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I grew up in the 60's and was a rock and roll teenager in the 70's. Following my "mis-spent youth", I moved in with my own true love (now together 30 years, married 24 years) and took an interdisciplinary BA at UCLA. Took the corporate feed-bag in the 80's and was a scout/music/drama mom in the 90's. Now, I've finished my secondary cred. in English and am working on my MA thesis (Malory's choices re: the Orkney Brothers) while teaching high-school English. I love language and literature (the earlier the better), living history (of any camp), people who think (even if they disagree with me, in any sense of the phrase), junk food, golden age and historical mystery novels, those times when my boys let me share their lives, researching obscure things on the internet, and naps with my cat on my lap. I resist closed-minded and overly intense people, jargon, putting commas inside quotations, petty politics, television and vulgarity (unless it's witty). I am getting used to the Oxford comma.
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Re: NCRF
(in Ren Faire History Snobs)
Kick the Bucket may not be anachronistic at all - at least the phrase:
www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/218800.html discussion post on Fri, October 30, 2009 - 5:58 PM
framing and beauty... and our theatrical frame
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My attention was called recently (thank you) to an experiment that was done a few years ago in which the amazingly talented and celebrated violinist Joshua Bell busked in a train station for an hour on his Stradavarius, to very limited attention a...
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50 bands (stolen from Rydell)
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Here are the rules: Test your memory and your love of live music by listing 50 artists or bands (or as many as you can remember) you've seen in concert. List the first 50 acts that come into your head. An act you saw at a festival and opening acts...
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Book snarkfest
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Which are the authors/books you've tried and tried to like, but just can't? Here are some of mine:
Emily Brontë (Wuthering Heights) Ann Rice (New Orleans vampires) Ayn Rand John Milton (Paradise Lost) Ernest Hemingway
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Words, words words, I'm so sick of words
My attention was called recently (thank you) to an experiment that was done a few years ago in which the amazingly talented and celebrated violinist Joshua Bell busked in a train station for an hour on his Stradavarius, to very limited attention and response. It resulted in a very interesting article in the Washington Post, which you can read here, along with the reader responses:
Sat, August 29, 2009 - 12:29 PM
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www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn...21.html It reminded me of the ... read more
Here are the rules: Test your memory and your love of live music by listing 50 artists or bands (or as many as you can remember) you've seen in concert. List the first 50 acts that come into your head. An act you saw at a festival and opening acts count, but only if you can't think of 50 other artists. Oh, and list the first concert you ever saw (you can remember that, can’t you)?
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Not bothering with all the tagging business. Wow, I'm not even coming close to 50. Many I did see more th... read more 
Which are the authors/books you've tried and tried to like, but just can't? Here are some of mine:
Fri, July 31, 2009 - 4:14 PM
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Emily Brontë (Wuthering Heights) Ann Rice (New Orleans vampires) Ayn Rand John Milton (Paradise Lost) Ernest Hemingway 
Recent activity on the snobs tribe in which certain newcomers got into a hussarfit about perceived slights to their historicity served to remind me how much I love the spirited yet highly academic discussions we enjoy, the passion with which my fellow snobs tear into any new question and, particularly, the civility with which we avoid personalizing our discussions (although betimes we need a reminder from our gentle (in the birth sense) moderator). There is a note in a window I see as I type ...
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Sun, June 14, 2009 - 12:29 PM
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Asterisked where yes.
Mon, January 5, 2009 - 7:40 PM
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1. Started your own blog [nope, blogging on Tribe or Facebook doesn't count] I started my own bog, does that count? 2. Slept under the stars * 3. Played in a band * 4. Visited Hawaii * (if an airport stop on the way home from New Zealand counts) 5. Watched a meteor shower * 6. Given more than you can afford to charity * I dunno - it always seems like a lot at the time, and then later doesn't seem like much. 7. Been to Disneyland * 8. Climbed a mountain * ... read more
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