If you are interested in the influence of technology on fiction/text, please feel free to ping me. Doing research for a university paper, setting up a blog for contributions and discussion. You might end up being quoted. Feel free to circulate/repost if you think you know potential interested parties.

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Saw Avatar 3D. Looked Fantastic. Beautiful. Seamless CGI integration. Story a right clunker. Head hurts from being repeatedly beaten with a New Age mallet. Jimmy Cameron, you're not a subtle boy. Verdict? Great way to spend 3 hours.


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A short piece I recently wrote now up at Velvetpark on why I hate the term "lesbian fiction".

http://www.velvetparkmedia.com/blogs/lesbian-fiction-past-its-shelf-life

There’s nothing wrong with wanting to feel good, and the means-that’s just another way of making a decision. And decisions are a time a dozen. They come and go and no-one cares."

“…that’s when it hits you - it’s exactly days like these, with nothing special about them, that you end up wondering how your life had turned out this way when all you ever wanted to do was the right thing.”

“Then there are days that seem to just appear… They have the slow, unassuming arrival of your best friend or mother’s birthday, unchallenged in their surprise appearance.”

Could a plausible theory be extrapolated for Angels/Paranormal Activity being an aspect of Quantum Physics?

Having an interesting discussion on MetaFilter. I posed a question: Could a plausible theory be extrapolated for Angels/Paranormal Activity being an aspect of Quantum Physics?

A number of varied responses, but I’m really interested in seeing ( Read more... )

That’s how I’ve been feeling the last couple of days. I wrote my last exam for my BA on the 6th of November and promptly spent the following three days melting my brain with TV because I was unable to do anything else. I felt like I’d been high for a week and had finally crashed in the worst way possible. Three weeks’ worth of anticipation caught ( Read more... )

As part of a paper on Children’s Literature at uni, we studied Philip Pullman’s His Dark Materials trilogy. It’s so much more of course than a retelling of Paradise Lost, but even if approached on that level it works rather well. So I for one am looking forward to Pullman’s new book, to be released around Easter 2010 - ‘The Good Man Jesus And The ( Read more... )

Phenomenal. This is the kind of movies we want to see, Hollywood!!!!