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clindell
18 yrs ago
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There's a new board game out called Booktastic! that's all about authors and literature. Has anyone played it? It sounds like fun: http://www.booktasticgame.com
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clindell
19 yrs ago
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http://www.strengthenthegood.com/archives/2004/11/strengthening_t_2.html
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What dish shows up every Thanksgiving that you simply will not eat!
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Re: What dish shows up every Thanksgiving that you simply will not eat!
clindell
19 yrs ago
My sister and I are the sole planners and cooks at Thanksgiving dinner now, so we never make anything icky!
clindell
19 yrs ago
You can write your initial article as the "about me" and first few blog posts. Then just use daily (weekly?) blog entries to describe your BookCrossing activities: releases, catches, Meetups, etc.
You'll probably re…
clindell
19 yrs ago
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Found at boingboing.net:
The Book Thing is a Baltimore charity that gives away thousands and thousands of books. The basement they operate out of has been sold and they may lose their lease, and they need new space. A…
clindell
19 yrs ago
Mine are 17, 15, 14 and 12 - all healthy and sassy.
clindell
20 yrs ago
The most famous person I've ever seen in public (but not met), was Will Smith. I spotted him coming out of a hotel in Las Vegas a number of years ago.
The most famous person I've actually met is Weird Al Yankovic. T…
clindell
20 yrs ago
I wasn't thinking of it from those standpoints.
clindell
20 yrs ago
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I just found something that reminded me of all our discussions of "favorite things" that tend to come up. At http://www.jockeycomfort.com, they ask you to write about your experiences of "comfort" and then they post the…
clindell
20 yrs ago
...I meant send "in".
clindell
20 yrs ago
Lord of the Rings
Gone With the Wind
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy series
The shortness of this list is what helped me embrace BookCrossing. I let a lot of my other books go when I realized I was unlikely to…
clindell
20 yrs ago
I have only one sister. My sister has one child and I have none, so you can see our line is rapidly dwindling!
One of my father's sisters has seven daughters. My dad was the last kid in his family of 5 children to…
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What would you take a visitor to see in your local museum?
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We have a fun, permanent exhibit *outside* our museum
clindell
20 yrs ago
http://www.nelson-atkins.org/
The giant "Shuttlecocks" sculptures by Claes Oldenburg and Coosje van Bruggen are a real attention-getter, even if you don't go inside. The Nelson has a lot of other great exhibits, too.…
clindell
20 yrs ago
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I LOVED Marathon bars! Sadly, they're gone forever (and I notice that Snickers has recently co-opted the name to use for some "sports bar" they've developed).
clindell
20 yrs ago
I got a scary photo of a male realtor that looks to have been taken in 1978. Also some random clip art from an elementary school and a couple of books from my bookshelf. Oh, and two navigation buttons from some website…
clindell
20 yrs ago
They have the baby-T in blue? I'll have to look into that. Mine is white.
clindell
20 yrs ago
and it reminded me that I have also seen Queensryche and Skid Row at least twice each. I also recall a summer or two when Warrant, Cinderella and/or Poison seemed to be the opening acts for nearly ever concert I saw.
clindell
20 yrs ago
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I have a bunch of my old concert ticket stubs from the 1980s in two frames, so I can definitely see some patterns:
Rush - at least 4 times, probably more
Yes - I'd guess I've seen them 5 or more times
Judas Priest - a…
clindell
20 yrs ago
It almost makes me sorry I've already had my turn in the bookring. :)
clindell
20 yrs ago
...and it gave me time to hang out with the hubby*, bake some cookies, cook two meals (which is a VERY uncommon occurrance at our house!), and even get some billable hours in, thanks to the miracle of high-speed Internet…
clindell
20 yrs ago
Here's a link to the Telegraph article (which is pretty much exactly the same):
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2004/01/24/ndrag24.xml
It has the feel of a legitimate newspaper (and the site makes …
clindell
20 yrs ago
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Why is it that only the Kansans think this is cool and everyone else thinks it's sad? It's not real, you know! (Okay, that's the native Missourian in me.)
But it IS very cool (and a spectacular piece of artistic ach…
clindell
20 yrs ago
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http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2004/01/28/1075088090949.html?from=top5
This is a fascinating little item. I'm going to have to make a point of following the story to see what happens next.
clindell
20 yrs ago
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I always feel conflicted on this subject because I'm all over the map when it comes to "age cues." In some ways, my lifestyle and outlook are that of someone in her mid-20s, even though I've turned the corner past mid-3…
clindell
20 yrs ago
My husband has never legally changed his name, yet he adopted a stage name years ago while playing in bands, and nearly everyone calls him by the stage name (and it's even on his business cards, although his paychecks ar…
