I have recently started learning to knit. This past weekend I attended a lovely craft swap party organized by twilighttremolo where I dropped off a bunch of crafting supplies I wasn't using and found a bunch of other people brought needles and yarn they no longer wanted. So I grabbed a couple of pairs of needles (one size nine pair and one small circular set) and ( Read more... )

When it comes to literary interpretation, I have a few concepts I use as guides for understanding the meaning of a work. Since I got into some discussions where people didn't necessarily see the delineations I did, I thought I'd talk about some of the concepts I use to make it clear how I approach things-- specifically as regards the impact of ( Read more... )

In teaching literature classes, I can't help but approach my lesson planning from my personal theory of how to analyze literature. I go by a few guiding principles, which I will try to articulate here ( Read more... )

In Mad Men, a television show that I would not say I like but still totally fascinates me, a recurring theme is the idea that things either ARE, or they AREN’T, the notion that some stuff just doesn't have that je ne sais quoi to make it what it is supposed to be. An example that recurs is the state of the Draper marriage, which to all surface ( Read more... )

My mother loved Halloween ( Read more... )

My stress level is through the roof right now. I'm trying to manage several difficult things (some of which I don't feel able to talk about for various reasons, some I'm just too burnt out to go into in detail) and I feel like everything is teetering on the edge of disaster. I've started to get a little bit of a handle on them, which is somewhat ( Read more... )

As we get underway preparing article submissions for Game Wrap Magazine, we realized it would be a good thing to include some visuals, to add richness and interest to our publication.

So, to that end, we are calling for submissions of larp-related images for possible inclusion. That means that we would like to see:

- pictures related to larping ( Read more... )

"The color of Mrs. Hawking"

Color choice in theater has always been very important to me. As a visual medium, it can add a great deal to the experience, and I think you can invest a lot of medium when color is carefully chosen.


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I've always admired really unique unusual movie posters, ones that avoid the cliches of, like, faces across the top, or the hero seen from the back or whatever. Not that can't look nice-- the latter is the obvious one for Adonis, for example --but I like it so much better when they're iconic, clever, or have specific meaning for the piece they ( Read more... )

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