MERCEDES-LACKEY Digest 77 Topics covered in this issue include: 1) Re: Upcoming books by Party2001-+AT+-aol.com 2) recipes by mel (Melanie Dymond Harper) 3) fluff, multiple posts, etc. by mel (Melanie Dymond Harper) 4) Well here we go again... by Gyrfalcon 5) Re: NJ mottos and weather by "Sandy Haas" 6) Gael Baudino by joan_ferguson-+AT+-harvard.edu (Joan Ferguson) 7) Re: Recipe by "Sandy Haas" 8) Re: Recipe by mel (Melanie Dymond Harper) 9) Re: country by "Barbara G. Jacob-McDowell" 10) Re: country/cold by "Barbara G. Jacob-McDowell" 11) Re: Recipe by "Jennifer S. Broekman" 12) Re: Upcoming books by URAMESS-+AT+-aol.com 13) Banned Books 15 by URAMESS-+AT+-aol.com 14) Re: Recipe by steph-+AT+-escher.mbi.ucla.edu (Stephanie Wukovitz) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Fri, 14 Jul 1995 02:30:36 -0400 From: Party2001-+AT+-aol.com To: mercedes-lackey-+AT+-vanyel.herald.co.uk Subject: Re: Upcoming books Message-ID: <950714023035_114645005-+AT+-aol.com> Please tell me the name of the Vampire book. I am an avid reader and particularly enjoy Anne Rice. BTW did anyone check out the Vampire movie? It didn't stick to the book exactly, but I still enjoyed it. Who ever thought Tom Cruise would make such a good bad guy? Rachel ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 14 Jul 1995 09:35:53 +0100 From: mel (Melanie Dymond Harper) To: mercedes-lackey Subject: recipes Message-ID: <9507140835.AA09449-+AT+-vanyel.herald.co.uk> Hm, yes, enough recipes (and recipe discussion) for the moment, I think. -- M. ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 14 Jul 1995 14:30:29 +0100 From: mel (Melanie Dymond Harper) To: mercedes-lackey Subject: fluff, multiple posts, etc. Message-ID: <9507141330.AA11148-+AT+-vanyel.herald.co.uk> The number of small, fluffy posts is rising again. Could we please try to: (a) keep the amount of fluff down a bit (b) try to combine posts wherever possible; one-line responses, especially those of you with large signatures, are a bit much.... Cheers Mel. ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 14 Jul 1995 11:01:52 -0400 (EDT) From: Gyrfalcon To: mercedes-lackey-+AT+-vanyel.herald.co.uk Subject: Well here we go again... Message-ID: My sister has been ragging on me about my reading choices recently, so I got even w/ her... I gave her my copy of Arrows of the Queen about three nights ago and so far she's worked her way through that Tril, Oathbound/breakers and is working on BTS... I think I've created a monster... Oh well, that's the price of addiction... One more slave created to march forward in the name of good fiction, --Gyrfalcon Ps.. I get that recipe up when Mel says it's okay to put things like that up again... Sorry ;) =======================msowers-+AT+-menger.eecs.stevens-tech.edu=================== Magic still exists. We have only to reach out and touch it, it is a part of the very fabric of the world. When our belief of magic completely dies this universe shall die. Because that magic; Hope, Dreams, Love, Beauty, Wonder, Belief, and Discovery are what make us a people. They are all part of a great Art whose workings are still a mystery but whose applications can be seen every day. If we ever lose the Art mankind shall not last the day. Let the magic that is in us roam free in our work, play, in each other, and most of all in ourselves. Let it roam free or it will die. ============================================================================== ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 14 Jul 1995 12:28:35 EDT From: "Sandy Haas" To: mercedes-lackey-+AT+-vanyel.herald.co.uk Subject: Re: NJ mottos and weather Message-ID: > Date: Fri, 14 Jul 1995 02:24:35 +0100 > Reply-to: mercedes-lackey-+AT+-vanyel.herald.co.uk > From: URAMESS-+AT+-aol.com > To: sandrah-+AT+-rackham.umich.edu > Subject: Re: NJ mottos and weather > In a message dated 95-07-13 08:45:18 EDT, you write: > > >> Maybe we can change the subject off of Jersey, and complain about the > roads > >> in PA!?! I know that they stink does anybody else? > >> > >> Matt > >> > >^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ > ^ > >Been to Michigan lately?? > > > > > > About 2 years ago. They were pretty bad then, are they still? > > Matt You could lose one of those wonderful Detroit-made cars in them!! I hate Detroit--any body else want to claim ownership--Michigan is tired of having it!! To put this back on track--I haven't been able to read Misty in 3 weeks and I am having withdrawls!! ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 14 Jul 1995 12:33:04 -0400 From: joan_ferguson-+AT+-harvard.edu (Joan Ferguson) To: mercedes-lackey-+AT+-herald.co.uk Subject: Gael Baudino Message-ID: Hello.. just a *little* off-topic ... :-) Just a quick thank-you to the person (who I now forget, of course) who recommended "Gossamer Axe" ... what a *wonderful* story!!! I'm in the process of working through her other "elves and humans" books - she's a marvelous writer. I agree with the original posts that she is as good, if not better in some areas, than Misty. She writes a pretty convincing lesbian love story, at very least ... still waiting for that from Misty, have to admit. Thanks again! Joan ObLackey: Elves! Elves with powers! Humans working with/thwarting elves! Get your elves here!! :-} Joan Ferguson joan_ferguson-+AT+-harvard.edu Harvard University Library Preservation Office 59 Plympton Street Cambridge MA 02138 "Instead of loving your enemies,treat your friends a little better." -Edgar Watson Howe (1853-1937) ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 14 Jul 1995 12:36:58 EDT From: "Sandy Haas" To: mercedes-lackey-+AT+-vanyel.herald.co.uk Subject: Re: Recipe Message-ID: > From: Stephanie Wukovitz > Matt (and everyone else), > > Um, sorry for being crabby yesterday, I had just gotten some pretty > unpleasant news about a friend and wasn't in the best of moods. And, > to be honest, someone *did* ask about whether anyone wanted the > recipe, and frankly I'd rather hear what people have to say about > misty (and occasionally post myself), but hey, if it makes you happy... > Maybe we should start an Misty off shoot for diabetics to commiserate on!! :} Nah!! BTW--we have talked about handicappers in Velgrath--suppose they have any chronically ill?? ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 14 Jul 1995 17:56:13 +0100 From: mel (Melanie Dymond Harper) To: mercedes-lackey-+AT+-herald.co.uk Subject: Re: Recipe Message-ID: <9507141656.AA14644-+AT+-vanyel.herald.co.uk> > Maybe we should start an Misty off shoot for diabetics to commiserate > on!! :} Nah!! BTW--we have talked about handicappers in > Velgrath--suppose they have any chronically ill?? > Sure; Randale, {Kethry's lover}, {Talia's friend}, insert names where appropriate ... M. ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 14 Jul 1995 13:05:37 -0400 (EDT) From: "Barbara G. Jacob-McDowell" To: mercedes-lackey-+AT+-vanyel.herald.co.uk Subject: Re: country Message-ID: Jersey-bashers/jokers: As a transplanted Jerseyian-to-Pittsburgh and western PA, I take exception to the cracks about my native state (going there for the last week of July! Can't wait!). The exit jokes apply to northEASTERN New Jersey, guys, not all of northern Jersey. It's the northEASTERN ones who say, "Joisey". NorthWESTERN Jersey, the best part (IMHO) has such wonderful things as: lots of farms and woods areas, some beatiful and historic small towns (no, that does not include Newark and Trenton), Waterloo Village,the State Fish Hatcheries in my home town, Hackettstown, also home to one of the largest M&M factories in the country, the Deleware Water Gap, and ... drumroll: bears! Really. For a supposedly urbanized area, we have a surprisingly large amount of habitat suitable for wild critters. It ain't all freeways and cities/suburbs up there! And no pothole I've encountered there has equalled the craters known by that name here in Pgh! I may have been here long enough to say "pop" instead of "soda", but I still say "Yinz" for you-plural instead of the generic Pgh. "yunz"! BTW, our circles were copied from the New England "rotaries", who copied them from the English "roundabouts". Wherever they are, they're a trap for the unwary, sort of an automotive revolving door...... 8^) --Barra Everything will perish save love and music.--Scots Gaelic proverb Harpers have pluck--but don't get strung out.--Barra the Bard ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 14 Jul 1995 16:48:36 -0400 (EDT) From: "Barbara G. Jacob-McDowell" To: mercedes-lackey-+AT+-vanyel.herald.co.uk Subject: Re: country/cold Message-ID: Oh, well, there was the time winter before last when the wind chill was SO cold that walking across campus on my way to work, well bundled up (3 prs. socks, wood pants over bunwarmers and tights, 2 sweaters, down jacket, 2 scarves, 2 hats and 2 prs. gloves, and one hat included a face mask--oh, and clip-on sunglasses because the sun was so bright), I was 3/4 of the way there, going along with my arms full of stuff, panting like mad because really cold weather makes my asthma act up...and the lenses of my glasses iced over. Completely. Solid white ice. I was so bundled up that I couldn't wiggle the glasses down on my nose to look over them, and didn't have a hand free to adjust them. Moment of panic.... And I thought, "Aha! Peripheral vision! When I can see Baker Hall to my right, I'll know to turn left for the library!..." Years ago, while Urban Pioneering with the frog ex-husband, there was one nasty winter when we had no heat in a 12-room house besides a 1924 gas stove, 1 fireplace, an electric blanket, various sweaters, and 2 cats. All the pipes froze solid for 4 and 1/2 months. You'd be surprised how much water 2 adults use in a week! It was gruesome. I concluded that pioneer women endured and surmounted being dragged out into the wilderness because all the OTHER pioneer women were going through the same lousy routine of hauling buckets of water and chopping firewood and spending hours just fixing a meal and making a shirt. If I were the only one for miles who did not have a pump in the kitchen, I would not be fun to be around..... Having done that for 3 interminable years, (to get back onto topic, Mel dear--but you knew we would!), I am all in favor of some of the new inventions coming to Valdemar courtesy of the Blues. Craftsmanship is all very well, and I admire it, but breaking ice in a water bucket is NOT fun on a cold winter's morning. Pipes that work are wonderful. --Barra, who obviously was not an intrepid pioneer in ANY lifetime! Everything will perish save love and music.--Scots Gaelic proverb Harpers have pluck--but don't get strung out.--Barra the Bard ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 14 Jul 1995 17:48:53 -0400 From: "Jennifer S. Broekman" To: mercedes-lackey-+AT+-vanyel.herald.co.uk Subject: Re: Recipe Message-ID: <199507142148.RAA22304-+AT+-sparky.phast.umass.edu> Melanie Dymond Harper wrote: >> Maybe we should start an Misty off shoot for diabetics to commiserate >> on!! :} Nah!! BTW--we have talked about handicappers in >> Velgrath--suppose they have any chronically ill?? >Sure; Randale, {Kethry's lover}, {Talia's friend}, insert names where >appropriate ... Wasn't Talia's friend, assuming you mean Jadus, just old? -jenneke I *am* family. How could I not have family values? Only Boys Accepting Feminism Get Kissed Meaningfully -- Geoff Marcy The only unnatural sexual act is that which you cannot perform. -Alfred Kinsey broekman-+AT+-sparky.phast.umass.edu | http://www-astro.phast.umass.edu/gs/jenn.html ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 14 Jul 1995 19:14:28 -0400 From: URAMESS-+AT+-aol.com To: mercedes-lackey-+AT+-vanyel.herald.co.uk Subject: Re: Upcoming books Message-ID: <950714191318_32947000-+AT+-aol.com> In a message dated 95-07-14 03:24:54 EDT, you write: >Please tell me the name of the Vampire book. I am an avid reader and >particularly enjoy Anne Rice. BTW did anyone check out the Vampire movie? > It didn't stick to the book exactly, but I still enjoyed it. Who ever >thought Tom Cruise would make such a good bad guy? > > Rachel > > The name of the new book is MEMNOCH THE DEVIL. It shouldn't be too hard to locate it! Yes I saw the movie and almost...well never mind. Hope you all are/were able to stay cool this weekend! Speaking of weather....80 degrees F at 8:00 am. Matt ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ I've been targeted for defeat by everyone one would be proud to be targeted by. -- Gerry Studds. Let's stop treating the earth like an ashtray. -- Bette Midler. Why are some people so miserable in their own lives that they must try to control mine? ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 14 Jul 1995 19:46:22 -0400 From: URAMESS-+AT+-aol.com To: mercedes-lackey-+AT+-vanyel.herald.co.uk Subject: Banned Books 15 Message-ID: <950714191341_32947206-+AT+-aol.com> 141) FAMILY SECRETS, Norma Klein. Removed from the Howard County, MD Middle School Media Centers (1991) because of the book's "constant reference to the sex act." 142) ANASTASIA KRUPNIK, Lois Lowry. Removed form the Stevens Point, WI Elementary School recommended reading list (1992) due to the books profanity. 143) SEX, Madonna. Challenged. Raised challenges across the country soon after its release in Oct 1992. 144) A SPECIAL TRICK, Mercer Mayer. Challenged at the Coburg Elementary School in Eugene, OR (1992) for allegedly Satanic art. 145) WOMAN IN THE MISTS, THE STORY OF DIAN FOSSEY & THE MOUNTAIN GORILLAS OF AFRICA, Farley Mowat. Removed from a required reading list in the Omaha, NE Public School (1991) because the book has racial slurs. 146) SOUP, Robert Newton. Challenged as a fourth-grade reading assignment at the Woodbridge, NJ Schools (1992) because of objectionable language. 147) THE GRADUATION, Christopher Pike. Challenged at the Weatherly, PA Middle School Library (1992) because parents were upset by passages in the book dealing with depression, suicide and contraception. 148) BEAUTY'S PUNISHMENT, Anne Rice. Removed from the shelves of the Lake Lanier Regional Library System in Gwinnett County, GA (1992) following complaints that centered around sexuality. 149) THE BOY WHO LOST HIS FACE, Louis Sachar. Challenged at the Thousand Oaks, CA Library (1991) because of inappropiate language. 150) CATCHER IN THE RYE, J.D. Salinger. Challenged at the Jamaica High School Sidell, IL (1992) because the book contained profanities and depicted premarital sex, alcohol abuse, and prostitution. ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 14 Jul 95 22:18:21 -0700 From: steph-+AT+-escher.mbi.ucla.edu (Stephanie Wukovitz) To: mercedes-lackey-+AT+-vanyel.herald.co.uk Subject: Re: Recipe Message-ID: <9507150518.AA01582-+AT+-escher.mbi.ucla.edu> Chronically ill in Velgarth? Yeah, I've wondered that myself... seems as if you would have to regrow islet cells for those who were type I diabetic, the question is, could a healer do that? It seems as though they are able to affect the immune system, so if you caught the incipient diabetic before all islets were gone, you could probably keep them all from being destroyed. Hmmmmm. -Stephanie not crabby today, just stressed like everyone else :-) ------------------------------ End of MERCEDES-LACKEY Digest 77 ********************************