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*Fancypants* For the culturally inclined and aspiring ~ In today's episode: Biggles reveals her potentially unsettling breadth of knowledge on talking mummies in literature
He's actually not doing very well at all. They only want to keep him a few days this time (as compared to four or three weeks, like the last times), but his not at the same level of health he either retained or recovered during his last stints.
This volume of Tess is very special to me, as it's one of the lovely cloth-covered varieties, like so. I've looked into cleaning it, and found some help, but it seems to be mostly geared towards removing oil stains from cloth covered books. It's all lead me to wonder, can you dry clean a book?
Awesome sandwich made up for sucky meal yesterday.
Did some googling and some skimming. This and this might be of use to you. I might suggest getting a book you really don't care about and testing on it first, though, just to get the technique down and to see if it works to your satisfaction. If that fails, here's some easily accessible replacements. Not as cheap as the MMP, of course, but pretty affordable, especially if it's very dear to you that you have one. Looks to be about the same one you have?
I cannot find anything on dry cleaning books... I only find dry cleaning information, and books about dry cleaning. I guess I'd recommend finding a very, very good dry cleaners and calling them and asking. A small place would likely not know. There might also be some kind of book restoration or... something people online that you could seek out and ask. But all of this is assuming that the damage is on the pages, not just the cover. If it's just the cover, you might be able to spot treat it? Like, with those Shout Wipes or a little stain pen.
Regarding your father, I'm sorry to hear that. :( I wish there were something more that I could say, but I don't think there really is... Virtual hugs, and I do help his health turns around soon.
Not completely fancy, but I found it pretty interesting. People + The Contents of Their Fridge. Relevant to my mind because the other day I was looking inside the family fridge and thinking about how different the inside of mine will be when I get my own place. It was the logical conclusion to my recurrent fantasies about how I'd like to organize my eventual pantry. I am a boring person.
I think we've reached a point in time when reading any book at all, regardless of what it is, is somewhat fancy... so I'll note that I found three books at Goodwill today. The Shining and Everything is Eventual by Stephen King, as well as a collection of short stories by Edgar Allen Poe. I'm also incredibly bummed because I found a textbook titled something to the effect of Introduction to Russian, but thumbing through it I saw that it was supposed to be used in tandem with a class and a cassette tape... neither of which were included, so it was completely useless. Had a groovy cover, though. Purple flowers. I have no clue why.
Anyone find any good books lately? Ever find an amazing book at a resale shop?
Not a book, but... I found some Armani jeans in my size at Goodwill today. They retailed for ~$100, I got them for $4. F yeah Goodwill.
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Thank you for putting so much effort into that, Cherry! I'm definitely going to take a closer look at those. Actually, most of it is the cover, and I have this to work with, as I mentioned: How to Clean a Cloth Book Cover | eHow.com
Seems like it's worth a shot.
I know the jeans thing is impressive, but I'm more excited about Edgar Allen Poe find... Yay for Poe-sy. Have you ever read some Baudelaire? Very kindred, those two. I've found plenty of wonderful books, antique or otherwise, at second hand places. One of the favourites that comes to mind is the hardcover of this: Amazon.com: J.W. Waterhouse (9780714845180): Peter Trippi: Books, which I think I managed to get for 20 dollars.
I also realized that I sounded rather dismissive of your spring heeled jack contribution. It is indeed fun, I should have said that.
This is also the kind of fun I need:
Looking at him twitching all over the place. That man amuses me no end. But, it's not very fancy, is it :? How about some Bach? He's pretty weighty stuff :cool:
Last edited by Cardinal Biggles; 05-12-2011 at 07:24 AM..
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The Poe was a pretty fun find. It's not a nice book or anything, it's a very thin, beat-up mass market paperback with a rather ugly cover, but hey, that doesn't affect the words inside. When I put it on the counter, the cashier said "I knew this wasn't going to stay here long." :lol:
Judging by Amazon's prices, you got a great deal on that book! And also looking at that... I have some prints of his.
Wow, those are some rather fun dance moves he's got there. I didn't know people could move like that. :lol: I mean... ah, yes, Bach, harumph harumph. But... whoa, that's awesome.
You've got some Waterhouse prints too, eh? I have "The Shrine". He's rightfully incredibly popular, commercially or otherwise. He's definitely my favourite of the Pre-Raphaelites.... Okay, okay, so he wasn't part of the "Brotherhood" :gonk: But I definitely say he can be pegged as part of the overarching movement. :illgetu:
On a semi-related note... I hate it when a celebrity who otherwise seems like an awesome person is a big PETA supporter. Not that I'm comparing Fry's actions to PETA, it just started a train of thought that lead to that. Alec Baldwin, Tim Gunn... come on, guys, cut it out. :gonk:
Yeah, PETA. -sigh- It's not that I don't agree with them in principle, but the fact that there seems no rhyme or reason to their actions, it's all impulsive and out of control.
Well not even that since they don't even want you to be able to own pets and they kill nearly all of the animals that are brought to them. :/ It's just that celebrities think fur and leather is wrong and are vegetarian, so they think PETA must be great. Or sometimes not even that, they just think animal abuse is wrong (but totally eat meat and wear leather), so PETA must be great. You know, if I was an even remotely influential person and was going to endorse something... I'd do a bit of damn research. :lol:
in principle as in people treating animals ethically. Many of the things PETA espouses seem almost like tangets :lol:
By and large celebrities get by with being superficial, and that means tackling causes that pierce their peripheral vision in some way or another, even if they aren't well thought out. When they actually do good work, more power to them.
It might be the lack of a real profession. With such an abundance of wealth, people seem to pick up the strangest and most useless habits and lifestyles; animal activism included.
Well, I wouldn't call a passion for animal welfare useless, I'm actually quite big on it. But when it's ill formed and poorly thought out, it's bad for everyone. Welcome to the thread, Crane!
Useless in that they're not thoroughly informed. It's easy to get swept up in hype, though, I'll admit. No one likes watching the commercials of puppies with scabies and small kittens.
@ Cherry: Yes, I know the difference very well. There's not always a clear line, it's just that judgment and realism has to come into it.
@ Crane: Rights as in the rigid (emphasis on that word) set of entitlements. Which, you have to admit, is hard to apply to someone or something that can't comprehend them. I never want to see cruelty towards animals, but it's simply not functional to apply the staunch and complex legal system to every aspect of their lives.
You are most welcome; new faces are always received warmly, especially thoughtful ones. :)
I think that's what makes it so bewildering to me, ahahaha!
I don't think abusing an animal is healthy or right, but in my opinion, neither is delegating legal rights like you mentioned. It seems like a huge waste of time and resources. And honestly, it's an animal.
We have some pretty stringent laws about dogs when we race them, but I don't know anyone that has ever been unhappy about how to treat them. If there's any sign of abuse, you're immediately disqualified. Dogs are tools that can be companions, but ultimately we don't own animals to dote on.
Yeah, usually animal rights activists (and not animal welfare activists who are just confused about terms) have the end goal of giving animals equal rights to people. As in we can't own them.
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