1) Has anyone seen Bonekickers? Bearing in mind that I have a passing familiarity with how archaeology is actually done, will it make me weep?

2) Not unrelatedly, I'm trying to read Beyond the Body Farm. Author Bill Bass (with his co-author Jon Jefferson) is trying to earn my undying enmity. I'm starting to understand why a couple of my ( Read more... )

Okay, seriously, who doesn't know that spoilers go ( here )

Every once in awhile, my life picks up a theme. Currently, that theme seems to be justifying the things I enjoy to people who maybe ought to get it in a general sense: other geeks, other fans, even friends.

Before I took off, I'd read kalpurna's post mentioning yet another person hating on one of her bands, after having been told she enjoyed them. The ( Read more... )

( Hate crime legislation. )

So, as most of y'all know, my major problem with my job is not so much that I'm making next to no money, not so much because customers_suck, but mostly that I work really hard and get no recognition from management for it?

Turns out it annoys me just as much when it's coming from someone I have no reason to expect ever to have visited my particular bookstore.
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... or why I am a not a spoiler whore, but am instead a cranky bitch about even the most seemingly minor of revelations.

( Cut for, of all things, possible spoilers. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, chapter 2 is discussed, and the ending of an unnamed anime currently being released in the US is alluded to, the title of which the astute anime-fan reader will most likely be able to guess. )