I have a certain sympathy for the Boston authorities. I distinctly remember the full-page headline on the Seattle Times: "Schell: I am not a wimp" when he cancelled the 2000 NYE celebrations. Almost two years later, after 9/11 (and after he'd been booted from office), the federal government admitted that there *had* been a plot against the celebrations, and they'd made him aware of it.
(I always thought of that incident as what lost him the election, but looking at his Wikipedia entry - wow, that was a disastrous term.)
"Or, give up, and do what my dad did every year: wrap everything in tin foil. I miss him so."
Somewhere I found some "florist foil" a few years ago. It's red on one side, silver on the other, with a pretty texture. Tape adheres to it, but it will also help hold itself in place (once it's bent, it's bent, and the texture keeps "unbends" from being visible). You can wrap some packages in red, some in silver, fold back bits for contrast... I adore this stuff.
"I've noticed that in science-fiction novels of serious intent written by men, women's breasts are frequently specifically described as being small, even if the women don't get much physical description otherwise."
This is true. However, once I was deeply weirded out by one SF novel in which the heroine was specifically described as having *huge* breasts... and the cover art had her with *tiny* breasts.
This went against everything I've ever known about SF cover art.
(Larissa, by Emily Davenport. Amazon has a decent cover shot.)
Waterboarding = strapping a prisoner to a board and holding him underwater until he thinks he's going to drown.
Not a joke, sadly, but accepted interrogation practice now.
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