I've seen this linked in a few places, and something about the way it's being described kind of annoys me.

Someone's taken the Simpsons, whom we all know as extremely stylized two-dimensional cartoons, and imagined them as creepier, less stylized three-dimensional figures. It takes some impressive photo-manipulation skills and the end result is ( Read more... )

I recently came across this essay, Creating the Innocent Killer by John Kessel, which is a really intriguing discussion of some of the ethical problems in and with Orson Scott Card’s Ender’s Game.

Like a lot of other people I know, I once loved the Ender series, but, rightly or wrongly, I began to like it less when I heard about Card’s extreme right ( Read more... )

This is an idea I had about a year ago. I can never do anything with it, because I can't draw mice and it's not a good enough idea to work around that fact, so I'm setting it free ( Read more... )

I had one of my periodic fits of initiative and signing up for things about a week ago, and before I’d recovered, I signed up to sell my baking in the Paradox, our charming yet efficient campus coffee shop. Apparently they don’t vet the bakers at all, because, despite my name, I haven’t baked anything since at least two years ago when I burned two ( Read more... )

I am in England, having a lovely time with my beautiful and talented bezzie mates Charlotte and Susie. They shower me with love and affection, and I only partially return their love because I am Canadian and reticent.

I have seen castles and old things, they speak to my soul.

Love and huggles,

Han-Span

So it’s been a while since I decided to do a reviewing thing here on lj. I haven’t been able to get it started for a while, NOT because I’m a useless procrastinator, but because everyone recommended TV shows, and, since TV Links closed down about a week after, I had no way to watch them. Other than spending money. But I decided not to do that.

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I've been thinking of ways I can update this thing more often, since I think I ought to. I don't want to write about my life, because by the time I write life events down here, I've already lived them, told everyone about them, and emailed the long-distance friends about them. It would be pretty boring to write about them again after that.

So my new ( Read more... )

So I've decided I might as well start updating this thing again, since I'm becoming incredibly bored this summer. For a while I had a horrific job, which many of you have heard me complain about, at this café that insanely added maple syrup to everything ( Read more... )

My birthday is tomorrow, and I just realised that, as far as Canada goes, this is the last milestone. I can vote, own property, be sued, sue someone, buy lottery tickets, buy alcohol, buy stocks, get married, be charged with a crime, and have a credit card. All grown up.

Merry Christmas! to those of you who are doing Christmas, and I hope the rest of you hada great day. I know it's the day after, but it still feels very much like the Christmas season. I got an ipod, which made me very happy, and also some nice clothes and books.

One of my books, The Scar by China Miéville, is a book that I feel strangely betrayed ( Read more... )