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Oh, this is fun: your Dalek of the day.
By way of Alyssa Rosenberg: an oral history of The Wire, at Maxim (yikes).
Linked by miss-porcupine: this cool series of Shakespeare adaptations by the BBC will be coming this summer. Christmas in June for Anglothespianphiles! Jeremy Irons! Tom Hiddleston! Patrick Stewart! Ben Whishaw! Coolness! (Although "my" Henry V will always be Branagh...)
This review by Martin McGrath of Stina Leicht's "The Fey and the Fallen" books, set in Northern Ireland in the 1970s, starts with a really interesting discussion of Edward Said's Orientalism and the concept of cultural appropriation as applied in literary criticism. That said, his critique Leicht is just blistering: the result of her selective presentation of history and the absence in her story of an alternative viewpoint means that her Northern Ireland is as one-dimensional, sentimental and misleading as a Republican rebel song. (H/T to Bookslut.)
Okay, I'm gonna say it: if you're claiming that you're writing SF about a guy named Juno Mozambe, I would not expect to see a white guy with a gun on the cover. And according to the writer, the character is not in fact white. Well, one can't say the writer isn't in good company.
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Yay Ninth Circuit!
A philosophy professor goes where angels fear to tread, and starts a years-long philosophical conversation with the Unabomber.
Grim reading: the legacy of pedophilia at a prestigious New York prep school.
Tianamen Square, then and now.
A cartoonist petitions the Supreme Court to leave the Affordable Care Act in place.
FeministFrequency, the videoblog that analyzes pop culture on gender issues, is running a Kickstarter campaign to do a series of videos analyzing videogames. If you want to get a good look at what is said to women who dare to be openly feminist on the internet, check this out. NOTE: seriously ugly hate speech at that link!
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Michael Lewis gives some pithy advice. People really don't like to hear success explained away as luck - especially successful people. As they age, and succeed, people feel their success was somehow inevitable. They don't want to acknowledge the role played by accident in their lives.
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Noted for later: Slacklining at the Mountain Games.
Noted for later: the neuroscience of choking in the clutch.
Crossposted from DW, where there are
comments; comment here or there.
By way of Alyssa Rosenberg: an oral history of The Wire, at Maxim (yikes).
Linked by miss-porcupine: this cool series of Shakespeare adaptations by the BBC will be coming this summer. Christmas in June for Anglothespianphiles! Jeremy Irons! Tom Hiddleston! Patrick Stewart! Ben Whishaw! Coolness! (Although "my" Henry V will always be Branagh...)
This review by Martin McGrath of Stina Leicht's "The Fey and the Fallen" books, set in Northern Ireland in the 1970s, starts with a really interesting discussion of Edward Said's Orientalism and the concept of cultural appropriation as applied in literary criticism. That said, his critique Leicht is just blistering: the result of her selective presentation of history and the absence in her story of an alternative viewpoint means that her Northern Ireland is as one-dimensional, sentimental and misleading as a Republican rebel song. (H/T to Bookslut.)
Okay, I'm gonna say it: if you're claiming that you're writing SF about a guy named Juno Mozambe, I would not expect to see a white guy with a gun on the cover. And according to the writer, the character is not in fact white. Well, one can't say the writer isn't in good company.
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Yay Ninth Circuit!
A philosophy professor goes where angels fear to tread, and starts a years-long philosophical conversation with the Unabomber.
Grim reading: the legacy of pedophilia at a prestigious New York prep school.
Tianamen Square, then and now.
A cartoonist petitions the Supreme Court to leave the Affordable Care Act in place.
FeministFrequency, the videoblog that analyzes pop culture on gender issues, is running a Kickstarter campaign to do a series of videos analyzing videogames. If you want to get a good look at what is said to women who dare to be openly feminist on the internet, check this out. NOTE: seriously ugly hate speech at that link!
*
Michael Lewis gives some pithy advice. People really don't like to hear success explained away as luck - especially successful people. As they age, and succeed, people feel their success was somehow inevitable. They don't want to acknowledge the role played by accident in their lives.
*
Noted for later: Slacklining at the Mountain Games.
Noted for later: the neuroscience of choking in the clutch.
Crossposted from DW, where there are
comments; comment here or there.