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neverwhereHappy Passover fellow deli lovers. :)
Watched Donnie Darko this evening, which was a very intriguing film, and discovered yet another boy for me to drool over. No, of course I don't just watch things for the drool factor, it just helps. ;-) Jake Gyllenhal is a fantastic actor, it's astounding how he manages to be both innocent and menacing at the same time. The sly, sadistic smirk (alliteration!) as he looks up into the camera is absolutely chilling. And dead sexy. *giggles*
Was very pleased to read that a new Science Fiction museum/amusement park is to open next year, but was annoyed to have it described as a 'little boy's fantasy'. Grr! When are people going to stop segregating scifi into a 'boys only' category? I've been a huge scifi geek since I was about 5 years old, when I read my first Ray Bradbury book Dinosaur Tales. I grew up watching Star Trek and playing Dungeons and Dragons and generally doing all the things boys were supposed to want to do -- I never played with dolls (I decapitated the one and only Barbie I ever received as a present, I think my family took that as a hint to buy me more books, which I appreciated infinitely more) or happy families or did girly things -- I wanted to be a wizard (long before Harry Potter made it cool) and tame dragons and explore the galaxy, and maybe if I had time discover the Grand Unified Wave Theory in quantum mechanics. And I know I'm not alone. There are thousands of girls out there who feel the same way, and yet we are still ignored. Sigh. *bashes the world with a Bat'leth before escaping in her TARDIS*
I made a new friend today,![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
amaterasu, who is exceedingly cool and worships me for my HARDCORE geekiness. Whooot! :D
Oooh, and just as I typed this, I made another friend --banazir, who graciously accepted my offer to stop lurking on my journal and actually add me as a friend. Good boy. *pats him on the head* ;-)
Look whatavariel_wings wrote for me -- a delightfully silly Pippin/Richard Mayhew drabble thingy! Isn't it adorable? *beams with happy pride* :D
Watched Donnie Darko this evening, which was a very intriguing film, and discovered yet another boy for me to drool over. No, of course I don't just watch things for the drool factor, it just helps. ;-) Jake Gyllenhal is a fantastic actor, it's astounding how he manages to be both innocent and menacing at the same time. The sly, sadistic smirk (alliteration!) as he looks up into the camera is absolutely chilling. And dead sexy. *giggles*
Was very pleased to read that a new Science Fiction museum/amusement park is to open next year, but was annoyed to have it described as a 'little boy's fantasy'. Grr! When are people going to stop segregating scifi into a 'boys only' category? I've been a huge scifi geek since I was about 5 years old, when I read my first Ray Bradbury book Dinosaur Tales. I grew up watching Star Trek and playing Dungeons and Dragons and generally doing all the things boys were supposed to want to do -- I never played with dolls (I decapitated the one and only Barbie I ever received as a present, I think my family took that as a hint to buy me more books, which I appreciated infinitely more) or happy families or did girly things -- I wanted to be a wizard (long before Harry Potter made it cool) and tame dragons and explore the galaxy, and maybe if I had time discover the Grand Unified Wave Theory in quantum mechanics. And I know I'm not alone. There are thousands of girls out there who feel the same way, and yet we are still ignored. Sigh. *bashes the world with a Bat'leth before escaping in her TARDIS*
I made a new friend today,
amaterasu, who is exceedingly cool and worships me for my HARDCORE geekiness. Whooot! :D Oooh, and just as I typed this, I made another friend --
banazir, who graciously accepted my offer to stop lurking on my journal and actually add me as a friend. Good boy. *pats him on the head* ;-) Look what
avariel_wings wrote for me -- a delightfully silly Pippin/Richard Mayhew drabble thingy! Isn't it adorable? *beams with happy pride* :D
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Gteerings!
Date: 2003-04-17 06:44 pm (UTC)(Famos, though? *blush* I dknot think so... I'm about as famos as Terry Han. ;-))
And I couldn't agreen more about SF enjoyment being by no means limited to males! Where did they get that? Some of the best SF is written by women, anyhow (Julian May, for example), and there are some very popular and famous SF writers (e.g., Mercedes Lackey, Anne McCaffrey, Andre Norton, Ursula LeGuin, Nancy Kress), and some fans of renown, too (present company included! :-))
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Date: 2003-04-17 06:52 pm (UTC)A 'fan of reknown'? Oh, I think not. *chuckles* (Although I'm sure a few people think I'm stalking them. Maybe that makes me famous. ;-)
It's always a pleasure to make new aquaintances. Especially when they're weird like me. *grins*
Female sci-fi writers, you say?
Date: 2003-04-17 07:16 pm (UTC)CONNIE WILLIS!
CONNIE WILLIS!
*falls over*
eep!
Re: Female sci-fi writers, you say?
Date: 2003-04-17 08:48 pm (UTC)Welp, yes, I had thought of her when I wrote about Nancy Kress (acos when I met Nancy last month she spoke about a panel she took part in with Connie), 'cept...
I haven't read naything by Connie Willis yet.
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(seriously, what would you recommend?)
Read these. NOW.
Date: 2003-04-17 11:19 pm (UTC)2) To Say Nothing of the Dog; or, How We Found The Bishop's Bird Stump At Last
3) Impossible Things (short story collection)
4) Fire Watch (also short stories)
She writes about time travel. She's akshdf .asdkllad a !~! so good!
Re: Read these. NOW.
Date: 2003-04-18 01:36 am (UTC)I will search out these books immediately. :)
Re: Read these. NOW.
Date: 2003-04-18 05:34 pm (UTC)As will I.
In return, may I recommend Julian May's The Saga of Pliocene Exile and Galactic Milieu trilogy. May is the female E.E. "Doc" Smith, only better. If you like McCaffrey, Kurtz, and the like, you'll almost certainly like her books.
C. S. Friedman is also quite good. Her books really pull you in, and if you are like me, you'll find yourself looking around days or later in a daze, wondering what happened to the time!
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