Not gonna lie I stayed up with Twitter and the Guardian and the L.A. Times liveblogs open to follow the Oscars.

I'm happy Mad Max: Fury Road won six of 'em, even if one wasn't Best Picture. (Confession: I hadn't heard of Spotlight, the film that did win, but it looks hella important and I plan to watch it, now.) MM:FR was one of the best films of ( Read more... )

Syria: children slaughtered as regime unleashes 18-hour attack on town.

UN confirms 'massacre' of children in Houla.

@HamaEcho's been posting pictures. Twitpic keeps taking them down - the graphic ones, I mean.

I can't unsee that.

Instead, I'm Skyping with my mum, and I'm listening to somber songs in Gaelic, and wondering how to be, in light ( Read more... )

I'm the Official Twitterer (Head Tweep?) for our CPT Twitter page, and in the past few days I've finally begun to take the time the task really deserves, in order to make Tweeting a worthwhile means of networking ( Read more... )

I just watched this clip from The Daily Show about how we should commemorate not Thanksgiving, but Evacuation Day instead. It's quite the little history lesson (although to be honest it seems like they gleaned most of it from the Wikipedia page), and of course I appreciate any chance to instill the broader United States public with a more complete ( Read more... )

I simply cannot imagine why The Clash have been playing in my head these past few days...

One of the more interesting set of reactions to the London riots has come from the Arab sector of folks I follow on Twitter. (And, come on, you knew I was keeping up with all the latest on my Twitter feed!) Most of the Tweeps I follow are based in, or have ( Read more... )

In the book I'm currently reading,* the main character is able to, as he says it, "split his mind" into multiple parts, in order to concentrate on several tasks at once. In the story, these tasks usually involve highly complex magics, and when he says he splits his mind, the reader knows that one part may be holding the binding of a spell while ( Read more... )