Very random links
I am so far behind fannishly I now have no hope until the end of the semester. Also, I got a student telling me he expected to hate my class but didn't, which is sort of the equivalent of the feedback that says "I usually hate your kink, but I liked this story!" Thanks, I guess?
PSA: Benedict Cumberbatch and James MacAvoy perform Neil Gaiman’s Neverwhere, the whole thing streaming on the BBC for a short time.
What is it like to be a vampire and/or parent? For what it’s worth, I’m with the writer of this post: I do not feel that I’ve changed into the undead, no matter how tired I am. Reference.
Too good not to quote: a condensed version of oral argument in the Prop. 8 case:
BREYER: I’m going to ask you an extremely long question riddled with nonspecific nouns, and you’re going to have to guess what I mean by it.
COOPER: I’m pretty sure the answer is no? But let’s stop talking about whether I should be allowed to talk, and get on to what I’m going to be talking about. Which is: nostalgia. Nostalgia for the good old days of traditional, bedrock values. Man, back in 1971, this Court said there was no federal question as to same-sex marriage. Those were the fucking days.
I’ve rarely seen Breyer better described.
Kate Hines, I love you, but WT actual F?
M.T. Anderson, Feed: 2002 dystopian novel that could have been written today. Kids who can afford it have feeds implanted at birth that deliver a constant stream of commercials and other come-ons; our protagonist, a teen of limited vocabulary and corporate-stunted intelligence (since American schools lost all government funding) meets a girl whose feed was installed much later in life and who’s been homeschooled. She sparks in him a desire for something he quite literally cannot name, while she wants to know what it’s like to be normal. Then their feeds get hacked, and the situation deteriorates.W They’re star-crossed lovers, except the environment is breaking down around them and no one really knows or cares. Not a happy story, and the only things easy to read as pure exaggeration for satire’s sake are the parts where fake lesions mimicking the common, unexplained skin lesions become popular and where the protagonist’s father hunts a whale that’s been given a special inorganic skin that lets it continue to live in the dead oceans.
comments on DW | reply there. I have invites or you can use OpenID.
PSA: Benedict Cumberbatch and James MacAvoy perform Neil Gaiman’s Neverwhere, the whole thing streaming on the BBC for a short time.
What is it like to be a vampire and/or parent? For what it’s worth, I’m with the writer of this post: I do not feel that I’ve changed into the undead, no matter how tired I am. Reference.
Too good not to quote: a condensed version of oral argument in the Prop. 8 case:
BREYER: I’m going to ask you an extremely long question riddled with nonspecific nouns, and you’re going to have to guess what I mean by it.
COOPER: I’m pretty sure the answer is no? But let’s stop talking about whether I should be allowed to talk, and get on to what I’m going to be talking about. Which is: nostalgia. Nostalgia for the good old days of traditional, bedrock values. Man, back in 1971, this Court said there was no federal question as to same-sex marriage. Those were the fucking days.
I’ve rarely seen Breyer better described.
Kate Hines, I love you, but WT actual F?
M.T. Anderson, Feed: 2002 dystopian novel that could have been written today. Kids who can afford it have feeds implanted at birth that deliver a constant stream of commercials and other come-ons; our protagonist, a teen of limited vocabulary and corporate-stunted intelligence (since American schools lost all government funding) meets a girl whose feed was installed much later in life and who’s been homeschooled. She sparks in him a desire for something he quite literally cannot name, while she wants to know what it’s like to be normal. Then their feeds get hacked, and the situation deteriorates.W They’re star-crossed lovers, except the environment is breaking down around them and no one really knows or cares. Not a happy story, and the only things easy to read as pure exaggeration for satire’s sake are the parts where fake lesions mimicking the common, unexplained skin lesions become popular and where the protagonist’s father hunts a whale that’s been given a special inorganic skin that lets it continue to live in the dead oceans.
comments on DW | reply there. I have invites or you can use OpenID.