While the semester isn't quite over yet, but my part in it is almost done. But I'm down to final revisions on my last paper, so I'm pulling myself out of the school stupor and back onto the internet (for at least a week or two before all the holiday traveling kicks in. So, hi again, everyone! How's life been treating you ( Read more... )

I went back and forth about whether or not to write one of these since I don't think I did last year, but the one I read from my requester was actually quite helpful so I figured... why not ( Read more... )

There are very few advertisements that I see and just get angry about. Of course most of the ones I do get pissed at make me angry because of the content of the ad. The embedded cultural nonsense it draws on, or the wrong image it presents, or whatever ( Read more... )

I spend a lot of time tooling around Hulu watching random stuff. And I have learned that, somehow, I missed Baccano when it was airing.

It is a work of utter genius. It is a story about stories (shades of Princess Tutu), with an amazing cast and hysterical humor. I'm only two episodes in, and I'm still getting a feel for it, but... I can ( Read more... )

For context: we've been reading a lot of theoretical work about the structure of stories and narratives for my Collective Storytelling class. Most of them have been interesting, and at the moment I'm working my way through chapter 2 of Roger Schank's Tell Me a Story which I'm finding quite interesting. With his discussion of second-hand stories ( Read more... )

Which is a fancy way of saying: I was doing some reading on the train today and I was struck by a question... What would it be like if we had an extensive class of fiction media which didn't give us a real-time sense of our progress ( Read more... )

Well. Hello, LJ. It has been some time, has it not? While my posting history shows that I've been offline since early July, the truth is that my LJ habits have been sporadic since sometime in February of this year. This was due primarily to my class load being crazy and me just having a lot to do. Prior to that I was rather diligent about ( Read more... )

So I'd known the July 4 was this weekend, but as with many holiday sorts of things the implications of this hadn't really struck me. See, it's a holiday weekend. A i>three day weekend for many of us crazy Americans. This doesn't matter so much for me because, well, I'm pretty familiar with my schedule and when I get time off and what I can do ( Read more... )

I don't tend to do memes that float around the internet. Mostly this is due to the fact that I'm just really contrary and the idea of "following along with the crowd" makes me bristle irrationally (I mean, sometimes the crowd is doing something smart like fleeing a burning building and not doing so just to be contrary... well ( Read more... )

While I was visiting the old family homestead back in May I went back through some of my old stored materials, just idly seeing what I had decided to save when I was young. And lo, I discovered some amazing things. Old papers, old sheet music, some of my earliest attempts at board game design... Simply put, I discovered some of my earliest, and ( Read more... )