Rikibeth @95: I don't now if there is a Penzey's near you (http://www.penzeys.com) but they have veggie soup base, as well as several other kinds. And the most amazing selection of herbs, spices, etc.
Another place to get groceries is Aldi. For me, Trader Joes is a long drive. Aldi is across the street from the YWCA where I swim. The selection is limited, and you need to bring your own bags, but the prices are excellent. And they have really good chocolate because the chain is based in Germany. I rarely eat American chocolate any more.
Mark @15
I seem to be missing a first edition Ben-Hur with a missing line on page 126.
I don't think that line works without a fedora, and a bottle of rye in your pocket.
Constance @190. I would disagree about Joseph Campbell. It's not his fault that Hollywood took his stuff and ran with it, or that he talked to George Lucas, who took him as his guru. His earlier books are, IMHO, reasonably good *popular* works on mythology.
Some of what people are mentioning are works of fiction and OF COURSE should not be taken as fact or used for citation. C'mon, Illuminatus! makes no attempt to be taken seriously; it's meant to be thought-provoking and fun, not a reference work.
God of the Witches, is important because of the reaction it provoked, whether or not the theories presented have much in the way of underpinings. It demonstrates that one should always look at the copyright date and other bibliographic information when evaluating a book.
I have found that blessed salt water and copal incense work pretty well on everything I want to banish except Republicans.
All performers on the stage of "The Security Theater".
Came in after the last round of shoveling snow, ice and other assorted crud and wrote this:
On the fifth anniversary of the Tsunami, and the occasion of a massive snowstorm in the Midwest US.
Some say the world will end in ice,
Some say in snow.
And if we have to pay the price
I favor ways that will be slow.
Atomic fire haunted me
Until the Berlin Wall came down.
Now global warming holds the key;
We freeze or drown
We cannot flee.
I am totally freaked by the particle linking to the announcement that Kirkus is going under. It loomed large in my professional life in libraries for many years. It was always the final authority, because it was considered the least biased. As far as I know, it did not have advertising. Publisher's Weekly, which relies heavily on ads, was the most biased, and one library I worked for would not use their reviews to make purchasing decisions.
This is very worrying as a sign that print media is declining. If we don't have review sources, how can we decide what to buy? I'm talking general, not genre. How does a library or school or other institution decide what to do with their acquisitions budget?
Teresa @29: Does Stephan Zielinski have anything else in the pipeline - I loved Bad Magic.
The MacDonald book goes on the list for Dreamhaven, which I need to visit soon anyway.
Happy Thanksgiving to all who celebrate it today. I am thankful for Making Light, and that I have home, family, and a turkey that seems to be completely thawed. Time to get to cooking.
What Lila @14 said. Never, nohow.
What I may do Friday is go to this. It's almost walking distance.
Some of us in the Twin Cities remember Target when it *was* as local chain.
Another factor in the mammogram recommendations is that it does involve exposure to a dose of radiation, albeit a very small one. I do not recall the exact information, but I read that for every umpteen cancers caught, there was one caused by that radiation. A friend of mine refused to get her first one until she was fifty for that reason. I have heard much debate over the years whether *yearly* m-grams are necessary. Unfortunately, a lot of medical test recommendations are absolute, which can determine whether or not insurance pays for them. They seldom bother to consider individual risk factors, even obvious ones like smoking.
I'm not very scared of cancer, since the only relative who has died from it smoked 3 packs of Camels a day from the age of 14. She died of lung cancer at 78. I'm scared of heart attacks, since I lost a cousin who was 29 or 30 from one, as well as my father and various other relatives. I would like *more* cardiovascular tests and fewer cancer tests, thank-you-very-much.
Thinking healing thoughts towards both Soren and Velma.
Looking through the list, we represent an amazing spectrum of religious beliefs and non-beliefs, and yet we seem to get along pretty well. I wish the rest of the world was more like Making Light.
Dammit, I just ordered a deep freezer from Home Depot because they have free delivery; Sears wanted $65 to deliver, and more to take away the old one.
I rarely go there, because it isn't near my house, but the local hardware store, 4 blocks away, has everything including kitchen sinks - but not large appliances. Made a detour on my way to Convivial (local relaxacon) last weekend to look at freezers. Would have bought it, but the nice middle-aged female clerk said it would be easier for me if I ordered it online, because that's the way to get the free delivery. I'm not invisible to other middle-aged females.
I'm seriously considering canceling my order, but I don't know where to go otherwise. My budget is tight, which is why I want the freezer, to be able to stock up at sales.
Xeger @ #268
If you want music that isn't classical, my two favorites when I'm very down are "Heroin" by Velvet Underground and "Horses" by Patti Smith. I guess they help because they remind me Things Could Be Worse. Also, "Paint It Black" by the Rolling Stones. And for reading, the poems of Baudelaire and Verlaine.
Happy Birthday to Jon, and to Isaac Bonewits, who also turns 60 today.
I agree with DDB and Xopher.
Another point is that many people are in prison because of discriminatory laws. For example, all the people who are behind bars solely because of pot convictions. They have their right to vote taken away, so they cannot vote to change this unjust law. If more than 2% of the population is disenfranchised, that may keep unjust laws on the books. To carry it to its logical (absurd) conclusion, if everyone who smoked pot was imprisoned, they would be no way to legalize it, because the smokers couldn't vote. (Yes, I realize that people who don't smoke can still be in favor of legalization, but I am taking this to an absurdity.)
Bill @58, and others:
I think the cute Goth Chick Xopher is referring to in #56 is a Sandman reference. I don't have a link, but this is a series of graphic novels. Death is a character and is drawn as a petite Goth chick. Totally different from Discworld.
Miriam @676 and anyone else who uses LJ: Live Journal seems to have stopped providing RSS feeds. This is a nuisance, since I haven't set up feeds anywhere else, and I depend on it for, among other things, xkcd.
If I have to set up my own, any ideas for an easy way to do it?
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