come back my brain

[freckles_and_doubt]

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.

• 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).

Comments

[bronchitikat.livejournal.com]

I suspect that idiot has a typical male non-knitter view of knitting - see the Yarn Harlot for more about how non-knitters just don't get it at all (which is entirely their loss).

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!