June 2009
22 posts
Waxed Nostalgia
Yeah, I’m like a lot of my peers. Thriller was the first music record that was just mine. I had a ton of story records: Star Wars, Star Trek, the music for Battlestar Gallactica, records of fairytales and story books, and three versions of Peter and the Wolf- all of which scared me when the duck got eaten, all the musicals lived in my room: Camelot, My Fair Lady, Godspell, West Side Story...
Day 51: Old West
ckck:
The day started out with a brief exploration of the downtown area of Jackson, which appears to be some kind of resort/tourist town, considering at the town square you can get a ride in a red, horse-drawn stagecoach, and at each corner of the town square park there’s an archway made of elk horns. It’s quite a spectacle of a town, but it did offer some interesting sights within the short...
Some Week's Are Just Like This
Spotted driving home yesterday:
2 members of the LA Sherriff’s Department crossing Crescent Heights slightly before Santa Monica Blvd, one with a gun drawn to creep into the bushes of the apartment building next to my idling car.
They didn’t even give the rush hour traffic waiting for the line change a second look as the walked through it.
Finding out my father (who is practically...
The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship... →
From her website: “This is a free online novel by Catherynne M. Valente, powered by donations. Pay only what you think it’s worth. New chapters update every Monday.”
I’m currently reading the first book of The Orphan’s Tale’s by Valente, inspired mostly by seeing that she was going to start posting this online story and asking people to donate what they felt it...
Women of Science Fiction →
Okay, just to be clear. I do not hate this list, nor do I disagree with a lot of it. However, when you have a list discussing transformative women in science fiction and you include the character Megan Fox played in fucking Transformers, and you leave off Farscape’s Aeryn Sun?
You have lost your right to have anyone take you seriously. Ever.
EVER!
target partners with comcast's daily candy →
sarazucker:
yesterday, target announced a partnership with dailycandy.com, a fashion and culture e-mail newsletter and website (if you haven’t signed up for it, you seriously should). the venture, called the “red hot shop”, will be a special section on the store’s website that will feature products from up-and-coming designers selected by dailycandy editors, along with articles and artwork by...
Unpersuadable on this subject
Okay internet, here’s the thing. Yes, you’ve opened up access to a world of fasion photography that I appreciate (even if I still buy Vogue for every plane ride defying my feminist principals and my monetary sensibilities). I’ve accepted, and even test driven some of the looks I’ve seen, aside from those that only look good on chronically skinny hipsters who were born the...
A French tourist in Egypt, who jumped into the sea... →
ladimcbeth:
mikehudack:
(via hilker)
Oops.
Natural selection at work. :)
To make this even better, it seems that she either provoked the shark or tried to feed it.
Irrational Fears? →
Oh YahooNews, every morning you bring me made up news, and while this is more of a piece of not news than some of the stuff you make up, it’s still ridiculous.
Of course people are afraid of flying. We can’t do it unaided. We’re not equipped to take flight so we have to trust our fates to pieces of metal that we’re told can go aloft due to physics that we don’t...
Grand Guignol Cabaret →
Actually, this is a surprisingly good match for my previous post.
Saw the preview of The Grand Guignol Kabarett’s Grand Guignol Cabaret on Friday night and enjoyed it thoroughly. Both of the actual Grand Guignol pieces suffered a little from a lack of pacing, but I think more performances will help with that. A few of the cabaret numbers were truly inspired, though, particularly the chair...
