'Out Of Gas'
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Am sad about Kitchen Confidential.
WRT Alias, Sumi, I agree with you 100% about both the joy of seeing Amy Acker as an assassin and the fact that she's Rachel's Anna Espinosa. I was also a little heartbroken to see Syd playing the Vaughn tapes.
Also, even though I hate the fact that Vaughn is gone I think it makes much more gut wrenching watching for me.
Was it just me, or did that not sound like Vartan's voice on the tapes?
It sounded like Vartan to me. . . perhaps I should rewatch.
So, I have this group assignment due today, and as a "special prize" for the group that does the best job, the professor said he'd take them to dinner. One of my group-mates is all about winning, but honestly? The professor creeps me out a little, and I have no interest in going to dinner with him. Oy. I hate non-traditional rewards.
At least it would be a group dinner and not one-to-one.
No way would I go if it were one-on-one. shudder
Fandom and Male Privilege: [link]
I don't hang out in fanfic circles- are there a lot of guys as idiotic as this woman describes?
I'm having a recently-picked locally-grown Baldwin apple for lunch, with an Iggy's French Roll as well. God, I'm going to miss the twice a week Farmer's Market in the Square.
I don't hang out in fanfic circles- are there a lot of guys as idiotic as this woman describes?
I haven't run across them in fanfic (I'm only halfway into that loop anyway), but I've met some of that ilk at cons.
Sometimes, it's just a quasi-aggrieved joke, like, "Wow, [in this panel on female fantasy authors] I'm the only guy in the room! Guess I'm representing the other half of the species!"
(I heard something of this ilk at Noreascon 4; of course, I was also sitting next to a linebacker-size male physicist [orzelc on LJ, for those interested], who was honestly interested in the topic and as annoyed at the comment as I was.)
I don't hang out in fanfic circles- are there a lot of guys as idiotic as this woman describes?
Lucy's a friend of mine. And yeah, we've been butting heads with this kind of idiocy in comics fandom quite often.
In fact, one person I knew from comics fandom had a meltdown in the comments thread, and now I know why I hadn't really got on with him these past few years.