Excellent article about Adam's AMA performance & the fallout therefrom: "It's OK patriarchy, I understand Adam Lambert made you feel funny" on Feministing.

Warning -- the comments are Very Scary. As medie says below, they will make your head explode.

Really immpressive Adam Lambert vid: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2_20D5nNOLo (embedding is turned off, so there's only the link.)

This is set to Britney Spears "Radar" and is a fascinating example of 'female gaze' applied to an attractive guy (phrase stolen directly from arjumand ( Read more... )

First off, in the Quotes to Live By Department:

"The only thing you need to do to pull it off is want to wear it."

('It' in this case is a jacket embellished with feathers and studs and cool stitching, but obviously extending to anything at all one might choose to wear.)
Source - Radar Online interview with Adam LambertSo, I bought the People ( Read more... )

http://splix.livejournal.com/886378.html?thread=13191018#t13191018

After all, colour is just sound that we can't hear. Sometimes I look at a piece of work and wonder what it would sound like if we could hear the symphony of the colour waves. Would it sound like ( Read more... )

Fascinating link on how reading narrative affects the brain: Readers build vivid mental simulations of narrative situations.

Happy Birthday to argentlupin!

Another incidence of competence: Quick action by bar pilot kept tanker off rocks. Not quite as spectacular as landing a plane in the Hudson, but quite an accomplishment all the same ( Read more... )

It occurred to me today while I was wrestling with the character & actions & purpose in the plot of Nurse Salter in Tantalus, and thinking about original characters in fanfic as a whole, that there are two very different ways of approaching fic -- there is playing with the characters the original canon gives us (Methos, Duncan, Qui-Gon, Obi-Wan etc ( Read more... )

On the wall of the Starry Plough in Berkeley is a quote about how when a cause has caught the imagination of the people, the people make songs that draw in more people and express feelings in ways that mere words cannot (this is very much a paraphrase. I would love to find the actual quote.)

It occurred to me, while watching this:
( YouTube vid of great wonderfulness )

So, Banned Books Week starts tomorrow, and here is an excellent post about it, with a whole passel of nifty icons to spread the love. Thank you unovis_lj for the link and the info!

I'm thinking that a copy of And Tango Makes Three needs to come and live at my house.

And, a book review/commentary thing I've been meaning to do for nearly a year now --

The ( Read more... )

Huh, I'd say this is a pretty accurate description.

Results ( behind the curtain )

Words to live by.

And Happy Upcoming Birthday to copperbadge!