If she hasn't seen it already:
Level Up, a truly splendid Pacific Rim vid by starlightandstatic. Music by Vienna Teng. Link by way of
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Yoon Ha Lee is a remarkable writer. Just in case you didn't know. Dragons build with death. I would be proud to have written any single sentence in this short piece. ::sigh::

Turnips! I died, I just died. So funny.

Speaking of comics, Doonesbury is 40 years old (!!!); Slate has an interview with TrudeauSlate is also re-starting their TV Club ( Read more... )

sophie has a clarification on LJ's plan to purge journals and communities. To wit: the purge only applies to Unpaid journals and communities that have only one entry (or none), and in which there has been no activity in the last 24 months. She lays it out more clearly, but that's the gist of it. Whew--this means I don't have to run around finding a ( Read more... )

This Glee vid set to the United States of Pop 2009 Mashup is Totally Awesome.

ETA: If you like the music, you can find it and a ton of other really interesting mashups (Paul Simon and Django Reinhardt!) here.

Crossposted from DW, where there are
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Torque Control has a roundup of reviews of Jay Lake's novel Green. The responses are all across the map, I have to say, but I'm... dubious. I've only read two Lake novels, and the second one, Mindspring, was so distasteful and unthinking in its presentation of Smart White Guy Dealing With Noble Savages, complete with a fairly dodgy cross-species ( Read more... )

OMG I just saw this clip on CNN in the break room: Rep. Barney Frank is my hero. Way to cut through the crap, dude. Seriously: who in their right mind thinks that expanding health care is equivalent to nazism? Oy. (Of course, given the woman's a Larouche fan, "in their right mind" is possibly over-generous.)

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Abigail Nussbaum is back from Worldcon. Worth reading if only to get the link to the Tall Zombies pic. Hey, I know two of those guys! (Although I sincerely doubt Geoff Ryman would know me as anything other than "the woman in the blue dress from that party with the keg stands at Wiscon," if he has any recollection of that evening at all, which is ( Read more... )

Niall Harrison decides to read some heroic fantasy (epic fantasy, high fantasy, sword-and-sorcery, use whatever label you like), and decides that Fritz Leiber is overrated. I don't actually have an opinion on this: I read the Fafhrd and Gray Mouser stories many years ago, and they didn't have a huge impact on me. I look forward to more of Niall's ( Read more... )

I'm bored, doing technical editing, so I went wandering over to Youtube. Some searches revealed the following:

heresluck's Wonderfalls Vid "Window of Opportunity" (credited).

killabeez and T. Jonesy's ST:TOS vid "Camelot" (credited, and yes I know they know, but I thought it was taken down).

Half a dozen of lithiumdoll's vids, including "Pompeii", "Karaoke Soul", and "My ( Read more... )