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cblj_backupI AM A VERY WET SAM.
Ye gods, the rain. Well, okay, the wind. Because I had an umbrella, but when the wind knocks you around from three directions at once (physics says no? screw physics) you get wet anyway. Also, you guys know me. Do I sound like the kind of person for whom umbrellas are safe?
Thank you for your lovely comments this morning, btw. Just what I needed :)
I did, finally, manage to get some books to the bookstore today and sell them. After Words is an especially good place to sell because while they are picky, if you sell for store credit you can buy anything -- used books, but also new books, and you can order books on credit too. So I said to the guy, "I'm looking for this book that isn't rare, but I doubt you have it in stock. Can you look into how much it would cost to order?"
And I slid a slip of paper across to him with the title and ISBN on it. He looked down at the slip of paper, and then at the books I just sold -- a mixture of popular literature and classical history -- and then at me, and he said, "Russian Prison Tattoo Encyclopedia?"
"It's not my usual reading material," I told him.
Which is a lie, in a way, because the strange and obscure is my passion, but it's true I don't often go looking for encyclopedias of Russian prison tattoos (volume one). Apparently it's pretty popular, though; it doesn't come cheap, so I forbade to order it this time.
This is a story I will tell in full in a couple of weeks, I think, but I've spent the last month buried in research on prison tattoos, riots, codes of ethics, gang structure, sexual practices, and food. It has certainly been interesting, and makes me very glad I am not in prison. Also, if you want to lose all faith in humanity, read the Wikipedia article on the New Mexico prison riot of 1980. It's like a horror novel, only it happened; inmates-running-the-asylum style madness.
Also, don't google Nutraloaf while eating. Especially while eating meatloaf.
Ye gods, the rain. Well, okay, the wind. Because I had an umbrella, but when the wind knocks you around from three directions at once (physics says no? screw physics) you get wet anyway. Also, you guys know me. Do I sound like the kind of person for whom umbrellas are safe?
Thank you for your lovely comments this morning, btw. Just what I needed :)
I did, finally, manage to get some books to the bookstore today and sell them. After Words is an especially good place to sell because while they are picky, if you sell for store credit you can buy anything -- used books, but also new books, and you can order books on credit too. So I said to the guy, "I'm looking for this book that isn't rare, but I doubt you have it in stock. Can you look into how much it would cost to order?"
And I slid a slip of paper across to him with the title and ISBN on it. He looked down at the slip of paper, and then at the books I just sold -- a mixture of popular literature and classical history -- and then at me, and he said, "Russian Prison Tattoo Encyclopedia?"
"It's not my usual reading material," I told him.
Which is a lie, in a way, because the strange and obscure is my passion, but it's true I don't often go looking for encyclopedias of Russian prison tattoos (volume one). Apparently it's pretty popular, though; it doesn't come cheap, so I forbade to order it this time.
This is a story I will tell in full in a couple of weeks, I think, but I've spent the last month buried in research on prison tattoos, riots, codes of ethics, gang structure, sexual practices, and food. It has certainly been interesting, and makes me very glad I am not in prison. Also, if you want to lose all faith in humanity, read the Wikipedia article on the New Mexico prison riot of 1980. It's like a horror novel, only it happened; inmates-running-the-asylum style madness.
Also, don't google Nutraloaf while eating. Especially while eating meatloaf.
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Date: 2010-11-23 02:27 am (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2010-11-24 04:10 am (UTC)It was a really interesting program, but I remember the very end the most because they were like, 'and they removed and preserved tattoos they'd never seen before from cadavers! um, most scientists are skeeved out by this and thus don't recognize their work as science. um. the end!' Am I a bad person for wanting to laugh at the program?
Really hard to find info on them though. Here's an article they wrote:
http://www.foto8.com/new/online/photo-stories/1175-prison-tattoos
Probably not helpful, but a list I stumbled across in my quest:
http://www.bellaonline.com/articles/art6160.asp
(Oh man, do you think June has a tattoo?)
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Date: 2010-12-01 02:13 pm (UTC)I bet June has a tattoo. I should work that into Exquisite somehow...