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Good morning everyone, and welcome to Radio Free Monday!

Ways To Give:

girlingoldboots has been struggling with legal issues pertaining to an inheritance, as well as health issues and student loans. You can read more about it at the gofundme page she has set up to accept donations; she is also selling DVDs on ebay and has handcrafts (including some lovely scarves) available for sale at etsy.

majoline linked to a friend, green, who is raising funds for a new computer in order to be able to commit to freelance work and be able to make money to live on. You can read more here, or support the gofundme here.

taffimai bought a Living Social deal a while back and couldn't use it, so she has $62 in Deal Bucks. She's looking for someone who would be willing to let her buy them a deal with the bucks and reimburse her via paypal. You can read more and get in touch here.

kukkaseksi linked to an African-American gay men's dance troupe out of Mobile, Alabama, who are raising money for dance shoes and costumes. They're nearly to their goal, but extra always helps!

News To Know:

dytabytes linked to a crazy story about a gem heist in Vancouver. Heist enthusiasts, it's good reading! Though my favourite part is how Ammolite is Alberta's official gemstone, but nobody knows what it is, so they just described it as "opal-like". Also "shoe sized" and "helmet shaped".

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So, in my adding-up of all the books I'd read this year, I left a few out because I hadn't reviewed them yet. I forget how much easier it is to review a book I've read in digital, because I can copy and paste all the quotes instead of laboriously typing them out.

I'm not even sure where I found Marvel Comics: The Untold Story by Sean Howe, but I'm glad I picked it up, because it's awesome. It's a densely detailed but still eminently readable book, and it filled in a lot of gaps for me, as well as giving me new areas of comic book history to pursue.

...Namor hurls a pilot from a biplane and "dives into the ocean again -- on his way to further adventures in his crusade against the white men!" Unredeemingly violent and willfully unassimilated, the sneering Sub-Mariner was the reverse negative of the alien-as-immigrant-hero Superman. --p. 20

( Marvel Comics: The Untold Story by Sean Howe )