Toynbee ideas in Kubrick's 2001 resurrect dead on planet JupiterI've dusted this thing off for another go. It's been years since I've been properly fannish - so that explains the gaps. And the first time around, I really was quite stand-offish and lurking in marginalia ( Read more... )

I am participating in a fandom auction to raise money for Haiti relief efforts. I am offering "radical Toronto in a box" - which includes:

- something from the Toronto Women's Bookstore, the Native Canadian Centre of Toronto, and OPIRG
- burned copy of Dreamtower, a documentary about Rochdale- protest handbills/posters (including "Toronto Women ( Read more... )

Coming down from the bus station
she warbles by the lake on rickshaw.

Her mouth is thorny, shot through with euphimism
She speaks in chronicles
and perfect pebbles sit on her tongue.

In search of the geological record ( Read more... )

I have a complicated relationship with sleep ( Read more... )

Title: Spaniel
Characters: Posner, Scripps (Posner/Scripps?)
Source text: The History Boys
Disclaimers: The usual - three cheers for Alan Bennett and his work. + shifting!perspectives. Mostly playverse, I think.

Posner is appreciative of the alphabet.

Title: Media Res
Characters: Parvati and Padma Patil + peripherals (guest stars: Lavender, Slughorn, Dumbledore!)
Source text: Harry Potter - written before DH but not necessarily uncompliant
Disclaimer: JKRowling owns the playground. I'm just fooling around on the monkey bars. Shout out to God of Small Things where I borrowed the names Estha and ( Read more... )

Little boys are throwing pieces of themselves in boxes along static shores the world over. Twelve exponential to the power of factorial and all waiting for mythical Isis to find them. But she's lost - trapped on an overstuffed couch watching afternoon soaps. (no opus in sight to be proud of ( Read more... )

When Wendy finds him, sticking back his shadow with a bar of soap, he's sobbing. Peter Pan doesn't go for soap and sewing. He's the boy who wouldn't grow up. But Wendy, she keeps house and tidies and cooks. You know from the first page she's going to leave Neverland behind ( Read more... )

On beaches sometimes there are pieces of sand-polished beer bottles ( Read more... )