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"The Greatest" did really well in its first week, and that's both a joy and a relief. Many times over the more-than-a-year while I was watching or skimming shows, or cataloguing clips, or processing footage, or not working on the vid but thinking about it, I asked myself what I was doing-whether it was worth spending so much time on a single ( Read more... )

(That is a Muppets reference)

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I took an unexpected trip through personal fannish history today when I organized my Gmail inbox for the first time since its creation in 2007 ( Read more... )

U.S. politics has (have?) washed over my head again, as it does periodically, rising from the baseline fear and disappointment that mounted during election season and spiked in November.

I don't talk about it much here. This blog, and
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I previewed some pix on Twitter, but posting about Friday's visit to the opening of the Vancouver Art Gallery's giant multimedia exhibition on 20th-21st century mashups felt daunting until I realized I don't actually have to write an essay on that history and the place of vidding within it, nor an analysis of the objects the curators chose for ( Read more... )

(Because it's finally winter outside, and because this post contains... well ( Read more... )

I had a great weekend at con_txt. It was so nice to see friends again, and to make some new acquaintances ( Read more... )

kassrachel asked: Reminisce about your first fandom: what did you love about it ( Read more... )

A little reminiscence for Poetry Month, because some of my favorite fanworks that I've posted have been poems. Let's see: Spanning 2006-2011, I appear to have posted nine complete poems, one unfinished poem, one set of haiku, one "found" poem, and one poetry-inspired fic.

( T.S. Eliot, Wallace Stevens and Shakespeare; sestinas, heroic couplets, haiku, a sonnet and a found poem; SGA, House and Harry Potter )