A couple of years ago, I decided to go all in on DVD acquisition, because I found it within myself that I did not trust the streaming ecosystem. This was a great decision, especially because it was right about the time that FYE stopped selling DVDs and they were getting rid of all their used shit for like, pennies. I got three seasons of Babylon 5 for five dollars. Total! Not each! Imagine what a great investment this will turn out to have been once I finally get into Babylon 5! It has already paid off with Voyager, the first…
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Whew, we made it to Friday once more, friends! I had a weird, hard week, which turned out to mostly be because I was pre-menstrual, but also a little bit because I lost a contact lens that now has to be expensively replaced, plus I have been feeling sad that free Wordle fun times are coming to an end. (I’m happy the creator is getting paid, though!) I’m seeing my sister this weekend, however, and I’m hoping I can con her into watching Yellowjackets with me. We’ll see. In the meantime, have some links! Nasim Mansuri finds a way to…
Leave a CommentThe coronavirus situation sure does continue to continue, doesn’t it? I hope everyone who is reading this and all your families are doing okay on health and okay on money, and that you have plenty of nice things to keep your head above water in the midst of all these terrible things. Suzanne Walker considers the disability narrative (such as it is) in the otherwise really fun show The Witcher. No one knows anything, and everyone’s mad. Anne Helen Peterson continuing to bring truly excellent reporting on the human elements of the pandemic. Ancient monks struggled with isolation, too. Naomi…
Leave a CommentThere are haunted dolls in this links round-up. Happy Friday; you deserve it. “Perhaps you had better stay in the womb, I think, just to be safe.” Alexandra Petri on The News. Bret Stephens continues to be a dingbat. Jay Fernandez identifies a few common mistakes that book reviewers make. (Some of this is nonsense! But it’s still interesting.) The final book in Hilary Mantel’s Thomas Cromwell trilogy is coming out in 2020! AT LAST I can read Bring Up the Bodies! Here’s Mikki Kendall talking about how not all harassment is sexual (though it is also sexual!) On not…
Leave a CommentI don’t have any links about Kara Walker. But y’all should be excited for me because I’m seeing a Kara Walker thing tomorrow and Kara Walker will be there. So hooray. My only sadness is that the way the exhibition is, there won’t be a gift shop. But anyway! On to the links! The cost of reporting while female. I always love reading the Lithub discussions of how book designers come up with their book covers. This is a particularly good one. If you want to read romance, but you’re not sure where to start, Kelly Faircloth has your recs.…
Leave a CommentI’m an aunt, y’all! Wooooooooo! Truly it is the happiest of Fridays! Though I can’t transmit my joy directly into your brains, I will nevertheless do my best to give you some happiness in the form of excellent links. Enjoy! In case you missed it, I wrote a fandom vocabulary primer for the Oxford Dictionaries blog. The goddess Alexandra Petri (the woman who brought us Emo Kylo Ren) outlines the Great American Novel. A history of Harry Potter fandom. The Seattle Seahawks made a loud noise about the statement they were planning to make before their opening game, but what…
18 CommentsSince the theme of today is Not Being a Dick, this is your annual reminder that there are very few April Fool’s Day jokes that are actually funny (though Social Sister is in the midst of perpetrating one now), so you should probably just not do them at all. How to not be a dick to women who write comics criticism. (Good news: It ain’t even that hard.) Yes, Lovecraft was a product of his times. That doesn’t mean we have to be okay with his racism. A thoughtful response to the recent “I don’t want to be Black Spiderman”…
16 CommentsFirst of all: The absurdly delayed results of my Alias Hook giveaway! Random.org picked a winner, and it is Jeanne! Of Necromancy Never Pays! Congrats, Jeanne, and I will ask the publisher to send a copy of the book your way. Secondly, I decided to do a links round-up post today, of bookish and nerdy and feminist stuff that interested me this week. I always love link round-ups, and this week I got jealous enough to make one of my own. In honor of the release of Marvel’s weirdest movie yet, Guardians of the Galaxy, I give you two conflicting…
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