Hello Corvallis Public Library! (The title makes sense in context, honest.) · 10:44pm Jul 7th, 2015
Hello my readers zany and zesty!
Sorry for jumping into everyone's feed like this considering I'm tagging a story, but there's good cause, I promise.
The incomparable Titanium Dragon[1] found a mention of Whom The Princesses Would Destroy in the wild! Please observe:
While dropping off a book at the Corvallis Public Library on my way home this afternoon, I happened to glance at a whiteboard set up with the question "What is your favorite book to re-read?" written on it. There were only a few responses - I saw Eragon on there (tch), along with a few other books I didn't recognize.
But then I noticed something rather interesting sitting over on the edge of the whiteboard.
Whom the Princesses Would Destroy by Ghost of Heraclitus.
In retrospect, I should have taken a picture with my cell phone, but I didn't think of it at the time.
Still, Ghost, you have at least one fan who apparently frequents the Corvallis Public Library.
Clearly everyone needs to start doing stuff like that when they go to the library.
So. Ahem. Unknown library patron, you are probably reading this (since I tagged the story) so let me just say...
Thank you! I'm glad you like my story. 
(And yes, I always answer comments. Even when they are made on whiteboards in countries I don't live in, on continents I've never visited. 
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[1] World's most hypoallergenic dragon! I also hear he has great strength-to-weight ratio.
That's ~45 minutes up the road from me. A surreal feeling.
That's where my grandparents lived.
3216813 I used to live in Corvallis until 2 weeks ago...
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Oregon is a state where the "Keep Oregon Weird" motto makes state-sponsored ads.
Corvallis is a city where there are more people with PHDs than who attend church on a weekly basis.
And I live in a town called Philomath, which means "love of learning" (for those of you not familiar, Corvallis means "heart of the valley"). Yes, we have two towns named in Latin right next to each other. In the United States. They were founded in the 1850s.
We're a bunch of weirdos.
There's actually a terrible legend out here in Oregon. It is said that there was a branch in the Oregon Trail, with a sign pointing along one way that read "To Oregon". Everyone who could read followed the sign, everyone else ended up in California.
WOW! That's pretty damn fantastic!
If this story made the Corvallis Public library best re-read whiteboard then I need to bloody well read it!
Prey tell me where can I find these much lauded pony words?
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Here.
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Thank you so much
Congrats, Ghost, on your fame spreading to read-world status!
Yay! Recognition!
First the Corvallis Public Library, then the WORLD!
Neat.
I wish I could say it was me, but the last time I visited Corvallis was almost a year ago now and I didn't stop by the library.
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Oregon sounds pretty interesting. Y'all got room for a defector from Alabama?
That said I'd have to be on the coast. One of the few bad parts about joining the Coast Guard, to say nothing of being King of Pirates.
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In fact, the people who invented it live less than a half hour away from my house.
We invented Talk Like a Pirate Day, too.
You never know, it could be a librarian!
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Brilliant! I must visit these beautifully weird fuckers and show the regal presence of the Pirate King to all of Oregon.
Word of mouth works! Even if it's randomly done via library whiteboard.
Oooooh. Horsefame is spilling over.
Imagine if this library went online to try and get a copy of this story for this library visitor...
Hee, that's cool.
Also, yay for the letter Z!
Ok, that's a bit awesome. I think that settles the question of city to visit for eclipse-gazing. (And we need to ensure the whiteboard's out again, so someone can put down A Total Eclipse Of The Fun before it starts.)
3216931 You live in Philomath? I used to work at that Safeway on Highway 20 on the way out there from Corvallis.
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Where is this from and where has it been all my life?
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Did you know an Alex Merrill when you worked there? If so, that was my brother.
It's a small world.
Or convenient writing.
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That would be pretty glorious.
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I don't believe so, but I worked at the gas station, which was its own little ghetto. This was back in 2008, too.
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Aha! Yeah, I can see that. That's about when my brother was there, IIRC, but... he worked inside the store.
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Basically the only time I was actually inside the store was at 4:30 AM to get the key to the gas station and ice for the water cooler.
You can tell him some guy on the internet thinks he was fancy-schmancy in 2008 for having air conditioning and a lower likelihood of gas-fumes-related cancer.
3220048 The Pirates of Penzance is a lovely English-language comic operetta by Gilbert and Sullivan. (The famous part among geekdom is the very fast, intricate 'patter' song "I am the very model of a modern Major-General".)
That bit what Horsey linked is from the film version, with Kevin Kline as the Pirate King and Angela Lansbury as Ruth.
Here from the same film is the stealth song, in which the pirates are ninjas.
They are very stealthy. Very.
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I never knew this existed! Thank you, I must view it at once.
I'm surprised the culprit hasn't been identified still. Who is it, I wonder...
Show yourself, great one! We have virtual hugs to give and internet cookies to share!
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Alas, I am sad to report that my hopes of pulling a repeat with eclipse-related stories right before the day of black sun have been dashed. If the whiteboard was still there, I couldn't find it in the scant few moments I was able to sneak over for, unless it was the one being used to post notices. At least I was lucky enough to visit while the sun was perfectly positioned to shine through the windows so as to fill the entryway with a rather impressive display of rainbow light; if anyone plans to visit in the next few days, I recommend trying to do so around two in the afternoon.
Here's hoping for a cloudless sky tomorrow morning!
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Indeed!