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Everything Else / The Arts/FHE Help
« on: November 07, 2004, 11:38:49 PM »
(Apologies to anyone who has no clue what I'm talking about. Mormon-ness follows.)

My friend Daryl and I are giving the lesson for tomorrow night's FHE, on The Arts (with capitals). Daryl is a graphic artist. The FHE leaders have been very vague on what we're supposed to be doing as far as the lesson goes, but for my part of the activity, we're going to create a picture book using the same method we used in my picture book class, which is a lot of fun. Using a common folk tale (in this case, Little Red Riding Hood) as our text, we're going to illustrate scenes using construction paper cut into the most basic shapes. It works really well as a way to understand picture principles in many illustrations, not just picture books.

Okay, so the activity is going to be a lot of fun. But it's the lesson I'm having trouble with. Daryl said he'd be talking about graphic design, and that he'd let me go first (yay). In talking with the FHE leader, I had a few ideas, but they pretty much had to do with my photography, and my activity is picture books, so I was thinking that perhaps it would be better if I spoke on the book end of things.

Any ideas? My original idea was to talk about a couple of pictures that I've taken of my nephew at about Sunbeam age, how seeing those pictures makes me think of the Savior because of the associations in my mind with "Jesus Wants Me for a Sunbeam," and the sun on my nephew's golden hair, etc.

Good stories convey universal truth, I think. Is there a way of tying this in to a gospel principle? Any feelings you guys have about the stories you read (any age level) that brings this closer to home? I've got some ideas, but not so clearly articulated as the photography idea, and this is tomorrow night.

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Books / Literary terms, anyone?
« on: November 03, 2004, 10:44:23 PM »
There's this term that's at the tip of my tongue, but I can't think of it. I need the word ASAP (for a paper due tomorrow).

I'm reading Robert Louis Stevenson's A Child's Garden of Verses and in it, he's got about 5 or 6 poems directed at a particular person or two. One is the dedication, to his nurse, but the rest are at the end in a section titled "Envoys," which isn't exactly a precise term. The word I keep thinking of is "epigraph," but that's not right, either.

Poem titles include "To My Mother," "To My Name-Child," "To Willie and Henrietta," and "To Any Reader."

Any idea?

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Books / Elizabeth Gaskell/Recommendation follow-up
« on: November 01, 2004, 11:02:26 PM »
To those with whom I was talking Saturday night about Elizabeth Gaskell (Wives and Daughters): I have no idea where I heard her name before, but it wasn't from the book I thought it was. But I would recommend the book if you want to see early fantasy and fairy tales by Victorian women writers. It's called Forbidden Journeys: Fairy Tales and Fantasies by Victorian Women Writers, edited by Nina Auerbach and U.C. Knoepflmacher (try spelling that one without looking). Authors include Anne Thackeray Ritchie, Maria Louisa Molesworth, Juliana Horatia Ewing, Christina Rossetti, Frances Hodgson Burnett, E. Nesbit, and Jean Ingelow. Some good stories, at once subversive and submissive to the role of a Victorian woman.

Also, Kije, I forgot to make sure your wife had my email address so I could recommend specific things for her. Can you pass along the email below, or let me know what she needs?


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Everything Else / The curse is broken
« on: October 28, 2004, 12:43:41 AM »
Red Sox just won the World Series. Not that I really am a fan, but it's been fun to live in the World Series winner's city.

Live pictures at Kenmore Square include cops in riot gear. Baseball fans in Boston are a little crazy. A girl died last week after falling from the Green Monster. After she climbed the Green Monster.

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Movies and TV / Movies based on P.K. Dick stories
« on: October 21, 2004, 01:01:38 AM »
I know we've talked about this somewhere, but I'm too lazy to look it up. Something made me think about this tonight, and now I want to make a list, because there are so many, and because I've got a book of short stories by P.K. Dick in which I only recognize two stories that have been made into movies, so I'm thinking there must be more, and I'm missing it.

So, the stories in my collection are:

Autofac
Service Call
Captive Market
The Mold of Yancy
The Minority Report
Recall Mechanism
The Unreconstructed M
Explorers We
War Game
If There Were No Benny Cemoli
Novelty Act
Waterspider
What the Dead Men Say
Orpheus with Clay Feet
Stand-By
What'll We Do with Ragland Park?
Oh, to Be a Blobel!

(He's got a lot of great titles, huh?)

So, here's my list:

"The Minority Report" = Minority Report (duh)
"Recall Mechanism" = Total Recall (?) --or is it from "We Can Remember It for You Wholesale"?

And then add to it movies I know of that aren't in this collection or that I can't match up:

Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? = Blade Runner
? = Imposter (?--this *was* a P.K. Dick story, right?)
"Paycheck" (?) = Paycheck

Is it just these five? What else is there?

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Rants and Stuff / I miss MoD
« on: October 20, 2004, 04:50:16 PM »
We need her to come back and light someone on fire. Doesn't matter who, as long as it's not me.


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Books / Here's one for you, SE
« on: October 20, 2004, 01:13:02 PM »
I just came home yesterday with a free copy of The Saint of Dragons by Jason Hightman. I just thought that was rather SE-appropriate.

Haven't really looked at it yet, but if you want me to mail it to you, let me know. It's an advance reader copy, so paperback and probably not completely tweaked, but good enough for a review if you want it.

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Suggestions Box / Bio blurbs on reviews
« on: October 19, 2004, 09:52:28 PM »
I've added a bio blurb at the end of my just-submitted review, patterned after EUOL's. We had a class on reviewing in my publishing class yesterday and the guest reviewer and my teacher (a former reviewer and editor at the Horn Book) said that reviews are one of the best ways to get your name out there, even if the reviews are only occasional. I suggest that we have a bio blurb at the bottom of every review. Here's what I put for mine (since my reviews only occur occasionally, I didn't put anything about when to look for them):

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Stacer, aka Stacy Whitman, is a graduate student at the Center for the Study of Children's Literature at Simmons College in Boston, MA. A former editor for Houghton Mifflin Co., she currently interns at the Horn Book Magazine and Guide. She can be reached at norroway @ gmail.com.


Such bio information is standard fare on any such site, and it seems to me that we really ought to put a face, so to speak, to our reviewers. It lends a bit more legitimacy to the review, even if (as we've discussed before) we're not really looking to do much with the site. Depending on the subject, bios could reflect whatever the relevant background of the reviewer is.

What do you guys think? At any rate, I'd like to have my bio info on anything I've reviewed.

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Movies and TV / Journal of a COBRA recruit
« on: October 19, 2004, 08:49:00 AM »
Have you guys seen this?

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Books / History or historical fiction?
« on: October 12, 2004, 06:18:47 PM »
Interesting article, especially in the case she makes that we shouldn't fictionalize history--that truth is much more interesting:

http://www.common-place.org/vol-05/no-01/author/

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Movies and TV / Superman dies
« on: October 11, 2004, 02:59:02 AM »
Christopher Reeve has passed away.

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,135003,00.html

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Books / Mobster writes children's book
« on: October 06, 2004, 04:11:47 PM »
So... many of you have heard about the trend in children's lit for a celebrity to announce that there's nothing good in children's books, so they've decided to write their own (crappy) book.

Well, now John Gotti has gotten into the scene:

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/gossip/story/237506p-203873c.html

I know, I know, it's the NYTimes, which requires a subscription. So here's an excerpt:

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John A. (Junior) Gotti has been called many things: a thug, the Junior Don, boss of his late father's crime family. But he's trying on a new one - children's book author.

In an attempt to get out of prison on bail, the son of the Dapper Don mentions performing several works of charity, including writing a book, "The Children of Shaolin Forest," to raise money for neglected kids.

The pumped-up Gotti says in court papers he was inspired to put down the barbells and pick up a pen last year after he learned of the horrific plight of the Jackson children of New Jersey.

At age 19, Bruce Jackson weighed only 45 pounds and stood just 4 feet tall when he was found rooting through garbage in Collingswood last October. Three siblings, ages 9, 10 and 14, weighed a total of 90 pounds when they were found.

Their adoptive parents, Raymond and Vanessa Jackson, were charged with multiple counts of aggravated assault and child neglect. Their case is pending.

Gotti's lawyers, Jeffrey Lichtman and Mark Fernich, described their client's reaction when he learned about the boys while serving time in federal prison in upstate Ray Brook.

"Their plight moved him to write a children's story, 'The Children of Shaolin Forest,' whose proceeds will fund the boys' care and education," the lawyers wrote. "Publication is pending."

The Son-of-Sam law, which prohibits criminals from cashing in on their misdeeds, would not apply to Gotti because he is not writing about his own exploits.

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Movies and TV / Mobster writes children's book
« on: October 06, 2004, 04:11:47 PM »
This topic has been moved to [link=http://www.timewastersguide.com/boards/yabb/YaBB.cgi?board=books;action=display;num=1097091313;start=0]Books[/link] by Tage.

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Everything Else / Life of a laptop battery
« on: October 05, 2004, 05:58:00 PM »
So how long should one last? I've had my computer 2 years now, and lately it's been shutting me down--without even a low battery warning--after about an hour and 20 minutes of battery time, even though the power thing says I've got 2 hours of life when I start. I run it on battery all the way to the end about once a month, just like I was told to when I bought the computer. I'm getting annoyed at this short battery life. Problem with the battery, you think? Or the computer not knowing that the battery wasn't at full life?

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Everything Else / LDS.org doing strange things
« on: October 01, 2004, 11:43:12 PM »
Anybody else getting a strange message from lds.org? This is what I get:

Welcome the the N-Tier Enviornment.

-on a blank screen.

Weird, no?

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