I have enough "coffee-table books" to build a coffee table from... Honestly. ...which is probably too many. But they're so pretty! Some of the topics: Trees. Elephants. Indian Architecture. Pin-up art. Surrealism. Art Nouveau. Art Deco. Kurt Cobain's Journals. East Asian Art. History of the American West. Samurai garb. Mars. M. C. Escher. Norman Rockwell. N. C. Wyeth. Leonardo DaVinci...
We're going to have to get more bookcases for this apartment...
There's been a glitch in my Annie Oakley research. Despite the Studebaker/Studabaker family having outright claimed that she worked for them, it seems that at least one point during the span that she said she was under the rule of "The Wolves", she was staying with a completely other family. Ordinarily, this data might be discarded, but it also fits the profile...
I was originally so certain that it was the Studabaker family because their own family records, the presumable family structure, and at least one point of conjecture (from a reliable, highly regarded and well-studied source) seemed to support it. But now, I've got the most clear and firm evidence that she was staying with this other family, who, as it turns out, had a nearly identical family structure to what I'd originally presumed about the Studabakers -- complete with relatively newborn male heir (who Annie would have been originally "hired" to look after).
Above all, I want to be accurate... I don't want to mark the wrong family as her abusers or the descendants thereof... ...a nice little side benefit if the new candidate family are "The Wolves", however, is the possibility that they have no modern direct descendants -- which means no one to sue me for whatever if my research does lead to publication of some sort. The modern Studabakers/Studebakers, on the other hand, are many -- there's bound to be a litigious one in the bunch...
I'm discovering the wonders of cable. I'm going to have to get on Skype now that I have a fast enough connection for it.
Friggin' periodical addiction... I used to keep a file of articles that I'd cut out of assorted science magazines for concepts to be used in stories I was working on... Damned if that red binder didn't disappear on me. That, in combination with "THE" hard drive crash that erased years of work, pretty much stymied my writing... But I've still got most of the mags from which they were cut -- so now, once I've reassembled my belongings in the new apartment, I begin the arduous task of sifting through them to find what articles have been cut out, and reassemble my little library from online resources.
I wanna catch "The Princess and The Frog" this weekend, if I can... I long lamented when Disney rid themselves of the Florida branch of their traditional animation studios... Some of the folks there tried to reform as "Legacy Animation" but I think they only squeezed out an animated short before they went their separate ways... I always thought Disney was missing the point -- it's not about the type of animation. It's about storytelling. That's why Pixar's been a success -- not the type of animation, but the fact that they tell great stories well. Disney went a little retro with "Lilo and Stitch", using watercolor backgrounds for the first time since... ..."Lady and The Tramp"? I think... But management never learned it's not the medium, but the message that matters...
I like dogs. I do. But one mean so-and-so is being let out of his master's home to roam around near my old apartment... A rather unfriendly German Shepherd mix... I was coming out to my car last night to move some stuff to my new apartment, and 'round the corner he comes, all barking and snarling... I barked at him to get back, but he wasn't having that... I tried to slowly back away to my car, but he started advancing, and I knew what he was thinking, so I charged him, shouting threateningly. That apparently surprised the shit out of him. Not everyday he has some hairy bipedal beast who actually looks like he wants to get in a tangle with him...
He kept his distance then 'til I was nearly in my car, then his master called him. Son of a bitch.
Literally.
I think I've got some good books for my nephew for Christmas... He's reading now -- read a book to me before he went to bed, last time I was up... He's five now, so I bought him a few classic Seuss books for the young rebel: "The Lorax" (environmental activism), "The Butter Battle Book" (Seuss' Cold War-era anti-war piece, once banned in some places), and "The Sneetches" (anti-elitism, and questioning the value of capitalism).
Other than that, I have no idea what to get anyone for Christmas...
We're going to have to get more bookcases for this apartment...
There's been a glitch in my Annie Oakley research. Despite the Studebaker/Studabaker family having outright claimed that she worked for them, it seems that at least one point during the span that she said she was under the rule of "The Wolves", she was staying with a completely other family. Ordinarily, this data might be discarded, but it also fits the profile...
I was originally so certain that it was the Studabaker family because their own family records, the presumable family structure, and at least one point of conjecture (from a reliable, highly regarded and well-studied source) seemed to support it. But now, I've got the most clear and firm evidence that she was staying with this other family, who, as it turns out, had a nearly identical family structure to what I'd originally presumed about the Studabakers -- complete with relatively newborn male heir (who Annie would have been originally "hired" to look after).
Above all, I want to be accurate... I don't want to mark the wrong family as her abusers or the descendants thereof... ...a nice little side benefit if the new candidate family are "The Wolves", however, is the possibility that they have no modern direct descendants -- which means no one to sue me for whatever if my research does lead to publication of some sort. The modern Studabakers/Studebakers, on the other hand, are many -- there's bound to be a litigious one in the bunch...
I'm discovering the wonders of cable. I'm going to have to get on Skype now that I have a fast enough connection for it.
Friggin' periodical addiction... I used to keep a file of articles that I'd cut out of assorted science magazines for concepts to be used in stories I was working on... Damned if that red binder didn't disappear on me. That, in combination with "THE" hard drive crash that erased years of work, pretty much stymied my writing... But I've still got most of the mags from which they were cut -- so now, once I've reassembled my belongings in the new apartment, I begin the arduous task of sifting through them to find what articles have been cut out, and reassemble my little library from online resources.
I wanna catch "The Princess and The Frog" this weekend, if I can... I long lamented when Disney rid themselves of the Florida branch of their traditional animation studios... Some of the folks there tried to reform as "Legacy Animation" but I think they only squeezed out an animated short before they went their separate ways... I always thought Disney was missing the point -- it's not about the type of animation. It's about storytelling. That's why Pixar's been a success -- not the type of animation, but the fact that they tell great stories well. Disney went a little retro with "Lilo and Stitch", using watercolor backgrounds for the first time since... ..."Lady and The Tramp"? I think... But management never learned it's not the medium, but the message that matters...
I like dogs. I do. But one mean so-and-so is being let out of his master's home to roam around near my old apartment... A rather unfriendly German Shepherd mix... I was coming out to my car last night to move some stuff to my new apartment, and 'round the corner he comes, all barking and snarling... I barked at him to get back, but he wasn't having that... I tried to slowly back away to my car, but he started advancing, and I knew what he was thinking, so I charged him, shouting threateningly. That apparently surprised the shit out of him. Not everyday he has some hairy bipedal beast who actually looks like he wants to get in a tangle with him...
He kept his distance then 'til I was nearly in my car, then his master called him. Son of a bitch.
Literally.
I think I've got some good books for my nephew for Christmas... He's reading now -- read a book to me before he went to bed, last time I was up... He's five now, so I bought him a few classic Seuss books for the young rebel: "The Lorax" (environmental activism), "The Butter Battle Book" (Seuss' Cold War-era anti-war piece, once banned in some places), and "The Sneetches" (anti-elitism, and questioning the value of capitalism).
Other than that, I have no idea what to get anyone for Christmas...
