supervised reading/dog & pizza/pro Fanfic/name Prosper/end up badly

[Catlady (Rita Prince Winston) <catlady@wicca.net>]

Heidi Birthday! I missed it! *hugs Heidi*

Hey, here it's still Friday, so I'm not time for Rose habile_gal's 
birthday!

Pip :: twinkles cheerfully at Catlady::
<< Really? You let a five year old read any adult book they like? >>

As a child-free person, I rarely am in any position to supervise 
five-year-olds, but my reflex would be to do with them as my parents 
did with me: they can read any book that they find in my bookcases IF 
they show signs of using books carefully, not damaging them. That 
seems like what you said about your parents.

My friend Lee's mother had that principal, but put certain books on 
the top shelf (where Lee can't reach them even as an adult, unless 
he stands on a chair). Mostly anatomy textbooks from her college and 
a genteelly phrased "guidance for marital intimacy". She implied that 
the problem with the anatomy books was that cut-up people are yucky, 
rather than that they included the reproductive system. If I were 
going to arrange my bookcases for their effect on a person much 
younger and shorter than I, I think I would put the expensive art 
books with the color prints on the top shelves. To protect the books 
from the children, not the children from the books. And it is yucky 
books (histories of the Holocaust, not anatomy textbooks), rather 
than sexy books, that I might want to protect children from. That 
is a topic: should (some class of people) be protected from the 
knowledge that there are real horrors in the world?

Meira wrote:

<< I used to enjoy walking my dog late at night there because it is 
deserted, and there's no one there. One day, a car drives by and stops 
next to me and the people inside tell me "Why are you walking all 
alone in this part of the neighborhood for? Don't you know that you 
can get assaulted and raped here?" >> 

Only if your dog is so small that the would-be assailant thinks it 
unable to defend you.

<< i saw in the pizza place menu that they have a pineapple topping 
option, so *some* people might like it >>

Pineapple, mushroom, and Canadian bacon (ham) is *my* favorite. You 
don't have to watch me while I eat it. You being from Israel, maybe 
you are more squicked by the ham than the pineapple. (Later, Meira 
revealed that she is more squicked by the mushroom: <<both myself and 
my mother hate mushrooms with passion *g* >>.)

There used to be a lovely place around here that had a Dessert Pizza 
of peach slices and blueberries with cinnamon-sugar instead of tomato 
sauce *yum*.

Steve bboy_mn wrote:

<< I think JKR and her publishers should hold a contest to see who 
can write the best HP fan fiction, then compile the best of the best 
in various age catagories, and publish them in a book. >>

Marion Zimmer Bradley made her publisher, DAW, publish books of 
Darkover fanfic selected by her. 

Rachel wrote:

<< And I'm rather attached to the name Prosper now. >>

I never ever read The Thief Lord, but I've been dithering for many 
months over whether to name Pansy Parkinson's father Prosper or 
Prospect (either way, he's embarrassed by the unusual name and 
chooses to call himself by the more normal name Prospero).

Elkins wrote:

<< insisted that I would end up badly not because I was angry, but 
rather, because I was selfish, manipulative, inconsiderate and 
ungrateful, as well as probably incapable of real love; because I 
take, take, take, while never giving back a thing in return; >>

I thought that was the road to USAmerican success, not to ending up 
badly! *hugs Elkins*