Until it's time to hop on a plaaaaaaaaaane and my con-season officially begins! I even already made up my schedule!

FRIDAY
Reading Comic Books in College: Using Michigan State University's Comic Art Collection for Research and Teaching
Speakers: Dr. Christie Lynn Daniels, Joseph Darowski

Heralds of Change: Comic Books, Libraries, and ( Read more... )

I AM GOING TO SEE THIS WHEN I AM IN CHICAGO FOR C2E2 AND IT IS GOING TO BE EPIC WIN.



Can't wait.

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Text swiped (with additions) from kajivar , as she says it more eloquently than I could:

A friend has lost everything, including an extensive library (over 2,000 books!), in the Queensland floods in Australia.

A book drive is being organized to help her replace as many as the books as we can. She's having other needs (for herself and her kitties) taken ( Read more... )

Stolen from tinylegacies , yo.

The BBC believes most people will have read only 6 of the 100 books listed here. Bold those books you've read in their entirety, italicize the ones you started but didn't finish or read an excerpt.

1) Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
2) The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien
3) Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
4) Harry Potter series - JK ( Read more... )

I last did this in January, and I figure now's a good time to do it again. Because I have had enough fucking negativity, and it's either sing or scream.

So, I give you music and a challenge. Post a song that always makes you mellow. Something that you can't resist tapping your foot along to. Spread some happy, because dammit, we all deserve it.
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