The Golden Compass was a bit meh. Oh well. I'm actually looking forward to Aliens vs. Predator: Requiem. I think that the first entry that I made in this journal mentions the first AVP movie ( Read more... )

.... and I'm done.

This has been a LONG ASS day, and also cold. And snowy. Which is fine because Slim is bringing firewood tomorrow and we will use it after we eat Indian food and go see The Golden Compass to celebrate the doneness ( Read more... )

I just finished reading Susan Bordo's The Male Body: A New Look at Men in Public and in Private and I'm trying to process. (I'm re-reading her Unbearable Weight: Feminism, Western Culture, and the Body now.)

( ramblings about the male body, the female gaze, male sexuality in the media, myths about the nature of women's sexual choices, size DOES matter, visual appeal in fandom, and spoilers for Eastern Promises. )

Watched Eddie Izzard "The Definite Article" yesterday with Andrew. Hysterical. Funnier every time. Also, I finally broke down and bought "Dress to Kill," along with a bunch of Phil Rickman mysteries/horror stories like December, which is the best horror novel ever written. Or close to it.

And I would recommend Wilderness Survival for Girls to ( Read more... )

I'm trying to read WE, by Yevgeny Zamyatin. Trying. I have never gotten along with Russian literature very well; although, I do assign my students Solzhenitsyn every semester, just out of cruelty, I guess. "A Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich" isn't THAT difficult to get through and analyze, and yet I'm always left telling them that "It's about ( Read more... )

Heh. The Rockies are on a seven game win streak. Who knew?

Also, I've been reading a lot in the last week and it's been a mixed bag.

( Glass Books of the Dream Eaters )

So I've been doing a lot of reading. I find it's best when trying to avoid the more unsavory aspects of RL. That and turning your phone off.

I got through The Monsters: Mary Shelley and the Curse of Frankenstein, by Dorothy and Thomas Hoobler. Essentially the life stories of Percy and Mary Shelley, Lord Byron, and of course, the evolution of the ( Read more... )

My first question is, how can you make vampires boring? I mean, I've read pretentious, annoying and angst-ridden, but boring? The Historian manages it, though. And it's about Dracula. He's the grandaddy vamp of them all. He should at the VERY LEAST be pleasantly campy. But no. All you've got are 600+ pages of pointless, plotless, massively boring, ( Read more... )

It's foggy out. Y'know? The kind of day where you want to build a fire and wrap yourself up in the afghan and sip on tea while reading . . . Rebecca, maybe. (Sorry, mantypants.) Anyway. I had to take a break because if I read one more breathless exposition on "OMG Gilgamesh was so GAY," I may have to start burning things. I'm glad that they picked up on that ( Read more... )

There is no earthly reason for me to use that subject line.

Anyway, have any of you ever read Celestial Harmonies by Peter Esterhazy? It's so post-modern that it (by definition) is practically meaningless; yet, it seems so profound ( Read more... )