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[tealin]

It is surprisingly awkward to share one's morning commute with someone who was once a good friend but is now on the opposite side of a small but significant schism.
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One of my colleagues is quite ... er ... fond of the way I draw one of the characters in the show. I find this amusingly ironic, or perhaps ironically amusing, and maybe also fitting, considering my personal history with drawings.
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When at the library the other day (without my coat, you may recall), I picked up the audio version of Mattimeo. "Obsessed" is too mild a word to describe my relationship to the Redwall books in middle school and I was surprised that, despite the slightly annoying voice cast, I still really really like this book. I also still have many of the key phrases memorized.... it's like going back and watching a movie you watched over and over again as a child... Unfortunately I'm no better at drawing the characters now than I was when I was 14. Sigh.

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[twirlynoodle.livejournal.com]

Redwall: YA fantasy series by Brian Jacques (nothing to do with Jacques) which is somewhere between Watership Down and Lord of the Rings in that it is fairly realistic except that all the characters are talking animals. "Realistic" here means "lacking magical elements" ... it is sort of vaguely Dark-Ages-ish and quite swashbuckling. Quests, riddles, villains, heroes, buckles, swashes... good stuff. Total fluff escapist entertainment, but good. Named for its principal location, Redwall Abbey, which, though it has an "Order," appears to have no religious tradition at all.

Don't watch the cartoons.