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Year of Reading (and Watching and Learning) Dangerously
So. I'm bored. I've gone through a lot of emotional ups and downs (many more downs than ups, I'm sorry to say) over the last couple of years, and, consequently, been living way too much in my head with way too little external input. My habits of thought and emotion have deteriorated, and I've lost a lot of control over my moods and my thought ( Read more... ) -
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Is it just me or does it bother anyone else by how many more costumes and clothes for women than men are sexualized? Watching Masquerade at Convergence right now and so far most of the women's costumes are very short and very tight. Same with the costumes I've seen just walking around, and the art in the Art Show. Really? How necessary is that ( Read more... ) -
Pride & Prejudice as a purveyor of "ideal romance"
I'm always amazed to see people saying that Jane Austen is the place to go for idealized romance and relationships. Now, everything but Pride and Prejudice (the example I'm going to use) is still on my to-be-read list, but I've seen movies of most of her other titles, and even if they're not exactly the same, I'm assuming they get across the main ( Read more... ) -
Roddenberry, Star Trek, Prejudice, and Conflict
Articles like this "Gene Roddenberry Wouldn't Tolerate Prejudice Against Klingons" from io9 really bother me. Specifically the issues with Roddenberry believing in the perfectibility of humanity and there being no conflict in the original Trek concept.
Nicholas Meyer says: "So VI is a film in which the crew of the Enterprise has all kinds of ( Read more... ) -
Delicious
I have updated my Delicious account, which you can find here, if you're interested: http://www.delicious.com/blissthisway.
Lots of fic from various fandoms, some vids - fan and not, and other miscellaneous things that have caught my attention.
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Con!
I'm sitting in the Link lounge at the Sheraton South attending CONvergence, a great fan-run SciFi convention that we attend every year with another couple and a friend. This year, I'm having to work at having fun. I'm still mourning my Mother - not surprising, she just died in April - and I'm having a hard time maintaining enthusiasm for much of ( Read more... ) -
First Cybermen
So, I recently watched "The Tenth Planet," which is a Doctor Who serial featuring the First Doctor. Not a bad story over all, although one might wonder why most of it was set at the South Pole, but it was the first appearance of the Cybermen and the first regeneration story, both of which make this an important serial.
I must confess that what ( Read more... ) -
The Blue and the Gray
I just watched The Blue and the Gray miniseries from 1982 (for the first time since 1982, I believe) and enjoyed it. There is a bit - OK a lot - of melodrama, and some really questionable acting, but it was co-written by Bruce Catton (who knew?) which added a lot. There were a number of scenes that helped round out what we tend to learn about the ( Read more... )