The entry is here. At the time, I mentioned Pancakes for Supper , which I hadn't yet read. As I recall, I noted that the protagonist in *this* version is a blonde-haired white girl, and... to tell you the truth, I'm quite uncomfortable with the concept of erasing racism by erasing race (and yes, erasing race *does* mean everybody looks like me but with still more blond, how could you tell?)...
From time-traveling cannibal mermaids, to... Surprisingly enough, I'm acctually a little frustrated that this mini-essay is so mini. There's so much I want to talk about that I don't have room for. It's like... AcademicTwitter. But at least the word restraint let's me get away with not having to think out the organization much.
... and suppressed the ones that made no sense to me. (I also tookSpanish and Japanese. I really liked the ease of construction of sentences in Japanese.)" lovecraftienne commented [seconded by conuly and lisamoe ]: "I would like to gently suggest (from the POV of a linguist who is quite firmly in the descriptivist camp, rather than that of the prescriptivists) that it's ...
... girlattached the wings, they became real, and she was able to fly. After time passes with her using the wings, she starts to become bird-like. She hides her wings under coats and vests. There's also a part where she's flying through the woods and keeps banging into trees and cutting her hands up badly. Anyone? FOUND. It's Mail-Order Wings, by Beatrice Gormley . Thank you conuly !
Which is great. I didn't get any myself because a combination of sweat and carelessly touching their faces made the pretty faces a bit of a mess by the time I got near a camera again. And she remembered me from LAST year too, she sent me a very nice note in the email with the pictures. I thought I'd done this the year before as well, but I wasn't sure - you know me and faces. But I recognized ...
Maybe it's this whole being without my husband until god knows when making me bitchy or maybe it's just the fact that this comment from Conuly made me spit take and yell FUCK YOU. This could be fail who knows. http://community.livejournal.com/parenting101/4397221.html?thread=102572197#t102572197 Sometimes when she talks I want to beat her face in with my keyboard, but then again I was wanting ...
conuly wrote an entry about pingbacks , on the occasion of the fact that now pingbacks are available to all LiveJournal users, not just paid and permanent users.
She linked to a post of azurelunatic 's (which talked, among other things, about when you should or should not enable pingbacks, in her opinion) but disagreed with the main reason to enable pingbacks -- according ...
