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spatz ([personal profile] spatz) wrote2005-11-21 10:11 pm
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First of all, a casting spoiler for SG-1's next season. Lindsey, say it with me: WHEEEE!!!!!!!!!!!

Also, a very accurate essay on laptop usage during college lectures from Slate. The author points out a lot of off-topic uses for internet surfing, but in Film class it can be quite useful. IMDB, baby! We're all fans in that class.

Meanwhile, in homework land, I have to read 21 versions of Little Red Riding Hood. Currently, my brain is burning from the horrible rhymes perpetrated by several authors. Why? Why must I suffer this fate? There's a reason I stay away from the Pit of Voles. *sigh* Maybe it will be better once I get past the Romantic writers....

At least I have Doctor Who on the horizon, once I read some more of this crap. 'Tis a lovely carrot to tempt myself with.

[identity profile] thespatz.livejournal.com 2005-11-27 03:42 am (UTC)(link)
I haven't read any of the theoretical stuff yet, but Jack Zipes is considered one of the best fairy tale scholars/translators around. What I have read of his work is excellent.

I watched it again last night with Lindsey, and we were both sobbing (I think I cried even more the second time around). The hologram *kills* me. This show is really not afraid to show the cost of fighting -- so MANY people die, which is why The Doctor Dances makes me happy for hours and hours later. And yes, thank god for the continued hand!porn. He's just similar enough to weird me out: his wide gawky smile, the hand-holding, the way he darts about, the way he looks at Rose. *sigh* Have you read TaraLJC's At Last (http://ljconstantine.com/fanfic/atlast.htm)? It doesn't include the short from Christmas Invasion, but the characterization made me feel better about the change.