threeplusfire: (garnet)
three ([personal profile] threeplusfire) wrote2006-09-29 06:16 pm

various things from lunch boxes to prison justice

Today I ordered a fancy insulated lunch box. This one actually, in green. I want to buy tiny bottles of champagne and some caviar to eat from it. Hah. Changing my diet is a serious pain in the ass, and will hopefully be worth it at some point. There was cake at work, but none for me. I was sad. Eating actual breakfast and lunch makes me so much more hungry during the day, so I'm hoping I can pack my fancy new lunch box with healthy snack type things.

Miss Natalie, always a font of knowledge, theorized the book I was looking for was Children of the Dust. I'm pretty sure she is right. Of course, I can't figure it out because all the copies seem a bit expensive. Damn it.

From the Associated Press Wire this afternoon:
An inmate serving a life sentence for molesting and murdering a 10-year-old girl named Katie in 2005 was apparently forcibly tattooed across the forehead with the words “Katie’s Revenge ”by a fellow prisoner, the authorities say. The inmate, Anthony R. Stockelman, 39, was removed from the general prison population for his safety last weekend after the authorities discovered the tattoo, officials said. Prison officials said an inmate had been identified as a suspect.

All I can say is HAH!!! I somehow doubt laser tattoo removal will be offered.

[identity profile] radiumhead.livejournal.com 2006-09-29 11:47 pm (UTC)(link)
Holy shit! There was a movie with Gina Gershon called "Prey for Rock N Roll", they did the same thing, pretty much.

They tatooed "rapist" on some guy's head.

[identity profile] calledmara.livejournal.com 2006-09-30 12:12 am (UTC)(link)
According to WorldCat Austin Public Library owns that book.
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[personal profile] melebeth 2006-09-30 03:09 am (UTC)(link)
ABEbooks.com (my favorite source for OOP books) has several $1 copies of a book of that title by Clancy Carlisle. I don't know if that's the RIGHT book, but...

[identity profile] tsarina.livejournal.com 2006-09-30 01:50 pm (UTC)(link)
It's weird there seem to be lots of books under that title. I'll need to check ABE for the Louise Lawrence version.

[identity profile] bronchitikat.livejournal.com 2006-09-30 11:24 am (UTC)(link)
VERY Flash lunchbox. See why you wanted champagne & caviar to go in it. Does it come complete with napkin, sorry, fabric serviette?

& I second the comments abt the local Library or second-hand bookshops for sourcing reading material.

For that matter, I picked up a very nice copy of "Great Expectations" from a pine furniture shop. They'd been using it as props for dressing a set of bookshelves & were so amazed when I asked to buy that, rather than furniture, I got it for 50p (less than $1)!

[identity profile] tsarina.livejournal.com 2006-09-30 01:51 pm (UTC)(link)
It does indeed come with a cloth napkin, silverware, and tiny salt and pepper shakers. Very cute.