ConneXions 2019 - VID SHOW

ETA Most of the vids can be found at this link: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLbI8SLoxNxpYEvlQvrYGluD8ZAi6PV5rU

Introductory comments:

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Twenty-four vids in a great variety of fandoms!

ETA: And here's an official list! http://connexions-so.dreamwidth.org/15206.html#cutid1

( ConneXions 2015 Vid Show )

Another free movie from Jaman, an Australian drama about drug addiction starring Galadriel and Elrond Cate Blanchett and Hugo Weaving. A very intense, unremitting movie, beautifully photographed, very well-portrayed characters, says TODS.

You know the "pants" word-substitution game that has given us classics like the following?

LOTR: "Gondor has no pants! Gondor needs no pants!"

and

SW: "I find your lack of pants disturbing."

koslorollo observed recently that we haven't played that game yet in Tin Man fandom, so I posted about it here on loltinman, whereupon much hilarity ensued ( Read more... )

( no spoilers, I promise )

This is the animated TV-movie by Rankin-Bass (no relation to the Ralph Bakshi Lord of the Rings). This one is by the same animators who did The Hobbit, in much the same style and with many of the same voices. They managed to give Glenn Yarborough, that glorious Irish tenor from the Limeliters, three or four songs to sing in snatches periodically, ( Read more... )

I just got an email from a group I belong to on-campus for discussing student information literacy. The email was about teaching students to distinguish sites that are appropriate to use for research from sites that are not, and it gave links to a number of "spoof sites" - sites that mimic authentic sites - which make an excellent exercise for ( Read more... )

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ConneXions 2003 ( Read more... )

I've gotten caught up in the drabblefest on Axe_Bow. Here's my contribution:

The Wedding Planner
by Amedia

Aragorn groaned as the servant approached. What now? he wondered. Do the napkins not match the tablecloth? Are the bridesmaids complaining of their dresses? Has someone lost the ring?"My lord, I have been reviewing the seating charts for the ( Read more... )