2005-04-05, 11:10 a.m.: I have the Star Wars fever. Already.
I see action figures, lots of action figures in my future. And maybe even Darth Tater!
I am re-reading all my old Star Wars comic books and trying to acquire new ones. It seemed shameful to know as little about the Golden Age of the Sith as I did.
God love these people. It's not all fun and games being a scifi geek. Sometimes it's also hard work commitment, public ridicule and sunburns. 0 comments
2005-04-02, 12:04 a.m.: All's I want to say is, I can't believe I didn't know about Tony Hoagland until now.
And wat nu of Paul Muldoon? Is he a good reader? Do I drive to Denver on Monday night just specially to hear him? Or do I stay home, all snug on my couch? 0 comments
2005-03-31, 6:20 p.m.: First there was this. Then there were the comments (very, very interesting, the reactions). Before any of it, of course, there was Ayelet Waldman's blog (now defunct, formerly sometimes great, especially her musing on just how morbid she is with all the love of dead-child photographs from centuries past) and, more recently, her features for Salon).
But most hilariously, there is now this! Oh, I laughed, I cried.
Seriously, though. I understand Ayelet's article in the NYT as intentionally overstated - the mommy mania groups will drive you to that; the professions and protestations and profusions of the attachment parenting communities drive me to similar thoughts. And yet I still consider myself an APer of sorts. But I don't for a moment believe that she loves her husband MORE, just differently. She is just saying that the kids are not her alpha and omega, there is more ... and I think there is. And I can say that in the full knowledge that I would die inside and probably go hambone crazy if my baby were to die. And I think she would, too, and I think she knows it. Which is why she claims just the opposite. 0 comments
2005-03-03, 8:23 p.m.: P.S. So I decided to call them blawgs. BLAWGS. We'll say "dawgs who write blawgs" instead of bloggers. How's that? Will that help? I think it will. 0 comments
2005-03-03, 4:55 p.m.: GOD, I'm sick of the word "blog." I'm sick of "bloggers" and the "blogosphere." I'm sick of "blogrolls" and "blogrolling" and I'm sick of newspapers and journalists that are soooo 2002 that they feel they have to explain that blog "is short for web log" in every single meta-article on the subject. I'm sick of damn blogs AS a subject of articles and the issue of whether bloggers should be on par with 'real,' credentialed members of the media and the issue of whether bloggers are too self-absorbed or too exhibitionistic, whether they can write at all or have anything to say at all, whether society is going to hell in a handbasket because of them.
Most of all, I hate all verb forms of the word "blog." Yes, most of all I hate people who blog and people who blog about blogging (and I guess that would include me). 0 comments
2005-02-28, 9:11 a.m.: More SF foo, this time of the chrono-variety. Thanks to Metafilter once again, 0 comments
2005-02-11, 12:32 p.m.: I'd been looking for this: The Grand List of Overused Science Fiction Cliches, exactly this!
The only thing lacking is reference to when these ideas were used for the first time, i.e. the time before they were conceits, conventions, and finally cliches. For instance: Didn't we learn in SF class that Solaris pioneered the multinational, polymath crew? It would be great to have a cross-reference to the books/authors which introduced these conventions. But maybe I should check in the Encyclopedia of Science Fiction - it may contain just this info. 0 comments
2005-02-07, 9:54 a.m.: It's for things like this that I love MeFi. 0 comments
2005-02-02, 11:36 a.m.: FINALLY. Three or so years down the line, and I am now a Metafilter user. User #21,915, to be exact. Speech to follow. 0 comments
2005-01-21, 11:58 a.m.: Dumb. And they want to convince us that the ban on gay marriage was not about homophobia. My favorite statement from the article: "SpongeBob, who lives in a pineapple under the sea, was 'outed' by the U.S. media in 2002 after reports that the TV show and its merchandise was popular with gays." 0 comments
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