Woah, party-party!
Today, as Dreamwidth enters open beta, has been like a beginning of a really good conference (sometime I think I am a sad academykle hedjog) where I keep bumping into people and being very glad that they're here too and feeling that there are interesting things going to be said and good conversations going to happen.
Also, at one level it is just like suddenly being the Popular Kid in the Playground as people's names pop up as subscribing, giving access, etc, which, as I never was when I was a kid in the playground, is peculiarly gratifying.
It is most amusing that when I click on one of the less common interests in my long long list (plz can b havin MOAR intrstz? 150 2 phew) chances are that there will be one other person listed, who I already know from lj, or small group largely consisting of old and dears.
If I don't know you from LJ or around, and you are reading this, please feel free to tell me a bit about yourself.
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A couple of links:
Nice piece by Anne Billson on the sad lack of proper heroines in recent animated film, and the even nicer comment at the end:
Maybe it's simply that animated heroines are redundant in today's Hollywood where, even in live-action movies, one is hard-pressed to find a three-dimensional female character.
Sing it, sister! (and thinking of last night's conversation about screwball comedy).
Interview with Jackie de Shannon: continued writing songs and having minor hits that would be smashes for others. And isn't 'wonderfully wayward career' a formula for the kind of on-again, off-again, dependent on all sorts of factors external to the individual's actual capacities, that characterises so many female trajectories? de Shannon was one of the few 60s acts that I actually saw live (supporting act for more well-known chart-toppers) - when I think her general presentation ran counter to the expectations of kooky mod chick.
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