This page is under construction. At present, it contains only a couple of terms. It will grow substantially as I have time to add to it.
Below is a glossary of terms and concepts that may be helpful in understanding some of the content contained in the Living Room Times newspaper archives from 1993-1999.
Adollya: Many of the 7th grade issues, and some from 8th grade, heavily reference “Adollya.” Adollya is a name for the imaginary “stuffed animal nation” that I invented as a little kid, and continued to play around with throughout my childhood.
The “nation” is the house on Hartford Avenue where I grew up, and the rooms in the house are Adollyan “states,” always referred to as proper names — e.g., Living Room, Dining Room, Cellar, etc. “Adollya” has an elaborate history (which I will not detail here) and a detailed political structure, led by a president who is elected every two years. Various members of the Adollyan national government and bureaucracy are referenced — and sometimes quoted — in old Times issues, most notably then-President Sealy and Sebastian, the “chaircrab” of the Adollyan Weather Service.
The Living Room Times was originally conceived of as an Adollyan publication, written for and about the stuffed animals (or “dollies”) of Adollya. This, of course, allowed me to completely invent news stories out of whole cloth. (Paging Jayson Blair!) Only after the Times began to gain readership at Martin Kellogg did I begin to shift its focus to real school news rather than imaginary dolly news. Even then, however, “dolly elections” — which are a somewhat different phenomenon than Adollyan elections, as discussed below — continued to be prominent in the LRT’s pages throughout eighth grade.
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