Tag: Wednesday Dichotomy

I saw this fascinating question on Facebook yesterday, and I knew I had to ask it here. What book have you owned the longest? As in, which physical book has been in your collection the longest time?

For me, it’s this one:

That’s Once Upon A Galaxy by Alan Arnold, a diary of the making of Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back. I got this in 1980. In fact, I think I even know where I got it: the tiny bookstore at one end of the Beaverton Mall in Beaverton, OR. At least, that’s where I think I got it. I may be completely wrong on that score.

So, what’s yours? Remember: this is what physical book has been in your collection the longest. Not which book is oldest!

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What’s the best last line to a movie?

I can never decide, really, but I always seem to narrow it down to these three:

What are yours?

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Name your favorite…

HISTORICAL BOAT!

(I know, I’m reaching here. But boats!)

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What mechanical device in your home is the biggest pain in the ass?

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Ack! It’s Wednesday. Oops.

What’s your favorite astronomical item? (As in, planets, stars, comets, nebulae, et cetera.)

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Wouldn’t it be nice if I could get this frakking book done? Seriously, folks, this is getting out of hand. I honestly believed I’d be done a week ago, and yet here I am, still struggling to get the epilogue to work. It’s enormously frustrating.

So, how y’all doin’?

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Haven’t done one of these in a while, so I’ll break my radio silence (almost done with the book! almost done with the book!) to ask this: Assuming you like rice, what’s your favorite rice dish?

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Hey folks! Yup, another blogging slow-down. Work at The Store is calming back down a bit, so that’s good, but what isn’t calming down is Princesses III, which is now starting to really get into the meat of the climactic bits. And that’s great! But most of my writing fire is going there right now, and rightly so. Bear with me!

(In a procedural note, I’m thrilled to see that this third book is markedly different in tone and style and content from the second, which was likewise different from the first. I seem to be avoiding the trap of basically telling the same story three different times, and I’m deepening the mysteries and broadening the canvas each time out. Structurally, I’m hoping for each book to tell a slightly bigger story than the previous one, until by the end of the series, I’ve got a Galactic Epic going. We’ll see how that goes, but that’s the foundational idea, at least.)

Anyway, here’s a picture. This is a large-ish (about a foot tall) action figure of Han Solo that we’re selling at The Store. It looks, as I think you’ll agree, almost nothing like Harrison Ford. Problem is, it does look like somebody.

Who does this figure look like, folks?

(And note the Disney branding….)

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What do you think of April Fools Day? (I am not a fan.)

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Name a food you’ve tried in the last year for the first time, and your reaction.

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