Serge@36 -- Oh, Superman, definitely. I would much rather raise my someday-kids to be buddhas than paranoids. But I think I'm probably a lot less cynical now than I was as a child.
R.M Koske@37 -- good point. It can definitely be fun to watch the crazy...but troublesome to watch people hold it up as heroics, too.
KeithS@33--I always thought that Batman was a crazy man. I didn't dislike him as much as Superman, growing up (Superman just seemed so naive to me, even as a nine-year-old) but I've met a person or two in real life who viewed the world the same way that the character does. I love one or two of them, but that doesn't stop them from being really creepy sometimes.
And apropos of nothing--
My favourite piece of poetry today.
Hearing the phrase "At kendo, the other day..."
#3 -- Seconding that. What a fantastic series.
I'm something like synaesthetic--smells to me are not what they probably are to you. People all have distinctive odors, when I get to know them(one of my kendo senpai smells like a deep pine forest, for instance, my mother smells like dandelions and gun oil) and so do certain situations (dangerous times always stink of gunpowder). People I've been intimate with all take on a slight scent of warm, fresh-sanded wood along with their other smells.
I get all the normal smells, too, there's just this stuff on top of it. My world is full of scent, all of the time. Poetry, and music, and emotion all have scents attached. Until this year--and I'm going to be 26 on Friday!--I thought that this was *normal.*
My favourite smell, though, would have to be petrichor--the smell of the desert after the rain. Beautiful.
#35 Does anyone have any idea what sort of beastie this is?
It's a moneyspider! I loved those little guys, when I lived in England. They're supposed to bring good fortune if you're sensible enough to not smash them.
As for what it *actually* is...can't help you, I'm afraid.
Oh, dear.
You know--the very first thing I ever, ever wrote, a terrible Mary Sue fantasy novel about a girl who looked *just like me* who was saved from her abusive father by a blacksmith-mage and his twin(redheaded!)students, and who eventually ended up with (unwanted) immortality and an elvish boyfriend(okay, okay, I was thirteen!)had a character named Alaric in it. The aforementioned blacksmith-mage, actually. I liked him a lot.
Still do...had actually been considering reviving him in some new, less embarrassing fashion. Maybe not?
Oh! I read Fleep a long time ago, and forgot what it was called--occasionally I remembered it vaguely, wondered where it was. Thanks!
Julia, at 88
DVDs?
What, really?
I've been making do with the library's(and now my partner in crime's mother's)VHS tapes all this time, and there are DVDs?
Must have!
#35
Aw, heck. I'm not 25 yet, and I love Blake's 7.
(Servalan makes me a happy girl!
Steve, at #2--
It's fairly common practice to rip off the booksellers, really. When I first started working for BN, there was a woman who'd incessantly order in copies of her nephew's appalling PoD book, and then never pick them up--meaning that we had to shelve them, as they're nonreturnable.
(And then she'd come in and get very angry when she saw they were remaindered with a dollar sticker on them...)
Wow, those are fun.
Minor spelling niggle, though--It's Amano, not Amato. He's an impressive fellow.
Serge, just above:
The Large Chain Bookstore I work at is run by someone who can't stand That Woman, so our Coulter endcap was amusing. On one half of it was Godless, on the other half was Ageless, Suzanne Somers' latest diet book.
Xopher, at 123:
I didn't know there was anyone else whose head worked like that.
Yes. Instantly. That's a bit surprising, really.
Did you know that faith is a uniquely Christian concept?
Oh dear oh dear.
Huh. Evidently I'm male. That'll surprise Mom a little. I mean, what with all the taffeta...
I do a lot of male-oriented activities, grew up a definite tomboy if you discount mode of dress, but I didn't figure I wrote like a man.
"Can you see this? I'm doing it as hard as I can!"
What a ridiculous situation. Doubtless the creators of ATF are laughing and laughing, though--what publicity!
(Wanna bet it makes it into a future episode? I mean, given the episode on censorship and The J-Man...
"Can't say Jesus on network television, Meatwad!")
My initial reaction--maybe they thought that was a surer way to piss her off?
And to Chris @#15 :
Nice. Isn't it just so much fun when people prove stereotypes?
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