Tabs, tabs everywhere, but at least there's tea to drink
Tom McRae has a new release. It's a limited edition solo live album called "From the Solo Lands" (his last album having been "From the Lowlands"), and its packaging is a board game. (I haven't looked at the pictures or promo video closely enough to see how that works.) And buying it today gave me immediate access to digital copies of the whole thing and eleven extra digital tracks...but buying the main collection digitally-only doesn't result in the extra tracks, which seems weird to me, but...okay.
(There's also a decent spring discount deal if you buy both "From the Lowlands" and "From the Solo Lands".)
(I don't do specific music associations with Newsflesh the way I did with Fruits Basket, but this song ["Second Law"] is high on my mental list of things that could theoretically make me learn to vid if we ever get good movies.)
Links!
Via
marina, this Kickstarter for "period panties" (which ends in about twelve hours, which, uh, tells you how long I've had tabs open). The international shipping has kept me from seriously considering it, but the idea pleases me immensely. *g*
A site called Organization Anti-Social Geniuses has a post on advice from manga letterers, from a variety of people working in the field, including lyschan and
kaitou_ace (Annaliese Christman).
Over at Jezebel, there's "Taste Test From Hell: We Cooked a Bunch of Gross Recipes From the '50s", which is exactly what it sounds like.
A couple weeks ago,
skygiants posted about figuring out how a French Revolution Sleepy Hollow AU would work, and it sounds fantastic and I would like to read it now, please.
Via
newredshoes, this Salon piece: "The trouble with virginity: What America's sexual language leaves out".
Via
ironed_orchid, a post by Mallory Ortberg boils generic YA dystopian fiction down to its key traits: "It's A Bunch of Years After The War And Everything Is Different".
Via lnhammer, "Twitter I Love You But You're Bringing Me Down: Learning to live on the net". [Warning: busily animated post header.]
Via
notalwaysweak, "somebody alert the authorities there's too much red meat in this romance" is an Ann/Ron Parks and Recreation fic and it is DELIGHTFUL.
Via BoingBoing, danah boyd has made a .pdf of her new book It's Complicated: The Social Lives of Networked Teens available for download. (The first of those links goes to her post explaining her reasons.)
A few days ago,
sara posted about how fanfic gets less respect than similar endeavors in other artistic mediums. (There's good discussion in the comments, too.) "and I thought, you know, writing is about the only creative discipline where people give you shit for doing covers. [...] And it's entirely acceptable to play the piano on weekends, or only in front of friends, and nobody's ever going to say to you, 'You know, you should book some shows down at the club. Just because everyone will be drunk is no reason to imagine it won't be a great experience.' I know musicians who go years without performing for the general public, and that's a completely normal part of the cultural experience of being a musician."
And a few links to stuff relating to Seanan McGuire's writing:
For the daily posting meme, I asked
kass to talk about Seanan's work in some way, and she wrote about the recurring reasons why she loves it. ^_^
A little over a week ago now, Seanan posted the cover for Symbiont, the sequel to Parasite.
From the department of "yes, she does research the hell out of everything", someone was listening to the audiobook of Feed and got to the part early on where a zombie grabs Shaun and rips his sweater, and asked Seanan if she'd researched the tearing strength of a wool sweater. Answer: "We hung a friend of mine over a rail while wearing a wool sweater. Because we are either a) metal or b) jerks, depending on your perspective."
And finally, someone left her a note about Indexing, which I'm quoting from here simply because it's true and lovely: "the whole book just felt like waves of love about how we're not our narratives, how it's not our fault, the way we were raised, and about how we have the right to fight the emotional abusive narrative we were forced to take in our whole lives."
Originally posted at http://umadoshi.dreamwidth.org/505037.html. Comment here if you like, or comment there using OpenID. Comments at DW:
(There's also a decent spring discount deal if you buy both "From the Lowlands" and "From the Solo Lands".)
(I don't do specific music associations with Newsflesh the way I did with Fruits Basket, but this song ["Second Law"] is high on my mental list of things that could theoretically make me learn to vid if we ever get good movies.)
Links!
Via
marina, this Kickstarter for "period panties" (which ends in about twelve hours, which, uh, tells you how long I've had tabs open). The international shipping has kept me from seriously considering it, but the idea pleases me immensely. *g*
A site called Organization Anti-Social Geniuses has a post on advice from manga letterers, from a variety of people working in the field, including lyschan and
kaitou_ace (Annaliese Christman).
Over at Jezebel, there's "Taste Test From Hell: We Cooked a Bunch of Gross Recipes From the '50s", which is exactly what it sounds like.
A couple weeks ago,
skygiants posted about figuring out how a French Revolution Sleepy Hollow AU would work, and it sounds fantastic and I would like to read it now, please.
Via
newredshoes, this Salon piece: "The trouble with virginity: What America's sexual language leaves out".
Via
ironed_orchid, a post by Mallory Ortberg boils generic YA dystopian fiction down to its key traits: "It's A Bunch of Years After The War And Everything Is Different".
Via lnhammer, "Twitter I Love You But You're Bringing Me Down: Learning to live on the net". [Warning: busily animated post header.]
Via
notalwaysweak, "somebody alert the authorities there's too much red meat in this romance" is an Ann/Ron Parks and Recreation fic and it is DELIGHTFUL.
Via BoingBoing, danah boyd has made a .pdf of her new book It's Complicated: The Social Lives of Networked Teens available for download. (The first of those links goes to her post explaining her reasons.)
A few days ago,
sara posted about how fanfic gets less respect than similar endeavors in other artistic mediums. (There's good discussion in the comments, too.) "and I thought, you know, writing is about the only creative discipline where people give you shit for doing covers. [...] And it's entirely acceptable to play the piano on weekends, or only in front of friends, and nobody's ever going to say to you, 'You know, you should book some shows down at the club. Just because everyone will be drunk is no reason to imagine it won't be a great experience.' I know musicians who go years without performing for the general public, and that's a completely normal part of the cultural experience of being a musician."
And a few links to stuff relating to Seanan McGuire's writing:
For the daily posting meme, I asked
kass to talk about Seanan's work in some way, and she wrote about the recurring reasons why she loves it. ^_^
A little over a week ago now, Seanan posted the cover for Symbiont, the sequel to Parasite.
From the department of "yes, she does research the hell out of everything", someone was listening to the audiobook of Feed and got to the part early on where a zombie grabs Shaun and rips his sweater, and asked Seanan if she'd researched the tearing strength of a wool sweater. Answer: "We hung a friend of mine over a rail while wearing a wool sweater. Because we are either a) metal or b) jerks, depending on your perspective."
And finally, someone left her a note about Indexing, which I'm quoting from here simply because it's true and lovely: "the whole book just felt like waves of love about how we're not our narratives, how it's not our fault, the way we were raised, and about how we have the right to fight the emotional abusive narrative we were forced to take in our whole lives."
Originally posted at http://umadoshi.dreamwidth.org/505037.html. Comment here if you like, or comment there using OpenID. Comments at DW: