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Nope. I'm going to the one in Toronto, hopefully. I've been to that particular Comic Con twice [or three times?] before.
I'm [hopefully] going as Lucas from Mother 3 [a game that was never released in English, but I've got a copy with a fan translation]. Here's what he looks like in the game: [the boy on the right]

Here's what he looks like in Super Smash Bros.:

It seems a simple enough costume. Hopefully this week I can find a shirt, shorts, and sneakers that look close enough and also fit me.

(System is hanging so this post will be short, in case it's lost.)

^^ That's extremely cool. I hope you can find the costume elements quick and economically

And I am old, so I look at Lucas and think TinTin (and le Petit Prince); you can safely ignore that !

I hope this all works out for you, and perfectly. I have the sense that a bit of perfectly-working-out stuff would be very welcome these days (hug).

... taking this^^ as inspiration. I am finally starting to feel rested up since retiring 2.5 years ago. This week I am going to see some movies. This summer I hope to go to the BluesFest and the PorchFest out here; they're so close I can make day trips.

If I can get the dang thing to start...

(^^ This is a cross-stitch! Can you believe it!)

^Tintin as in The Adventures of? Have you seen the Peter Jackson-Steven Speilberg movie of Tintin? It's quite good.

Is there a "tintin," too. I've heard of a dog named Rin-tin-tin.

Yep, Tintin is a Belgian cartoon character, let me see if I can find him, aha!


Here's his web site: http://en.tintin.com/essentiel and the Wiki on him: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tintin_(character)

He's been around longer than Asterix and Obelix (French comic about Gauls resisting the Roman invasion. Includes a couple of Roman centurions named Dubious Status and Nefarious Purpus )

That's a very clever use of names....

I wonder if there was widespread literacy within (at least) the center of the Roman Empire.

I don't believe there was widespread literacy in the UK area until the 1500s or so.

I've just been away to make a pot of soup (potatoes, onions, broccoli, cheddar, milk, a bit of chicken stock, some butter, garlic, pepper, very very very good) and am slowly falling asleep, so can just about comment that even in the Elizabethan era it was uncommon for women to read... but even nowadays functional literacy seems rarer (in the population as a whole) than I'd expect.

And heeeere I go off on a tangent again (always a risk when very tired): many of my grad school classmates actually admitted they picked science to study post grad because they did not like to write. (a) Someone obviously forgot to mention the thesis defense requirement to them; (b) inability to write generally suggests an inability to follow complex trains of thought - or to generate them - which doesn't bode well for doing independent research. I remember telling my dad that I'd won a full scholarship to a PhD program in a vo-tech school. We were both stunned by the lack of genuine interest in science among my classmates - it was a meal ticket to most of them, nothing more.

That to me is a far more serious illiteracy... because it's disguised. And I am rambling, and dinner was delicious, and I'm going to tend my kitties and toddle off to bed.


G'night all.

Sleep well, Esme.

Esme: I think you'd really like the Tintin movie. Shall I find you a trailer or something?

Esme is someone who probably always smells of baby powder...a very cuddly scent for a lucky guy....

Kura, that would be great! Thank you. (The search engines here have become extremely dumb, sadly it may be due to the net neutrality thing. When I searched for medieval misericordes recently all I got were ballet pix.)

Kraftie, actually I generally smell of either peppermint or vanilla, sometimes both. Most perfumes make me sneeze! So I use those essential oils, or Shalimar on major occasions (i.e., nowadays, pretty much never, which is fine).

Am about to disappear again - did some high speed gardening earlier because sleet was forecast. Just got done ahead of it and now I can have that nap.

misericordes or misericords

Esme, I posted a link to Boo pictures and the peanut cheese bars that I just made on the WP Addicts thread, but I'll post it here as well: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1f4XxJNFB4xykM1_GaBeYnoWAksDmx_3NG1wsfDuiCpo/edit?usp=sharing

^^Ferris, right you are. One for the coup de grâce and one for the grâce des coupes, to mangle a phrase (Grace of the cups = communion wine).

Either way, I just got pictures of ballet dancers. Reminds me of the old, old, old Sidney Harris cartoon where two people are staring at a computer screen and one of them says, "Well, I suppose it stands to reason... if there's artificial intelligence, there has to be artificial stupidity..."

^^Kura, thank you! I thoroughly enjoyed the trailer - had no idea Spielberg had done that. (My job was a black hole for almost a decade before I retired. It is SO nice to be free.) Am going to go look at your foodie pr0n - I LOVED peanut butter and cheddar cheese on crackers during my impoverished youth. These peanut-cheese bars sound like luxury!

Do you get Netflix? You can probably find the whole movie on it.

I can totally confirm now that they taste delicious, plus it's a fairly easy recipe.