I bet they really were controlled by CSM, too.

[melannen]

I've come to realize over the past few days that I will never truly comprehend the extent to which the Syndicate's elaborate brainwashing course, to which I was subjected as a small child, has warped my life and skewed my perceptions. That small group of men and women toiling in dark rooms, their names hidden, their contributions a highly guarded secret, have changed the course of American society in innumerable ways ...

(The Stratemeyer Syndicate, that is.)

So, the other day, I was cruising around LibraryThing.com, and I noticed that somebody from Singapore by the name of Mithril had snuck in and entered twice as many Bobbsey Twins books as I had. And to add insult to injury, he went through and rated them all 1/5 stars, single-handedly propelling Laura Lee Hope onto the front page as one of the site's lowest-rated authors.

This is not to be borne. I challenged him to a duel last week, which the coward man has avoided responding to by the crafty stratagem of not having logged in since then in order to see it. But! I shall not rest! This weekend I went through my Bobbsey Twins entries and got them in spit-n-polish condition in preparation for the coming war.

(Somehow, I find it not at all suprising that my first ever fandom was one with over a hundred years of history, three-and-a-half formal reboots, and continuity? What continuity? You think Marvel Time is confusing, try to figure out when Nan and Bert turned 9.)

So, yes. This is what my whole catalog will look like someday. Accurate and pretty and neat and fully filled out. Except with every book marked "read" and also reviewed, of course. :D

Nobody let me near a used book sale any time soon, please.

Comments

[beraht.livejournal.com]

I went through a hardcore Hardy Boys and Nancy Drew (and Archie Comics and choose your own adventure and Encyclopedia Brown and RL Stine and Christopher Pike..) phase when I was about ten years old and I have vague fuzzy feelings about that era. Those were the days.

[melannen.livejournal.com]

Have you tried re-erading them since? I get mixed results from that.

[beraht.livejournal.com]

God, no. I learned my nostalgia-lesson when I tried rewatching Thundercats about ten years ago when the Cartoon Network was re-airing them. Never again.

[stellar-dust.livejournal.com]

So.

PotC shows at 6:15 and 9:20. The Ant Bully supposedly opens nationwide on Friday, so unless Tally Ho wishes to lag behind the rest of the country, we should probably only count on being able to go Wednesday or/and Thursday night. Which train are you taking tomorrow and do you want to try for the 6:15? Or otherwise?

[melannen.livejournal.com]

I could make the 5:49 train. Or even the 5:35, if you can skip out on work that early. I dunno, d'you think we could make it to eh 6:15 from there?

And what happened to couch shopping?

[stellar-dust.livejournal.com]

I could almost definitely get out early enough to pick you up at 5:35. (We're talking Marc, right? Or metro? Metro, even leaving early I might not make it, and we'd be in full-out rush hour all the way back to Leesburg.) Either way we'd have a half-way decent chance of making the 6:15, slightly more likely if it's the Marc. Or we could do the 9:20 or go on Thursday evening.

Couch shopping is what we're doing Wednesday if we *don't* go to the 6:15 show. XD

[melannen.livejournal.com]

I thought we'd already decided it was going to be MARC? If it's metro I might be able to get there a bit earlier, say 4:30 or 5-ish, but MARC is fine.

Escpecially since I'm still trying to figure out how I'm going to pack. :-P

[stellar-dust.livejournal.com]

k. Marc is fine. The times you listed just seemed a little too close together for Marc trains, but I suppose it *is* rush hour.

[stellar-dust.livejournal.com]

'course, if you're metro-ing we could hit that giant thrift store, if it's open. ;D

btw, Captain Jack Sparrow will be winking at you all night long all weekend. He would not be dissuaded.

[(Anonymous)]

... what?
I may end up sleeping under your bed then. *shivers*

Metro might end up being the best option to get me *back*. We could stop at the thrift store then.

[stellar-dust.livejournal.com]

No room under my bed! Ha ha. Zombie!Mulder/Jack/Sally ftw!

Sunday night? Thrift store might not be open, but we can find out.

[stellar-dust.livejournal.com]

Hey, I can't get through to your cell phone - is it getting a signal?

Anyway, I'm gonna pick you up for lunch in a bit, say 45 minutes or so. I figure if they get to the apt and no one's there, they'll call, and we'll have our cells, or we/I can run out for a few minutes and let them in and stuff. Can't do lunch tomorrow because someone's planning a cookout, which I can't get clearance in time for you to come in and join us, so today's it.

We're going to a Mexican place on Catoctin Circle that I've never been to yet, so we'll see. d-:

Check your cell phone, cuz that's really odd.

[melannen.livejournal.com]

Possibly because I forgot to turn it *on*. :P

Okay, I doubt tll be a problem. They rarely get there at the beginning of the window anyway.

[stellar-dust.livejournal.com]

Actually, you forgot to turn it on *and* I didn't realize that your cell phone is long distance from work. d-: I did manage to reach your voice mail after I realized I need to hit '1'. So you have a silly voice mail message.

COUCH.

[erries.livejournal.com]

Hey! Mind if I add you to my friends list? I feel like I know you pretty well already, between your sister's journal and xf_syndicate and now phile_files. :P

[melannen.livejournal.com]

Sure!

Actually, I was just considering adding you, for exactly the same reason.