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shoofus for the virtual panda!
I’ve been listening to Alanis Morissette’s Jekyll & Hyde, a delightful bonus track on the iTunes version of havoc & bright lights. That album, plus the new Pet Shop Boys, made me realize that putting together b-sides is getting to be as complicated as it was in the bad old days, what with Amazon and iTunes having different versions (and often enough different prices, though Amazon is going to $1.29 on some tracks too).
eBay wants to force you into arbitration (which you will never be able to afford a lawyer for, much less win) unless you opt out. ( details )
The awesome Steve Burt (disclosure: I’m proud to call him a friend) gets a full story in the NYT, in which his practice of focusing on the poets he likes and not spending time on criticizing those he doesn’t gets some attention.
Not unrelatedly, George Orwell on “Why I Write."
My favorite vid from Vividcon was![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
bradcpu’s Ride to California. I love how it uses “California” as a metaphor for the heroism of the Avengers; I can’t explain exactly why I love that so much, but the vid is great fun.
( Charles Stross, Richard Morgan )
shoofus for the virtual panda!I’ve been listening to Alanis Morissette’s Jekyll & Hyde, a delightful bonus track on the iTunes version of havoc & bright lights. That album, plus the new Pet Shop Boys, made me realize that putting together b-sides is getting to be as complicated as it was in the bad old days, what with Amazon and iTunes having different versions (and often enough different prices, though Amazon is going to $1.29 on some tracks too).
eBay wants to force you into arbitration (which you will never be able to afford a lawyer for, much less win) unless you opt out. ( details )
The awesome Steve Burt (disclosure: I’m proud to call him a friend) gets a full story in the NYT, in which his practice of focusing on the poets he likes and not spending time on criticizing those he doesn’t gets some attention.
Not unrelatedly, George Orwell on “Why I Write."
My favorite vid from Vividcon was
bradcpu’s Ride to California. I love how it uses “California” as a metaphor for the heroism of the Avengers; I can’t explain exactly why I love that so much, but the vid is great fun. ( Charles Stross, Richard Morgan )
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