January 2011
49 posts
December 2010
36 posts
My Year Without Star Wars →
This is a fascinating essay for a variety of reasons. I’m interested in the idea that the fannish demand for more and more of a universe is part of what kills it - that the more you get of canon, the less imagination you’re inspired to use. I agree with that conclusion to a certain extent; I’m going to have to mull it over for a while to figure out how much I agree. He also makes...
“If you’re afraid you can’t write, the answer is to write. Every sentence you...”
– - Richard Rhodes
AdviceToWriters - Home - The Answer Is to Write
Supernatural: A Summary
-lazarus:
starsandstairs:
sensiblethingtodo:
mishthequiche:
this is the funniest/truest thing i’ve ever seen
For those of you who want to know what Supernatural is all about…
HAHAHAHAH THIS IS SO AWESOME :’D
This is … pretty much an entirely accurate view of five and a half seasons. Ha!
APE IN A CAPE: Girls Do TOO Read Comics, Goddammit →
gailsimone:
And don’t let anyone tell you different.
There’s a huge wasteland of people who choose to be either uninformed or in denial. It’s time to wake them up. Make your voice heard. Comment. Write letters. Say what you support and what you don’t. Blog, tweet, tumblr, it all fights the tide. It’s not…
Alt Press | Feature | 10 Essential Albums of 2010 →
Two of my own personal top 3 albums of the year are on this list - one of them at #1 - which makes this year-end top 10 albums list the best yet. Er, or at least demonstrates why AltPress is one of the few music magazines I still read. ;)
Felice Fawn: Atheism & Anger - Greta Christina →
I’m going to break what’s usually a cardinal rule of Tumblr etiquette and add my comments to the beginning of this post. I’m not an atheist - call me an agnostic spiritualist, I guess, or a Recovering Catholic if you’re feeling flippant - but a good bit of the below makes me terribly, terribly angry on a nearly daily basis. I am still pissed, six years later, at the family...
David Mamet's Master Class Memo to the Writers of... →
If you can get past the all-caps writing, this is an excellent memo to remind writers that drama is about action, not about information. There is, of course, a different action quotient for screenwriters working on a military-based TV show than there is for, say, most novelists, but I still think most of what he’s saying here applies in one way or another to anyone writing genre fiction.
community. there’s room for us all. →
I’ve been participating in Reverb10 (over on my blog); I’ve also been searching the hashtag on Twitter for interesting posts from other people. This one struck me as something I needed to read this week. I’ve been struggling a little bit lately with feeling connected to people - with feeling like an outsider - but this managed to remind me of some of the truths of being in and...
“You have to question a cinematic culture which preaches artistic expression, and...”
– Ryan Gosling, when asked about the NC-17 rating Blue Valentine got (for showing him giving Michelle William’s oral sex). (via disarm-d)
The 50 Worst States in America →
stuffaboutminneapolis:
American States, like Americans themselves, are fond of trumpeting their superlatives. To hear them tell it, they’re all first in something: Corn growth, coal production, giant-est giant-ball-of-twine, blah, blah, blah. But something’s not adding up, States: If you’re all so great, how come the country’s giving off the distinct odor of failure?
All of those A’s you’ve...
