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Aug 12, 2007 17:41

If I regularly posted, say, every Sunday, running commentary (not necessarily positive) on some or another historical novel (I'm aiming for bargain-basement stuff, here, not your Dorothy Dunnett or Sharon Kay Penman or anything like that), and called it the Sunday Send-Up, how many of you would evince even minimal interest in reading it ( Read more... )

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shake_the_stars August 16 2007, 00:31:48 UTC
Real life always seems so much drearier after one comes back from a vacation. I don't think I'd want to live in Florida (for one thing, I love my fucking state), but Indiana seemed a bit lackluster for the next week.

As an adult, I understand that the Church was often used, or allowed itself to be used, as a front for colonization purposes in the not!West. As a child, because my family was all I knew and my family was Catholic, I was shocked and appalled. (I was to be more shocked and appalled when I lived in Texas and realized that evangelicals took themselves seriously. At that point, I was a militant atheist and I found religion in general shocking and appalling.)

I remember watching some of the miniseries, but I didn't realize there was nekkid Shimada Yoko until I was an adult. Now I feel cheated.

At this point, it would just be me; I haven't ruled out the possibility of guest reviews later on, but it's not something I'd be actively looking to do. We're talking about me; I never trust anyone fully, and, in fact, make it a point not to do so.

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