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Happy Towel Day!
Yes, today is May 25th, the patron day of two of my fandoms, Discworld and Hitchhikers. I, for one, celebrate the latter, mostly because its hard to find lilacs in Ohio in May, and also because appreciating ones towel (or bandanna, in my case) is a much more positive experience that remembering a failed fictional revolution ( Read more... ) -
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So I'm having a bit of an up and down week. Up: the application for graduation has been pushed back, giving me time to see the impossible-to-find adviser and convince him to sign my papers. Down: Emotional instability and my therapist canceling my appointment next week. (My first visit was a month ago. My second has been rescheduled for the end of ( Read more... ) -
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I know I have a lot of fans and anti-fans of the show Sherlock on my time line, so I thought I'd reblog a comparison between the Sherlock/Watson dynamic and the Kirk/Spock/McCoy dynamic.
Its here.
I think the article gets the reason why the modern remakes of these shows work so well. I personally don't think the dynamic between Kirk and Spock in ( Read more... ) -
The Anti-Sherlock
You know what? I have tried writing this post three times, and its always gotten messed up somehow. So just assume that the other essays were better, and bear with me while I try to spit this out one. last. time.
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ooh, look, my first DW enraged rant.
So I was told yesterday that there is a term for people who send in grad-school apps like mine. "Snots", aka people with high GRE scores but low grades. The characteristics include arrogant idiots who think they can save the world and who haven't done the work and probably won't be able to cut it. Oh, and they're likely male, but women are over- ( Read more... ) -
Update the Second - cue excited ranting
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Hmm. Now that I'm slightly more sensible, lets see if I can actually articulate what I've been thinking about.
( long thoughts on Perelandra )
