open-ended

[freckles_and_doubt]

Henry Jenkins (who is fast becoming my cultural guru) has an interesting discussion here of video games, and particularly open-ended narrative, as art. I don't know about you, but I kept thinking of LARPing, the definitive theoretical analysis of which I will one day write.

Yesterday's minor depression has had the usual effect, viz. to make me suddenly loathe my hair and want to cut it all off. What do you think?

[Poll #763266]

In other news, I have now finished watching the first season of Alias, and am shocked and horrified to report how badly I'm hooked. It's a bizarre, cheesily fantastic, completely unrealistic series, but it's got me, mostly because (a) it has gadgets, unlikely disguises and lots of stunts, so it's pleasingly like Mission Impossible without Tom Cruise, and (b) Michael Vartan, who I like enough to hold out real hope that my Bad Boy impulses are finally crushed. Shall now hunt down H, from whom I borrowed the first season, to get the next few, since the Vaughan-is-dead cliffhanger finale is causing me to gnaw my own elbows.

Comments

[wolverine-nun.livejournal.com]

All this "cut it shorter, but still long enough that it is 'long'" is missing a point. The whole idea is to make a Change, and if you simply trim it a bit, and don't really burn bridges in the process, then it's not really change, it's just a brief ripple in hair phase space. Or something. I'd be against the shaved to the scalp thing, but I say go for an authentically short style. No pony tail possible, not even bandeaux. Go on! Tell Shaun to have his way with you.

I like how no one has chosen the last option. We're all opinionated :)

[wolverine-nun.livejournal.com]

Of course, since I have recently cut my hair a lot shorter, but still long enough to go in a pony tail, I have few paws to stand on here...