In case you didn't know [Wiki] ...

Incunabulum (plural incunabula) is the Latin for swaddling clothes or cradle, and can refer to "the earliest stages or first traces in the development of anything."[1] In printing, an incunabulum is a book, or even a single sheet of text,[2] that was printed — not handwritten — before the year 1501 in Europe, at a time when some fastidious book-collectors eschewed printed books in their personal libraries.

Golden Wait & Rocket- YES.on all counts. Still totally worth it.
Frijoles used to be great but lately the food's been bad. Drinks are still great.
Hon's regular items are pretty reasonable, actually. And the fam does love it!
MY $.02.

I know this is low on the priority list for a lot of folks in Hampden, but I like seats that are comfortable and that match each other. The last time I was at Holy Frijoles, I was in a booth seat that (I swear) had extra large springs poking almost through the green Naugahyde. (And who knew that was in the spell checker!)

Amanda ... curiously, the word incunabulum does not appear (nor its cognates) in what many would think would be the locus classicus reference, Luke 2:7. Who knew?

You totally lost me Canon. My family's version of Catholic was to show up at mass most Sundays until the kids could run faster than the parents. There was no Bible reading – ever. We did watch Ben Hur every Easter, but mostly for the chariot races. I always saw religion as something shameful that my parents forced me to participate in like tap dance lessons.

Amanda C.--"Ben Hur" as an Easter tradition? How did that get started?

I remember Ben Hur being on regular TV every Easter. Or was it The Sound of Music? Or the Wizard of Oz? I think the Wiazrd of Oz probably had more influence on me as a child than the Bible.

incunabulum

When I see this word, I read - and hear - Incubus which was a really cheesy movie/video to which the XH was addicted.

Eve, you need to hang out with rare book librarians more!

Amanda C., where I grew up we got The Wizard of Oz every Christmas, but I have zero memory of Ben Hur at any holiday.

I think I get the Ben Hur thing at Easter. Though I haven't seen it in decades, I think I remember a scene where the son of Hur (that would be the "ben") meets up for a bit with Jesus. I think the movie went into a kind of rotation with "The Greatest Story Ever Told" and "The Ten Commandments," though they sometimes were programmed during Holy Week, instead of Easter proper. There are interesting food scenes in each of them, by the way.

The Wizard of Oz still has more influence on me than the bible, Amanda C. As a matter of fact, I remember watching the Wizard of Oz on our old black and white tv and when Dorothy landed in Oz, I didn't even know it was in color until years later when we finally got a color tv!

There are many life's lessons in The Wizard of Oz, the best of course, "there's no place like home". True in my case, but not saying "home" was a good place!

Dahlink, I went to library school intending to become an archivist. However, during the great "holy crap, we have to get computers to serve our patrons better, anyone around here not terrified of them?" panic of the 1990's, I got traded to the automation team for a mint copy of DOS 3.3, still in the original shrink wrap.

I think the Wiazrd of Oz probably had more influence on me as a child than the Bible.

This explains so much...

....and your little dog, too!

My mother used to go on for hours about how the books were different from the Oz movie. This bored both of us horribly. My brother would wander off to put on my discarded dresses and sing Judy Garland songs into a spoon and I'd escape to the woods and daydream about Marie Osmond.

I have heard rumors that the book is much darker than the movie. I read Wicked and that was definitely dark.

Lissa, I thought you went to library school intending to become an anarchist. Perhaps that was the intention for undergrad?

No, I was an anarchist before deciding to become an archivist. The two go together fairly well, actually.

I find anarchist librarian to be the most ridiculous oxymoron ever. How do you sort the books? Random number generator?

anarchist librarian? funny

eh? antichrist, Lissa?

Anarchist doesn't mean chaos. It means not fond of artificial hierarchy, to grossly oversimplify. There is nothing wrong with organization, unless we are discussing my dining room table.

Owlie, I sort the books by running a serious of reindexing programs on the server.

I've been in some used book stores that seem to employ an anarchist sorting system.

Dewey....we don't need no stinkin Dewey.

RoCK, book stores don't use Dewey. I forget the name of the "organizational system" that is based on how bookstores arrange their books, but it is the latest trendy thing for rich libraries with more money than sense to do.

In order to be the antichrist, I'd have to be Christian, wouldn't I?

The books on my night stand are arranged by Dewey Decimal.

That is hardcore, Laura Lee.

My personal book collection is arranged by sarcasm.

In order to be the antichrist, I'd have to be Christian, wouldn't I?

Wouldn't you have to be anti-Christian?

I forget which recent discussion had all the sacrilegious stuff in it, so I'll just mention this here:

I played a gig with the mandolin orchestra on Sunday in a church up on York Road a bit above Woodbourne. It was a cool old stone church (which was reverberant to the point of making playing in it quite an adventure). There was a nice stone shelf sticking out of the wall behind and to the side of the altar. On this shelf were two dispensers of Purell. My irreverant nature compelled me to make jokes about the Holy Hand Sanitizer.

urh, LL, Dewey Decimal or dewy decimal? One is more erotic than the other and involves all ten digits.

I dated a guy named Dewey in college. Maybe that's why I hate the Dewey Decimal system. Real librarians prefer the Library of Congress classification system.

Dahlink, I prefer DDC. One has to love a system which tried to classify all knowledge. LC is just a random dog's breakfast of letters and numbers.

Hal, I like it.

In order to be anti-Christian, one has to buy in to the Christian world view, so an antichrist would have to be Christian in that sense.

Just want to say you all have made my morning.....better than reading whats going on in the world as a whole.
Oz was my daughter's favorite movie when she was 3. She watched it every day. I gave her a OZ birthday party and when she saw the stockings underneath her little playhouse as we galloped down the yellow brick road she lost it bigtime.! Good times.

This is Dining@Large topic drift at its best...

Hi Kate. I love your tweets.

Yes Lissa, anti-christ involves a ticket to the show. Everything you hate gives power to the object of hatred. I always thought that Nietzsche was one of the most important Christians ever because the mirror that shows the opposite holds the original. Oh chirst my head hurts. Freakin' bachlorette party last night. Hangin' with the Highlandtown honeys. Ugh, daddy needs some Advil.

Actually, the Chuck Heston movie that's on TV every Passover is The Ten Commandments. Ben Hur is on often, but TTC is on EVERY year.

Hi Kate. I love your tweets.

That's looks suggestive now. It wasn't meant to be.

OMG ... have you discovered the MrDeity.com videos? There's a cute bit of dialog between Mr. Deity and Lucy (Lucifer!) about Nietzsche in the "Tour de Hell" episode from season one.