stormneedle

One of these days, I think.

  purlturtle

Originally posted by kaelio

Originally posted by cylonalyna

Xena distant relation to Gowron: confirmed.

  stormneedle

I’m not at liberty to reveal that information. But could you please get the top of my feet?

  stormneedle

If there is paperwork out there where I acknowledge I will become an adult at age 18, it was signed before I was age 18. Therefore, it’s not a valid contract.

  stormneedle

Originally posted by clarkgriffon

  knifebucket

you know how they do it like this

  stormneedle

It must feel good.

  elodieunderglass

My husband and I were just bemoaning last night that there aren’t readily accessible tiny books any more.

Granted, it was in the specific context of “if you could have an animal to train up as a familiar as a sort of graduate-level project, leading it to gain increased intellectual abilities as you worked more on it, what would your choices be” and he was keenly and devotedly in favour of training up a frog to reading ability, largely because of the lovely picture of giving it a little bowl with damp moss and a small armchair for it to retreat to, and it could stretch out its legs and cross its ankles and read a book - you know - one of those novelty tiny books - with real text in them -

At which point, as if stricken by great loss, he sat up in bed and said AT WHAT POINT DID THOSE TINY BOOKS YOU COULD BUY IN THE 80s GO EXTINCT?

I’m a lot younger and American, but between the two of us, we think it was sometime in the mid-90s. There used to be these gimmick tiny books with the full text of the real book printed in them -

(Dr Glass said, anguished: “back when rubbish was REAL TAT! And tat was REAL RUBBISH!”)

- and they were a bit bigger than 1:6, because you could still read them. I remember them too. You used to see them in shopping malls.

Anyway; if you do pursue this idea, it would be very useful, if, on our end, we manage to create a working system of magic in which a sufficiently motivated person can impose sufficient sentience on a frog to teach it to read

  librarianpirate

The Mini-brands Books almost scratch that itch, but only the first 3 or 4 pages are actual text, the rest is just illegible scribbles and it DRIVES ME BATTY!

that said, the tiny copy of dracula that has the tiny bottle of blood inside almost makes up for this (none of these are my photos, they're stolen from the internet.)

Actually, I lied. Here's a photo I took ages ago of the copy with the blood next to the copy without the blood - and with the cool coffin bookmark. They look so huge here! They are not.

  stormneedle

Ligaments work too hard.

  theclockworkjudas

I love the orchestra trying and failing to maintain a straight face throughout

  silly-jellyghoty

Exactly. These people had to rehearse at least a few times all at once yet when it's nkt their turn to play they still look at that guy with the typewriter as if he was the most fascinating thing they have ever seen.

  ironwoman359

My husband's wind ensemble played this song when he was in high school! you can do it with normal auxillery percussion, but it's so much more fun if you do it with a real typewriter

  alexseanchai

now that is a writing mood

  whetstonefires

they were really like, the only reasonable approach to this piece is to insert a clown at the center of the orchestra

  iconuk01

If you're not playing Leroy Anderson's 1953 classic "The Typewriter" with an actual typewriter on stage... why would you even BOTHER?

From wiki

According to the composer himself, as well as other musicians, the typewriter part is difficult because of how fast the typing speed is: even professional stenographers cannot do it, and only professional drummers have the necessary wrist flexibility