Instead of a blog post (although thoughts are sorta tumbling around for one) I bring you a link to some pretty extraordinary art made from Legos. No, really.

1. Gifts have been popping up in the mail! This is a positive thing :) First, I got one of
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Because one person asked to see it:

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I first saw glassblowers in Venice ( Read more... )

Over at Black Gate a commentator whined, among other things, that "… fantasy fiction is in desperate need of is good adventure stories free of contemporary politics. There is no shortage of politically driven fiction of varying quality ( Read more... )

…I am absolutely delighted when another medievalist takes the time to make my argument for me.

Some years back I happened to be in St. Augustine and decided to go on the St. Augustine historical reenactment tour. It was awful, but this post is not about that. Rather, it's about the woman who was doing the candlemaking demonstration, who told me that before the 19th century, no women could read ( Read more... )

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I can't even do regular finger painting.

I don't knit, but those of you who do may find this fascinating.

Sent to me by a few readers, and also blogged about over at Andrew Sullivan's.

So box_in_the_box directed me to this fascinating piece showing the changing radicalism/conservativism politics of Doctor Who over time.

The way current politics and beliefs and arguments become framed in fiction and art constantly fascinates me, whether in the obvious, overt way (24, The West Wing, the current incarnation of Battlestar Galatica) or the ( Read more... )