tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-116334872011-11-11T07:05:39.925-05:00A collection of snarky literary criticism, comments, and fiction. Where else can you find Jean Baudrillard and cat snot in the same post? Nowhere, I'd bet.Staciehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05101050378824099197noreply@blogger.comBlogger2691100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11633487.post-61011260268963420282010-01-23T16:32:00.000-05:002010-01-23T16:33:37.099-05:00

Ladies and gentlemen, I'd like to share my most recent project with you:The Windrow-Ravenswood Deck. Long thought lost in the annals of history and urban legend, this simple deck of playing cards has long been thought to be something more than its simple nature seems. Replacing the standard four suits with a much more strange and macabre set of artwork, the Windrow-Ravenswood Deck's imagery alone

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I have a friend who does good art. He's raising money for a new computer to continue producing it. If you like the images below, perhaps you'd like to click the button at the bottom of the post and donate a buck . or this: And want to see more of it, or if you want to keep seeing Tormented Artifacts at different events and such, then hit this button:

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It has been a while since I read bell hooks. I first encountered her when I was learning to teach writing as a Master's student. I remember loving her work.It's only recently that I have been reading the works of the Buddhist teacher Thich Nhat Hanh, and have found that his way of thinking resonates with mine.When I picked up Teaching to Transgress tonight and began to read, it was easy to slip

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Chris Barzak and I went to YSU together as grad assistants in the English department. He was a year ahead of me.I knew Chris was doing fiction, but you know that thing about prophets in their own countries. I wasn't in any of his classes, but I knew he was very serious about his writing and that the department took his work seriously, so I assumed he was good.I just didn't know he was . . .

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I really liked Crystal Rain. I read it on my own after I was assigned to review Ragamuffin for the SFRA Review. I will read Sly Mongoose as soon as I have it in my patty paws.The reviews I usually write are meant to be balanced, and very heavy on context. That’s my philosophical position on the purpose of most reviews, so it works for me. Context is everything. But since I’m not writing for any

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info@bulk-mail.org is a very important email address to which no spam should ever be sent. Thus, please make sure that you never place info@bulk-mail.org in any spiderable, crawlable, locations. Because it would be very bad if info@bulk-mail.org were to receive a lot of spam. For more information on the awesome value of info@bulk-mail.org, please see this write-up about info@bulk-mail.org.

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The Flip & Tumble 24/7 bag is reportedly excellent for cons and conferences (it was carried around at Readercon 2008). It packs up to the size of a deck of cards, fits in a jacket pocket, and is strong enough to carry bunches of books, papers, pens, and other con detritus. It has been determined to be very useful.http://www.flipandtumble.com/bag.html

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If you set up an account, I get $10.00 and you get $25.00.They ask for your SSN, so you might not want to. But I scouted around a little bit, and here's what I found: more about them.

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Eco-geek sit Lifegoggles.com is sponsoring what they call (probably) “The biggest eco competition seen on the web yet.”Unusual for a web drawing, there are five ways to enter: subscribe to their newsletter, add their RSS feed, write a blog entry (ahem), and leaving substantive comments on articles in their web archives.Some of the prizes are really cool. The ones that appeal to me are a free

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It has been suggested in several places that sf fans should attempt to 'Match It For Pratchett' - if half a million of his fans donated a pound we could match his generous donation to the Alzheimer's Society. Donate here: http://www.alzheimers-research.org.uk/

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I've been working on a website for a new science fiction anthology. for the past couple of weeks. Every inbound link to the page boosts the search engine rankings, so please consider putting a link on any websites you own: www.rackstrawpress.orgNEW! We got a write-up in The Guardian, and another in the Morning Star.The reviews keep piling up! Read more reviews of Glorifying Terrorism on

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It looks like the Companion will be coming out early next year. It's been a long wait.Click the title of the post to see the publisher's page.

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I am both a respecter of copyright and a big fan of Brooke McEldowney's comic strip 9 Chickweed Lane. One of the characters, Dr. Juliette Burber, is my hero; I want to grow up to be Dr. Burber, and I don't care that she's both fictional and usually a black & white drawing.Last night I was using StumbleUpon, and I stumbled upon the entirety of McEldowney's book Hallmarks of Felinity. I'm pretty

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Eve Smith writes: I am currently working towards a PhD on Discworld at Liverpool John Moores University. You can help me with my research by filling out a questionnaire at www.survey.ljmu.ac.uk/discworld2 .Rather than a straightforward literary analysis of Discworld my PhD falls within the discipline of cultural studies and is looking specifically at how comedy interacts with society. As part

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I used to be close friends with these guys. Look what a great store they have now!Here's a link to a good news blurb about them.They're located in Belle Chasse, LA.

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This post was originally titled "I am not a historian, but I play one on TV" in another forum.No, I don't. And I sort of am, in a junior sort of way. That is, I minored in history, but I don't play a historian on television.I'm getting around to saying I am a big fan of Barbara Hanawalt. I think it might be unusual for historians to have fans, but I'm a fan of several. Hanawalt is the only one I

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The 29th International Conference on the Fantastic in the ArtsDelightful Horror and the Sense of Wonder: Appreciating the Sublime in the FantasticThe 29th International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts will be held March 19-23, 2008, at the Marriott Orlando Airport Hotel in Orlando, Florida. The focus of ICFA-29 is on the relationship between the sense of wonder embodied by the

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Rackstraw Press has sold all copies of the Glorifying Terrorism science fiction anthology. But it you can get it from anywhere, read it--it's good.

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I inherited Sarah's gala ticket. I had reservations, but since she wanted to leave, I bought her ticket. We ate; the meal was very nice. The awards and things were nice in spots. I sat with David and Joan Mead, and Margaret McBride, and Dr. Hassler and his wife. Dr. Hassler introduced me to Allen Steele as "very bright, will do a good dissertation." Thank you, I think. I felt very under-dressed,

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sunshinepeachy sent me this video.While I was laughing so hard my sides ached, I had to admit that I do have a slight crush on Hillary, and all the while I was thinking "this is just soooo problematic from a feminist perspective."But at least the line "I could be your maid, or your White House aide" is followed by "or the soldier who marches in your first parade.""I know you're not gay, but I'm

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Jamie Bishop Scholarship (for German Majors)Virginia Tech FoundationUniversity Development902 Prices Fork RoadBlacksburg, VA 24061A full news item on the scholarship fund can be found at:http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/18198395/(Jamie was the son of a friend of a friend.)

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I'm a Navy veteran and gamer, although I don't have time to game much anymore, and now I'm more of a conscientious objector.Over here you'll find a call for assistance from Ziggurat Con, a gaming convention.Ziggurat Con [is] being held June 9 from 1200 to 2100 hours at Camp Adder/Tallil Airbase, is open to all allied military personnel and civilian contractors in Iraq.The largest problem with

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It was only one hour agoIt was all so different thenThere's nothing yet has really sunk inLooks like it always didThis flesh and boneIt's just the way that we are tied inNow theres no-one home - Grieve He's gone...I knew that I should have called last night . . . you should always call. And now it's too late.

Staciehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05101050378824099197noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11633487.post-63450103400989294442007-01-14T00:58:00.000-05:002007-01-14T00:59:34.511-05:00

What type of Fae are you?

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So, I passed.The exam was a four-hour reading comprehension test. As the examiner and agreed, I studied the Pentateuch, plus Joshua; the examiner chose approximately 4,000 words of text from those chapters.I was able to fairly easily determine that I had the following passages: Joseph's interpretation of Pharoah's dreams, Moses' birth and flight from Egypt, God's appearance in the burning bush,

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...to write about my grandfather. I've been putting it off until I could deal with it properly. He's dying of lung cancer, probably four or five months from now.The situation is complex. He has been taking care of my grandmother, who has limited mobility due to several strokes. Soon he won't be able to carry on doing it.There are at least two factions of relatives who agree that both Grandmother

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The theme for ICFA 28 is Gender & Sexuality. The brand-new Visual & Performing Arts division of the IAFA is all about the site where the visual meets the verbal, where the dynamic and physical intersect the purely textual. If that doesn’t help, then perhaps it’s about seeing and acting science fiction, or maybe even being fantasy. This category includes such topics as

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Gakked from http://acephalous.typepad.com/acephalous/2006/11/measuring_the_s.htmlMeasuring The Speed of Meme: An Experiment in which You Will Participate, Or Else... [Short Version: Link to this post in the name of science. Ask others to do the same. Results to be announced during the "Meet the Bloggers" panel at MLA 2006.] What is the speed of meme? People write in general (

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I used to approve of the concept of ratemyprofessor.com and similar sites. It seemed like student self-advocacy was alive and well, and that appealed to my subversive soul.Then I realized that the comments I get came from the few malcontents who don't understand what I'm doing. If you look at the evaluations from all of my students and departmental observations, and consider that I have to turn

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Snapped several hours ago:

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I have just finished reading a book sent me by my friend Alec, who is primarily responsible for getting me to England this past August.It's a two-in-one book, 84 Charing Cross Road and The Duchess of Bloomsbury Street, by Helene Hanff. They're about an American bibliophile who always wanted to visit England, and finally got to go. Adjusted a bit for time, I have to say that her books very

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I'm taking one of my three literature exams [1] on 20thC satiric British science fiction and fantasy: Terry Pratchett, Diana Wynne Jones, Douglas Adams, George Orwell, Aldous Huxley, and some others.For the 19thC exam, I'm supposed to come up with my own proto-questions, which might or might not be altered to some degree by the examiner.But I was just reading Keith Booker's book about dystopian

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...I can talk about it.My most significant professional involvement since I've been working toward my doctorate has been with the International Association for the Fantastic in the Arts. There's a conference every year in Ft. Lauderdale, which I've attended for several years. I've gotten a few really great publications out of my involvement with ICFA, and I've been getting into conference

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Tonight went to a concert at Case Western Reserve U., part of their early music series Chapel, Court, and Countryside. The performance was by the London-based group Fretwork, who played sixteenth- and seventeenth-century stuff composed and played by...I tried very hard to put a lot of information in that sentence and it just went pear-shaped. There was a double-sided, single-spaced sheet of

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Someone who knows me well enough to know that I like sweet and spicy has sent me a rather large care-package of spicy candy. There was no card.Thank you, it brightened my day.

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You Are A: Kitten!Cute as can be, kittens are playful, mischevious, and ever-curious. Your mischevious side is part of what makes you a kitten, as is your dislike of getting wet! Kittens are often loving, but are known to scratch or bite when annoyed. These adorable animals are the most popular pets in the United States--37% of American households have at least one cat. Whether it is your gentle

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. . . and I promise not to do it again soon.Click here to see an ultra-short story of love, longing, and despair. Inna sink.It's work safe, only 25 seconds long, and none of you are likely to speak to me again.No more, no more, I swear--until the next time I'm too tired to think clearly.Late-breaking update: apparently motivated by a desire for revenge, Mal has taken the drain plug and hidden

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Gakked from bitchphdhttp://bitchphd.blogspot.com/2004/07/who-cares-what-i-look-like.htmThis hasn't come up for me, yet, that I know of. But I do wear unorthodox clothing sometimes. Almost always black, usually snug, and sometimes leather. It's certainly suggestive of fetish wear, especially my jewelry--handcuff earrings, a latex choker, leather bracelet. But, although most of the time it's

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...but I would have missed this photo op:

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Okay, anyone reading this knows I take pictures. I was reading a friend's LJ, and there was mention of a big bunch of flowers. Well, I had one, but in my opinion it's not one of my better efforts. The model was uncooperative; since I am usually my own model (I need more friends), I have told myself off for it.So, this came out of having roses on my mind, and trying to figure out what to wear to

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The title from this post (which was a comment and then just kept going) comes from the LJ of a friend. I won't link, because there's really no point. The post was about something else, and that was a comment about an extremely minor footnote to the post.Well, that certainly resembles common practice in . . .well, at least in Idaho, say sixty- or seventy-odd years ago (plus or minus a good few

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I am, as many of you know, studying for my Latin language exam. Since I enjoy essay tests I do not particularly fear the subject exams (though I respect them intensely--no taking those lightly); and the dissertation is something I feel ready for--I have guidance, and if I know nothing about 19th Century British literature after four years of graduate school, then maybe I'm in the wrong place

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I just want to say I did not take this picture, or alter it. It's from about 1995.If you don't quite understand why I posted it, look more closely.

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A couple of days ago, I mentioned to a friend that I had just remembered "National Coming Out Day," and planned to (in an act out of keeping with my normal "all black, all the time" sartorial philosophy) wear my bright blue Converse hightops with the rainbow laces on October 11.She said, in a baffled font, because it was on MSN Messenger, "why?"Apparently she feels that it is impossible to "come

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I've just submitted a paper on Christina Rossetti's Goblin Market as an ekphrastic artifact, called "Effing the Ineffable: Ekphrasis and the Blurred Boundaries of Meaning, Sexual Politics, and Poetry in Goblin Market" to the following CFP: . . . an edited collection of scholarly essays that explore how female authors produce verbal representations of visual representations. Publication is

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I've been trying to do more with my photos. I've printed one on canvas and mounted it in a floating frame which worked out nicely. I gave it to a friend as a birthday gift.This next one is nifty, I think: observe the attached picture. First I took a picture, then I applied PaintShop Pro effects to make it soft and dreamy--that's the original photomanipulation.Then I applied a stained glass

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I am glad that it is probably impossible to die of annoyance, because otherwise I would be a terminal case.If you don't want to read a bit of whining, then let me redirect you to something else. [1]So, look . . . I am single and pretty skeeved off about it.I'm not saying I'm all that, but gosh.I'm not a complete idiot--I have a Master's degree and most of a doctorate. Just objectively, I'd say

Staciehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05101050378824099197noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11633487.post-1160113951738211122006-10-06T01:45:00.000-04:002006-10-06T01:52:32.066-04:00

I wanted to blog something tonight, but I can't find anything very positive to say. So here's a picture of my cats. On the left is Sagwa, a gentle three-year-old; on the right is Captain Malcolm Reynolds, a tiny, hyperactive bundle of chaos and destruction.I had to send my houseplants home with my ex because Mal was constantly either digging them up or knocking them off the kitchen table.I am

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...but I give up.I'm a Melissa Etheridge fan. I like nearly all of her music, I like her causes, and I just like her. The new short blonde hair is really something, but the fact that she writes nearly all of her own music knocks me out.The song "Angels Would Fall" is to my mind, the most perfect extended metaphor in a pop song, ever. It's got a literary conceit, and you don't get that a lot on

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Boy, do I wish I had written this article.http://www.cleansheets.com/coverstories/galarza_01.04.06.shtml

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A colleague who is about to go on the job market as a literature professor sent me this last night after a hallway conversation. Usually the teaching portfolio includes a "teaching philosophy" statement, which can be quite difficult to write. This online form was meant to help her begin to write hers.http://www.teachingperspectives.com/html/tpi_frames.htmI'm strongest in Developmental teaching,

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...said one of my professors, in a conference today. I got dressed in a mutinous mood--it was the second day this week I wore leather trousers to work.And truly, the smirk appears to be one of the two facial expressions I have. The other is "solemn." It's funny, because I am pretty sure I can do both the "left smirk" and "right smirk," but not both at the same time, which would be an

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Fair's fair. I've asked my students to talk about their subcultures, so I have to admit that I belong to a few myself.I am . . .. . . a woman.. . . a feminist.. . . dominant.. . . an academic.. . . not straight.. . . an RPG gamer.. . . an environmentalist.. . . a bookworm.. . . a cat lover.. . . a political dissident.. . . a liberal/libertarian/independant, depending on the day. (But

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Okay, computer-generated poetry. Ho-hum. But it presented me with this . . . this . . . GEM. Not good; I have said that I expected something to eat your face off.Haiku2 for esmeraldus not good i have saidthat i expected somethingto eat your face off @ aboutmylife.netblogger.comblogs.gnome.orgblogspot.comdeadjournal.comgreatestjournal.comlivejournal.commyspace.comspaces.msn.comCreated by

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This isn't a complete report of the Con, just the parts where I met Terry Pratchett.On the first day, the first person I saw in the hotel was Terry Pratchett. Later, he sat down with a group of people in the coffee bar, about two feet away from me. I didn't interrupt, but passed over a copy of The Sandman Papers as a gift. He was going to read it and give it back, but I meant for him to keep it--

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In times of severe freakitude, as many of you know, I post photographs. At the moment, I am severely freaked out, so here's a photogaph.I would like nothing better than for this one not to have clipped off the top of the subject's head, but such is life. At some point, I will probably try to fix that and install the whole thing in a frame so that it resembles a stained glass window.

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I teach composition in the English Department, and I'm researching how LGBTQ students express themselves online, especially on Facebook. My findings will be presented at the Conference on College Composition and Communication in March of 2007. Here's the survey: http://home.earthlink.net/~lt._dahlquist/survey.htm It's anonymous. You can answer by e-mail, or on paper by printing the form and

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I've found a hilarious webcomic about some indie hipsters and a goth coffee house owner that's intelligently written and funny. I'm assigning it to the students who are writing about subcultures because it's a terrific alternate media exploration of the interplay between the indie, goth, and emo subcultures. http://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=82http://www.questionablecontent.net/

Staciehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05101050378824099197noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11633487.post-1157421863233937252006-09-04T21:58:00.000-04:002006-09-05T01:12:09.386-04:00

I blanched just now when I realized that I hod not only opened a new MS Word document and titled it "dissertation notes," I had written most of a page of what looks like an introduction.Oh, mercy me . . . it's really time.In a way, this is not good. I have to get through my Latin exam before I can do the subject exams and move on to the dissertation.Back to the Pentateuch for me . . .Right now I

Staciehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05101050378824099197noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11633487.post-1157405916621873032006-09-04T17:28:00.000-04:002006-09-04T17:38:45.176-04:00

I have said that I expected something to eat or dismember Steve Irwin any day now, but I find that in fact I did not expect it.I never found him tiresome; I just thought "Dude, something is going to eat your face off. If you're okay with that, carry on."What happened to him was rather like a Formula One driver falling off his bicycle and sustaining a fatal head injury, which doesn't seem quite

Staciehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05101050378824099197noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11633487.post-1157348919662044692006-09-04T01:43:00.000-04:002006-09-04T01:53:26.923-04:00

You scored as IV - The Emperor. The Emperor represents power. There is nothing subtle about this Tarot card. The Empress has power through love.The Emperor has power through power. He is in control, he is forceful and ambitious. Nothing will stop him. He is a natural leader, having either been born to the role or having disposed of all those who stood in his way. If well aspected in a Tarot

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Many of you who read here know that I am a photographer of some enthusiasm, if arguable talent. (Look, I only said you could argue about it.)And many of you know that I got back from a two-week trip to England just this past Saturday evening; I promise to tell you all about it, in a bit.But right now I need to vent my annoyance about having my camera stolen on the second day I was there. That's

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Sometimes you don't realize what photos will look like until much later. For example:"She's not here. She said she'd be home . . . I've waited all morning and she's not here."Or,"She's not in the garden, either. Darn her all to heck--I am very puzzled.""Oh. Right. I'm nearly 200 years late. . . I'm so very embarrassed."EDIT: The first picture is in front of Jane Austen's house in Chawton; the

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At the Hedgehog Party at this year's Discworld Convention, Andrew lent me (insisted I try on) his long leather coat. I must have one of these for my Spike costume for this Halloween.

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That tears it . . . I am convinced that the only expression I can manage (while actually looking at a camera) is the smirk, in all of its glorious variety.It has just occurred to me (hours after the original post) that some of you might not know the other chap by sight: it's Terry Pratchett. Photo courtesy of Andrew Nevill.

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My new vice is single malt whisky.It's traditional for people to bring a bottle of something to one of the annual conferences I attend. Because I am getting more deeply involved in the organization, which means networking, and have friends who attend, I decided that this year I'd bring something.Since I knew nothing about whisky, I sought advice on alt.fan.pratchett. I got lots of advice, much of

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. . . from England, which was very English. I will flesh out this report sometime in the next few days.

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I just got my driver's license renewed today. Despite my bleached-platinum-blonde "make me look like Draco" hair, it says my hair is brown. Which it is, sort of.I found this funny for some reason.

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One way or another, I have the gala sorted. Pay attention to the shoes in the other pictures. ;-) Skirt I Skirt II Trousers II Trousers III Racy Version Racier Version

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I'm testing a multiple-blog posting tool; for the curious (cat), I shall leave this here for a day or two and then sweep it under the digital rug.

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Calling the little blackguard Malcolm Reynolds was prescient cat-naming.He has overturned my potted plants multiple times, climbed all the way up my back from the floor, almost removed the (second floor!) window screen in the kitchen and fallen to his messy death, fallen into the toilet, jumped into the bath with me (and then quickly back out again), gotten shut in the refrigerator, and just 5

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I am stereotypically female in at least one respect: I can't decide what to wear to the Discworld Convention gala dinner.Shall I go as a girl or a boy? Androgyny gives one options, but it takes twice as long to get dressed sometimes.I'll take votes.Of course, you all know I only ask for opinions so I have something with which to disagree--it is the LitCritter Way.EDIT: I have added an option to

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I logged in to relate the story of tonight's minor ego boost and happened to notice that this is my 200th post on this blog.A week or two ago, the writing coordinator's office sent out an e-mail asking whether any of the summer instructors would be willing to allow an observer to come into one of our classes. I responded that I would, because I don't mind and the potential observer is a friend

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I'll probably take it down out of sheer embarrassment in a day or two anyway. I was chatting with a friend tonight on MSN. I was complaining, as I do from time to time, that I don't have a girlfriend. I'm stable, educated, and people frequently tell me I'm either cute or gorgeous. I don't drink to excess, I don't smoke, and it has been reported to me that I have a sense of humor. In what spare

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"Question: What is it about your writing that you think makes it special, stand out from the crowd?.." and "And if you are too shy to analyze yourself, then I encourage folk to toss this question out to the people who have read them, either in the comments here or in your own journals."***There is no way I could write this about myself; the first thing that comes to mind is that I can get a

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You scored as Tabby the Pageboy. You are the smart, sassy, Tabby Pageboy Prince - a good-looking kitty, and you know it!Tabby_the_Pageboy100%MoonOriental92%SiamesePrince75%BraveTabby67%HermitRussianBlue67%GingerGardener42%BurmeseandtheTabby_Lovers0%CalicoAdventurer0%Which Bohemian Cat are you? With cats-in-costumes pictures - meow!created with QuizFarm.com

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I accidentally allowed coeli to meme me.If you read this, if your eyes are passing over this right now, (even if we don't speak often) please post a comment with a COMPLETELY MADE UP AND FICTIONAL memory of you and me. It can be anything you want - good or bad - BUT IT HAS TO BE FAKE. When you're finished, post this little paragraph on your blog and be surprised (or mortified) about what people

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I've started pursuing my quota of conference sessions in earnest now, and have a short list of possibilities. I am actively pursuing the first, with Kevin Maroney as a probable panelist."Can We Not Talk About Frank Miller?: The sexual psychopathology of comics for adult boys" : a panel which could actually produce fistfights if critics all such wimps."Do Comics Finally Have a History?"--have

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Inside the Victorian Home by Judith Flanders offers an explanation about why "seamstress" means what it does in DW terms. It's pretty obvious anyway, or it is to me (guilty of being a Victorian scholar), but it was still interesting to come upon the explanation in B&W. Poor women worked as seamstresses, but it was extremely difficult to get work, and there were a lot of them; so they were

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I have a new kitten. His name is Mal. He's coal black all over, even his noseleather and whiskers; he's got a sort of bat-like head and a slender body, and the most enormous talons sticking out from his tiny little paws. Those paws look the right size for such a bitty boy, but he flexes them and they get twice as big with these HUGE claws . . . the total effect is a little on the demoniacal

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I'm watching a Jackie Chan movie called "The Vampire Effect." It's interesting more than it's good, but it features an extremely funny fight scene, which wins my new "Most Innovative Way to Deal with Bloodsucking Fiends" award, fangs down.I didn't describe the scene in case someone wanted to see the movie and keep the suspense, but since someone asked what happened, a description is in the

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Most of my regular readers know that I am now reading for my doctoral exams in the fall, in 19th Century British literature, Modern SF&F, and 19th Century British fiction by women.There is an awful lot of poetry from Buckley's Poetry of the Victorian Era, selections from Harrold & Templeman's Prose of the Victorian Period, and the following novels I haven't read:Mary Barton, Vanity Fair, Adam

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So, my verdict on Battlestar Galactica, as I sit here at about 75% through the first season is "wahoooo!"There's a lot of action, and I love Starbuck as a woman. There's also Number Six, but that's more a personal hot-button than a recommendation.It is strange that the boxed set of DVDs is five really LONG episodes, though.I've just won a last-second bidding war on eBay for Season Two. It is a

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It never fails to annoy me when people knock literary criticism by reflex. Just like it's not necessary to deprecate Pratchett in order to praise J.K. Rowling (I refer to the kerfluffle of some months ago on alt.fan.pratchett, alt.books.pratchett, in the British press, and on various Rowling groups), it's not really necessary to knock academics every time you want to say something good about a

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Okay, I'm definitely looking at some of these articles when I . . . well, when I either crack up or finish my dissertation.Click on the title and read the LJ thread. It's very interesting, unless you're a dog person, in which case you may as well do something else.

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Battlestar Galactica won. The opening scene with the red leather boots and the legs . . . she's a BAD guy...But with the hotness, and the outfits . . .It's very disturbing.Okay, I was starting to wonder why this first episode was so long. I mean, it's excellent, but I was watching and thinking "Wow, this keeps not ending. It seems long, even for a movie. Huh."Did anyone else know there's a "play

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Oh, the angst. Oh, the torment.I have just finished a major project--well, close enough--and feel justified in watching a bit of video entertainment.So I'm sitting here staring at Battlestar Galactica Season One, highly recommended by both Edward and Elizabeth (you know who you are), and the BBC Jane Austen Collection.I can't decide! It's torture.I could drink some scotch and alternate episodes

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I saw a brilliant martial arts movie recently; I very much like the well done ones. It was called Ong Bak: The Thai Warrior. It was unusual in that the protagonist was a muy thai monk rather than a practitioner of one of the more usual styles. The acting was good--it was in Thai with English subtitles, and the star was handsome and quite possibly the most graceful athlete I have seen on film in

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Well. It was the worst conference I have ever attended, purely in terms of travel.I missed my 8:30 a.m. flight out of Cleveland. There were all sorts of storms in surrounding areas the night before, so everything was backed up; my usually ample margin of error was not enough. They wouldn't check my bag at the curb, and the line was huge . . . I made it to the ticket counter as my flight was

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This division might feature titles that begin with the words “Art in the Novels of . . .” or “Music in . . .” but will be especially appropriate for papers about "The Art (or Design) of...."Illustrations & Text: graphic novels, manga Charles Vess, Neil Gaiman, doujinshi (fan-created manga) - particularly the differences in copyright laws and practices that make doujinshi more accepted in Japan

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I'll be re-posting the ICFA information at the top of the page after I've improved it with the feedback I've received from various sources named Kathleen. We now return you to your regularly scheduled post . . . I got home a little while ago from the first class of the summer semester. I'm only teaching; there are no classes for me to take anymore. Yesterday I was a little tense, because I hadn't

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This project is now closed; the book based on the research is due out next year. Thank you to everyone who participated.=============================A friend of mine is doing research on children's sf. Taking a few minutes to fill out this online survey would be of help with her project. http://sfquestions.blogspot.com/Ta!(This post will remain at the top for the forseeable future. Newer posts

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Since I am up to my eyebrows in a project just now, but wanted to share something, I thought I would post some quotations that have shaped my thinking. It seems like my life is full of insoluble difficulties and impossible challenges--that which cannot be accomplished but must be attempted, mostly centered around teaching and the issues at the heart of education. These words have helped. “

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This weekend I've been working on some Discworld-related writing, the first I have been asked to do and the first for which I will be . . . dum-da-dum . . . paid. With money. A copy of the book and money. Not a lot of money, but for roughly 5,000 words, I will get about the same pay as for . . . hmm . . . six shifts at my for-fun job at a local video store. Hmmm. Or, looked at another way, about

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I have just started watching the old BBC series, Blake's 7.Here's what happened: someone on alt.fan.pratchett mentioned "Servalan" in such a context that I had to go look up who or what "Servalan" was. I couldn't admit ignorance, since it was tossed into the conversation as though everyone naturally knew all about Servalan.So, I did what I do: research. What I found out led to an immediate,

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I just got my grades for the two classes I took this semester. Both B+, by which I am not best pleased, but my final Marx paper must have gone over well.I have now finished my Ph.D. courses with a 3.789 GPA. [1] At least it's done now--no more worrying about grades, ever.Now I must pass four four-hour examinations in the fall: Latin, 19th Century British Literature, Modern SF, and Victorian

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Nelson, Cary, & Watt, Stephen. (2004). Office Hours: Activism and Change in the Academy. New York: Routledge.Office Hours is, in short, a call to action aimed at academics. The objective is quite clear: to save what is valuable about the academy and work toward justice for everyone in it. This assumes as warrants that the humanities are valuable and that justice includes equitable working

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I have chapters in these two books--The Sandman Papers was just released this month. I owe a lot of gratitude to Farah Mendelsohn and Joe Sanders for publishing my work.Academic books seldom sell many copies, so purchasing either one will help support fantasy & sf scholarship. Guilty of Literature can be purchased directly from Old Earth Books, and The Sandman Papers from Fantagraphics; both are

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Although Karl Marx’s Capital and 1884 Manuscripts are primarily political and economics texts, his early work is literary in tone and character; it is possible to read these works as literature, analyzing the literary devices (images, metaphors, characterization) as if the books were novels. In Wage Labor and Capital, Marx uses military metaphors extensively; the relationship between

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