Okay; this one has been causing me a nagging itch in the brain. I recall having seen-probably on some incarnation of Scans Daily on another platform-a U.S. romance comic from the 1940’s or 1950’s that had an anthology host-something more characteristic of horror comics. He was a Zorroesque Masked Lover who narrated love stories throughout history ( ( Read more... )

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A certain post comes across my tumblr dash every once in a while, but of course now I can't find it. It's a picture of a hand-lettered sign in front of a bookstore that says you can take books for free if you're desperate and have no money and that no one should have to go without books, or something along those lines. I know someone will know what ( Read more... )

I tried identifying this flower with Google images, but Google just says "flower."

Under the cut for size.

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Eons ago, like in the '70s, I read a short poem by her (from a magazine article re her school years, I think). It went something like this ( Read more... )

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A few years ago I read a list of rules for living on a website. I don't think it was called that, maybe guidelines?. I think it was written by a woman, possibly a blogger. It might have been a list of what she felt was important ( Read more... )

When I was a pre-teen(I'm 25 now) my mom bought me a manga that had a girl that washed up on a beach that this boy and his father(with like no technology/might have been wearing Tarzan-esque loincloth clothings. She had a choker with a shell on it, and the kid asked his dad what it meant and that she was unmarried ( Read more... )

I'm trying to remember which Heinlein juvenile this is. I thought it was Podkayne of Mars, but I was wrong. The main things I remember are it was told from the viewpoint of a young girl. It took place on a large space ship. The kids had a sport in the area that gravity was very weak. They would strap on wings and fly. The boy she had a crush on ( Read more... )

About 1968, a mall gift shop called Matsuri's operated in Hayward CA. One poster displayed showed a vista as from a mountaintop with steps leading up to the POV (of someone not shown) and each step was marked with titles, such as "Self-Sacrifice," "Humility," etc., with "Love" being the topmost shown. In the background far below was a beautiful ( Read more... )