Mentioning Tom Swift... Most, if not all, of the Tom Swift sr. books are now available at Project Gutenberg. I remember Tom Swift, Sr, and his son Tom Swift Jr. They were fun back then, but probably would not read well in the twenty-first century. There are all kinds of things I remember fondly, bu...
https://www.deviantart.com/manunuart/art/Comm-An-Unexpected-but-Welcome-turn-of-events-717254053 Fanart based on " Impacted Souls " by ZRO4825. That art may be based on "Impacted Souls". It could equally be based on the sequel to Revenge of the Teriyaki by DragonGolem. The seque...
This actually happened to me in first grade. I was reading even then, and went through the "See Spot Run" books for the first grade, So I read the second grade Spots, and started in on the third when I was firmly told to stop that! (At home I was going through Tom Swift, and when I finishe...
Little tiny books, hooray! I collect tiny books, though I've never come near a gashopon machine. I've even made a few out of fanfiction. I think my favorite was Spring of Drowned Tigger", about five inches tall. (I've done smaller, and larger.)
A place called Woodhenge is just a few miles ENE of Stonehenge. Turn left at the traffic circle. Once upon a time I made a Wood Hinge. It was for a musical instrument case. Since there is one left over, I thought I'd take its portrait.
Neko, I love the t-shirt. But where would I wear it? (A Con, probably.) I shall have to make-do with my many Agatha Heterodyne, Girl Genius tee-shirts.
Some of you probably remember the type-in magazines and their wealth or programs in various BASIC dialects. I even managed to port some of them to Sinclair Colour BASIC. I typed up a word processing program from one of those magazines, for the Commodore 64. It worked right off the bat, and I used i...
Getting back to Akane - it's a given that Ranma needs therapy, and often gets it - I dug around a bit in my collection, and found several stories: https://www.fanfiction.net/s/6834408/1/ -- "Silent Steel" -- Richard Ryley https://www.fanfiction.net/s/2246372/1/Tattered-Mist-letters == jade...
And here we have the strangest version of Bolero. It's a section from "Allegro Non Troppo", a movie by Bruno Bozzetto. Think of it as a dyspeptic version of "Fantasia". It's in Italian, and the intro and between-scenes are in black and white.