The video is hard to watch. As long as it went on, I'm surprised that the crowd didn't turn on the cops.
My parents seem like the Cleavers, so it's hard for me to imagine the "crazy young kids" they must have been to name me after Guy Fawkes. (That's my actual first and middle name up there, and my last is something like 'Fawkes' with a single phoneme change.)
The family legend is that we trace our line back to the Guy, but the older I get the less I believe it. I looked it up as part of a history project in high school once and I think I discovered that he'd only had daughters.
It was a good way to get me interested in history, though.
"If Susan Cooper had been smart, she'd have only put the naughty bits on the odd-numbered pages."
I'm trying hard not to imagine a naughty bits version of The Dark Is Rising now. Something else rising... -- must resist train of thought!
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Nancy C :: Allegedly, Del Close donated his skull to the Goodman Theatre "for use in Hamlet productions on the condition that he should receive credit in the program as Yorick." The Chicago Tribune looked into it two months ago and determined that the skull was mostly likely not Close's.
I don't understand how someone votes to allow torture with a straight face, much less a guiltless conscience. Inconceivable.
I have laughed so hard at this and am smiling so widely now. Thank you.
As I mentioned I would previously, I went around and bought up all of Mike's books that I can find locally in order to give them away this Friday. I'm hoping to find a few more in D.C. on my way to the reading.
I'm also working on a pair of bookmarks to include in the books. If anyone sees an errors or faux pas, please let me know; I'll print them out and slice them up tomorrow morning if/when I find a decent weight paper that doesn't kill the laser printer at work.
I've been getting emails from readers outside the U.S. wanting to know if I could find them this title or that, so apparently there's a desire if anyone else wants to scour their local shops and offer them up. A few people have already contacted me and are doing just that.
Thank you for collecting those, Jim. I look forward to Part Two.
I've called around to all of the local used book stores. After work today I'm going to buy every John M. Ford book I can lay hands on, then give them away to the crowd before the Neil Gaiman reading in D.C. this Friday.
It's the least lame thing I've come up with so far in the way of honoring Mike's memory.
Unless removing all of Mike's books "from the wild" and diverting them to a sub-population the exact wrong thing to do. I hope not.
I only got to meet him once, and it was wonderful. I love his work and I loved reading his posts here. This is a huge loss.
From LiveJornal user "rhiannonstone":
First they came for the knitting needles, and I didn't speak up
Because I wasn't much of a knitter
Then they came for the shoes, and I didn't speak up
Because I wear sandals
Then they came for the lighters, and I didn't speak up
Because I don't smoke
Then they came for my Dr Pepper
And now it's on, motherfuckers!
iRobot released an API for the Roomba, so it is now possible to make it whistle songs while it cleans. I'm working on getting mine to sing "Happy Workers" from Toys.
Doesn't even require googling yourself in this age of trackbacks. (They don't sound like the sort who would know how to check their referrer log manually.)
I have several friends who work for the Patent Office, and therefore have no doubt that it is collectively as uninformed and blundering as we all imagine. The system rewards them for approving patents quickly, not carefully.
Peppermint neutralizes the smell of death and bodily decay.
When you do your apartment hunting by the obituaries you come across strongly peppermint-scented doorways from time to time where realtors have over-done it.
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