As I said in my previous post, I liked a lot of things about the Glee finale. I also had some pretty serious reservations about it, partly because of the ep itself and partly because of how the ep played into current/recent national conversations (and silences) about queer civil rights.

This post resonated with some of what I was thinking about, ( Read more... )

• MayDay.us. Many of you will have already seen this, but in case you haven't: Lawrence Lessig (pro-creativity lawyer of Free Culture and Remix fame -- you may have seen his TED talk -- who's turned from copyright reform to campaign finance reform) has founded the Mayday Political Action Committee, which "aims to elect a Congress committed to ( Read more... )

Still in London, still with only intermittent internet access (and limited time when I do have access), still debating whether to post my notes about the theatre I've been seeing (short version: so much amazing theatre omg), but in light of the events of the past couple days I've been making a concerted effort to check in on US politics when I can ( Read more... )

I read The Nation for many reasons. Here are two of them.

1. This week's issue contains China Miéville's review of J. G. Ballard's Complete Stories. Completely aside from the very interesting account of Ballard's work, the review is notable for Miéville's comments on the question of whether Ballard can or ought to be considered a writer of SF. An ( Read more... )

1) Cut your own hair to shorter than 2 inches. Bonus points for using a straight razor. Special white trash points for doing it on the front porch ( Read more... )

I'm no longer illegal in the state in which I grew up. Or, apparently, a lot of other states as well ( Read more... )