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- I am wearing my black loafers. I have very mixed feelings about my black loafers. For one, they are black -- I bought them when I was on a quest for non-girly brown shoes and had to have something to wear on my feet and failed so bought these instead even though I will be burning in hell forever for the black shoes with navy blue pants thing, even though I have only ever worn that outfit at night and no one would ever notice but me. But black shoes and navy blue pants are wrong. Incorrect. Blasphemous. Anyway.
There was a cat-related incident involving my Keds this morning, hence wearing these, which are shoes that, until now, I've only worn for cosplay. I always find it really weird when things cross out of that side of my wardrobe into the rest of my wardrobe, even though the line between to the two is indistinct at best anyway. So I still don't know what I think of these shoes, even though it's okay that they're black today because I am not wearing blue. What I do like? They do throw my center of gravity up out of my hips for whatever reason. But that's also a little weird, considering I'm dressed like a girl.
Wow, you all so did not care about ANY of this.
- Speaking of cosplay, today's Wall Street Journal has a piece on young men in Japan who cosplay as the girls from Lucky Star. Watching the WSJ attempt to explain this in a cheerful, culturally neutral sort of way is funny. It's also interesting to me, as the fannish cultures I am involved in here are mostly female and often involve women cosplaying male characters, and no one particularly blinks at that (the fannishness is weird to people, but the rest of it seems to follow on without remark). But a man cosplaying a female character? People's heads would explode. It's an interesting look at a different norm, even if I admit I actually do find it hard to process. Note: I don't even know what the hell Lucky Star is.
- Also in fandom. Half-Blood Prince trailer is out. Baby!Voldie is perfect. But, gee, no HBP in the HBP trailer? Are they going to make the HBP refer to Voldie instead of Snape? I have a bad feeling about this.
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zarq brings us a link to a story about electricity and organic molecules on Titan. The pictures from Titan came back when I was in Australia, and it brought me to tears, standing in the Powerhouse museum as a woman kept coming on the loudspeaker to tell us to file to the auditorium to see the feeds from Titan. It made me think of Gattaca, and Australia was very much not saving anything for the way back for me, and Titan will always move me because of that strange, strange little film.
- Also in the heads up fromzarq department: The New York Times continues to offend the crap out of me. Whether it's as a woman, a blogger (am I a blogger?) or just someone who uses the Internet, I'm not really sure: http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/27/fashion/27blogher.html
- Almost done with Border Princes. Pretty good. Worthy of several rants, however. You've been warned, more later.
- Gluten free pizza and pasta discovered near work!
- Horrible celiac illness stuff last night.
- Having finished a piece on adaptive utensils, today I'm writing about the risks of senior drivers.
- Fencing tonight.
- Patty's mom also gets in tonight.
There was a cat-related incident involving my Keds this morning, hence wearing these, which are shoes that, until now, I've only worn for cosplay. I always find it really weird when things cross out of that side of my wardrobe into the rest of my wardrobe, even though the line between to the two is indistinct at best anyway. So I still don't know what I think of these shoes, even though it's okay that they're black today because I am not wearing blue. What I do like? They do throw my center of gravity up out of my hips for whatever reason. But that's also a little weird, considering I'm dressed like a girl.
Wow, you all so did not care about ANY of this.
- Speaking of cosplay, today's Wall Street Journal has a piece on young men in Japan who cosplay as the girls from Lucky Star. Watching the WSJ attempt to explain this in a cheerful, culturally neutral sort of way is funny. It's also interesting to me, as the fannish cultures I am involved in here are mostly female and often involve women cosplaying male characters, and no one particularly blinks at that (the fannishness is weird to people, but the rest of it seems to follow on without remark). But a man cosplaying a female character? People's heads would explode. It's an interesting look at a different norm, even if I admit I actually do find it hard to process. Note: I don't even know what the hell Lucky Star is.
- Also in fandom. Half-Blood Prince trailer is out. Baby!Voldie is perfect. But, gee, no HBP in the HBP trailer? Are they going to make the HBP refer to Voldie instead of Snape? I have a bad feeling about this.
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zarq brings us a link to a story about electricity and organic molecules on Titan. The pictures from Titan came back when I was in Australia, and it brought me to tears, standing in the Powerhouse museum as a woman kept coming on the loudspeaker to tell us to file to the auditorium to see the feeds from Titan. It made me think of Gattaca, and Australia was very much not saving anything for the way back for me, and Titan will always move me because of that strange, strange little film.- Also in the heads up from
zarq department: The New York Times continues to offend the crap out of me. Whether it's as a woman, a blogger (am I a blogger?) or just someone who uses the Internet, I'm not really sure: http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/27/fashion/27blogher.html- Almost done with Border Princes. Pretty good. Worthy of several rants, however. You've been warned, more later.
- Gluten free pizza and pasta discovered near work!
- Horrible celiac illness stuff last night.
- Having finished a piece on adaptive utensils, today I'm writing about the risks of senior drivers.
- Fencing tonight.
- Patty's mom also gets in tonight.
