David Sedaris, Calypso: ( essays )

This discussion of Star Trek: Into Darkness has an intriguing treatment of prequels v. reboots along with a bunch of great lines, many spoilery, along with a reaction from Henry Jenkins that is interesting in its own right. My only hitch-and I have done this too many times myself, so it’s mostly a note for myself-was tripping over “‘the Captain’s ( Read more... )

It seems somehow unfair that my Yuletide pinch hit is practically writing itself when my original assignment was taffy-slow. Time pressure is a strange thing.

( Sedaris, needlework technology, music and copyright law, Churchill, the racial wealth divide, books we loved as girls, and evolution )

A Washington Post article uses Strikethrough, among other incidents, to discuss the difficulties of defining and protecting free speech online. It's interesting that the article, while clearly free speech-friendly, turns the suspended LJs into "fiction," eliding the fan element. That makes sense--it's yet another thing that would have to be ( Read more... )

Posting this frequently counts as spam from me, I'm sure. Anyway, ever since I read the highly amusing "Troy in Fifteen Minutes," I've felt a strange desire for an Odysseus icon that says "Hi, Boromir!" despite the fact that I'm not a big fan of either LoTR or Troy. I don't know why this should be true, but it is.

( As justification for this entry, John Keegan and David Sedaris )

We saw Gypsy tonight. Bernadette Peters had the promised star power, though the show didn't impress me much as a musical. It's a big Broadway week for us -- we see Avenue Q, the Sesame Street parody, on Friday.

I've read some books. ( Read more... )

First, the archived version of Five Things That Never Happened to Lex Luthor, now with one less spelling error. Then, a few books, three autobiographical and one definitely not.

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Of genetically engineered killer bats.

Sorry, but that tag line for a new SciFi Channel movie just got me. I mean, I'm a person who went to see Species because the tag line was something like, "For ten thousand years, humans have been at the top of the food chain.

Everything changes."

David Sedaris's Me Talk Pretty One Day meets the "can it ( Read more... )