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

Troll

[first-fallen.livejournal.com]

Yes, I doubted he was actually serious when I read the article. It looks like he's just writing something he knows will rub a lot of people the wrong way for no reason other than to get comments and attention. Sigh, obviously wasn't hugged enough as a child.

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

[(Anonymous)]

I think the explanation there would be "irony". And possibly "trying to make scroobious explode".

Re: Troll

[egadfly.livejournal.com]

XX is perfectly capable of egregious trolldom. He makes it worse by being a paragon of tolerance and rational thinking at other times :)