I've found a new hobby. I'm going to try and qualitatively study the growth and decay of the summer's comic book movie fandoms at charting_fandom. Should be fun :)

*Figureing out what goes on in Kingdom Hearts without 140+ hours and 3 pieces of hardware. Or listening to snarky people on youtube ( Read more... )

( Cut here )

 I remember when BSG started to suck.  One of the warning signs of an awful episode became the words "10 hours ago",  It meant we'd get an incomprehensible mishmash of visuals with a bunch of seemingly unconnected subplots interspersed with clips of something exciting that would happen/was happening/ did happen and you needed to go to TWOP to ( Read more... )

( Will I ever agree with this prof? )

So I feel kind of bad about this, because most all of the other stories in his book are really enjoyable, but I just have to vent on this one.

( Cut for ickyness. )

Things to be happy about today:

• A complete stranger complemented my coat in a sweet way
• It's almost warm enough not to need my giant, but awesome, coat
• New Adventure Comics and Invincible Iron Man this week
• New Episode of Atop the Fourth Wall

Things to be unhappy about:

• Thee tests on Friday, only one of which I am even vaguely prepared for

( Right, so I'm writing an essay comparing the re-education techniques used in A Clockwork Orange, 1984 and We (a great read, btw) and it just hit me: why did the Ludovico Technique need a classical music soundtrack? )

... it's a good conversation starter ( Read more... )

( Blonde chicks can't be emo properly: Thoughts on Music ed. )