Basically, there are about two options when it comes to Very Long Books, depending on the dimension of you bookshelf.
1) Push it as far back as possible into the shelf. The spine end is heavier than the leaves, so you want to make the center of gravity closer to the spine end. Make sure it’s well supported on either side with either other books or bookends.
2) Shelve it spine-down; all other rules apply regarding support.
However, the best way to shelve a long hardcover book?
Don’t.
Store it flat and fully supported, on a table or shelf.
Shelving a book that doesn’t fit on the shelf is asking for damage, either through natural warping or accidental bumping.
Thank you so much! This is actually super-helpful!
I can’t do coffee table or open storage with this many naughty cats around, and a lot of my shelves are the cheap kind that kid of bow in the middle over time, but I am pretty sure I can find a level place to lay it flat with only big flat books I barely use on or under it to prevent wear and tear.
Imagine that in every 1000 people, there is one complete fucking lunatic. And I don’t mean ‘are a little off’ I mean ‘imprint on characters so strongly they’d knife someone over them”
Complete fucking lunatics tend to feed on each other and form clusters that magnify their own lunacy and ability to do harm. So of course, a fandom with 1 lunatic is much less of a problem than a fandom with 1,000.
1. I was taught (in Washington State) that “garbage” is food waste, and “trash” is non-food. That’s why you have a garbage disposal, but a trash compacter.
2. In Massachusetts some people say “trash barrel” for any refuse container, even if it’s not remotely barrel-shaped.
3. You can read this image either as a dialect map, or a passing of judgement.
addie has been sending me pictures of the newspaper in her part of florida and it has me questioning the reality of the entire region. are you sure you’ve moved to a real place, I have texted her several times now. she is not sure.
[images: 1) a headline reading, “Colombia’s former anti-corruption chief pleads guilty to bribery scheme at Dolphin Mall” 2) an advertisement with the heading “IGUANAS TAKING OVER?” It features several pictures of iguanas and a list of places on one’s property that this company can get iguanas out of, which includes something called a SEA WALL. people out there need help to fight the IGUANAS in the SEA WALL like this is fucking pacific rim]
me: does the lake near your school have alligators in it addie:
they shoo the alligatos away if they show up me: …….. they what addie:
oh, animal control will come and catch giant reptiles/release elsewhere me: OH me:
when you said “they” shoo the alligators I was absolutely picturing school maintenance personnel chasing them with brooms
at this point I’m just like, SURE, heroic janitors steve irwin-ing their way across campus, that probably happens??? I legit have lost my sense of what the scale of realistic occurrences is when it comes to the alleged south florida area
I walk past this sign every day! DO NOT HARASS THE CROCODILES.
(As if the whole thing weren’t creepy enough, why is his hat a snake?!)
I wanted to learn more about this image… but there is nothing.
A search for “Goofy Golf Ball” “Goof Ball” and “Goofy Golf Ball Snake” and all variations thereof lead to links about halloween costumes and actual golf balls featuring Goofy.
So I searched the Disney wiki… and…
There is no 1993 variant of the character, much less one fused with a golfball.
And a reverse google search?
Four freakin results… one from twitter, the rest originating in some form to this very post! The biggest one? The one I’m reblogging right now!
What are you!? Why do you have a snake for a hat?! Are those arms or ears of flippers!
This image exists… that much is true… but the contents held within… doesn’t…
This is a window into an alternate timeline, a reality suggestive of our own but different… wrong…
A cursed image in it’s truest form, censored not only by the Walt Disney Company but by reality itself.
By pure coincidence, the right zeroes and ones that form our reality have manifested in this collection of pixels, seemingly presenting a moment from the not so distant past, but a past which is almost, but not quite, completely alien to our own.
I FOUND HIM
I FOUND THE GOOF
he’s apparently from a 1992 Disneyland parade called ‘The World According to Goofy’ which. still explains very little but at least he’s THERE
okay, but i think we’re all sleeping on the fact that in sort-of solving one mystery, we have opened countless others
what are these beings supposed to represent? did we find a grainy home video from another plane of reality? deliver us the truth
OP here! Quick bit of backdtory:
I scanned the original pic from an old issue of Storyboard Magazine. It was featured in an article about the Grand Opening of Disneyland’s Toontown.
There, among a large photo spread of buildings, fountains and rides that would never open and/or close almost immediately, was a photo the ‘Goof Ball’. What’s more, the photo named him: Goofball!
Every other walk-around character they brought out for the ribbon-cutting was your average, everyday Mickey, Minnie, Donald, etc. And then there was the Goofball.
Someone in costuming was a genius that day.
Oh, and that ‘World According to Goofy’ parade is a treasure trove of WTF Disney riches. Take, for instance, this photo of ‘Clarapatra: Cow of the Nile’…
Story of a mean old aunt who won’t share her food with her nieces and nephews but then……..happy ever after. Three minutes of something different. (The little ones are persistent little shits, too.)
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