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In preparation for The Movie Event of Summer 2005 (That Isn't Edison), I've started referring to Christian Bale purely as 'Batman'. As in, "I liked how Batman was BFF with the Phantom of the Opera in that one movie!" or "Jeez, Batman looks like crap dressed up all glam like that," and "Can we watch the dance-break in 'Santa Fe' when Batman dances around like a drunkard?" It's working out well for me.
And speaking of things to be thankful of:
-There's![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
between_names's kind contribution to the American Candy Project (plus, lovely lovely swag! eeee!); thank you so much, honey! Both sets of treats will be hugely enjoyed!
-Also,sarahcascade came back from Hawai'i bearing pretty handbags, macadamia nuts, and pineapple-coconut pancake mix. Pancake mix!! I already tried some of the coconut syrup and it's wonderful, thank you, sweetie. *snug*
-And in a move that stunned me rigid with glee and unholy delight,ciderpress sent me Silk Cut and a gorgeous case to put them in! I can still hardly believe it. Thank you so much, darling, a million frillion times over! *mwah*!!!
In addition to handouts on Conflict & Conflict Resolution and books on European History 1900-1939, I am also currently reading:
Planet Simpson - the author, Chris Turner, is Canadian, and of course for me that makes it an even better read because he's able to talk about Lisa as a liberal mouthpiece and Bart as a punk anarchist and Homer the metaphor for American society from a slightly removed viewpoint. The book is a donut box full of giggly quotes, referential humour, and unabashed fanboying and yet still manages to slip in a sociological analyzation or two, like the following cutaway about ( the distinctly Canadian tone to the Simpsons' brand of humour. )
In addition to Katherine Monk's incisive dissection of Canadian cinema in weird sex and snowshoes, that's got to be one of the best breakdowns of the Canadian pop-culture mindset and motivations that I've ever read. If you're a pop-culture maven or a Simpsons fan, you'll like this book. Turner gets distracted sometimes and goes onto other topics (a long and *really* fanboyish dissertation on Nirvana, for example), but they're usually just as interesting anyhow.
The Sexual Politics of Meat by Carol J. Adams. Which is kind of meh. I get what she's saying about the perpetration of the hunter/gatherer types, and the sissification of vegetarian diets AKA pacifism, and the equation of women to meat and all that, but I can't help but find her a bit hysterical. She sounds so old-fashioned and hyperbolic sometimes that I was genuinely startled to find that the book was originally published in 1990. Frankly, I find her arguments about meat consumption in the Western world contributing to poverty and scarce subsistence farming in developing nations to be the more compelling ones; whenever Adams starts drawing (occasionally melodramatic) parallels between animal slaughter and pornography, she loses me. When it comes down to it, meat tastes like murder and murder tastes pretty goddamn good.
And speaking of things to be thankful of:
-There's
between_names's kind contribution to the American Candy Project (plus, lovely lovely swag! eeee!); thank you so much, honey! Both sets of treats will be hugely enjoyed! -Also,
sarahcascade came back from Hawai'i bearing pretty handbags, macadamia nuts, and pineapple-coconut pancake mix. Pancake mix!! I already tried some of the coconut syrup and it's wonderful, thank you, sweetie. *snug* -And in a move that stunned me rigid with glee and unholy delight,
ciderpress sent me Silk Cut and a gorgeous case to put them in! I can still hardly believe it. Thank you so much, darling, a million frillion times over! *mwah*!!! In addition to handouts on Conflict & Conflict Resolution and books on European History 1900-1939, I am also currently reading:
Planet Simpson - the author, Chris Turner, is Canadian, and of course for me that makes it an even better read because he's able to talk about Lisa as a liberal mouthpiece and Bart as a punk anarchist and Homer the metaphor for American society from a slightly removed viewpoint. The book is a donut box full of giggly quotes, referential humour, and unabashed fanboying and yet still manages to slip in a sociological analyzation or two, like the following cutaway about ( the distinctly Canadian tone to the Simpsons' brand of humour. )
In addition to Katherine Monk's incisive dissection of Canadian cinema in weird sex and snowshoes, that's got to be one of the best breakdowns of the Canadian pop-culture mindset and motivations that I've ever read. If you're a pop-culture maven or a Simpsons fan, you'll like this book. Turner gets distracted sometimes and goes onto other topics (a long and *really* fanboyish dissertation on Nirvana, for example), but they're usually just as interesting anyhow.
The Sexual Politics of Meat by Carol J. Adams. Which is kind of meh. I get what she's saying about the perpetration of the hunter/gatherer types, and the sissification of vegetarian diets AKA pacifism, and the equation of women to meat and all that, but I can't help but find her a bit hysterical. She sounds so old-fashioned and hyperbolic sometimes that I was genuinely startled to find that the book was originally published in 1990. Frankly, I find her arguments about meat consumption in the Western world contributing to poverty and scarce subsistence farming in developing nations to be the more compelling ones; whenever Adams starts drawing (occasionally melodramatic) parallels between animal slaughter and pornography, she loses me. When it comes down to it, meat tastes like murder and murder tastes pretty goddamn good.
