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erf_

introverts en masse

Sep 14, 2009 06:16

I guess I should write about my day, huh.

(Even though it's over, and a new one has already begun. Stupid off-kilter unemployed sleep cycle.)

The Brooklyn Book Festival was pretty neat! I guess I was expecting something like a trade show or a convention, what with Brooklyn having a huge and storied literary scene, but it turns out it was both ( Read more... )

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drabheathen September 14 2009, 16:01:27 UTC

Man, I totally wanted to go to the Brooklyn Book Festival. Yesterday was Moving Hell, though, and I spent 12 hours either getting lost, driving a truck, or carrying boxes. (Yaaay ( ... )

erf_ September 14 2009, 20:59:25 UTC

I'm all too familiar with that kind of twelve-hour nightmare, and that's why I generally get rid of as much stuff as possible well before I move. Ugh. Never again ( ... )

erf_ September 14 2009, 21:20:22 UTC

Also, this is every party I've ever been to:

Dude: It's sad how video games focus so much on power fantasies, yeah? You're always playing the big, macho warrior dude, or the studly groupie-bait bishie.
Lady: Yeah? Pandering to the male gaze and stuff?
Dude: Absolutely. And when you're playing the spindly little guy he's always the David to someone else's Goliath...like Gordon Freeman, or some humble proletariat working class plumber like Mario. The princess is in another castle. The male is always there to rescue, dominate, and give meaning to the female. Susan Sontag would be appalled. It's not fair.
Lady: That's so fascinating! It's very...Susan Sontag. I should look into that for my next paper.
Me: Isn't it? It's even been the subject of critique within the medium itself.
Dude: Really.
Lady: Seriously?
Me: Yeah! In Metal Gear Solid 3, where you play this Jack Bauer, Tom Clancy style badass who can move like a whisper and kill a bajillion guys with an AK-47 without batting an eye, there is a scene where you're captured by the bad ( ... )

user_undefined September 15 2009, 04:30:18 UTC

At least one person told me they didn't get your invite until the last minute, and that's why they weren't at your picnic. :(

Man. Books! Awesome.

So uh I'm moving to NYC this weekend and will be basically unemployed at first (I KNOW I KNOW WHAT AM I THINKING), so if you ever want to meet up with somebody and hang out someplace with wi-fi to write or whatever, let me know.

erf_ September 15 2009, 05:47:50 UTC

Awesome! I look forward to seeing you. Hit me up when you get here.