Not at the G20 protesters, so much. The peaceful ones were only exercising their just and justified rights... and the subhumans smashing into a Starbucks then casually grabbing a bottle of water from the counter (rampaging against the system is thirsty work, evidently) would only be energised further by my rage. Frankly I refuse to give them that ( Read more... )

Le sigh. My body chemistry and I really need to have a little chat.

I have read somewhere -- this is going to be the title of the snarky general-knowledge book I will eventually write, Things I Read Somewhere -- that it is possible to reset your bioclock so that you can, say, turn yourself into a morning person. I am a bit sceptical of this in ( Read more... )

Moving inside. I gather by this point most of the books were ghostwritten -- and just parenthetically, this general discovery totally messed up my tender preteen mind. From an adult POV, you of course can't expect any sane human being to single-handedly crank out a monthly teen soap over years and years, but as a kid, it's nothing short of betrayal ( Read more... )

I honestly don't expect much from the free Metro subway paper. For one thing, it's a free paper, and for another it's designed to be read at an hour when I'm not physically capable of expecting much. That I am sometimes driven to mild irritation at the hack writing and/or shallow insight says reams about how dreadful it actually is.

Then I saw this ( Read more... )

As was previously mentioned -- and if you haven't been reading my lit-crit masterpieces in order, why not, may I ask -- at any rate, Oz was consciously designed as a very practical Fairyland. You notice, when the characters stop for supper on their nigh-endless journeys, how often milk is mentioned?

In other words: Tolkien, Baum was not. This is ( Read more... )

So OK, I realise that The Wizard of Oz was originally a one-off deal. The first sequel was intended as a cash-in once the original became a  hit stage play, and the others were written pretty much as a favour to the fans (partly because, frankly, Baum needed the money too much to refuse them).

All that said... you do sometimes wonder, coming back to ( Read more... )

Really, she is. I know this, because I have lately been on a course of Oz sequels (in eBook form) and I have been experiencing that prickly sort of irritation that twigs only in the presence of a Purity Sue. It's been building for a couple rereads now, but this time this Author on Board-sense is just off the charts. Also, this time I have a journal ( Read more... )

It is hot. H-O-T. The air is soup, the pavement glares, the bugs in the porchlights are the only living things moving fast ( Read more... )

So yes, in the course of rambling on about Feminism in Watership Down, below, I got a little carried away. Especially does this bug in terms of children's media (which Watership really isn't, but we'll ignore that for now). It's something I've been personally confronting lately, as I rummage around in my Sesame Street-intensive past. Do you realise ( Read more... )

Comment to this post and I will give you 5 subjects/things I associate you with. Then post this in your LJ and elaborate on the subjects given.

So the other day, charmed and curious, I commented to this post of  kalquessa 's...and...

Blogging in Shakespearean English, feminism in Watership Down, Pearls Before Swine, Philistine Pollyanna, detective fiction.

OK ( Read more... )