lolaraincoat

I'm not a boy band fan, but

lolaraincoat Sep 13, 2011 15:04

This will be of special interest to Justin Timberlake fans, but it's kind of brilliant even if you've never heard of him. Click here. NSFW by the way, but only a little bit ( Read more... )

fans, music

Canada is very very small and other tales from Spork U.

lolaraincoat Aug 30, 2011 00:18

So I was talking with a friend who teaches in another department at The University with the Name That Rhymes with Spork. She said, "I'm worried about this new Associate Dean ( Read more... )

canadiana, spork u.

Jack Layton's funeral & etc.

lolaraincoat Aug 27, 2011 17:46

I just got back from the funeral procession, and then the funeral, for Jack Layton. ( It was kind of amazing. )

canadiana, music, toronto

Following up on the NPR meme, a couple of you asked what my top 100 SF books would be, and since I can't ever answer a simple question straightforwardly, here's a list of SF-ish stories, books and series of books which I love, alphabetically by author because ranking seemed ridiculous ( Read more... )

science fiction

That NPR book meme

lolaraincoat Aug 14, 2011 22:57

So, here's my version of that meme that's going around based on the NPR listeners' list of favorite SF/F books. It's a dumb list for several reasons, such as failure to include many books I like, inclusion of many books I don't like one bit, overemphasis on dead white male authors of questionable politics and prose style, and inconsistency in ( Read more... )

science fiction

We are still watching Fringe but

lolaraincoat Jul 29, 2011 23:05

So here's how Fishwhistle and I watch TV: on DVDs, one show at a time, and a whole season at a gulp. We are nothing if not committed. We watched all of Dollhouse, even, which I believe makes us the only people in the whole wide world who did, including the show runners. We were complaining all the while, but we watched it. We are picky about what ( Read more... )

tv, garden

Amy Winehouse

lolaraincoat Jul 27, 2011 20:09

Nothing I could say about Amy Winehouse hasn't been said already, and better than I could say it. But her death put me in mind of Marilyn Hacker's elegy for Janis Joplin, which on re-reading is not any good at all, but does have one stanza that still has something good going on in it, so here is that one stanza:

( From 'Elegy' )

poetry, death, music

Oh look! It's an academic faux pas!

lolaraincoat Jul 19, 2011 13:02

Here's an email I just sent, with some explanatory emendations ( Read more... )

academia, higher ed, random

Google+ plus bad TV

lolaraincoat Jul 08, 2011 14:01

So, I am trying out Google+, half-heartedly. I hate change! On the other hand, I kind of hate Facebook! and spend so much time there anyway! and so if Google+ allows me to consolidate what I like about LJ/DW with what I like about Facebook, that would be nice ( Read more... )

tv, web

Hey! People are kissing me!

lolaraincoat Jul 06, 2011 22:29

I seem to have been (iconographically!) kissed just now. By TWO hotties! TWO!

Thank you! That was swell!