It has occurred to me that River Tam (Firefly) is actually a fairly clever remix of Victorian ideas about women's education.

Think about it: A young girl (River Tam) insists on going to a serious school (the Academy, where she studies graduate physics, among other things, according to the R. Tam Sessions) and competing against boys (she says that a ( Read more... )

I scrubbed cat piss off of furniture today. (Gramma's house. Gross. Just gross.)

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I also bought three housedresses. After several days of near 100 degree temperatures, I decided that I needed some lightweight clothes I could change into. They look old-fashioned, but . . .

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Watched Anastasia for the first time. My thoughts ( here )

The Fairy Tales course is finishing Disney's Mulan today, and in honor of this, I am posting a copy of The Song of Hua Mu Lan and some links to websites about her.

( The Song of Hua Mu-Lan )

I really like this video, by Michael Wesch, Assistant Professor of Cultural Anthropology, Kansas State University. "The Machine is Us/ing Us" was presented under a Creative Commons
Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 License.:

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It's an intriguing video, well-edited with appropriate background music ("There's Nothing Impossible" by Deus, ( Read more... )

I've just finished skimming through The Endicott Studio's website (subtitled "An Interdisciplinary Organization Dedicated to the Creation and Support of Mythic Art"), and I'm seriously impressed. Although, I suppose I shouldn't be surprised - the online "Journal of Mythic Arts" (hosted on the site) is edited by Terri Windling and Midori Snyder, and ( Read more... )

Okay, I just finished re-reading this essay by Debra Doyle, and, yes, I still agree with it ( Read more... )