So, after counselling today, I'm trying an experiment. For the next three weeks, I'm not going to talk about certain types of IoD stuff. I am totally happy to talk about:

- creative stuff, like the awesome things dashism is doing for Southampton Geist ( Read more... )

So, someone has three volumes of Age of Bronze, and it isn't annwfyn. Also, I think someone's still got my copy of Njal's Saga. Anyone?

Last couple of weeks:

Move was accomplished, with the assistance of unifex, bakela666, slick_mink, thelorax42, blane_firewing, lslaw, ebb, and I'm sure at least one person I've left off the list. New flat is a substantial improvement, with corresponding substantial improvement in state of mind ( Read more... )

If you would like any of the following, speak up and suggest a way of getting it to you:

Ben Rogers, Beef and Liberty
Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Duber, Freakonomics
Randall Kennedy, Nigger: the Strange Career of a Troublesome Word
Alec R. Vidler, 20th Century Defenders of the Faith
Alan Furst, Dark Voyage
Iain Banks, Canal DreamsJonathan K. ( Read more... )

In further brains news, I'm supposed to be doing things that reinforce my 'values' -- in faerierhona's accurate phrase, things that make me feel like myself ( Read more... )

According to the nice man at the crazyhouse, I have 'mild depression' and 'mild anxiety'.

I find that both comforting and unsettling.

OK, I have finished the review of Hitler's Holy Relics, simultaneously less loony and more interesting than it promised to be. I'm thinking of putting in a request for another book when I send in the review. Any recommendations? dashism suggested the Kirkpatrick, and it seemed to work out well!

Also, does anyone want some Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology publications? They're just little books, but with some good photos. I have 3 each of World Prehistory, Metal in Africa, and The Cambridge Region and British Archaeology.

So, more purging of the bookshelves. I still have The Lammas Field for badgersandjam and Psychotic Reactions and Carburetor Dung for raggedy_man, so if you guys can get them from me, that would be much appreciated.

I also have, going to good homes -- or a charity shop if not claimed soon:

Pistoleros! I: 1918 by Farguhar McHarg
Mountains of the Mind by Robert McFarlane
( Read more... )

( Brains: progress report )