Signal boost: New York’s Museum of the Moving Image is hosting a special exhibit, Cut Up,  which "celebrates the practice of re-editing popular media to create new work, presenting contemporary videos by self-taught editors and emerging artists alongside landmarks of historic and genre-defining reappropriation." They’re showing, among other things, [personal profile] laurashapiro’s I Put You There, along with Kandy Fong's Both Sides Now and Vogue!

The criminal NSA: why this pervasive surveillance is illegal and unconstitutional.

Wi-vi: use a cellphone to see through walls.  At least it creates fic possibilities?

Free to good fannish home: 20-year anniversary edition of Heathers.  Let me know in comments.
Stephen King, Elissa Wald, Cory Doctorow & Charles Stross, David Wojnarowicz, The Walking Dead )
Chinese fanworks based on an English textbook from the 80s:  “Li Lei and Han Meimei started to rise as icons of the post-80s collective memory because many found out that they’ve all imaged a love affair between Li and Han during those young and care-free years, when they themselves were told not to touch young love and focus on studies. Fabricated stories and comics started to circulate online …” I love the double meaning of “fabricated.”
Stephen King, K.J. Parker, Malinda Lo, Carol Berg )
rivkat: Dean reading (dean reading)
( May. 1st, 2012 08:58 am)
Eureka: Spoilers are still in the Matrix )

A Softer World: this could work for so many of my fandoms!

Rec: Pairing Pendragon/Merlin: Meta, really, in which BBC Merlin characters are Starz Camelot fans. I have rarely felt more directly hailed by a text! (As Sady Doyle once said, this must be what guys feel like all the time.) The embarrassing stuff is there, along with the love.

Interesting article on Foreign Policy’s gender issue (pun, sadly, intended).

space opera and Stephen King's daddy issues )
rivkat: Dean reading (dean reading)
( Nov. 30th, 2010 01:44 pm)
last 2 weeks of Chuck )

Pro tip: when in the course of work you have to Google for images of the Naked Cowgirl, remember that you have SafeSearch turned off.

The Middle East, women's writing, Ted Chiang, Stephen King, magic CSI, Lois McMaster Bujold )
rivkat: Dean reading (dean reading)
( Jul. 12th, 2010 02:00 pm)
Unlikely but true: Jensen Ackles is prettier in HD. Still getting used to the color differences from my old TV, but really glad to see the full screen.

Interesting video from Kink for all, where participants talk fanfic.

I also wrote a little something:
Five More Deaths That Didn’t Matter, PG/gore
Prompt: [personal profile] later_tuesday, 5 deaths Dean had during Mystery Spot (that weren't aired)

Stephen King, Sime/Gen, Claudia Gray )
rivkat: Dean reading (dean reading)
( May. 30th, 2010 10:07 pm)
I blame jetlag for my fight with the LJ posting interface just now, anyway.  On my United flight out to San Francisco, they tried to serve me Diet Coke Light (labelled in Italian). Betrayed! I even popped the first can and took a sip before I realized; the taste brought me right around. I know most people don’t taste much of a difference between the brands/sugar substitutes, but unless it’s Diet Coke with aspartame I’m not drinking it.

Stephen King, Megan Whalen Turner, Camille Bacon-Smith )
rivkat: Wonder Woman reading comic (wonder woman reading comic)
( Mar. 16th, 2009 05:04 pm)
The evil side of me really wants a vid about shows we break up with—XF, SV, Heroes, BSG, Dollhouse, etc.—to Voltaire’s Future Ex-Girlfriend.

books about making books )
My Yuletide story was a character piece, Michaela Dupont from Anna to the Infinite Power.

Fannish things I have recently loved:

Sarah Walker vid, Creator, by [livejournal.com profile] talitha78.

[livejournal.com profile] linabean’s poem taken from snippets from [livejournal.com profile] sgastoryfinders.


the one where
McKay
is turned into a puppy!!!
It ends up
with John and Rodney together

I'm almost sure
I didn't imagine it.
I know it's out there

I'm looking for a story
Please?

John is very politely (with guns) asking
I am looking for a fic

See also [livejournal.com profile] trinity_clare’s riff on William Carlos Williams in the comments:
I have read
the stories
that were in
the comm

and which
you were probably
saving
as bookmarks

Forgive me
they were del.icio.us
so slashy
and so hot

And then there’s the additional material, not McShep, which is funny but also seems to me to serve as a critique of the pairing-centeredness of so much fandom, especially when it’s two white guys at the center.

Jayne Leitch, Dearly Divided: SPN/Dexter, Dean & Deb. I don’t know Dexter, but the SPN plot—oh, Dean. (Also, oh, Sam.)

short reviews: Pratchett, King, After School Nightmare, Eternal Sabbath )
rivkat: Wonder Woman reading comic (wonder woman reading comic)
( Jul. 5th, 2008 08:47 pm)
Butcher, King, Crusie, Gibson )
On pseudonyms and LARPs )
Last night’s dream: I was watching a group of superheroes. The first and second in command were Batman-Superman types (aren’t they always?), and the second in command was very depressed for some reason. They were above a neutrally hostile country – the country was not pleased to have them there, but wasn’t going to do anything first. Instead, it sent sentries, city-sized dark red robots. The robots hovered in the air, but horizontally, with their eyes closed, sleeping, waiting for something to happen.

The 2IC fell from the sky, plunging down through a high school and deep into the ground. The country sent an operative in to find out what was happening, and she was telepathic and didn’t speak the same language as the superheroes, so when the rest of the group showed up, she talked to the leader using the 2IC’s mental names for the members: “Fantastic” for the leader, “Lucky” for the Flash character – and it was so obviously revealing that the leader got her to stop before she said more.

Then I woke up.

Fiction: Goodman, Pessl, Bachman/King )
rivkat: Wonder Woman reading comic (wonder woman reading comic)
( May. 10th, 2006 07:01 am)
PSA for Washingtonians: The Library of Congress Professionals Association is having a book sale in the Jefferson Building. Today paperbacks are $.50 and hardcovers $1; tomorrow it's a bag for a buck. The selection is heavy on popular fiction; I left behind a lot of Pratchett I already own, but picked up some Jennifer Crusie and a water-swollen copy of Outlander -- 28 books for $40. Some donor reads a lot of hardcover sf.

Reviews: what's the plural of apocalpyse? )
Gunn, King, Oliver, DeCandido (Serenity tie-in; no spoilers in review) )

Once I accept that I can't really do anything but care for the boy while Z. is away, life is okay -- I finished the Profit DVDs, including all the commentaries, where the creators twice point out that you have to be really hard-core to be listening to them. I'm proud to say I watched Profit for the ten seconds it aired on Fox; I guess I was ahead of my time, too. Now I'm on to Firefly again, and pondering the great philosophical question: when the Rivkid spits up my milk, whose bodily fluid does that count as?
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