Who wants to talk about media stuff? I do! So here are some spoiler-free thoughts on the things I've been feeding my brain.

Books:
After much trial and tribulation, I have finally finished reading Cryptonomicon. It's definitely one of the most interesting things I've read in a long time, and I was completely in love with every last character. The ( Read more... )

So Friday? Sucked. I woke up in a bad mood and then had one problem after another all day. I made it through the day by telling myself that I could go home, have a glass of whiskey, a bowl of ice cream and watch Torchwood. Friends, that is exactly what I did. I also had kind of a weird moment somewhere in the middle of the night/early morning where ( Read more... )

Y'all, I have had a weird ass week. Let me tell you it.

It started last Sunday, with the photo shoot that didn't happen and unexpected origami. I contacted the director of the modelling agency I was supposed to be shooting with asking wtf. Apparently, the make-up artist had to cancel and called everyone except me. Also, there was a death in the ( Read more... )

1. Here's an interesting article about fair use and transformative comedy. (The writer calls it "parody", but I think there's a fine distinction.) The article draws on the example of My Little Ponies and Hasbro's openly positive response to fan works. One thing I thought was interesting, and that I didn't know, is that "parody" is protected under ( Read more... )

1. It's a two-for-one special over at Frenemy Cosplay. This week's cosplay linkspam is up, but you should really go read 's post-mortem on her amazing Dr. Orpheus costume, which received a hug of blessing from Mr. Jackson Publick himself ( Read more... )

So there's a lot going on right now....

Living Situation, tl;dr: ( I moved to Minneapolis and got a job as an office temp. )

So I went to see Harry Potter, today, and ADVENTURE occurred ( Read more... )

So, in 1976, the year of the US Bicentennial, high school students in Grand Prairie, Texas wrote letters to the people of 2076, 100 years in the future. Read it, see what they have to say, and then I have some thoughts ( Read more... )

So, this guy said some dumb stuff about women writers, which you don't really need to read because it's dumb, but then we get fun stuff like a quiz to see if you can guess a writer's gender or a computer program that calculates an author's gender based on a selection of text. It's pretty sure I'm a dude.

In mostly unrelated news, I saw X-Men: ( Read more... )

Feeling a bit better, but still kind of blah. Still taking drabble requests (did a lovely Doctor/TARDIS one for
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