AngieIs
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Who's Indian Jones? Is he like Ghandi with a bullwhip?
Nah, more like a tomb raider with an archeology degree :) I swear I've never seen so many "priceless archeological discoveries" turned into rubble so quickly.
As for National Treasure... well honestly it looks like it'll be shitty, but fun, and since there's a free showing on campus on Tuesday... Hey, I'm a college student, I'll go to almost anything if it's free!
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That was long and whiny... sorry guys, I'm getting a little stressed.
In respose, thank you for the site Christian, I'll check it out. Web pages won't work, but web pages that will lead me to books will.
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More likely I was tired and frustrated...
My subject... well you see that's kind of the problem. I'd like to do a bibliographic essay comparing books that address the impact Rurik and his men had on Kieven Russia. I'd love to compare the Soviet interpretation of that importance to the German view that everything good that came out of Russia was as a result of Nordic intervention.
Unfortunately my library doesn't have any books on this subject.
I'd like to write a paper dealing with how the varioius Eastern invaders influenced Kieven Russia's development. It'd be nice to consider ________ war on the Khazars. It'd be neat to compare the views that this was either a necessary compaign for the good of Kiev or a fatal mistake tha tled to Kiev's imminent downfall.
Unfortunately, we don't have any books on this subject either. Nor do we have anything on Olga, or a copy of the Primary Chronicle...
My school is small. While our library is repectable for a school this size with as little funding as we have, it still isn't what you'd call extensive. The Pre-Muskovite section of the Russian history section is about 9 feet of books. Out of those almost half seem to be named History of Russia . This includes 8 copies of Rombaud's History of Russia (both in French and in English) and 6 copies of Riasonovsky's History of RUssia. There are a few books on the early christianization of Russia, but somebody else alreadyy chose that topic so they're all checked out and I'm not enough of an ass to put in a request for them. To make matters worse, nothing in the entire section seems to have a copywrite later than 1972. Biased interpretations of Russian history? More than a little...
Of what's left, everything pertinent to Kieven Russia seems to be written by George Vernadsky. This makes it difficult to find 2 works that are different enough to compare. Yes, I already thought of comparing how he deals with the subject in two works written at different times. Unfortunately, from what I've read so far he doesn't change much.
The end result? At the moment I don't have enough for a mediocre paper, let alone a good one. I've exhauseted all of the libraries in the area. The result of all of this is that whatever books I'm gonna use I'm probably going to have to buy on Amazon. That would be easy if I knew what I was looking for but I don't and most of the books I've found on Amazon that were at all related to the subject were out of print so they didn't have excerpts, or for that matter reviews.
Hence why I'm asking for suggestions, at this point ANY suggestions. If I don't find anything in the next week I'll have to change my topic. I REALLY don't want to do that, mostly becasue I have no clue what I'd change it to but also because I'm genuinely interested in the subject.
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That's the one 8-)
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It's official, I'm begging for help on my final paper. The assignment is to pick a topic, then find three sources (books preferable although a GOOD movie will work for one) and compare the sources. NOT THE SUBJECT. WHat you're comparing is the way the authors treated the subject, the sources they used, the different conclusions they managed to come to with the same information, etc.
Sounds like cake right? And once I find some sources it should be... Problem is the sources I've been running into (with the exception of communist Russian treatment v. Nationalist German treatment) seem to be addressing the subject the same damned way over and over again... I"m sure this is a result of me pulling the wrong books off the shelf, but still... If by some bizzarre chance somebodies been reading Russian history recently and they've found something REALLY good, wanna clue me in?
I also need a subject for "Conspiracies and Secret Societies" to cover for the same parameters (gotta love having the same teacher for two classes.) Read anything good?
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An Arkham security tape of JOhn and Woodrue if memory serves...
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After reading enough Greek and Roman mythology to make my head spin I've come to the conclusion that gods who are part of a larger pantheon don't NEED consciences. It seems like they tend to have wives or pissed off relatives instead...
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I'll tell them to get your burger started :)
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I saw a thread at another board about the seediest bars they've ever been to and someone mentioned the Slurp N Burp in Moscow, Idaho! Is it really that bad (I think the motorcycle line kinda gives it away)...
Really depends on what you call bad.... It's old, my dad and his ROTC buddies used to hang out there when they were in college. It has that ingrained film of smoke and dust that a lot of bars do. You ge the impression that it'll never really be "clean," but you don't feel the urge to disinfect your glass before you use it. It's definitely not yuppy, I mean I dont think they've ever even heard of a micro brew and if you asked for an Alaskan Amber or a Moose Drool they'd probably laugh you out of the building. It's a little out of town so you get less of the polished "college kids out to have fun and flirt on a Friday night" and more of the older people going somewhere to get drunk. It is a bar, unlike most of the establishments in town which have SOMETHING for the 18 or olders to do usually (I mean who in their right mind in a college town is gonna give up the 18-20 market?) So in a way it has a slightly harsher attitude. Occasionally the cops get called and when they do it's usually for something a little more major than it would be at most of the establishments in town. A fist fight or something might break out, nut I don't remember ever hearing about anythign REALLY bad happening there...
All of that said, they've got the best hamburgers in town :) I don't know why they have the best hamburgers in town, and I'm not really certain I want to know what they do to them. I find it best not to ask. Instead I sit down, show the nice lady my ID, eat my hamburger with horseradish and try to decide if the tire tracks on the floor are from before last June or after...
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The First of the Fallen is God's excised conscience, and sat at his side as he created the universe and the angels that would eventually rebel and be cast down.
Lucifer is an angel who was booted out of Heaven for getting uppity. The First watched him Fall.
lol hooray, someone managed to say it succinctly! Three paragraphs is the shortest explination I could come up with and it was still confusing so I didn't post it... Proof once again that James is a god :)
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"There are those exquisite days that seem to drift by, like dandelions caught on a light summer breeze.
Then there are the rest of them--the ones that drift by like dandelions superglued to the arse end of a bull elephant."
Hellblazer #116
I dont' necessarily love it for the John Constantineness (yeah yeah, not a word. It's 3a.m. and it is if I say it is!) of the phrase, I just love that description :)
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The first of the fallen, as it states in the character bios on Straight to Hell, is a different individual from Lucifer.
In the world of Sandman (which seems to be generally accepted to be the same world as Hellblazer), there are three lords of hell. ("Preludes and Nocturnes") One of which is Lucifer. (the names of the other two elude me).
In Hellblazer, there are indeed three lords of hell, but The First is in place of Lucifer. ("Dangerous Habits") The first is also referred to at various points as the devil/satan. (satan i had assumed being Lucifer's other name).
In fact, the only discernable difference that I can make out between them is that in Sandman, Lucifer quit and gave up hell, ("Season of mists", i think), while the first appears to still be around. So what's going on? Are they the same person, despite what the character bios say?
The short version? No. First of the Fallen and Lucifer are two different entities. If you go to the "Thology of Hellblazer" thread the guys have done a pretty good job of trying to hash out the system (it gets complicated). In Hellblazer #83 First of the Fallen (who refers to himself as The Devil, slightly different than being Lucifer/Satan) gives his own personal backstory. You want it quoted?
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My favorite image was always from End of the Line (#67) Dillon's title page where John's stretched out on a grave passed out with a bottle in his hand and the rain just pelting down. It's depressing, but at the same time it just fits so well...
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AHAHAHAHA!
Hey, Angie, have you ever been to a bar in Moscow called the Slurp 'n Burp?
"Effective July 10th 2003 Motorcycles will no longer be allowed inside" slurp and burp? Frequently. My Dad was so excited when I turned 21 'cause it meant we could start going there for lunch when he visits :-)
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I don't know if we could support a whole thread!
Little bugger's sick by the way. Another ear infection. We were in the doctor's office and I was getting him dressed and said to Laurie, "Well, it's one damn thing after another."
She gave me that look and said, "When your son tells me it's 'one damn thing after another' I'm gonna blame you."
So I got that to look forward to.
You might get REALLLY lucky. My dad's best friend taught me to say "eat shit and die Dad" when I was about a year and a half old... Mom thought it was hillarious. :)
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*Looks up at his unkempt hair*
*looks down at his duvet (blanket) wrapped around him*
*considers the relative sleepyness of his eyes*
*brushes the three days stubble on his face*
*sips the hot chocolate in front of him*
*realises he doesnt have uni for another 3 months*
*grins*
I think I know what you mean AngieIs :happy: :cool:
I think you have it exactly! :)
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Oh, but cats don't read books. They think it's beneath their dignity.
Instead they sleep on them and learn by osmosis.
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I'm thinking of opening a subscription site where you can view pics of Chris for $9.99 a month.
Hmm, will there be a discount for forum members?
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Guest I think most of us would prefer for Conjob to live a long and basically wretched life, both in story and as the Hellblazer series. That said, if given the choice between John meeting an appropriate end, or seeing the series linger for years with a repetative nowhere storyline, I'd rather see him dead. Hell, I think John would probably agree with me.
At the moment we're very lucky. Carey's writing has been, in my opinion, superb and the stories are still going somewhere interesting. I want the Hellblazer series to continue for as long as it remains fresh and surprising, I don't like to see something I love staggering around half dead.
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I"m sure you look very nice in them, but I'm more disturbed by the concept of Fozzy being on a pair of panties, it just isn't right.
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Lazy Sunday mornings when you get up at no time in particular and just kinda wander around in jammies getting used to the idea of being awake. Maybe make yourself a cup of lovely smelling tea, curl up in front of your computer or find a comfy chair and a good book and just forget that you have to go to school tomorrow.
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What can I say, the muppets hold a very special place in my avatar's childhood. For some reason the idea of you draggin Fozzie into your world is a little frightening...
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Rogan's trying to sound like Fozzy?
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it's by me. i am trying not to sound like myself too much... :(
Hmm, then who ARE you trying to sound like?
You probably know this already but...
in Comics in other media
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ANd don't forget the American female audience's obsession with accents (yes, not all of the are British): Johnathan Rhys Meyers, Sean Connery, Mel Gibson, Russell Crowe, Jonny Lee Miller, Ewan McGregor, Ioan Gruffudd...
But of course that wouldn't appeal to their demographic at all :-)