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[04 Sep 2003|10:38am] |
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Jesus Christ Superstar, in head. o_O |
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HAPPY BIRTHDAY JESS!
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[29 Aug 2003|09:09am] |
Oh, shoot me now.
( I am NOT. )
Hmph.
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| Quizzle redux |
[27 Aug 2003|02:15pm] |
( my AIM profile )
Pretty much, yeah.
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[22 Aug 2003|11:34am] |
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I love Sims fansites. Looka here! It suggests such gems as "Licole", "Jaynity", and "Jualine". <3 <3
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[06 Aug 2003|08:37am] |
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Wow, I've been neglecting this thing.
I don't put a lot of stock in this, but it's bloody fascinating anyway.
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[10 Jul 2003|07:13pm] |
"Omigod, Annie. Food is not the answer. It will not fill the void inside you. Going out and pilfering other people's stuff will!"
My sister's simulated Anne Bonny is in a restaurant and refusing to answer her boarding call, you see. I love my sister.
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[04 Jul 2003|02:32pm] |
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Found on a Livejournal post:
Long tome member, first time poster!
*hefts her own beloved long tome thoughtfully*
I think Long Tome Reader is my new epithet.
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| Pretties! |
[02 Jul 2003|08:41pm] |
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I have found the most adorable dollmakers. Now, if I'm actually making a doll I prefer to do them from scratch, but dollmakers are so much fun to play with, and these are gorgeous.
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[26 Jun 2003|07:27pm] |
It is HOT and Livejournal won't WORK and petra is LEAVING for a WEEK or more and I have nothing to READ and I have WRITER'S block.
*snivel*
Hmph.
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[22 Jun 2003|05:29pm] |
Heh.
( gratuitous automated analysis )
I got spam addressed from "Jeffrey Dutton" today. God help us all. [No, you're not supposed to get that, unless you're  mookie...]
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[19 Jun 2003|02:36pm] |
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Hmm. This doesn't seem to take into account the fact that The Giver has, in fact, quite a following among its target audience, if ff.net is anything to judge by. Be interesting to poll those 101 kids and see what they have to say about it.
I agree that the book is pretty heavy-handed with its Issues and its Point, but the thing is, kids in search of a good story don't pick up on that kind of thing. Don't believe me? Ask the hordes of people who claim they felt betrayed when they worked out that Narnia was loaded down with Christian symbolism. At ten, a lot of that stuff goes over your head, unless you're a hell of a lot more aware and critical than most of us.
"And then librarians and children's lit teachers complain because the kids ignore all the Worthwhile hardcovers in favor of reading Mercedes Lackey in paperback."
Well, you know, some kids dislike the Worthwhile books they get assigned because they're assigned, exhibit A: Manon and Johnny Tremain. If nobody'd forced that thing down my throat I would have enjoyed it without reservation, literary merit or no. And some people are always going to prefer the latest Lackey, just as some people are always going to read Pulsating Purple Passion rather than Jane Austen, because they like books that challenge them as little as possible.
The kids with imagination are going to get what they get out of The Giver and anything else they can get their grubby paws on. The kids without -- aren't going to be any more enlightened if fed more "adventurous" books. Let's give the kids a little credit for a) taste and b) initiative, can we? They're going to find what they want, whether that's a story with a Message or one that's pure fluff.
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[13 Jun 2003|10:32pm] |
( dead sexy )
I think I need to lay off the quizzles. And, FSCK, I still have to call dryad *hits self*
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