I already am an environmental Knytter (= maker of Knytt Stories environmental levels ( Read more... )

http://www.amazon.de/Farscape-Lisa-Gerrard/dp/B0019LZMF2

Coincidence, or crypto-filk?

I ordered Joy Division's "Unknown Pleasures" recently, vaguely inspired by fic research (which included rewatching "24 Hour Party People" to get a better sense of late 70s/early 80s pop culture in Manchester, which reminded me that I really love this song). "Unknown Pleasures" is from 1979. I only have one other album from that year (I think) - ( Read more... )

Seen a magazine titled 'DCI' (subtitle: Developmental & Comparative Immunology.) Shelfmark? SZq 1973.

Srsly. *g*

"So by your account Harold Potter was a perfectly ordinary Englishman without any tendency towards being a Scotsman whatsoever?"

(Monty Python's Flying Circus, episode 7)

So, the day before yesterday, I read some Don DeLillo, and encountered the term "myoclonic jerk", which was unknown to me. I wrote it down to look it up later but then forgot about it. Well, today I read some excerpts from Bill Bryson's "The Mother Tongue", and among them was this bit ( Read more... )

1.) Happy coincidence:

I'm about to receive a number of French comics from two different sources in the next couple of weeks. Wheeeeeeeee! Also, nager let me know yesterday that he found the first part of Mohiro Kitoh's Wings of Vendemiaire on ebay this week, a collector's item he wanted to give me for a present a while ago but couldn't find then, and ( Read more... )

I finished reading 'Science Fiction Culture' by Camille Bacon-Smith today. And guess who just delurked in a thread at the Save Farscape Forums, and what's more, in one of the few threads I've posted in? Camille Bacon Smith!!! It's a conspiracy, I'm sure... *g* But then, I don't mind a conspiracy that means we have people like Camille Bacon-Smith on ( Read more... )

I just saw FS 4.01, and it was good. Not great, definitely not great, but hey, FS season openers have never been the best eps in a season, somehow it always takes the show a few eps to shift into the right gear. Was it confusing? Frell, yes. Was it stupid in parts? Yes, I'm afraid it was. Does it bode ill for the rest of the season? No, I don't ( Read more... )