Sorry to spam, but zabira, sageness and qe2, I thought this might be of interest. I just found Diana Gabaldon's blog. For those of you who've been living under a rock, as I was until about three months ago when I started to mainline the Outlander novels, Gabaldon is the writer of a series of long, plotty and incredibly detailed historical romances that span a ( Read more... )

The Boy and I just got back from a screening of Australia and I am now conversant of the following facts re: the land Down Under.

( Things Wot Nos Has Learned About Australia )

I attended a small staff meeting yesterday, and as we were walking to the meeting room my fellow teachers were all talking excitedly about seeing Passchendaele, which went into wide release last night here in Canada. Some of their children were also going as part of high school history/social studies class trips. scarfe and I went to the Local Giant ( Read more... )

hradzka's review of Appaloosa (starring Viggo Mortensen and Ed Harris) describes the Western flick as one of the "slashiest films ever made." hradzka says it has due South levels of slash, and apparently contains a higher manlove-to-manlove ratio than 2007's 3:10 to Yuma remake, which was already pretty damn slashy ( Read more... )

I didn't know about the Large HardonHadron Collider test today. This alarms me. I'm...glad the world didn't end? Although torra's post made me think that it's not quite safe to come out of the bunker yet. I know that the experiment is probably safe and that a lot of the public anxiety about the project is based on a misunderstanding of what CERN is ( Read more... )

Last night I went to a Toronto Town Hall meeting about the recent funding cuts directed at the Canadian film and television industry. I posted about it a couple of days ago, but long story short...the Conservative government have cut $14.5 million from cultural grant programs. Since 2006 they have cut nearly $60 million in arts funding from the ( Read more... )

Graaaaaading season is upon me, and lo I am crushed. Each one of my classes turned in big assignments last week, and I just finished all the grading and then...look! More big assignments! meresy pointed me to this cartoon, which perfectly captures the wonder of the whole graaaaaaading experience. Of course, it was my fault for assigning the projects so ( Read more... )

Well, meresy caught the 10:30am bus home this morning, bringing our midweek fangirl sojourn to a close. I was really sad to see her go: we had lots of fun and meresy is a lively discussion partner who is kind enough to put up with my lapses into long-winded, pedantic discussions about fandom, Canadian nationalism and the cultural arts. She was a lovely ( Read more... )

Short cuts because not everyone is fascinated by labour action, annoying coworkers, or my random and disorganized approach to teaching college courses.

( Strike! Strike! Strike! )

scarfe, the fangirl-approved boyfriend of awesomeness, just said something that I find both deeply amusing and of some concern.

We rented Zodiac to watch tonight (along with The Good German and Down to the Bone (eeee Hugh Dillon!) and scarfe said of Zodiac: "It's got Mark Rufallo, Jake Gyllenhaal and Robert Downey Jr. That's the three faces of sexiness, ( Read more... )