*attempts to go clubbing*
*realizes she could be sitting in her frilly goth dress proof-reading her research paper and having infinitely more fun*
*does so*
*SUCCESS!*
The boots reminded me…
I may go to a midnight showing of the new Star Trek movie, and if I do, I want to wear my Science Division dress. (Heck, if I go to a non-midnight showing I may, that thing is comfy and I’ve only ever worn it twice).
What if I accessorized it with a nice scarf and waited to see if anybody got the joke?
Did anybody notice the brief URL change?
It was just so I could figure out how it was done. I don’t think I’ll be switching any time soon – not, at least, until the next Hobbit film comes out, and my dash is beset with Elves. But yes, I am sitting on notanotherfuckingelf.tumblr.com. (This is, as you may know, probably the original of the line misquoted in Lewis as “No more flipping Elves”).
shes-a-voodoo-child asked: Hi, I hope you don't mind the follow, but I saw your post about wanting ALL the Lix + milicianas fic and YES PLEASE. I'm woefully underinformed about the Spanish Civil War, but that sounds amazing. Plus, your blog is excellent.
Welcome, and thank you!
More historical nerdy notes (in case anyone is interested in them?) – I find it interesting that she had the baby registered in Barcelona, since it was both strongly Republican and extremely tumultuous (the Republicans’ biggest flaw was disunity, and IIRC the Generalitat lost control of the city to anarchist groups, who were then challenged by others. There was fighting in the streets, etc). The Italians also bombed the shit out of it in 1939, so large parts of it were completely destroyed. Also, it seems likely that she came back after giving up the baby, since Madrid fell after Barcelona, and I can’t imagine anybody caring for a baby and taking photographs through that. (There is also the chance that she had the baby after the end of the war, but while I don’t know anything about the position of foreigners at that time vis a vis whether this would be possible, I know just enough about the Franco regime’s history of sketchy activities in maternity wards to find this idea rather disturbing).
My area of interest often centers around the international brigades, but if you want to learn about the Spanish Civil War the tumblr way, I have a tag for it….
ETA: Also, if anybody is interested and can get their hands on it, part of Cambridge Spies is about Kim Philby’s time as a British journalist during the Spanish Civil War. IIRC it’s mainly composed of journalists sitting around in bars drinking, and Guernica. (It’s been a few years since I saw it).
Resistance Through Ritual: Youth Cultures in Post-War Britain for $10.39 online.
I screamed with excitement.
I want/need to dig out my copy of Subculture: the Meaning of Style again. Super-interesting things which I am perpetually re-understanding. Maybe another dig through Geertz, too. And I think I need to read Foucault, because I’ve been finding interesting-looking books which reference him in their jacket copies, and I don’t want to get into stuff and be totally lost. But theory and my brain are natural foes… ;_;
Speaking of things about which no one cares…
People often write Sam and Gene’s relationship as a sort of kismesissitude, but I think it’s clear that it’s more of a moireillegiance. Sam’s real kismesis is Ray, with Gene as the auspicise, and naturally Sam’s matesprit is Annie, and I can’t believe I just wrote this and probably spelled all the troll terms wrong too.
I feel SO WEIRD about Iella not only being okay with Myri going into intelligence work, but grooming her for it. Because all I can think of is how her first husband got brainwashed by Iceheart and then she had to SHOOT HIM IN THE LINE OF DUTY, and if I was Iella I would want my daughter to grow up and be a museum curator or a botanist or just something that wasn’t an intelligence operative, because I would know exactly how bad that kind of work could get.
I think Star Wars has a really unfortunate thing with children following in their parents careers, in general. Obviously it’s somewhat unavoidable with the Jedi, since especially in the New Republic era they’re mainly a fighting force since there aren’t enough of them to have the kind of operation there was in the Old Republic, but still.
I went on YouTube wondering if they had a video of Séan singing John Barbour from the Sympatico webacst, since I love that version and can’t upload another track today, but instead ended up with a recording of Process Man from their concert in Lowell last year.
It was the first song in the second set – Boarding House Park is surrounded by brick buildings from the days of the spinning mills, and hearing this echoing off them in the dark was AMAZING.
(The sound is okay, not incredible – I think they’re not picking up Murray’s mic right, or something? Because one of the bass parts is iffy and I remember hearing it fine, and I was way further back than this person).
does anybody else just like
research things for fun
like you’re curious about something so you go read the whole wikipedia article on it and then read all the stuff the wikipedia article references and go to the library and read some books on it until you have all this new knowledge about a subject that actually has no real bearing on your life you were just kind of interested in something
“Are you doing a project?” I was asked so many times as I went up to the library front desk with 5+ books on a given subject.
“Nope, I just really like __.”
Quoth the librarian, looking at the large stack of books I was checking out at 1 AM, “Cheery. Are you a grad student?”
(That was when I was going through my doing-reading-to-understand-stuff-I-vaguely-heard-about-as-a-kid phase, so the stack was mostly books on Latin American dictatorships, torture, and the psikhushka system).
;AKDJFLASK;JDF
The guy who identified Ebola wrote a memoir.
Am I the only one who gets excited at the phrase “Primary Source Document”?
also Bruce/Tony shippers????
Ohhh, yeah! The plotline’s usually interpreted as “Cap and Iron Man have a bad divorce,” but wasn’t one of the instigating events (along with M Day) the Hulk getting out of control and killing a bunch of people? And then Iron Man ended up on the pro-registration side? There’s some quality angsty fanfiction in there.
I think Iron Man had a tie-in with World War Hulk, but I also know nothing about the plot of World War Hulk except that it literally involves the Illuminati.
Oh shit Game of Thrones rap, nod yo head muthafucksss
4 and a half minutes ago, I had a barely workable understanding of Game of Thrones.
Now I feel like an expert.
(Source: youtube.com)
Disaster expert: Repairing NYC after “The Avengers” would cost billions
- $160 billion in damage to NYC portrayed in Avengers source
- invasion Kinetic Analysis Corp. estimates that the physical damage to Manhattan would cost $60 - $70 billion to repair
- fallout KAC estimates the economic impact, cost of cleanup, and loss of life would cost an additional $90 billion
» To put that in context: The damage portrayed during the Chitauri invasion would be double that of the September 11th attacks ($83 billion), Hurricane Katrina ($90 billion), and last year’s tsunami in Japan ($122 billion). “Given the involvement of individuals considered deities in some cultures (Thor, Loki), there is even the potential to classify the event as an ‘act of God,’” reads the report, continuing, “though that designation would be subject to strenuous theological and legal debate.” To put this in perspective, the $220 million it cost to create the film would be less than 1 percent of the total cost to repair the city after the damage it fake-created.
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Also…
…I saw the proprietor of my local comic store at the movie theater, and he recognized me!!! I feel like you get special nerd cred if that happens. (I also like him because he made it not-scuzzy and plays good movies and Wait Wait Don’t Tell Me).
