Willow ,'Showtime'
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
what kind of fruit?
I am up early and contemplating going to swim (I think I will). I want to avoid the 405 and all neighborhoods around it, except that's where my yoga studio is and I want yoga too.
Harumph.
I also just uninstalled Adobe Creative Suite 5 (except for photoshop and indesign). holy shit, my computer is running so much faster.
True that CS is processor intensive. I was just reading on facebook that I shouldn't upgrade.
Timelies all!
Looks like another nice day here.
Penn and Teller are rarely worth it, and examples of the skeptic community I find them offputting assholes.
Methley plums, apricots, white peaches, cherries. I'll really have to up my fruit consumption this week (and I eat a lot of fruit.) And tiny yellow-orange tomatoes from my tomato guy (he has the widest variety at the market, and claims in all of Md.) On top of the spinach and empanadas.
Interesting article by Lev Grossman (the novelist) in Time magazine about fanfiction, HP in particular
Interesting mostly in that he's clearly a fan and knows the territory. So a rare non-condescending mainstream look at fanfic.
Interesting mostly in that he's clearly a fan and knows the territory.
Well, he did borrow extensively from Narnia and references HP for The Magicians.
That was linked in the Fanfic thread last week.
I didn't much care for The Magicians, but I recognize that Grossman has talent as a writer. I'm wondering if maybe he should have conceived of that book as 2-3 books. He doesn't manage tone shifts particularly well.
I didn't much care for The Magicians, but I recognize that Grossman has talent as a writer. I'm wondering if maybe he should have conceived of that book as 2-3 books. He doesn't manage tone shifts particularly well.
When I read it, I felt like he put too much in it for just one book. It needed either very ruthless editing or to be spread out into at least 2 books.
I'm iffy on the book in general. At times I was so painfully aware of how derivative it was that it took me out of the story. But some parts were really engrossing. It was just very uneven.