Review: In Ashes Lie, by Marie Brennan
I do not know whether there is anyone reading this journal who a) has not read this book yet and b) had any plan to do so, but to that theoretical subset I must with some dismay recommend giving this...
View ArticleBecause your Friends page should contain nothing but book reviews
I'm sort of clearing out a lengthy mental backlog of Things I Wanted To Say About Books I've Read, because I've been on a fairly good kick recently of reading entirely new things (interspersed with...
View ArticleA Star Shall Fall, by Marie Brennan
(Today I went to the library and checked out a stack of Dresden Files books 8 inches high, which reminded me that I never wrote any more of the book reviews I meant to earlier. So here's one of...
View ArticleAltered Carbon, by Richard K. Morgan
I was leant this book by a friend -- the same one who got me hooked on the Dresden Files, as it happens -- with the hyperbolic claim that it was the "best science fiction book of the past decade."It...
View ArticleMusic Quiz: the 2011 reboot
I am jumping on the music quiz bandwagon in my usual style, which is to say: I think it's a lot more fun to identify tiny scraps of music than lyrics. All clips are the first few seconds of a song,...
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Hey how about some results
I am sorry for the delay in posting these; immediately after putting up the original quiz, my computer crashed so hard that I had to restore my entire hard drive to factory defaults, and I've sort of...
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Mashups? But HOW?????
Man I meant to do this post, like, way earlier, but I was lazy and then my computer crashed and bluh bluh bluh and anyway this is a SUPER EXTRA-LONG mashup digest post to make up for how long it's been...
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> Flight home from San Diego at 9:45 AM> The kind woman who put me up for the night offers to drive me to airport if I'm up when she leaves, at 6> Woo, saved cab fare! Now I can take a cab...
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Because I have no creativity of my own right now
Would you like some mashups? I would like to give you some mashups."Somebody to Praise" - mashed by DJ LobsterdustJefferson Airplane - "Somebody to Love"vs.Fatboy Slim - "Praise You"Man, this just...
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Let's Update!
Wooooo it has been quite a month. First, we went to Costa Rica for our long-delayed honeymoon. Sadly, we don't have any pictures of particularly amazing quality, but we did see and do an awful lot of...
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Some random notes about music
LOL SEE WHAT I DID THEREAnyway.1) I was poking around Adam Cadre's site (he's probably best known for either running the Little Lytton contest or his interactive fiction), and found this recent post,...
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People reading this! If I were to make a mix of Celtic/Norse themed songs, what would need to be on it?Followup question: if I were to send this to a complete stranger with no knowledge of their...
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Mighty Atom!
We went to Real Steel tonight, which before I get into any super-nerdy commentary is first and foremost a really, really good movie. It's not brilliant; it will not broaden your artistic horizons or...
View ArticleHAPPY SECOND FREYNIVERSARY!
And to think, I nearly missed it because I thought today was the 29th. We've had our puppy (who is the best puppy) for TWO WHOLE YEARS now. That is totally worth celebrating!Thus: a new video of some...
View ArticleA fond farewell from Survey of American Literature
So I'm taking the Dickinson quiz, and I come across this question:What is Dickinson's implied metaphor in the middle section of poem 249 (lines 5-9)?Okay, I think. I go read Dickinson's poem:Wild...
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grass
Okay, so I posted about the "farewell" I got from my Survey of American Literature course on Monday, right? And I thought I was done. I mean, there was the final exam, but that was just going to have...
View ArticleGod dammit, guys
Every so often, everyone starts doing these lyrics quizzes, and every few times that comes around I do one of these "name that tune" style music ID things. And, every time, I encourage people to make...
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Name that tune: answers
If you still want to play blind, go here, quick!Clip 01: Flogging Molly, "Swagger" -- partial credit to lowellboyslashClip 02: Fountains of Wayne, "Stacy's Mom" -- guessed by lowellboyslash and...
View Article7 Things: Let's Play
First, for those of you who have absolutely no idea what I'm talking about, a "Let's Play" in this context is when someone records themselves playing through a videogame, with commentary or mockery or...
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7 Things: Married Life
...WHY DOES EVERYONE ASK THIS QUESTION?(note to sandmantv: this is in no way directed at you in particular.)Seriously, I think probably more than half of all the people I know, ever, have asked me a...
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