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Arisia Take 2
Arisia was a bit of a blur. Not because I did a lot of things, or that I got drunk a lot, because I don't drink. I still had a cold and I tried to take it easy. But somehow I don't feel like my memory was working quite up to speed. At any rate, I did do things ( Read more... ) -
Arisia
Attending my first Arisia. I still have a cold, which has progressed to the annoying cough stage. I don't want to be the annoying cougher in the audience ( Read more... ) -
Thoughts on Duotrope
Sigh. Now LiveJournal is trying to be all weird and new on me. I hate when sites do that (Google, I'm looking at you ( Read more... ) -
On Being a Geek
I don't know when I started to self-identify as a geek. It may have been as far back as junior high, when I was reading my way through every Star Trek tie-in novel I could get my hands on. It may not have been until later, like when I wore a Starfleet insignia pin the day Gene Roddenberry died. It was definitely by college when I joined strek-l, ( Read more... ) -
Thinky Thing
I've been reading this. I'm not sure what I think of it as a whole, but I know he's got the wrong end of the stick on steampunk. And I'm not even a big steampunk reader.
"Cowardice, Laziness and Irony: How Science Fiction Lost the Future" -
TV Reviews
Well, not really reviews. I was going to watch Revolution just so I could post about how much it sucked and in exactly which ways it sucked. But it was opposite other, more important things, so the Tivo has yet to record an episode. And it wanted to do it I think this weekend, but it didn't tell me what episode #. I wasn't going to watch random ( Read more... ) -
Feminist Linkees
It's been about a month, so here's some links!
I Am Not a Puzzle Box - Metaphor. If it doesn't make you think differently, you can use it to make other people think differently.
The Omniscient Breasts by Kate Elliott - About the (straight white able-bodied cisgendered) male gaze.
Adults Read YA - From the 'Duh' files, but they did a study and ( Read more... ) -
British Thoughts
I'm used to watching British television and being aware that I'm not their target audience. That, in many cases, they haven't even given a thought to the idea that I, an American, might be watching. And that I might even be watching hours after it was broadcast. So I'm used to say, being envious that I can't vote in Britain's Got Talent, or that I ( Read more... ) -
The Readercon Thing
I was going to post about Readercon first, but then the Chik-Fil-A (see previous rant) thing annoyed me more in the moment ( Read more... ) -
The Chik-Fil-A Thing
I wasn't going to post about it. Because frankly, I have never eaten there and never would, regardless of how they behaved. I'm vegetarian. Whatever crap they have on their menu that isn't isn't chicken, I can get at other places in the food court. And usually I'm in the food court on a Sunday, when they're closed. So basically I can say I'm ( Read more... )