I would love it if someone wrote a future story about re-educating Superman who has evolved - quite predictably - into a sanctimonious, hypocritical, humorless, self-righteous, tyrant. [Sarcasm: Nobody who watches Smallville would ever guess that Clark Kent could ever go down that way./Sarcasm] Lex, the only person not only seeing him for the ( Read more... )

I just watched "Truth", the latest SV ep and it cemented my intense dislike for Chloe ( Read more... )

I thought this talk with David Mamet about truth in writing, especially writing about women, was very interesting. His quote that writers should be able to see and be willing to write the truth and that this willingness and ability to see and write the truth distinguishes the merely good from the ones that are worthy to listen to and read is ( Read more... )

Sometimes it is hard being a teacher. Most of the time I really like my job, I like my students, even when they are sometimes a bit annoying, but I'm getting more and more irritated and disturbed by the way some (sadly quite a lot of) students behave outside the classroom. If the students don't know you, some of them treat adults very disrespectful ( Read more... )

I got a beautiful oval shaped mirror in the hall yesterday. It is a bit irritating to be reflected by the - really big - thing everytime one walks by, but I like the form very much. It has an old-fashioned frame, very simple but lightly golden ( Read more... )

I jumped late on the train of the Queer Eye love, but enjoyed it a lot for a few months. Since they came back from the last hiatus some boredom has set in. I watched the last 2 episodes yesterday - the stand-up comic, Kevin, was not very nice to look at, even after the make-better, and his jokes were too vulgar and not funny enough for my taste. At ( Read more... )

I finally decided to get a lj because I simply hope to friend some fabulous writers who have friend-locked their journals. I don't expect to write often in my own lj because I'm a pretty lazy and lousy writer myself. To top this quality I'm also a greedy and judgemental reader. Nevertheless I hope the writers I hope to friend aren't judgemental and ( Read more... )