( borrowed from mamadeb but seen all over, here's my album cover )

So Livejournal has this advisory board whose advice they already have ignored on at least one occasion, and now we users are being invited to elect a fellow user to the board, and while it probably won't help, it couldn't hurt, right? Unless you get elected, in which case I predict for you nothing but aggravation. Anyway, not that I would dream ( Read more... )

But just in case anyone else is interested ...

You know how clarinet players fiddle endlessly with their reeds? This takes that obsession one step beyond. Or maybe two.And you all know by now that Joss Whedon has a new series coming up on Fox in September, right? One whose premise is so creepily misogynistic that - well, my hopeful fantasy is ( Read more... )

So far this year nearly everything seems to have survived that difficult winter except for the one hapless peach tree, and some things are thriving that never, ever thrive.

( Irises, for instance. )

It was too beautiful a day to go to the gym so instead I left work early and went to the garden center, where just as I hoped, the heirloom tomato plants had arrived. So I spent two hours digging holes, pulling weeds, and hauling sand and sheep manure - and probably got as much exercise as I would have on the elliptical trainer. ( Look! Tomatoes! And MORE! )

Oh, Robert Rauschenberg is dead. I remember seeing some of his assemblages - the unmade bed one, especially - at the Museum of Modern Art when I was seventeen, and thinking that's what I want to do, that's it. And though Jasper Johns ended up being more important to me, and though I turned out to be a talentless visual artist ... well, you never ( Read more... )

So we had our biannual staff lunch at a decent Italian restaurant in a strip mall near campus, at the far north-west reaches of Toronto, and it was the usual strip mall for that part of the world, featuring Lebanese jewelry and Korean dry cleaning and Iranian videos and Ecuadoran Western Union. But in the corner of the strip was a storefront with ( Read more... )

So we have a whole lot of sorrel in the garden right now. What should I do with it? Put it in a mouth-puckering salad? Cook it? How?

Hey, look! A post that is not about Remix! Go me!

( So, Mr. Adorno, you're telling me that ideological agreement should trump esthetic judgement? )

Hey! This is the Buffy/Firely crossover fic I wrote for remixredux08:

Where the River Meets the Dawn (the Strobe Lights and the Disco Remix)

If it doesn't suck, which I'm not saying that it doesn't suck, but to the extent that it doesn't suck, that's because three people did amazing beta work on a very rough draft at very very very short notice: executrix, goseaward mulberryfieldsThis is ( Read more... )