In another thread I mentioned fanac (fan activity), well, my first polac took place when I was 13 -- 1968 -- and actively campaigned for McCarthy. I wonder what would have happened if he'd won.
As to comparative cost of making minimum wage, I can say that the clothes and underclothes I buy made in CONUS (Cotati, CA; Seattle, WA) are about twice the price of roughly similar items made overseas. I think the local items are also better-made, in general.
Double dactyls are more complicated than higgledypiggledys. I looked this up because it's been a while since I thought about them, but I was right. They require a proper noun as the second line in the first stanza, which is what usually tells the difference. Wikipedia has a definition.
P J Evans, a minor quibble: Congresspeople have to maintain a home in the place they represent and the cost of living near DC is pretty high. There are Congressmen who have slept on the floor of their offices so they could afford to keep their family at home.
Carlos, the Chamorro don't fit your example. Guam is primarily a tourist economy these days, and that doesn't compare to the NMI. I was such a brown child --that's my eighth birthday -- that many Chamorro thought I was one of them.
Serendipitiously, we're reading Slan for the book group this month. While all of us read SF, only about half are fans and the others had never heard of slans or read the book, so this will be interesting.
"Fans are slans" comes from the book: a superior human race starts to be born and they have to hide to keep from being killed by the regular homo sap. In the early days of fandom, many fen actually believed that fans were slans, better than the non-fans. These days it's usually used sarcastically.
NelC, I haven't seen that, I just added it to my Netflix queue. The movie I watched Wednesday night was also about witches and one of my all-time favorites: Hocus Pocus. I can quote most of the lines, but I still love watching it.
Shane, hover over sammy b's name in the post header.
My original comment: Drink coffee and lose your civil liberties.
I like rural -- once lived on Blue Mountain a mile horizontal and 600-feet vertical from my nearest neighbor. These days, it's prudent to be less than 15 minutes from a hospital.
I've heard that the comic Frazz is the New Calvin. No Hobbes, but Frazz does seem to have some of Calvin's nuttiness.
I had to tell two store managers to drop their flags to half-staff today. The City and the post office had it right.
We have a holly tree on one side of our stoop (technically, my upstairs neighbor's side) and I like it, but he doesn't. I don't think he dislikes it enough to ask the board to take it out, though.
I never got coal in my stocking, but the Christmas I was seven, I didn't get any presents. Dusting was part of my job and my father (like his mother) would literally test all surfaces for dust. When he realized that I must have seen my unwrapped presents when I stood on a chair to dust the top of their closet doors, he took them back to the PX and any presents from anybody else either went back to them or were given away. I "hunted" for my presents, you see.... It's okay, they were a Barbie and Ken and I probably wouldn't have used them anyway.
Today's WashPost KidsPost has an article and photos of embroidery depicting the story of a Polish Jew who escaped the camps.
Annie Scarborough, SFF author, has a beautiful necklace up for auction for charity.
Can't even make a link properly.
I'll just start out by saying I wear a 38 L bra (separated on the off-chance some guy who wants to buy a used one will miss this) so the Lady Grace bras are not big enough for me and I've never tried on a sports bra that actually supported me.
However, I do buy bras, underpants, and swimsuits from Decent Exposures and they also make pants and skirts and tops and leggings.
I buy clothes from Making It Big and they have a range of pants shapes that cover most large shapes. I wear the Easy Pants in winter and Ecco Pants in summer. I don't buy shirts with cuffs from them because my arms are too long, but they have a fair number of non-cuffed shirts. I can usually tell which tops won't fit by the way they're made. Anything that's the same size front & back will try to crawl up my breasts and over to my back.
The company has changed hands recently and they now carry some non-natural fibers, and items have limited color ranges. I may end up buying undyed items (they're made in Cotati, although some tops are imported from Bali) and dying/having them dyed myself.
Hmph. I posted about VISCO in an open thread quite a while ago!
The local news noted that we had two deck/house fires caused by turkey frying on the decks.
Serge, Archer's Goon would be at the top of my list for that age. Witch's Business says 8 & up, but I think it'd be fine for someone a bit younger.
Lucy, ask Darkhawk, she makes lots of things like that.
Melissa, I'm not a sweets person, so no danger to have pie slices in the freezer. However, there are no chips or fries or anything like that in the house.
I know exactly where each cat goes when they hear the vacuum. I seem to have a better sense of my stuff than most people.
Serge, how about Diana Wynne Jones books?
Melissa, after another night up pulling muscles by coughing, I gave in and got some guainefesen. As long as I was at the Giant, I got this week's groceries, too, and wandered down the frozen sweet goods aisle. There were four types of Marie Callender (right spelling, by the way, I think people are corrupted by calendar) pies -- Apple, Dutch Apple, Razzleberry, and Chocolate Satin. I briefly considered buying one, but it would likely start growing stuff before I finished it.
I buy the Mrs. Smith's pie slices (as long as Edwards puts the fish and bible verses on their packages, they don't get my money).
I used to get the MC pot pies, but Pepperidge Farm came out with frozen pot pies and I like those better.
| Year | Number of comments posted |
|---|---|
| 2005 | 352 |
| 2004 | 300 |
Total: 652 comments. View all these comments on a single page. (May take some time to load.)
The most recent 20 comments posted to Making Light by Marilee:
Show all comments by Marilee.