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like a drunk baby who shows up at your house and won't leave
[a] I bought art! Or, well, a very fancy-pants print of some orignal art. About six months ago, smartlikejustin, moireach and annakovsky and I were having brunch at Trident and there were a bunch of paintings by a local artist up on the walls and I fell in love-at-first-sight with one of them but since it was, you know, an original painting, it was $800, so our love not to be. I ( Read more... ) -
from the department of redundancy department
Over the course of the last two or three months, a conversation about white privilege, racism and writing characters of color has been sprawling across the internet, starting in the blogs of professional science fiction authors, spilling over into the blogs and livejournals of writers and fans. Because I live with sparkymonster (the rockstar who has a del.icio. ( Read more... ) -
i can get them for you wholesale
a. I really want to be able to say, "God, Dollhouse was so boring and awful and vaguely offensive. Maybe Buffy was just over-rated?" But I just re-watched the third season of Buffy at the gym a couple months ago and it -- somehow, against all odds -- still manages to be under-rated as one of the best teen shows of all time. Dammit, Joss Whedon ( Read more... ) -
this is long, but cut tags are for quizzes and pictures of your cat
Over the last week or so, there has been another unfortunate round of people in fan culture saying stupid, racist things on the internet. My experience of this has been primarily viewed through the lense of the experiences of my roommate, who very eloquently sums up her frustration hereI know two things: [1] People of color frequently end up having ( Read more... ) -
no, see, this is a hope mimosa
Did anyone else notice that during the swearing-in ceremony, Bill Clinton was sitting right next to the Bush twins? -
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I'm watching the Inauguration Concert thing while I clean my kitchen (if you don't get HBO, you can watch it streaming on their website -- mainstream media does something useful! Film at 11!) and the whole thing is being kicked off my Bruce Springsteen AND A GOSPEL CHOIR. Seriously, this has to be a dream. If you had told me four years ago that we' ( Read more... ) -
manifesto
The third season finale of Friday Night Lights aired on DirectTv last night, and I have not been able to bring myself to look for a download because I'm pretty sure that it will not get renewed next season and knowing that this episode is probably the last episode ever makes me so sad that I want to prolong it as long as I can stand. So that's the ( Read more... ) -
and you know, the wretch was there, because she always is.
Conflict of wills for the ages last night: one of the only things that helps my stupidly epic insomnia is to fall asleep listening to the soothing monotony of Sports Center. Last night, though, all Sports Center wanted to do was ball wash the retirement of St. Tony Dungy. And I HATE Tony Dungy. Because, I'm sorry, being very publicly devoted to ( Read more... )