Mr/Mrs Bum :

That wasn't feeding so much as a second mod having a look at the situation.


(And -- hey! I like your sig quote! It reminds me of my favorite C.S. Lewis line : "You don't have a soul. You are a soul. You have a body.")

It's a troll test Junglebum. If he responds all flamey, he's a troll, and I ban him. If he doesn't, then he can stay around a while.

(In common parlance, I'm the bad cop)

Florida sucks!

It's still better than Indiana. At least you're warm most of the time. And you have the ocean close by.

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Originally posted by Sir Nick Stefanovic:
Right it does, ol' chap. hehehehehehehehhe
Why the hell does that dweller think I'm from SHITTYFLORIDAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

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Originally posted by aitapata:
I recently had a teen patron ask me to help him find a book by a living British author. Of course, my first thought was Neil Gaiman. But as I thought about it further.... he's living in the US now. Has he ever gotten US citizanship?

While I still consider him a British author, I'm wondering if high school teachers would see it more as a matter of where his residence currently is.


Any opinions/insight from anyone?

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ARTHUR: By what name are you known?
AMY: There are some who call me... 'Amy'?
ARTHUR: Greetings, Amy of Doom.
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a cousin of mine had the same assignment of reading a book by a british author. I told him to read Anansi Boys, it had just come out and well, there ya go. So he goes into the book store and he finds it and tells me it doesnt say anything about neil being british on the bio on the back flap. I reassured him. His teacher didnt say anything so I am sure it went over well in that class.

I think, in that case anyway, its more about the influences in the different parts of the world. And a way of opening people up to a different perspective. I mean, everybody in america reads mark twain at some point, but british writers are different.

I just read the first chapter of 'Anansi Boys', (standing up, in WH Smith) and I can definitely say there's no way anyone could think that text was American...

Dweller in Darkness.
I love it.
A "bad cop" with a teddy bear icon.
(Though, actually, my kid was scared of teddy bears. And dolls.)
Oh, and I come down on the British side.
It's not just a citizenship thing -- though that seems to be pretty clear too -- it's a sensibility.

While listening to Neil's latest interview on MPR I was struck at how much of a cheesehead accent he has acquired. It was interesting because his interviewer is Scottish with a Minnesota accent.