# school day (blogs) — RSS Amplifier Recent posts from the 4 feeds in the RSS Amplifier directory that cover school day. Page: Feed: --- ## [Giving schoolchildren a proper monster education in 1976](https://www.papergreat.com/2026/08/giving-schoolchildren-proper-monster.html) _2026-08-20 · Chris Otto · Papergreat_ Fifty years ago, in our bicentennial year of 1976, Scholastic published an amazeballs guide to monsters. School was just cooler then, wasn't it? Movie monsters, mythical creatures and cryptids could be mixed into the lesson plans alongside multiplication tables, the metric system and spelling quizzes. I'm guessing Pennywise, Slender Man and the backrooms don't get that same treatment today, but… ## [Are you a lemon or a peach on the party line?](https://www.papergreat.com/2026/08/are-you-lemon-or-peach-on-party-line.html) _2026-08-19 · Chris Otto · Papergreat_ This is the last page of the July 1950 telephone directory for Kingsville, Texas . The Southwestern Bell Telelphone Company lists the do's and don'ts for the polite use of party line telephone service , which was still widespread in the United States at that point. You're a LEMON if, among other things, you refuse to give up the line during an emergency (and you could have been criminally charged,… ## [1986 computer game: "Come party with Jane Austen"](https://www.papergreat.com/2026/08/1986-computer-game-come-party-with-jane.html) _2026-08-18 · Chris Otto · Papergreat_ This quarter-page advertisement appears in the May 1986 issue of Computer Gaming World magazine, which features MicroLeague Baseball , Autoduel and Alter Ego , among other games, on its cover. It represents a bold move, for sure: Trying to cater to the segment of 1980s computer nerds who were just champing at the bit for a good Jane Austen game. Sold by New Mexico-based Berserker Works Ltd., Pride… ## [Radio Shack's "Getting Started with Color Basic"](https://www.papergreat.com/2026/08/radio-shacks-getting-started-with-color.html) _2026-08-17 · Chris Otto · Papergreat_ When I was an eighth-grader at Madeira Beach Middle School during the 1984-85 school year, I took an introduction to computers class taught by Joseph Ventimiglia. I think this was the textbook we used to learn about and program the TRS-80s that were stationed around the sides and back of the classroom with Color BASIC . We had to supply our own cassette tape to save and load our programs. I… ## [August & Postcrossing](https://www.papergreat.com/2026/08/august-postcrossing.html) _2026-08-16 · Chris Otto · Papergreat_ I received the above Postcrossing card a couple days ago in the mail. It had been mailed from Germany in late July, and its sender wrote: Hi Chris, I was very impressed about your profile & your philosophy about life & the world. I had to check twice if you're from America, as for me it doesn't sound like typical American values. Speaking of, I live in Cologne, Germany, but in memory of the attack… ## [I'm late to talking about Watanare.](https://mithrandirolorin.blogspot.com/2026/08/im-late-to-talking-about-watanare.html) _2026-08-15 · Kuudere-Hime · Kuudere-Hime's Otaku Blog_ Full name There's no freaking way I'll be your Lover! Unless... This was somewhat hyped in 2025, but that it was going for an actual Poly resolution was not something I recalled coming up. As much as I am a long time Yuri fan I have spent the last few years feeling less obligated to watch every Yuri, especially when so many are still not even being Dubbed. I have talked on this blog before about… ## [School Days](https://sherrymagill.substack.com/p/school-days) _2026-08-14 · Sherry Magill · JaxLookout Redux_ School days, school days, dear old gold-en rule-days . ## [Lucky Star is set in 2006](https://mithrandirolorin.blogspot.com/2026/08/lucky-star-is-set-in-2006.html) _2026-08-11 · Kuudere-Hime · Kuudere-Hime's Otaku Blog_ I find it interesting how many YouTube videos about Lucky Star the 2007 TV Anime as being a time capsule depicting what Otaku Culture was like in 2007. But the show isn't set in 2007, it's clearly set in 2006. The first season of The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya is clearly currently airing, one scene depicting Konota's reaction to the episode Someday in The Rain which aired May 28th 2006, neither… ## [The Ribbon Hero is a Masterpiece](https://mithrandirolorin.blogspot.com/2026/08/the-ribbon-hero-is-masterpiece.html) _2026-08-08 · Kuudere-Hime · Kuudere-Hime's Otaku Blog_ It more then lived up the Hype. It made me Cry more then once. I don't have the ability to judge it as an adaptation, I don't think adaptation is the best word anymore, more like Reimagining. It does justice to the legacy of the original in exactly the metatextual way I was hoping. There is no exposition about Saphir having a Heart of Both a Boy and a Girl, but she is still called a Knight, from… ## [Imagine There's No . . .](https://sherrymagill.substack.com/p/imagine-theres-no-72a) _2026-08-07 · Sherry Magill · JaxLookout Redux_ City of Jacksonville Budget Exercise ## [Auto-trade Cross-Exchange Gaps (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/l52WBoLKRvzB) _2026-08-07 · **Sponsored**_ Find cross-exchange spreads, backtest strategies, and execute automatically with risk controls. ## [The Ninth Jedi is what the Sequel Trilogy could have been.](https://mithrandirolorin.blogspot.com/2026/08/the-ninth-jedi-is-what-sequel-trilogy.html) _2026-08-06 · Kuudere-Hime · Kuudere-Hime's Otaku Blog_ It manages to do much better the seeds of compelling new ideas The Sequel Trilogy introduced and squandered, but without all the falling back onto wanting to also be an OT Remake. The sequel trilogy wanted us to believe that Kylo Ren wasn't a Sith but something different, but no meaningful distinction was ever made. Nawaan in The Ninth Jedi is the opposite of a Sith, while the Sith are all about… ## [Code Geass and Genre](https://mithrandirolorin.blogspot.com/2026/08/code-geass-and-genre.html) _2026-08-04 · Kuudere-Hime · Kuudere-Hime's Otaku Blog_ When discussing why I feel April 2006 through March 2007 can be considered the best year of Anime I referred to Code Geass as an important Anime that transcends Genre rather than as one of the shows I consider the best of its Genre. And I felt like elaborating on that. As an Anime with a consistent spot in my top 10 since I first got into it, I feel I can safely call it my favorite Anime that can… ## [Book cover: "The Ghost Hunter's Road Book"](https://www.papergreat.com/2026/08/book-cover-ghost-hunters-road-book.html) _2026-08-02 · Chris Otto · Papergreat_ Title: The Ghost Hunter's Road Book Author: John Harries. According to the blurb on the back cover: "John Harries has been a full-time writer since the war, in which he served with the R.A.F. A specialist in travel, he has visited every corner of the British Isles in search of the unusual and tourist-appeal material and currently lives in the Chiltern Hills, within audible distance of one of the… ## [Detective Conan Dubbed episodes for August.](https://mithrandirolorin.blogspot.com/2026/08/detective-conan-dubbed-episodes-for.html) _2026-08-01 · Kuudere-Hime · Kuudere-Hime's Otaku Blog_ My prediction of what episodes would be included in the second half of the FBI collection were partly correct but not entirely. Ayu's Tumblr Post hasn't updated the Watch order yet but I'm sure she will. https://matchaandmayhem.tumblr.com/post/799001080524570624/detco-dub-order \[Update: It's updated now.\] If I have any criticism it's the decision to pronounce Yaiba as Yaiber. Now that I'm 40 I… ## [The City Money Debate](https://sherrymagill.substack.com/p/the-city-money-debate) _2026-07-31 · Sherry Magill · JaxLookout Redux_ Jacksonville's Competing Visions: Core v Discretionary ## [Poe-fect summer snapshot](https://www.papergreat.com/2026/07/poe-fect-summer-snapshot.html) _2026-07-29 · Chris Otto · Papergreat_ This is probably the best photo I'll take in 2026. Cats Spice , left, and Smoky , right, are looking out the kitchen window at Poe the fledgling raven, who is sitting on the outside table to stay cool in the blazing heat and/or get my attention so I'll bring him/her some Temptations cat treats. Sitting in the sink and looking directly at me, annoyed, is Monkey , who wants me to turn the faucet on… ## [WKBS-TV bumper-palooza](https://www.papergreat.com/2026/07/wkbs-tv-bumper-palooza.html) _2026-07-26 · Chris Otto · Papergreat_ I'm in a Facebook group in which folks share memories of the old WKBS-TV (Channel 48) out of Burlington, New Jersey, and Philadelphia. (I've mentioned this group before on Papergreat.) In recent months, users have been sharing and commenting upon a wide variety of bumpers that were used by the station, mostly in the 1970s. I want to reshare them here for posterity, to give them a greater… ## [THE FRANCHISE](https://sherrymagill.substack.com/p/the-franchise) _2026-07-24 · Sherry Magill · JaxLookout Redux_ A Big F-ing Deal ## [Code Geass, Nina and Racism](https://mithrandirolorin.blogspot.com/2026/07/code-geass-nina-and-racism.html) _2026-07-19 · Kuudere-Hime · Kuudere-Hime's Otaku Blog_ Nina Einstein is by the end of the R2 not at all Racist anymore. Which is not unique to her, the show is filled with Britannian characters who were being quite racist to the Japanese early in the show and aren’t at all anymore by the end. None of them have a particular moment where they repent of their past racism and denounce it, it simply becomes apparent that they clearly aren’t racist anymore.… ## [Book cover: "The Haunted Mountain" by Mollie Hunter](https://www.papergreat.com/2026/07/book-cover-haunted-mountain-by-mollie.html) _2026-07-19 · Chris Otto · Papergreat_ Sorry it's been so long between posts. 1 Title: The Haunted Mountain Author: Mollie Hunter (1922-2012). Her full name was Maureen Mollie Hunter McIlwraith and she was known for her fantasy-tinged tales that are inspired by Scottish history or folklore. Her 2012 obituary in The Scotsman notes: "She produced most of her books from her home in Milton, a small village near Drumnadrochit in the… ## [Play Both Sides Of The Lie (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/G9OKfNjizBXD) _2026-07-19 · **Sponsored**_ Two operatives, one manufactured war — uncover the Complete Truth after both campaigns. ## [Magic Number Three](https://sherrymagill.substack.com/p/magic-number-three) _2026-07-17 · Sherry Magill · JaxLookout Redux_ Florida's Constitutional Amendment Three ## [The many John Carters of Anime.](https://mithrandirolorin.blogspot.com/2026/07/the-many-john-carters-of-anime.html) _2026-07-15 · Kuudere-Hime · Kuudere-Hime's Otaku Blog_ John Carter is the name of a 2012 film adapted from a 1912 Pulp Sci-Fi series originally titled A Princess of Mars but it and it's sequels are often called the Barsoom series. The way this movie was seen as so generic despite how it's source material predates everything it was seen as derivative of has made it a euphemism in my mind for all similar scenarios, something highly influential that… ## ["What Goes Around Comes Around"](https://sherrymagill.substack.com/p/what-goes-around-comes-around) _2026-07-10 · Sherry Magill · JaxLookout Redux_ My Guy Fizzle ## [Was 1990-2004 the Peak era for Fantasy?](https://mithrandirolorin.blogspot.com/2026/07/was-1990-2004-peak-era-for-fantasy.html) _2026-07-08 · Kuudere-Hime · Kuudere-Hime's Otaku Blog_ I made a prior post inspired by a BookTuber named EverymanReads where he argued for that. https://mithrandirolorin.blogspot.com/2026/02/booktuber-overing-classic-fantasy-novels.html There we were talking just in the context of Prose Novels. Looking beyond that the case becomes even stronger. For movies we have Hook, Army of Darkness , Peter Jacksons' LOTR Adaptations and the first two Star Wars… ## [Two-Five-Oh](https://sherrymagill.substack.com/p/two-five-oh) _2026-07-03 · Sherry Magill · JaxLookout Redux_ Born Again Are We? ## [Otome VIllainess Anime defy a certain common narrative.](https://mithrandirolorin.blogspot.com/2026/07/otome-villainess-anime-defy-certain.html) _2026-07-01 · Kuudere-Hime · Kuudere-Hime's Otaku Blog_ I’ve done a post on why I technically have beef with the starting premise of the genre , and another where I explain why I do enjoy some of these shows regardless of that . But today I want to discuss how the history of this sub-sub genre goes against certain common narratives about the relationship between trend setters and trend followers. It’s a conventional wisdom I often personally disagree… ## [Who’s The Boss?](https://sherrymagill.substack.com/p/whos-the-boss) _2026-06-19 · Sherry Magill · JaxLookout Redux_ The Great Reveal ## [Snapshot & memories: Down the shore](https://www.papergreat.com/2026/06/snapshot-memories-down-shore.html) _2026-06-16 · Chris Otto · Papergreat_ I'm estimating that this photo is from 1978 or 1979. My sister Adriane and I are at the Stone Harbor, New Jersey , beach house of our friends from Delaware County , the Mancills. We look very spiffy in our matching sweaters, which tell us that this wasn't taken in the middle of the summer. I don't know if I can say anything nice about either of our pants, though. I have three specific… ## [Why Can't We Be Friends?](https://sherrymagill.substack.com/p/why-cant-we-be-friends) _2026-06-12 · Sherry Magill · JaxLookout Redux_ Tallahassee's Middle Finger ## [Meet Claude, the AI assistant (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/3NqFuRW5ixcH) _2026-06-12 · **Sponsored**_ Conversational AI to answer questions, brainstorm ideas, and help with tasks. ## [Calm Before the Storm](https://sherrymagill.substack.com/p/calm-before-the-storm) _2026-06-05 · Sherry Magill · JaxLookout Redux_ JEA My Guy About to Get Interesting