glass_cats

cross-reference bingo!

ex_truepenn wrote in glass_cats May 12, 2011 12:12

So at LepreCon this weekend, probably at the "Killing Your Characters" panel, matociquala was talking about the Demon Logging Truck that cruises Hollywood movies looking for convenient victims, and I said, "It's the truck from Duel!"

There's a problem with this, of course, in that at the end of Duel, the truck goes over a cliff, and we see the wreckage. ( Read more... )

Criminal Minds: Angels in the Architecture

ex_truepenn wrote in glass_cats Mar 06, 2007 14:53

( spoilers and geekery for Criminal Minds through Fear and Loathing (2.16) )

judeomumblechristian, pop culture, literary criticism, god is an iron

We're still talking about David Bowie.

ex_truepenn wrote in glass_cats Sep 27, 2006 12:37

matociquala: Can I love him for admitting that he's only scared about an album if he thinks it's a good one?

truepenny: Yes. And that if he's not scared about it, he's doing something wrong. Totally. ::loff::

matociquala: Yes ( Read more... )

pop culture, literary criticism, genderfuck, wicked faeries

how to become the best there is at what you do.

matociquala wrote in glass_cats Sep 07, 2006 22:36

truepennyThere's a thing in the August Scientific American about how and why chess grandmasters become chess grandmasters ( Read more... )

alchemy

ex_truepenn wrote in glass_cats Jun 27, 2006 17:40

truepenny: Writers' brains are an infinite series of alchemical laboratories, all busily engaged in the process of turning lead into gold ( Read more... )

And now, we skew the sample.

matociquala wrote in glass_cats May 22, 2006 11:54

truepenny and I are amused to note that the livejournal writerblog book-buying demographic is, in fact, a large enough percentage of the Amazon userbase that the "better together" function has autolumped truepenny and naominovik together, and myself and paperskyWe can only presume that this is because our loyal livejournal pals are actually buying enough books to essentially ( Read more... )

now *there's* a demographic

Secrets and Mysteries

ex_truepenn wrote in glass_cats May 18, 2006 20:52

CAIN: Are you looking for a mystery or a secret?
ABBY: I ... I don't know. Is there a difference?
CAIN: Of COURSE there's a difference! Mysteries are wonders that you can ponder and share. Secrets are a burden to carry ALONE!

--Swamp Thing 33, "Abandoned Houses"
(collected in Swamp Thing: Love and Death)

A secret is something the reader is not ( Read more... )

put down your binary thinking, and nobody gets hurt

ex_truepenn wrote in glass_cats Apr 22, 2006 14:45

for blog against heteronormativity day

That was in another country, and besides, the wench is dead.
--Christopher Marlowe, The Jew of Malta

That was another wench, and besides, the country's dead.
--?

truepenny: The hardest thing about studying history, whether for business or pleasure or both, is wrenching yourself out of the mindset you ( Read more... )

Myth-making: Chicago 1924

ex_truepenn wrote in glass_cats Apr 20, 2006 10:58

I've been listening to the soundtrack for Chicago a lot recently.

Because it's how my brain works, I looked up the real-life trials the musical is based on, and I discovered something interesting. The trials of Beulah Annan (Roxie Hart) and Belva Gaertner (Velma Kelly) overlapped with the Leopold and Loeb case. A woman named Maurine Dallas ( Read more... )

Seraphs, Cherubs, Thrones; Dominations, Virtues, Powers; Principalities, Archangels, and Angels.

matociquala wrote in glass_cats Apr 13, 2006 17:34

I'm reading E. M. W. Tillyard's The Elizabethan World Picture, which isn't so much teaching me anything I didn't already know, as illuminating some things I did know in new and useful ways. For example, I've just finally come to understand that my intellectual appreciations of Tyge Brahe and of Kit Marlowe are linked. Not y their accomplishments, ( Read more... )

rengeekery, 52 book challenge