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I keep forgetting I have this LJ... Oh well. Anyway, I thought some of you might be interested in this post I did at Superfani.com, about the nature of SF, especially as it might relate to movies. http://superfani.com/?p=4362
Samuel Delany commented on it, and if you don't know who Delany is, and you read SF, you really should feel ashamed of ( Read more... ) -
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I've been having a rough time with my latest paper. I have no idea if I've managed to provide a thesis, or even cogent words, in my first crack at the introduction. Tell me if this makes any sense: ( Where Should I Plug in My Head?
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On The Forever War
Inspired by the "reader reports" my sci-fi professor has us turn in, I thought I'd do something similar, for my own benefit (and yours?), on the books I don't read for class. Probably not all of them. These aren't "reviews" in the normal sense, which is why I'm not doing this on my goodreads account. They're observations on important elements of ( Read more... ) -
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Saw Watchmen. Really enjoyed it, but not so much the douche next to me who liked to wave his hands at dramatic moments and say stuff like "That's what it's all about" when [redacted] and [redacted] save the people in the [redacted]. Oh, also, he decided the pause before the punchline of the climactic speech was the best moment to recite the ( Read more... ) -
A pretty good footnote from my in-progress thesis:
[RE: the term "Spaniard's Folly"] This is the rather unpolitically correct term for the Giant's Cleft, the enormous canyon running from Tenochtitlan to the borders of the Arctic Circle. The history of the Cleft has been much debated, but the basic story remains the same, as it is well documented. A Spanish explorer, which tradition insists is ( Read more... ) -
Not a post, but a link to a post (still by me)
I don't know how many of you are following Rideback, a current-season anime. It features near-future cyberpunk, motorcycles with arms and legs, and motorcycle ballet. I just finished a post about the technology as an underpinning for themes of culture and art, and I was hoping some of you would be interested. It's on my personal anime blog, ( Read more... ) -
Twitters
- 09:44 twitpic.com/1893c - Trying to decide if this snow is good enough for Immigrant Song. Probably the best I'll get... #
- 10:06 @ ghostlightning One feels, even though you enjoyed it, that you still deserve a medal or something. #
- 10:12 Maka's earmuffs = awesome cute #
- 10:13 @ p0nt1fus By "insight," do you mean vomit? Because if you do, I could ( Read more... )
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Well, I missed Down the Rabbit Hole Day, primarily because I had to get up early to teach -- days after that I don't do much. I was lucky to get 500 words on my thesis ( Read more... ) -
Twitters
- 07:17 Soul Eater 34: Huh... I'd assumed weapon/meister "pairs" had to be male/female. Or is there something Ox-kun isn't telling us? #
- 15:43 @ extrange I just forgot about Stein & DS, I suppose. #
- 15:50 Wesley: he was like Tolkien... But he installed our cable. #
- 16:21 Sigh. All the new otaku-rhombus posts in my reader are about shows I haven't ( Read more... )
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Twitters
- 11:26 Like Ducktales (according to the Nostalgia Critic), Claymore keeps me coming back w/its OP. #
- 11:27 Of course, I'm only six episodes into Claymore... #
- 14:57 @ onegreatturtle I read it just a few years ago & loved it. #
- 15:00 Hey Corey, I'm outside ur window, eatin watermelons. #
- 16:09 @ lelangir Check out PMOG. #