I’m a history buff anyway, especially for England...but usually older like Shakespeare.

An excellent service! Basic digitization can often be DYI, but there’s so many obsolete formats that require special care.

This is amazing. BRB going to re-read Return of the King, take notes.

According to this Slate article, Jell-O seems to have hung on in Utah because of larger families and lots of kids which aligned with the marketing targets over the last few decades. Probably peaked around the 2002 Olympics with the pin.

I have started getting irrationally angry when driving by the actual Young Living Farm for summer vacations. The lavender fields are pretty but what they stand for...

People should be able to identify exactly who they are, and officially that often means the birth certificate. However, the original purpose of a birth certificate was to record medical statistics, which points more toward the true definition of sex, instead of gender.

I still remember my shock being seated near the door of a big midnight showing for Fellowship of the Ring, so presumably real fans. It was nonstop traffic in and out the entire time.

And that’s the real reason we all know.

Look at your watch/phone? Going to live theater, there may not be a time posted to return, though there are often ushers to help you get back. I’m actually just barely old enough to remember real ushers in a movie theater <sigh>

Keep in mind that most live theater breaks about 2/3 of the way in, so keeping a 3-act structure is no problem at all. I attend multiple Shakespeare plays every year, because I truly love his work and other playwrights, but I am also thankful that intermission means we’re almost done. Same with musicals as the big…

I recently read The Year of Lear, an amazing book about everything happening during 1606 when Shakespeare wrote King Lear, Macbeth, and Antony & Cleopatra. The part about the post-gunpowder plot punishments were quite vivid.

Just stop with the “after the prequels” crap. Those six movies are a crowning achievement for the original era of Star Wars. They’re linked together in numerous ways with a distinct style.

The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks gave our very white book club a great and hopefully sensitive discussion. We also loved I am Malala.

Likewise I finally read (via suggesting it for my book club) Rebecca. All this time I thought it was a ghost story. I think I did first read Jane Eyre for school, so now I need to add Wuthering Heights I suppose.

Thank you for the report. Constant vigilance I suppose.

ETA: This also confirms a graduate course on privacy that pointed out the government knows very little and is heavily regulated compared to the data kept by private companies about everything. It’s not the Men in Black, unless it’s corporate suits.

I like to combine Fresca with fruit juices. It cuts down the amount of juice/sugar in total and adds a little citrus zing. Favorite for some time is the berry juice from Juicy Juice (though sparingly as it started staining my teeth).

I was privledged to see highlights from Debbie’s collection at the Fashion Institute of Design and Merchandising in LA (their annual costume exhibit from the previous year’s movies is the BEST). I only found out later how lucky I was to see many of the pieces together prior to getting sold off.

Also passed in Utah.

Basically don’t anger the cultural/heritage/librarian caretakers. It’s not even about politics, information and access and education is their passion!

National Park Foundation https://www.nationalparks.org/