come back my brain
Monday, 16 June 2008 11:17 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
The mere fact of a three-day weekend seems to have switched my brain off. This is not entirely a bad thing, putting me in exactly the right space for watching Reign of Fire (dreadful, entertaining, topless!sweaty!Christian Bale, cool dragons) and Nightwatch (weird, interesting, good-for-a-given-value-of, strange special effects) last night, while eating pizza. And Sid is all rampagous again, leaving me snuffly and with less room in the inside of my skull for actual thinking, which Does Not Bode Well for the review I have to finish writing this afternoon.
So, random linkery.
So, random linkery.
- This idiot was clearly bitten by a knitting needle in early youth and has never recovered. As rants go, this lacks any vestige of quality, intelligence or logic. I immediately thought the same thing that
strawberryfrog did: hello, handcrafts actually do constitute an act of resistance in an age of mass-production.
- Henry Jenkins hypothesises, and proceeds to entertainingly demonstrate, that Obama is actually Spock.
- Kage Baker does actually intelligent things with time travel. Also, Renaissance herbery! In the Garden of Iden is available off the Tor sign-up list, which is a truly worthy thing for which to hand over one's email address. (This service announcement for the benefit of
librsa, who needs to sign up).
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Date: Monday, 16 June 2008 11:37 am (UTC)no subject
Date: Monday, 16 June 2008 12:42 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: Monday, 16 June 2008 01:20 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: Monday, 16 June 2008 07:48 pm (UTC)Unfortunately, the second movie is a lot worse than the first one -- it starts off as a reasonable adaptation of the last part of the first book (IIRC), and then it takes a left turn, accelerates and plunges off the deep end. I have no idea what they're going to do for the third movie; it looks like they've quite thoroughly painted themselves into a corner.
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Date: Wednesday, 18 June 2008 04:51 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: Monday, 16 June 2008 12:07 pm (UTC)You & strawberryfrog are right - handicrafts are acts of rebellion in an age of mass-production. So why is he so dreadfully anti anyone actually being creative & making a statement by producing something, rather than the more usual teenage rebellion thing of destroying stuff - about which he reckons someone might make films.
Silly journalist! But maybe that's part of the problem - he was miffed cos he got to cover knitting - which he clearly regards as wimpish, rather than something apparently more macho, & destructive!
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Date: Monday, 16 June 2008 12:28 pm (UTC)It would seem that he's pining for attention and has come back to poke some more. Tiresome. I'm just disappointed the Grauniad has bothered to pick this one up, thus feeding the troll with a whole new (and much bigger) juicy audience.
scroob
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Date: Tuesday, 17 June 2008 12:18 pm (UTC)What worries me more is that XX linked to it (in a sort of praiseworthy way), paragon of tolerance and rational thinking that he is. Hmm, I didn't figure him for a troll.
Re: Troll
Date: Tuesday, 17 June 2008 02:22 pm (UTC)Re: Troll
Date: Tuesday, 17 June 2008 04:36 pm (UTC)Tor books
Date: Tuesday, 17 June 2008 12:21 pm (UTC)