This Means Something:
Joanna Russ has died, an author who so thoroughly influenced me that not a day goes by I don't think a thought you could trace back to her work.
Excerpts from 'How to Suppress Women's Writing'
She was also one of the first people to write about slash from a scholarly, feminist perspective, which is why it feels so brutally ironic of the universe to give us a Online Wall Street Journal article by Ogi Ogli.
SIGH.
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I actually started this journal entry days ago, intent on writing about a lot of things: the latest episode of Doctor Who and some fanfiction recs among them, but in between now and then Barack Obama has taken out Osama bin Laden.
Not that I think Osama bin Laden was the greatest evil among humans of all time - indeed, the 21st Century would have a long way to go to top any of the atrocities of the 20th (but don't cheer yet, there's nine more decades to go in this one!) But really, if your reaction to that news wasn't to say 'America, Fuck Yeah', I question your choices. Dude was an evil motherfucker and it was tragic that we as a nation were being led by equally evil, fat and lazy people.
Now, can we stop justifying the predator drones and the occupations, Mr. President? I know you don't actually think they're right.
As always, however, I love Mr. Obama's epic trolling of America. Even I thought that birth certificate news was a little over the top, sir, but I see now that you had to do something truly epic to misdirect everyone from what was really happening. Good show, good show. 10/10 possible RL Trolling points.
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Some real life news:
1. I have a booth at this month's First Friday. Please come out and buy some comics.
2. I paid off the 8,000 dollars I owed SAIC last month. Which I noted on Facebook and Twitter. Getting the paperwork cleared up to return to class in Chicago is turning into a royal pain in the ass, as you would expect.
3. Because of those things, this feels like a good entry to announce that I'll no longer be crossposting to LJ. Please come visit me on Dreamwidth.
Excerpts from 'How to Suppress Women's Writing'
She was also one of the first people to write about slash from a scholarly, feminist perspective, which is why it feels so brutally ironic of the universe to give us a Online Wall Street Journal article by Ogi Ogli.
SIGH.
***
I actually started this journal entry days ago, intent on writing about a lot of things: the latest episode of Doctor Who and some fanfiction recs among them, but in between now and then Barack Obama has taken out Osama bin Laden.
Not that I think Osama bin Laden was the greatest evil among humans of all time - indeed, the 21st Century would have a long way to go to top any of the atrocities of the 20th (but don't cheer yet, there's nine more decades to go in this one!) But really, if your reaction to that news wasn't to say 'America, Fuck Yeah', I question your choices. Dude was an evil motherfucker and it was tragic that we as a nation were being led by equally evil, fat and lazy people.
Now, can we stop justifying the predator drones and the occupations, Mr. President? I know you don't actually think they're right.
As always, however, I love Mr. Obama's epic trolling of America. Even I thought that birth certificate news was a little over the top, sir, but I see now that you had to do something truly epic to misdirect everyone from what was really happening. Good show, good show. 10/10 possible RL Trolling points.
***
Some real life news:
1. I have a booth at this month's First Friday. Please come out and buy some comics.
2. I paid off the 8,000 dollars I owed SAIC last month. Which I noted on Facebook and Twitter. Getting the paperwork cleared up to return to class in Chicago is turning into a royal pain in the ass, as you would expect.
3. Because of those things, this feels like a good entry to announce that I'll no longer be crossposting to LJ. Please come visit me on Dreamwidth.