Covert Affairs: ( spoilers travel the world )

( Violence, smallpox, Mumbai )

Wow. Your views on race affect what you think about this dog (Bo Obama, as it happens).

In the same vein, Anne Fausto-Sterling on Bodies with Histories:
Or consider spirometers, which measure lung function. The normal functioning of black people’s lungs is typically presumed to be 10-15 percent below that of white people’s. As Lundy Braun, who ( Read more... )

counteragent shot some scenes from the pilot with female Sam and Dee and male Jess.  She has pictures up.  Her Dee is gorgeous and is now my genderswap Dee forever in my head.  She should join the Girls on Film, who do this a bunch!


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( mostly sequels, and an apocalypse )

Mainstream pop-culture/remix-savvy media: have a Woody Allen supercut.

Fandom, specifically
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I blame jetlag for my fight with the LJ posting interface just now, anyway.  On my United flight out to San Francisco, they tried to serve me Diet Coke Light (labelled in Italian). Betrayed! I even popped the first can and took a sip before I realized; the taste brought me right around. I know most people don’t taste much of a difference between ( Read more... )

( thriller, Demon's Covenant, sequential art )

Seen on Freecycle today: stuffed prating dog. Turns out it was a typo for “praying,” but I’d be into a prating dog, at least as long as I could turn it off.
( Ilona Andrews, Daniel Abraham, musical history, cars, lawyer-novelists )