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botiasReading Material: The Underground History of American Education: A Schoolteacher's Intimate Investigation Into The Problem of Modern Schooling by John Taylor Gatto
+ asst. children's books and romance novels
This guy sees the world through 3-D glasses or something. He makes me wonder if it's possible to be a little too well read. Perhaps too many great thinkers can damage a body's perspective. I understand the cultural reasons why animals in children's books and animation are not anatomically correct, but am I the only one who finds it a little silly? I suggested to Alan that I write a children's book tentatively entitled: Have You Seen My Anus? The protagonist can go roaming about the barnyard and fields, as so many of these protagonists seem to do, asking all the animals for their help.
We have snow. Lots of snow. It wouldn't have been annoying if it hadn't made the power go out. It gets a little nippy without auxiliary heat from our electric heater. This not having a life thing is getting tiresome. Tomorrow I'll have to see about volunteering down at the hospital and finding some sort of aerobics class before I explode or something. I've gotten quite crabby. Yesterday Orson mentioned that he played D&D and I asked him if his character was a 'warrior with a big ol' sword'. Fortunately he laughed it off.
+ asst. children's books and romance novels
This guy sees the world through 3-D glasses or something. He makes me wonder if it's possible to be a little too well read. Perhaps too many great thinkers can damage a body's perspective. I understand the cultural reasons why animals in children's books and animation are not anatomically correct, but am I the only one who finds it a little silly? I suggested to Alan that I write a children's book tentatively entitled: Have You Seen My Anus? The protagonist can go roaming about the barnyard and fields, as so many of these protagonists seem to do, asking all the animals for their help.
We have snow. Lots of snow. It wouldn't have been annoying if it hadn't made the power go out. It gets a little nippy without auxiliary heat from our electric heater. This not having a life thing is getting tiresome. Tomorrow I'll have to see about volunteering down at the hospital and finding some sort of aerobics class before I explode or something. I've gotten quite crabby. Yesterday Orson mentioned that he played D&D and I asked him if his character was a 'warrior with a big ol' sword'. Fortunately he laughed it off.
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Date: 2001-11-29 06:28 am (UTC)The last D&D character I made up was for a high-level module, so I twinked badly and made a half-orc with six levels of monk and two of - uh - either rouge or rogue, I can't remember which is the thief and which is the color. shrug During the last combat of that game, my character did 68 points of damage in one attack. :) Now that's therapy!
You read romance novels? Hmph. I tried a couple, but veered off with much "bleh"-ing. Are there smart/funny romance novels, or do you read them for mental bubblegum? I re-read Discworld books and Watership Down for bubblegum.
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Date: 2001-11-29 12:02 pm (UTC)Romance is like any other fiction genre, it has its language and its conventions, the bulk of it is crap, and some folk dig it and some don't. I've read romance novels in quantity since my early teens, but I didn't come out of the closet until my early 20's. There are actually smart/funny romance novels (http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0312974256/qid=1007058956/sr=1-5/ref=sr_1_27_5/107-6720735-8462918) as well as Christian (bodices barely ripple), extra-sexy, paranormal, gothic, I-wish-I-was-Jane-Auston, historical, time-travel... I went on a vampire/were-wolf romance kick recently. Anne Rice would just cringe, and that was part of the fun. I like the sparring and the sex and the happy endings. Sometimes I actually like to go *bleh*, the British serials are good for that. Anyway... Yup, mental bubble-gum.