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I am here! There is breakfast! Things are happening!

Just, you know, FYI. Still alive.

I am liable to be out of touch much of today (make your own jokes here about my pop culture awareness levels) so try not to set anything on fire unless it deserves it.

Date: 2011-02-17 07:22 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] metallumai.livejournal.com
OK! (Things that deserve to be set on fire: Doritos, Stephen King books, instant coffee AND non-dairy creamer, diet ANYTHING...)
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Date: 2011-02-18 01:40 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] keeperofqkeys.livejournal.com
If I'm not mistaken, non-dairy creamer is what they threw into the fire at the beginning of "Are You Afraid of the Dark" to make the fire flare up in that really cool manner.
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Date: 2011-02-18 08:53 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] joiedumonde.livejournal.com
It is also useful if you are crafty and have need to blend a paint with texture. I used to use it or cornmeal when creating snow or dirt on art projects.

Date: 2011-02-18 12:36 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] metallumai.livejournal.com
OK, non-dairy creamer gets a reprieve, on artistic grounds. tell you what, anyone who tries to make you drink it, we throw THOSE people on the fire.

Date: 2011-02-17 09:57 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] mrsalemp.livejournal.com
I see your instant coffee and raise you a bag of baked cheetos.

Date: 2011-02-17 11:20 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] lots42.livejournal.com
Not the Pizza Doritos. They please me.

Date: 2011-02-17 11:56 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] jonaht.livejournal.com
I second the diet aspect ESP soda. Even though my friend claims your taste buds stp working after a few sips, I can't last that long. :d

Date: 2011-02-18 08:55 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] joiedumonde.livejournal.com
*clings to diet sierra mist*

Noooo! You can't take it, I won't let you.

*offers Diet Coke for the pyre instead*
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Date: 2011-02-18 12:34 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] metallumai.livejournal.com
I think lots of people have devoted their online social life to facebook; I know my friendlist, which is small, seems mostly silent these days.

BUT NOT SAM!! :D

Date: 2011-02-18 07:19 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] twirlynoodle.livejournal.com
There is something pop-culturey about being in touch today?

[is prepared to arm-wrestle anyone for ultimate out-of-touchness with pop culture]

Oh wait – is this a joke of some kind? I clearly need to get some sleep.

Date: 2011-02-18 12:32 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] metallumai.livejournal.com
Let's throw POP CULTURE on the fire....some of it.

Date: 2011-02-18 01:17 pm (UTC)
ext_77335: (Smug)
From: [identity profile] iamshadow.livejournal.com
My lack of money deserves it, but you can't really burn a lack of something.



Speaking of fires and burny things - after a year and half or whatever, I finally did what I was supposed to!

I was staying in Sydney the last week, so I grabbed my Mum at a fortuitous moment when there wasn't thesis beta-ing, engagements, weddings, babies, school or church work or renovation going on, and we totally did what I had pictured all those months ago. We sat down and had a working bee to fix [livejournal.com profile] cassie_lee's books.

And we saved ALL of them.

Even the ones that had no spines left to speak of.

Having achieved the near impossible with nothing but eucalyptus oil, wood glue, fabric tape and calico, we went and delivered them to her the next day, and I was able to give her back her cleaned (but not in need of any repair!) miracle copy of Nameless, wrapped in brown paper and string and with sage and bay leaves in the pages.

And then we totally squee-ed about you and your books.

The End.

Date: 2011-02-18 02:06 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] sadams119.livejournal.com
Ooh, book-saving is just what I needed to wake up to this morning! Thanks for giving me something nice to think about while I tackle this exhausting day!

Date: 2011-02-18 02:46 pm (UTC)
ext_77335: (Smug)
From: [identity profile] iamshadow.livejournal.com
We will be putting up pictures of the actual repair session soon, but for now, there are photos of the massive amount of cleaning that most of them needed, HERE (http://smg.photobucket.com/albums/v510/shadnred/burnt%20books/).

The Spot books weren't badly damaged, but they and the Beatles book were the filthiest! I wish I'd thought to get a before shot of the Beatles book. You couldn't see the faces of the Fab Four at all before I started.

(Yes, I did get blisters on my fingertips from the friction. I had to rub that damn hard to get the soot and grease off.)

Date: 2011-02-19 01:43 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] sadams119.livejournal.com
What did you use to clean them? Just a cloth? They look amazing!

Date: 2011-02-19 06:08 am (UTC)
ext_77335: (Smug)
From: [identity profile] iamshadow.livejournal.com
Eucalyptus oil, or maybe tea tree oil. I don't remember which. I know I used eucalyptus to clean the few that still needed it the other day, because that's all they had in the house.

Eucalyptus oil to loosen the soot, and a chux wipe and cotton buds to do the actual scrubbing. The cotton buds were good for areas where it was really stuck on (because of the pressure I could exert with them), or small areas where it was difficult to get the cloth in, like the creases on either side of the spine. I couldn't use anything harder. Though scraping the books with something stiff was tempting, or using something like steel wool or a brillo pad, any of those would have gouged the covers and made an enormous mess. As it was, the cotton buds and chux did the job well, if at a very slow rate.

Date: 2011-02-19 12:03 am (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] lokifan
WOW. What a brilliant story :DDD

Date: 2011-02-19 06:29 am (UTC)
ext_77335: (Unavoidable)
From: [identity profile] iamshadow.livejournal.com
Isn't it?

Cassie originally told Sam about it HERE (http://copperbadge.livejournal.com/2813637.html?thread=53571525#t53571525) and Sam blogged about it HERE (http://copperbadge.livejournal.com/2815001.html), and Cassie herself blogged it HERE (http://cassie-lee.livejournal.com/295194.html).

Date: 2011-02-22 08:43 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] copperbadge.livejournal.com
YAAAAY! Thank you for doing that :)

Date: 2011-02-23 05:51 am (UTC)
ext_77335: (Smug)
From: [identity profile] iamshadow.livejournal.com
There is a small set of mending photos HERE (http://www.flickr.com/photos/wallflowerarts/sets/72157625990802149/) now, if you are interested at all. It was heaps of fun. I think I was proudest of the Harry Potter spines. My mother, by some strange serendipity, had exactly the same editions for the first six, and not for the seventh , which was the only one that didn't need a spine repair. So, we just scanned the spines in, printed them out and pasted them over the calico so that Cassie would at least be able to tell them all apart on the shelf. I tell you what, I was pretty chuffed to have come up with that idea. Otherwise, it would have just been written on in pen or something. :D

Date: 2011-02-23 03:20 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] copperbadge.livejournal.com
That looks AWESOME, those poor books. Is it ok if I link the Cafe?

Date: 2011-02-23 03:56 pm (UTC)
ext_77335: (Smug)
From: [identity profile] iamshadow.livejournal.com
Sure! I've just uploaded the older, book cleaning photos to the set, too, so people can see the whole process.

LOL, I fixed my copy of Boy Alone while I was at it, since I got it through Better World, ex-library, and it needed some spine TLC. I swear I will never get the wood glue smell outta my nose. I was peeling it off my fingers like sunburnt skin for days.

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