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Fan fic (but not slash) in the Wall Street Journal
Someone in the real world notices fan fiction. Specifically, they measure it using search engine rankings ( Read more... ) -
Lesbians, gay porn and the success and failure of imagination
Some noticed that some lesbians like gay porn. They contend that the girls in lesbian porn aren't realistic, enthusiastic or pretty. They also offer curiosity about penises or revenge fantasies (watching men get fucked).
Comedienne Judy Gold humorously notes that penises offer a visible measure of arousal. This is actually interesting. The ( Read more... ) -
On Edgar Allan Poe
“The Tomb of Edgar Poe” by Stéphane Mallarmé
As to Himself-eternity’s changed him,
The Poet rouses with his naked sword,
His age fright-stricken: never knowing
Death triumphed in that uncanny voice!
Hydra’s vile rattle, hearing the Angel
Giving sense more pure to the clamoring horde,
Acclaimed aloud that wild elixir drunk
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Fantastic, Epic TG fic updated since 1997
Tuck by Ellen Hayes is a gorgeous, original transgender fic that has been continuously updated since 1997. Hayes writes like Kate Bornstein if the latter could channel purely the mighty Robert A. Heinlein. (Though Tuck's father wears a t-shirt that says "Leftist Gun-Nut," the politics hew to more than stray from Heinlein: all his kids, regardless ( Read more... ) -
Eli Roth for the Win, Trebek!
I was not a fan of Hostel, but Eli "Bear Jew" Roth is stuffed full of slash-friendly win.
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Deconstruction at tvtropes.org
This article needs a severe pruning. First off, it contains too many parodies which are to deconstruction as an accidentally fatal bar fight is to a full out mechanized war.
The best definition of deconstruction is given therein: "Deconstruction for our purposes basically involves colliding a trope with Real Life at high speed... A deconstruction ( Read more... ) -
Obama’s speech to the childrens…
Sorry, but I am unable to resist Chef’s voice. (Also, I have no dog in this fight as my daughter’s school district had a half-day today ( Read more... ) -
Sam Raimi, Equinox, the Evil Dead and prior art
Equinox by Mark Thomas McGee and Jack Woods stars TV's Frank Bonner (AKA Herb Tarlek from WKRP in Cincinnati) in a film that sounds astonishingly familiar:
- Four teenagers
- Visiting a professor who is now dead
- At his cabin in the woods
- Find an anti-Bible
- Which can summon evil spirits upon mere reading
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GB Shaw on Obama
Surfing the Web, I came across The Perfect Wagnerite, commentary on the Niblung's Ring by George Bernard Shaw and now have the burning desire to go to Washington, D.C. and read this to Barack Obama:
Now I do not pretend to be perfect myself. Heaven knows I have to struggle hard enough every day with what the Germans call my higher impulses. I ( Read more... ) -
The Breeders, “Pod”
I’ve owned, and loved, the Breeders’ Last Splash since the mid-’90s, so why the hell did I wait nineteen years to listen to, and be entranced by, Pod?
One of the most influential albums on Kurt Cobain, Pod is to minimalist pop what The Velvet Underground and Nico was to pop’s avant garde. All the bones, all the architecture is exposed; and what ( Read more... )