I saw the space shuttle Enterprise fly over NYC this morning from Riverdale Park. It was, I have to say, pretty cool. (How much do I love that it's named Enterprise??) I took some pretty crap video (see below), but trust me, it was cool.

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From Interview magazine:

With audiences clearly exhausted of modernity, the Braveheart remake comes on the heals of successful medieval fantasies Game of Thrones and Spartacus.

Medieval fantasies? SpartacusAlso, while I admit that GoT and Spartacus have soothed and medicated my savage spirit, it's heels, not heals, my friends ( Read more... )

-- politics-fandom-fail: WTF PEOPLE ARE UPSET BECAUSE A BLACK CHARACTER IS PLAYED BY A BLACK ACTRESS? Are you kidding me with this shit, Internets? #thehungergames.

-- politics/fail: Of course in a world like this, where you can just shoot people in the street without the expectation that the police will, you know, care, I guess I shouldn't be ( Read more... )

This is pretty cool...

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I kinda feel like this all the time...

Discovery takes off for the last time.


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~ There is a really brilliant article about sex work in Salon today, entitled: To all the girls who envy my life.

"...We're taught from an early age to keep an eternally vigilant (and critical) eye on our appearance, and it takes a strong, studied will to refuse to pose the questions many of us have had running in our head since puberty: Is she ( Read more... )

So... my copy of Cryoburn arrived today...

It comes with a CD-ROM on which you will find every Vorkosigan novel (as well as every word that Bujold has written that could be remotely related to that 'verse) for free. [ETA: Except, for some reason, Memory, which is in competition for my favorite Vorkosigan novel. So you might have to buy that one ( Read more... )

~I sometimes have fun watching the ads that win Clios -- the Oscars of commercials, as it were. I found this ad, about the Zimbabwean's trillion dollar campaign against censorship by the Mugabe regime to be ridiculously moving. Commercials like this remind me of vids; they utilize so much of the same emotional range.

~ Apparently, IBM is building ( Read more... )

First of all, thanks to mellacita! I ♥ my snowflake! I can't believe I got one! Thank you so much! It really made me smile.

*Sometimes, you need a little xmas giddyness via rm. Oh, Ten. This link is kind of a smiffle(smile+sniffle=smiffle, right?)

*Distant Reading -- the chatter of a century, distilled from novels digitised, and thus made searchable. I ( Read more... )

So, I think about fanfiction a lot, y'all may have noticed. And serial fiction. And the whole act of making fiction "real". What is it in a narrative that makes us think -- after the door is shut, after the windows are pushed down, after the covers are closed -- that the story goes on, before the first page, and after the last ( Read more... )