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How is this never included in character profile write-ups???
Apparently Mulder's holy trinity is Willie Mays, Frank Serpico, and Micah Hoffman, a fictional amalgamation of either John Jacobs*, Mark Rudd, or Howard Machtinger, and, as we find out during the course of episode 7x12 Hollywood A. D., Mark HofmannBut big Leftist Trainspotting fail** on the part of David Duchovny (who write the episode) because he ( Read more... ) -
omg brb dying
Also, in terms of narrativising my life, that’s one of the banes of bourgeois femininity, I’ve known so many women, in particular, get totally fucked over by living their lives as though they were the heroines of a family saga. You get these little scenarios and they don’t play out. Or you’re scared this might be the day when the plot twist happens ( Read more... ) -
being a citizen of the internet.
edit: and now of course the big news 5 days later is that wikipedia is also blacking out ( Read more... ) -
Really?
Sometimes I have to wonder. Why bother? Really. Everything that's happening has already happened. Everything that's being said has already been said. And nothing has changed*, except for parody and farce, which is arguably always worse ( Read more... ) -
Good Living Times at the 167
N: My biggest criticism of Workers' World can be summed up with one Mao quote.
N: "It is right to rebel against reactionaries."
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Remember that time I got really angry
(no, not that one or that one, the other time) about the conversation around ebooks and the death of print?
This is an amazing post: Across the Digital Divide. Around
This doesn't change the part where, every time a discussion of ebooks turns, seemingly inevitably, to "Print is dead, traditional publishing is dead, all smart authors should be ( Read more... ) -
I miss my cat.
Momentarily mistook grey shirt on the floor for Sam. It's been over three months now. He might not even recognize me when I get back to Toronto. Not that it would mean much either way since he's pretty feral and has shown more attachment to my old room than to me ( Read more... )
