After all of the discussion around yesterday’s post, I realize that should come clean about some things. Those somethings are my personal aesthetic predilections, which I think often lead me to be impatient with some of the complaints that I see people lodge against cultural products. It may be better for everyone if I just… Continue Reading
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A time for venting…
The quickest route to fury or despair is to look at what people post in forums on line. I’m a fool to do it. But I have been sucked into the reading a lot of the reactions to last night’s Lost finale, which, I will admit was the background noise to my ongoing paper shuffling… Continue Reading
Picture and an unrelated thought…
You know, there is nothing about any sort of Jedi that I find even remotely interesting. Tags: daily photo, fandom
Say your prayers, villain!
Shoulders aching. It’s been a bumbling weekend. A little sketching got done. Things interrupted other things. Saturday’s weather was simply wretched: sloppy not snow not rain, falling so slowly that it didn’t count as sleet either. But its damp and cold penetrated everywhere, especially for under-dressed me. I finished up reading The Year’s Best Science… Continue Reading
Melvar says hi…
Upper West Side, New York City, 1974 About a year and a half ago, I wrote this about my personal experiences around fandom. It’s all come back up again with the release of that new film everyone is talking about. I’ve seen it and it’s a big ole summer special effects film, carefully composed of… Continue Reading