More reviews up!

Once Written is back from the dead and has posted all three of my reviews, giving Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell a front-page link. The other two are The Frog Prince and To Love a Thief.


Side note not worth making into a separate post:
Y'know what I want more than 100 icons w/my permanent account? The ability to have 100 links. I'm using up my alloted links a lot faster than I use up my icons.

Another side not not worth makinginto a separate post:
The Aiken boy (the one from A Series of Unfortunate Events, not the one from American Idol) is darned cute. I can hardly wait until he grows up enough for me to lust after him without creeping myself out.

A Declaration of Defiance

After having spent hours in the stores finding that none of the cute shoes fit and paying triple digits for shoes that do fit but don't particularly flatter, I have Officially Had Enough.

I hereby declare my intention to learn how to make my own shoes. Not just sandals, but my own work flats and, if I can find a place, rennie moccasins as well. I thought there was a place called Rocky Mountain that had a class in making leather boots a la Catskill Moccasins, but I'm having the dickens finding it. faireraven? You know who I'm talking about.

Since I had much the same experience in foundational garments as well, I'm probably going to be learning to make my own bras at the same time.

Were You There?

Swiped from acroyear70, Ten Questions to Ask Your History Teacher

This is a direct parody of the 10 Questions Discovery Institute wants to be asked of biology teachers, presumaby from students who are in school to convert rather than learn. The wonderful thing is, of course, when you take the exact same question out of something people don't really understand (biology) and put it into something they more or less do (American history) suddenly the stupid shouts out loud and clear.

Why do textbooks use drawings or “artist’s conceptions” of “George Washington” as evidence that he existed? Why does no single history textbook anywhere point out that there are no photographs - zero! - of “George Washington” in existence? Why are we told that the American Revolution is an historical fact — even though many Revolutionary claims are based on misrepresentations of the facts?