?
Hunt down the books of Bart Ehrman, author of "Misquoting Jesus" and several books on how the very early scriptures differ between themselves. I have several of them, and he's a very clear writer without an axe to grind other than to point out that the Bible isn't the same "word of God" it was in the early days. He's the chairman of the religious studies department at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill.
aurelia - Dec 14, 2006 8:41:51 am PST #6218 of 10007
All sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story. Tell me a story.
tommyrot, I think they're just being assholes. No logic required.
tommyrot - Dec 14, 2006 8:44:14 am PST #6219 of 10007
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
tommyrot, I think they're just being assholes.
Yeah, but they could at least be assholes in a way that makes sense. Is that too much to ask? Apparantly it is (for an asshole).
It's on the West side of the Metra bridge on Foster (eta: between Damen and Ashland), btw. They have another sign on the East side of the bridge. It's just a straightforward "buy our fur" type sign, and it appears to have been paint-bombed.
Jessica - Dec 14, 2006 8:44:54 am PST #6220 of 10007
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
Exit 9 on Ave A has a ton of funny/kitchy/etc
Cool, maybe I can stop by this weekend. I'd rather do something funny than food-related.
brenda m - Dec 14, 2006 8:46:12 am PST #6221 of 10007
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there
Jesse - Dec 14, 2006 8:46:33 am PST #6222 of 10007
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
For reasons that don't matter at all at this point, we have a shitload of Barbies floating around my office. For no good reason, these Barbies irk me. So we're having a toy drive in the building, and I'm totally giving the Barbies away!! OK, not all of them, but the lame ones for sure.
Jesse - Dec 14, 2006 8:47:13 am PST #6223 of 10007
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Cool, maybe I can stop by this weekend. I'd rather do something funny than food-related.
It's around 4th Street. You live on the F, right? Pretty convenient, then.
Theodosia - Dec 14, 2006 8:50:10 am PST #6224 of 10007
'we all walk this earth feeling we are frauds. The trick is to be grateful and hope the caper doesn't end any time soon"
I have a great and weird fondness for the Abbott & Costello Babes in Toyland which has so many great-to-me bits in it, including the world's smallest barrage-by-blimp, and of course, a disastrous mistake in the size of wooden soldiers, long before Spinal Tap was ordering a Stonehenge replica for their stage show.
Trudy Booth - Dec 14, 2006 8:50:56 am PST #6225 of 10007
Greece's financial crisis threatens to take down all of Western civilization - a civilization they themselves founded. A rather tragic irony - which is something they also invented. - Jon Stewart
Anyone know much about the very early history of the Bible? Is the stuff here pretty much accepted by Bible history scholars?
It doesn't sound that far out. Its commonly accepted that three of the gospels are based on one another and the fourth is not. I don't know if the assertion of contentiousness is widespread but I imagine the view exists in various forms.
And I can't speak off the top of my head, but different officials behaved and were regarded differently in different eras and by different people -- but I don't know how much of that is a "battleground". One guys battleground is another's healthy debate.