linkspam is grateful for longer days
Brain Pickings has some fabulous old PSAs to encourage reading.
Quick, someone page Kristen Bell: we've got a new baby sloth in the house.
Charlie Jane Anders interviewed Michael Chabon about his work on John Carter (of Barsoom): here.
LB Gale has an interesting look at gender & character death in four major genre franchises. ::facepalms at Whedon::
The Village Voice on the death of online poker.
The BBC has a piece on how jeans conquered the world.
I do love finding previously-unexpected corners of the internet. Like The New Inquiry, where I found this intriguing piece questioning the accepted wisdom about the internet. [O]ne might argue that the fact that it seems as though we can't have an internet not fueled by advertising is a sign that the internet is already unhealthy, sick unto death.
Which in turn reminds me of Denise's maxim: if you get a service on the internet for free, you're not a customer, you're a product.
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I know there are myriad class issues associated with the locally-sourced/slow food movement, and yet I really liked this post about a new butcher shop in LA. Yeah, the preciousness. But I still liked it.
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I started listening to Disorderly Knights today (it's the third of the Lymond Chronicles); it's one of my favorites, because there's so much ridiculousness in it, and we finally meet the men of St. Mary's. On the other hand, it's also the novel that kicks off the major arc, with all the attendant angst and pain, and has a couple of deaths I really really dislike--despite the fact that they are completely historical.
It had been long enough, anyway, that I had forgotten the first sentence:
On the day that his grannie was killed by the English, Sir William Scott the Younger of Buccleuch was at Melrose Abbey, marrying his aunt.
Does Dunnett know how to start a novel, or what? I ask you.
And then we get the eight hundred yowes in rusted helmets. So fab.
Crossposted from DW, where there are
comments; comment here or there.
Quick, someone page Kristen Bell: we've got a new baby sloth in the house.
Charlie Jane Anders interviewed Michael Chabon about his work on John Carter (of Barsoom): here.
LB Gale has an interesting look at gender & character death in four major genre franchises. ::facepalms at Whedon::
The Village Voice on the death of online poker.
The BBC has a piece on how jeans conquered the world.
I do love finding previously-unexpected corners of the internet. Like The New Inquiry, where I found this intriguing piece questioning the accepted wisdom about the internet. [O]ne might argue that the fact that it seems as though we can't have an internet not fueled by advertising is a sign that the internet is already unhealthy, sick unto death.
Which in turn reminds me of Denise's maxim: if you get a service on the internet for free, you're not a customer, you're a product.
*
I know there are myriad class issues associated with the locally-sourced/slow food movement, and yet I really liked this post about a new butcher shop in LA. Yeah, the preciousness. But I still liked it.
*
I started listening to Disorderly Knights today (it's the third of the Lymond Chronicles); it's one of my favorites, because there's so much ridiculousness in it, and we finally meet the men of St. Mary's. On the other hand, it's also the novel that kicks off the major arc, with all the attendant angst and pain, and has a couple of deaths I really really dislike--despite the fact that they are completely historical.
It had been long enough, anyway, that I had forgotten the first sentence:
On the day that his grannie was killed by the English, Sir William Scott the Younger of Buccleuch was at Melrose Abbey, marrying his aunt.
Does Dunnett know how to start a novel, or what? I ask you.
And then we get the eight hundred yowes in rusted helmets. So fab.
Crossposted from DW, where there are
comments; comment here or there.