the gaping maw of the nerd machine

[plasticity]

It turns out grad school at MIT is kind of a busy life, guys. Any one of the things I have been up to lately could easily be fleshed out into a substantive post, but, falling back on bad habits, BULLET POINTS!

My studio (urban design, if we want to get picky) is tucked away in the architecture department, which itself is arranged around the top

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[cbackson]

WHAT. By "Thor's doppelganger," do you mean "so hot that when he takes off his t-shirt, very intelligent ladies are reduced to mindless giggling"? Because that was how I reacted to that movie.

(Also: WARNING: LASER. HAHAHAHAHAHA.)

[plasticity]

okay, but imagine Thor in skinny cords, riding a fixie and talking about cities. YEAH. hilar.

[quigonejinn]

Your LJ updates are always, always, always glee to me.

YOU KNOW WHO WORKED THERE: TONY STARK. THAT'S WHO.*

KEYSMASH.

[quigonejinn]

Pee ess, oh God, I loved the first ep of Sherlock so much, and then the second was such a TRAINWRECK TO ME. I am curious to hear your opinion!

this saves me from making an actual reaction post!

[plasticity]

Caveat! I never got into other Holmes-es, really, but merely absorbed the canon by osmosis. But oh man, the second one really was bad, wasn't it?! the only parts I really liked were Sherlock scamming his way into the banker's apartment, and Sherlock scamming his way into John's date. It even pinged my own Orientalism radar, which is saying something as a white American. I can't imagine how anyone of actual Chinese descent would feel about the ridiculousness of the whole thing

Re: this saves me from making an actual reaction post!

[quigonejinn]

I can't imagine how anyone of actual Chinese descent would feel about the ridiculousness of the whole thing.

I threw shit. And broke up with the series pretty much permanently, which was sort of an overreaction in some ways, but man.

And yeah, the Moriarty kinda bugged me. I wish they'd followed through on their gender-flip of John's sister and gone with a female Moriarty -- it might actually make the casual woman-hating/slut-shaming behavior that Holmes does sort of. More interesting? I don't know.