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1. The new US Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is seeking feedback on how to make mortgage disclosure forms more understandable. If you have a few minutes, go and vote for the alternative you find easiest to understand.
2. I am seriously amused that Patrick Stump’s song This City, now free on iTunes, includes a lyric using the word “gentrification.”
( Civil War, understanding comics, economics and economic collapse, funky numbers )
2. I am seriously amused that Patrick Stump’s song This City, now free on iTunes, includes a lyric using the word “gentrification.”
( Civil War, understanding comics, economics and economic collapse, funky numbers )
Posting this frequently counts as spam from me, I'm sure. Anyway, ever since I read the highly amusing "Troy in Fifteen Minutes," I've felt a strange desire for an Odysseus icon that says "Hi, Boromir!" despite the fact that I'm not a big fan of either LoTR or Troy. I don't know why this should be true, but it is.
( As justification for this entry, John Keegan and David Sedaris )
( As justification for this entry, John Keegan and David Sedaris )
Lots of nonfiction, much of it dancing around the theme of intellectual property and/or violent death:
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I had an amazing fannish day, including more promised cliche-fic and a reviewing of Pirates of the Carribean in which the greater-than-average-intelligence of the script was more clear than on first exposure. Unfortunately, I have yet to do anything about my faculty presentation on Tuesday, and I really need to circulate a paper first thing Monday, so it will be a busy Sunday. Of course, that's not going to stop me from writing the truly awful cliche-fic that staggered out from the deepest recesses of my brain like the bastard child of Frankenstein's monster and the Swamp Thing.
But first, a lot of books, most about history:
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But first, a lot of books, most about history:
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John Keegan, Daniel Handler, Smallville tie-in, The Recruit, and Evanescence’s Fallen coming up. Then I get myself in trouble. If you want better-thought-out words, just stop reading after the reviews.
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