We inadvertently ordered a duplicate old-school Doctor Who episode on DVD, Peter Davison episode "Resurrection of the Daleks," which includes Davros as well as a passel of Daleks.  We took the shrinkwrap off before we realized it, so we cannot return it.  Anyone want to buy this for $10 (I'll pay for shipping if shipped it should be), proceeds ( Read more... )

Radical feminist professor Mary Daly has died: http://bostonist.com/2010/01/05/sin_a_smidge_for_mary_daly.php

By the time I started my Master's at BC, Dr Daly had been forced on leave and was fired the next year; she lost tenure rights for refusing to let men into some of her classes, which was challenged not by a man who wanted to take a course but ( Read more... )

Tonight we watched Isolation, an Irish thriller about genetic modifications and epidemics. It featured feral cows. It was pretty good, and I recommend it, but the real high point was the extra, a 14-minute short made in 1999 by the same writer/director, Billy O'Brien: The Take of the Rat That Wrote. Small, quiet, a little steampunky (rats in ( Read more... )

J and I got lots of movies (Blu-Ray Complete Watchmen [!!!], Star Trek [!!], Coraline [!!], and Nightmare before Christmas, DVD Hammer Dracula: Prince of Darkness and Hot Fuzz) and TV [Deadwood [!!!!!!], True Blood S1, new Who 1-4--an earlier purchase, but parentally subsidized as a gift--and a P.D. James mystery], gamery (Trivial Pursuit, a game ( Read more... )

Thanks to all the MLA members who voted for J, who is now a delegate! This means three *more* years of MLA "vacations" for us, which since one of us will likely be on the market every year--I have to get an interview some day, right?--isn't a bad thing: book early, book cheap. Also, submit for panel. We'll be in L.A. in January of 2011 (this is ( Read more... )

I posted this over on bonappetityall quite some time back, but this soup deserves another shout-out: Chestnut & Fennel Soup . This would be great for a holiday starter course or as a cold weather dinner. I saved some fronds and sprinkled them on the soup before I drizzled the browned butter (to which I added a splash of white wine during cooking, and which I ( Read more... )

to my NaNoWriMo friends! And props also to my non-NaNoWriMo scribblerian friends, dissertators, academics, reviewers, creative types, etc.

It's National Pro-life Cupcake day. Seriously. You've got to read about thins. I linked to the Jezebel article rather than the actual "Cupcakes for Life" site because I don't want to send traffic that way, but the Jezebel article provides a link. Leave a comment  1 

I am so in love with John Keats that it's a little ridiculous. My God, that man could write!!

Slight downer ending to my wonderful weekend, which began with T&J's wedding and ended with meeting up with an old friend from Texas in the city today--J has given me one piece of jewelry ever, and it is very me and very us as jewelry: my Gorey bat necklace. And I think I didn't clasp it well and lost it today, somewhere between the apartment and ( Read more... )