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I'm attending the 24/7 DIY Media Conference this weekend. I have met, and felt awkward near, vidders of whom I am in awe (laurashapiro, cesperanza, heresluck, absolutedestiny jarrow272, renenet and several other people whose LJ names I wasn't able to remember or triangulate with cathexys's encyclopedic knowledge of things and people fannish) (ETA: par_avion, anoel and hafital, hurrah!). And some academics, too ( Read more... )

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I have never posted a YouTube video before. I don't even watch the YouTube videos that come up on my flist all that often, so this has probably been posted by several of you already. But cathexys (who doesn't even find LOLcats entertaining!) just pointed me at this, and it is one of the funniest things I have seen in, well, ever. nixwilliams, I thought of you.

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By way of slightlyfoxed...

I love Alan Cumming very, very, very much.

Also in the spirit of short public entries I appear to be in tonight:

Over at Language Log, Geoffrey K Pullum -- who has recently moved to the department that granted half of my degree, in Edinburgh -- is discovering the British/American street name difference that has long fascinated my transatlantic self. It took me a long time to start leaving ( Read more... )

Nor do I believe in nationalism.

But.

OMG, Scotland beat FRANCE???

There are going to be (and doubtless already have been) a lot of drinks drunk to that one in the home of the Tartan Army.