Happy X-Files day, and happy birthday to Fox Mulder.


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Sam Winchester. That is all. ♥

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I'd seen somewhere, on Shabana Azmi's twitter iirc, that Jack Davenport has worked with her, but I sort of blanked out on it. Now that I've refreshed my memory, I'll go look for the series, which stars Archie Panjabi and Jack. Here's an interview with him. I love how he fanboys over Shabana Azmi, and I must say I agree completely with the ( Read more... )

I watched A Very English Scandal without reading the book first, and I'm kind of glad I did, because I don't think I want to read it after all. It's by Russell T Davies (and Eve Myles plays a character named Gwen, lol), with Hugh Grant as the politician who wants to get rid of his former lover, played by the always-incredible Ben Whishaw. Maybe ( Read more... )

Janice Pariat's The Nine-Chambered Heart is the sort of book that has my students in raptures and has me going... uhhh, what am I missing? It was a quick read, which does say a lot about the author's ability to engage the reader, and I also loved the premise: we see the protagonist through the points of view of nine characters she's been in sexual/ ( Read more... )

I just finished rereading Jamyang Norbu's Sherlock Holmes: The Missing Years, aka The Mandala of Sherlock Holmes. (I set myself a reading goal of 52 books this year, hence the title of this post; although, considering it's already September, I don't think I'm going to complete the challenge this year.) I read it twenty years ago when it was first ( Read more... )

Sign-ups for femslashex are open. Alas, I completely missed nominations because the exchange only posts at DW now, and no one nominated any of my go-to fandoms. Got to love whoever nominated Bill Potts/Eowyn, though.

Last week was basically poetry week: we had the poet Gili Haimovich, from Israel, on campus. She did a few workshops with our students and gave them interviews, and everyone loved her. We also went to a poetry festival to listen to her, on a panel with Singapore-based poet Alvin Pang and Berlin-based poet Ulrike Almut Sandig. Alvin Pang stole ( Read more... )

Today I visited another campus of the university for various things: primarily for the proposal presentation of my PhD student, which went very well. She's a joy to work with, and her area of research, food and gender, is pretty aligned to my own interests ( Read more... )