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We need a Martin and a Bobby and we need them now
I don't get obsessed like most people; my attention span is too scattershot and I'm interested in too many disparate things.
But history is the big exception. I get obsessed with events long gone.
Sometimes the events are really "long gone": like Alexander dying too young to stabilize his syncretic, tolerant Empire and make it last; or Constantine ( Read more... ) -
Oh, goodie: More Racefail
I'm not going to name or link to the person who committed the latest Fail. One reason is she's already had a lot of people pointing out the error of her ways, by people both more eloquent than I and with more at stake than little ol' privileged white me. The other reason is that - between this and all the other fails that have ripped through ( Read more... ) -
A Columnist You Must Read
Ta-Nehisi Coates is a writer with Atlantic Magazine. His writing is so brilliant and profound that one feels particularly fortunate just to be able to read it: the chance to also discuss what he's writing about, and what he thinks, is delightful beyond words ( Read more... ) -
White Collar Review from the bowels of a machine translator
... at least, I think that's what this is: something the writer ran through a machine translation to Japanese and then ran the automated Japanese translation back to English.
You tell me:
Watch White Collar Free Season 1
By: Dylan Wilder's Articles"
Soul Cop is a USA Textile crime comedy-drama receiver program created by Jeff Eastin, starring Matt ( Read more... ) -
When LJ idols reveal clay feet
Something happened yesterday that really brought me down: I got into an lj fight with someone I used to have a great deal of affection and respect for. It was awful. The other person turned out to be... not the kind of person I thought she was.
The fight started over slash fiction. John Scalzi, a well known, award-winning SF writer, is ( Read more... ) -
If u r dead, u cn gt a grt jb in cust svc
Great moments in recruiting: The company shall be nameless, since I don't want to embarrass them, but someone should have run a Spellcheck before hitting "post" for this want ad on craiglist:
looking for exited people!!!! - <<customer service
So, the question is, what product or service, exactly, are they offering that appeals to "exited" (i.e., ( Read more... ) -
Searching for a ST fanfic challenge
A week or so ago, one of the zillions of LJs I found one hosting a new fic challenge: rewrite all the TOS episodes from the perspective of the AOS's altered milieu and characters. Now I can't find that LJ. I don't want to write, but I sure do want to read. Does anyone out there know who issued that challenge, and where I can find it?
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Trekverse Crossbreeding
A subject that has driven me a little nuts for a long time is the cross-species breeding in Star Trek.
it drives me a little nuts for a couple reasons.
The first reason is: cross-species reproduction isn't easy, automatic, or a matter of two people gettin' it on. In fact, it isn't even possible. Different species cannot make babies together ( Read more... ) -
Not exactly a surprise, this
You Should Get a PhD in Liberal Arts (like political science, literature, or philosophy)
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