And those teenage hangups are hard to beat

I had forgotten the thread in Katherine Kincaid's Beloved Bondage (1993) that now reads like Christian inspirational romance, but then again that is an occupational hazard of narratives set in early imperial Rome. I've seen Ben-Hur (1959), and Quo Vadis (1951), and keep having to double-check about The Robe (1953). Now I want to re-read I, Claudius (1934), which thanks to the exigencies of my current life is in storage when it used to be one of the books I always unpacked first. In tenth grade, the majority of my friend group was reading Mercedes Lackey and I was reading Robert Graves. To each their id.

When you are gone, who will remember you?

Good autumn. Do you like donating to charity? Do you like candy corn? Would you like thirty pounds of candy corn? Then may I introduce you to Candy Corn Me! A Special Candy Corn Project by The Deadlands? The instructions are simple and the raffle is running through the end of the week. It's tzedakah and enough high-fructose corn syrup to send your teeth to Hades. Choose your food bank or charity and roll those bones.