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Not dead. Yet.
Got home from Boston and almost immediately fell prey to horrible, evil stomach virus of wickedness. Spent all day yesterday rolling around in feverish, dehydrated agony.
I do feel quite a bit better now (yesterday I was too ill to even use the computer), but I still don't want to do anything except sleep. Which I will now do. -
I had some deep thoughts, but now I don't anymore! So have some rambling about comic books instead.
I spent this evening reading Captain Trips, the first arc of Marvel's Stephen King's The Stand. Now, I love the novel and was incredibly dubious about the transition that something so dense and detailed could possibly make to a simplified format like a comic book, but so far I've been pleasantly surprised ( Read more... ) -
Why I won't write academically about fandom.
Yesterday evening (after the aforementioned margaritas) I was discoursing expansively to Patrick on the topic of why I refuse to pursue academic works about fandom, even though I look at my experiences in fandom as the greatest anthropological participatory fieldwork of my whole life. I entered into the conversation by telling him how, as an ( Read more... )
