It came from Real Life

[Dr Archeville]

Scene: My sister (and her fiance) & I went to our Mom's house for Thanksgiving weekend. Mom's in the spare room checking her email, while my sister & I are in the living room; she's reading a magazine, I'm watching tv.

Me: [flipping through channels, finds Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King is on Encore] "Ooh."

[it's one of the big battle scenes, and an Orc just took a big bite out of some human's neck; Encore was showing the trilogy all weekend]

Sis: "Tch."

Me: "Hrm?"

Sis: "So you can watch this, but not Twilight?"

Me: "..."

Sis: "It's all the same, right?"

Me: "..."

Sis: "There's killing, and vampires, and a guy and a girl who can't be together, right?"

Me: "... I..."

[i turn to the spare room]

Me: "Mom, I have to kill [sister], okay?"

Mom [deadpan]: "Don't kill your sister, she's the only one who'll give me a grandchild."

[i turn back to my sister, who's sticking her tongue out at me]

Me: "..."

[sis gos back to her magazine, I watch the movie. A few moments later...]

Sis: "You know, the latest Twilight movie was more sci-fi-y..."

Me: "..."

Sis: "'cuz the wolves talked! It was crazy!"

Me: "..."

[Cube]

...

Uhh...

...

I'm just going to go here for a moment...

[Dr Archeville]

Last month Duke University (about an hour from where I live & work) unveiled three new collections for their libraries, donated by two brothers who'd been collecting for over 40 years.

The Edwin and Terry Murray Comic Book Collection (67,600 items)

The Edwin and Terry Murray Fanzine Collection (1,150 items)

The Edwin and Terry Murray Collection of Role-Playing Games (10,000 items; the largest collection of RPGs ever made available to scholars and the public!)

If you're ever down in Durham, NC, be sure to check it out!