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catdancerz , sol_se , realpestilence , rejeneration , laceymcbain , bexless ,ingridmatthews, ciian , flesh , sprat , grlnamedlucifer , suzvoy , pinkfinity (Cthuluclaus!), gblvr (another Cthuluclaus!), and anonymous givers: thanks so much for the virtual gifts! You are sweet and I feel terribly guilty about being out of the loop right now. I go through feast and famine with stories; hopefully more feasts are on the way, with my Eight Crazy Nights about to start.

( hip-hop and intellectual property; art and law; luxury brands; and sex for pay )
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Hey, so I have an Archive of Our Own invite code—first come, first served.  [ETA: and, taken, but if you want the next one I get let me know.]

( art & free speech and mom & pop stores )

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( Bright-Sided, Colored Property, and Clearance and Copyright )
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( high school shenanigans, very good YA demons, M Butterfly, anti-sprawl design ) comments on DW

( pirate economies, childrearing, alcohol recovery, and H.G. Wells' plagiarism )
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cathexys recorded a podfic of Tricking! (My very first hookerfic! Of a sort, anyway.)

( A self-help book about overeating: proceed with caution )



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Raising children: 2.0 took two pairs of boxer shorts, mushed them together, and insisted they were a baby. But she also maintained that she was the daddy and that the baby had two daddies, so perhaps I haven’t failed as a parent.

( mortgages, discounting, food, suburban history ) comments on DW

( Firefighting, suburbanization, war and disability reporting, sexual and racial violence, Bellevue doctors, Library of Congress history, neuroscience and ethics (totally accidental, I swear) )
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I have, of course, signed up for DVD commentary.  Anyone is always free to remix, podfic, analyze, or otherwise build on anything I’ve written. In fact, I adore that, and just want links! I’ve also been called on skanky race issues and told I promote heteronormativity, so I devoutly hope to survive further critical responses.

My current Dean song: Carry Me Home, by Marit Bergman. It’s almost happy!

( Reviews: Supernatural, slash/porn/feminism (not the same thing), music and the brain, Columbine )

I’m really enjoying Better Off Ted. Not too many triggers of my embarrassment squick, and some really funny lines. Ted on his strained relationship with his father: “We’re like oil and—what’s that thing that’s always disappointing oil?” Clever like that. (And, hey, I learned a new word for that: paraprosdokian.)

Miles Fisher: This guy is weird, and I like three of the four songs on his free EP. For one—a cover of the Talking Heads’ This Must Be the Place—he has a music video, also freely downloadable, in which he does a creditable impression of Christian Bale in American Psycho, and the combination of the song with the images of 80s excess and sociopathy produces a deeply disturbing fanwork.

( parody, Alices in Wonderland, and music video )

( parody, traffic, free stuff, structural integrity )

Schadenfreude, with wit: “Last month, Nevada Sen. John Ensign had to resign his Republican leadership post to spend more time with his sex scandal…. Like Sanford, Palin snuck away to visit a distant land and fell in love with a siren she cannot bring home or leave behind. Her fatal attraction was the national spotlight.”

Further on Palin, did she seriously say that she didn’t want to be lame duck because it’s not enough fun for her (or, generously, for the state)? She does know that term limits mean that lame duckishness is a feature of the system, right? Who’s supposed to be running the show in such circumstances? I am baffled.

( Steve Almond on everything and Mary Roach on sex )

( competition policy, reusing music, happiness, persuasion )

( Biblical contradictions, local money, and craftsmen )

Trying the DW crossposter again. Apologies if it looks awful; I do not understand how to make the cut tag work in the rich text interface, much less the block quote, and think that Semagic may be my best option for the time being. ( Free theory! )

Dear diary: Today I did a very good job at something where the extent to which I did a good job doesn’t matter and should. It is a little depressing!

( books: tattoos and decisionmaking )

1. Here’s a kind of funny thing: google “begin optional trim.” It’s kind of comforting to know that, no matter how embarrassing your mistake, a couple of thousand people out there have made it too.

2. Confused RT is confused ( (Dreamwidth blather): )

3. Another quote for the SPN essay I’m not writing:

Judith Butler, Antigone’s Claim 71 (2000): “Consider that the horror of incest, the moral revulsion it compels in some, is not that far afield from the same horror and revulsion felt toward lesbian and gay sex, and is not unrelated to the intense moral condemnation of voluntary single parenting, or gay parenting, or parenting arrangements with more than two adults involved (practices that can be used as evidence to support a claim to remove a child from the custody of the parent in several states in the United States). These various modes in which the oedipal mandate fails to produce normative family all risk entering into the metonymy of that moralized sexual horror that is perhaps most fundamentally associated with incest.” (And hey, whoa, an intelligible Butler quote!)

4. ( Law book! )

( intellectual property, extradiegetic music, marketing, cheerleading )

I wrote Castiel/Mary over in the Castiel commentfic thing. My prompt, which everyone is encouraged to fill, is Sam/Castiel, bonus if it’s because one or both is pining for Dean. justabi already did one version, yum, but the more the merrier.

( possibly related review: Sexual perversion )

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 )