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Cass - Jul 13, 2012 7:30:07 pm PDT #13791 of 30001
Bob's learned to live with tragedy, but he knows that this tragedy is one that won't ever leave him or get better.

Me too! I'm like queen of stopping partway through and not finishing. Or reading extremely slowly and reading other stuff in between.

The one interesting thing I read, and I couldn't pull a cite out of my ass, is that nonfiction (and I am recalling but not certain that it was things beyond biographies which sort of have a "life story" feel to them) is more likely to be broken up or not finished and that it was sparking people to think about putting out smaller works (for less monies, I assume) that people would be more likely to finish.

I mean, I love nonfiction like whoa but I know I read it in fits and starts. Something that is shorter and maybe serialized? I am not totally opposed. I have a huge book on evolution and one on scientific breakthroughs that I feel like I need to be able to invest at least four hours at a time to before I'll open them.

Amy - Jul 13, 2012 7:30:19 pm PDT #13792 of 30001
Because books.

Yeah, I was going to read it, too, but maybe not.

dcp - Jul 13, 2012 7:38:20 pm PDT #13793 of 30001
The more I learn, the more I realize how little I know.

Logical fallacies site: [link]

Poster: [link]

shrift - Jul 13, 2012 7:40:34 pm PDT #13794 of 30001
"You can't put a price on the joy of not giving a shit." -Zenkitty

Shrift, your neighborhood has a poster.

FUNNY BECAUSE IT'S TRUE. And I love the poster for the Loop.

§ ita § - Jul 13, 2012 8:04:47 pm PDT #13795 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

Yup, found it, dcp. I think I'm faced with a genetic fallacy, but it won't help to name it. They just think the person they don't like did all the bad things (but only those bad things) because they don't like them, and did this one bad thing.

WAHHH. I can't find my sparkly dragonfly necklace! And I randomly bumped into a thread that called the etsy store I bought it from a fake, so they've been shut down, so it's not even like I can replace it that way. Yes, I do have two other dragonfly necklaces (including the one Kat gave me, which always gets compliments), but I do like all of them...I hope I find it fell behind something. Just--if I didn't find it in last weekend's tidy, I have no idea where it would be.

SuziQ - Jul 13, 2012 8:09:44 pm PDT #13796 of 30001
Back tattoos of the mother is that you are absolutely right - Ame

CJ is home. They didn't find the AK47 and 9mm they were searching for. Apparently some guy, on the 4th, shot at some cops with a shotgun (which they recovered along with the suspect), the AK47 and the 9mm. I'm very surprised I hadn't heard about this on the news.

Tom Scola - Jul 13, 2012 8:12:48 pm PDT #13797 of 30001
hwæt

I'm going to take a stand and declare that AK47s suck.

§ ita § - Jul 13, 2012 8:13:18 pm PDT #13798 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

Fuck you. George Washington said I could have some, so I'm going to have some.

DavidS - Jul 13, 2012 8:15:02 pm PDT #13799 of 30001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."

George Washington said I could have some, so I'm going to have some.

Don't let them take your nunchuks away!

SuziQ - Jul 13, 2012 8:15:21 pm PDT #13800 of 30001
Back tattoos of the mother is that you are absolutely right - Ame

My Google-fu is failing at finding a report of the shooting.

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