At Jo Walton's LJ:
"Characters, Complicity and Caring: My Wiscon Speech"

With thanks to bunn for the heads up ( Read more... )

http://www.guardian.co.uk/stage/2013/jan/25/mckellen-stewart-godot-broadway
"Ian McKellen and Patrick Stewart to reprise Godot roles on Broadway"

Gaaah.  I would give limbs I haven't even grown yet to see this.  Waiting for Godot has just become my new obsession, and with that casting--!

and then later David Tennant's Hamlet used it as Yorick.  Such art.

Because I'm too lazy to put all the links together again on LJ, here's it on my tumblr.

Thanks to Wheelrider's post, I went off on a tangent and found a couple links that were of amusement and interest to me, and hopefully to some of you.

Fantasy author Jim C. Hines took it upon himself to reproduce some of the anatomically questionable, physically torturous, and notably objectifying poses of female characters on a selection of sci-fi/ ( Read more... )

Thanks to bunn, I derived a deal of amusement from this color survey conducted by the xkcd dude.

My favorite part were the color names some people came up with in their wisdom and/or despair (tall but worthwhile graphic under the cut):
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"Misogyny isn't caused by male horniness."
I like this article because it addresses a few points I have strong opinions on myself.
I especially liked the author's inclusion of the Nice Guy trope.  Permit me to go off on a tangent about the Nice Guy that is not quite related to the author's point.  A guy who complains in the hearing of a woman that ( Read more... )

I've been in new-to-me Tolkienish territory lately.  Can anybody point me to some good online resources on Rohan? 
I specifically need to know when their new year is, if such information exists.  I should learn more about Rohan in general though.

Instead I found and gawked at the French Republican Calendar, (calendrier républicain français) and now I ( Read more... )

Happy Birthday, SWG!  (Or so my LJ homepage tells me today.)

Happy Stabbiversary, Caesar!
No seriously, watch that, it's an awesome musical number from Histeria.
Who remembers Histeria?!  Best show ever.

For the most part, I have Other Things to Post About.  On the occasion that I do post something political or divisively ideological, I shall offer up this advisory:
1. I lean left. Very.
2. I don't keep this journal for the sake of arguments, which can be found in many places on the internet, so parties who feel they may wish to argue are advised to ( Read more... )

Ah!  Voici une chose que je peux regarder/écouter pour practiquer ma français?!  *wince*
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_Reine_Soleil

"Fires in the Mirror." We watched about half of this in a class yesterday.  I found it quite riveting.  People should all watch this.  Anna Deavere Smith is an amazing actor.  She plays characters of sundry genders, ( Read more... )