What's Next? = Lin-Manuel Miranda and the West Wing. I might have teared up a little.

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January talking meme:
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For our listening pleasure, someone put together a youtube playlist of all the Gang Starr songs that are episode titles in Luke Cage.

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I was reading an otherwise unmemorable Star Wars AU (they all start to run together at a certain point) and suddenly there was Obi-Wan Kenobi, Union Organizer, a thing I never knew I needed until I found it! Sadly, he did not lead the striking masses in a chorus of "There Is Power in a Union," but you can bet I imagined Ewan McGregor singing it ( Read more... )

Miscellany and sundry:

+ a small snippet of Alan Cumming at NYPL. (Also, the story behind the t-shirt is that, like many of us, he got soaked in the rainstorm that hit right at rush hour, and the library provided the shirt; he told us he's taken Sharon Stone's mantra* of "I wear it, I own it" to heart, and was not planning on giving the shirt back ( Read more... )

have something that makes me smile: Star Work by
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I asked this on tumblr, but posting original stuff to tumblr feels like posting into a void most of the time, so, has anyone made an Anakin Skywalker vid to Eminem's "Lose Yourself?" A cursory Google turned up nothing, but that doesn't meant it doesn't exist somewhere, so if you know of such a thing, please link me. Otoh, if it hasn't already been ( Read more... )

Tried out the new bar in the neighborhood last night. The waitress was aggressively* friendly but the mozzarella in carrozza was really good, even if they put cilantro in the tomato sauce (and on everything else for some reason; I know, it's terrible, but I'm one of those anti-cilantro people), they have Allagash White on tap, and I got a free shot ( Read more... )

I can tell it finally feels like spring here despite - or perhaps because of - the brief showers we had this evening, because I can smell someone grilling meat somewhere in the vicinity and it smells so good. Or I'm just really hungry for a steak dinner. I guess it can be two things

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I mostly dozed and checked tumblr through last night's Legends of Tomorrow. I admit the only time I paid close attention was when Wentworth Miller was onscreen. It's a good background noise show, I guess.

I did manage to wake up enough to pay attention to The 100. ( spoilers for Watch the Thrones )

Last night, L. and I went to see RuPaul at the NYPL. He was delightful - charming and hilarious and smart. He talked some about the toxicity of hyper-masculinity in the US, and how gender is performative, and about the importance of finding like-minded people, of knowing that even if you don't fit in where you are, you'll fit in somewhere, and ( Read more... )