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- Twilight is too recent to be a "classic"
- To be "Classical" it must have been written before the 7th century.
- http://news.discovery.com/archaeology/ca
mbyses-army-remains-sahara.html - http://news.discovery.com/videos/archaeo
logy-ancient-lost-army-found.html(video) - http://news.discovery.com/archaeology/ca
mbyses-lost-army-images.html(photos) - http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/a
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| Saturday, November 28th, 2009 | ||
| beandaily_ij | 11:30p | |
| fanthropology | 7:53p | Media references to fanfic, the week ending 11/28/09 Starting with Twilight… In a USA Today story distributed by Gannett, Maria Puente wrote, of adult engagement with things Twilight, It's moms and grandmas standing in line at theaters, reading and rereading the books, spending big bucks on the merchandise (such as Nordstrom's Twilight-themed apparel and jewelry) and writing reams of fan fiction (17,000 stories on just one fan-fiction site alone). In the Broward New Times, Nicole Rodriguez had a piece on the upcoming Fantasy Twi-Life Tour, which will feature, among other events, autograph sessions, celebrity photo shoots, cocktail parties, and banquets, trivia, fan fiction, and more. In the University of Guelph's The Ontarion, Duncan Day-Myron wrote Twilight is the VIP of a seemingly unstoppable all-star team of brooding, effete bloodsuckers tearing through almost every conceivable media: along with The Vampire Diaries, True Blood and The Vampire's Assistant, books, television and cinema are all pretty roundly spoken for, to say nothing of the amount of magazine covers the stars get. And in the grandstands, an army of teenage girls, fanfiction in hand, screaming for more. In the Lexington, NC Dispatch, Matthew Lucas began a review of New Moon with The phenomenon behind the wildly popular Twilight books and the film adaptations they spawned is just one of those inexplicably faddish things that I will never understand. Author Stephenie Meyer has created a series of books that read like fan fiction written by a hormonal 15-year-old girl, filled with endless pages of breathless longing and loving descriptions of how beautiful its male protagonists are. They're trashy romance novels for the tween set. I'm thinking Lucas was the wrong dude for this gig. And, on The Faster Times, Rachel Shukert wrote what she called anti-fan fiction, in which I make Bella Swan act less like herself and more the way I would advise her to act. (Like last week, criticism of Twilight in the comments gets a PM from me explaining why I'd buy Stephenie Meyer a cookie) In other news... In a Sun Media article by published throughout Cananda, Sharon Weatherall wrote about an Ontario girl who is going to travel to Australia to meet an ailing fellow writer, thanks to the Australian Wish Foundation. Laura and Emmy became met three years ago on Fan Fiction, where participants write stories on line, then started chatting on MSN. In the Minneapolis City Pages, Jessica Armbruster wrote a piece promoting Mulligan Stu's Do-Over Revue, "Where artsy folks will share some of the lamest train wrecks from their past." Many creative types are willing to admit that on the way to making the works that they are most proud of, there's a wake of bad art, atrocious writing, and pieces in general bad taste. This is especially true when exploring stuff from the teen and college years, be it angst-ridden poetry about vegetarianism, fan fiction from seventh grade involving characters from Scooby Doo, or a collage with hundreds of pictures of Luke Perry glue-sticked to poster board. Finally, in the Mountain Home, Arkansas Baxter Bulletin, Deb Peterson reported the eight-year-old poet Averee Hutson has started filling a journal with fan fiction from the iCarly series. (Crossposted to http://as-others-see-us.dreamwidth.org/8 |
| Friday, November 27th, 2009 | ||
| nytimesbooks | 9:47p | Alice Munro’s Object Lessons Alice Munro’s new stories take on pulp fiction’s sensational subjects, and episodes of murder, suicide and adultery turn out to have far-reaching thematic reverberations. |
| Saturday, November 28th, 2009 | ||
| nytimesbooks | 9:25p | Google’s Earth How the company shot to success, and why executives across industries are striking defensive poses. |
| Friday, November 27th, 2009 | ||
| nytimesbooks | 5:42p | Please Mr. Postman This meditation on the art of letter-writing embraces old friends — Flaubert, Freud, the Mitfords — and plenty of unknowns. |
| nytimesbooks | 5:53p | Domestic Dysfunction In this quietly devastating domestic novel, a facade of household perfection conceals a dark secret. |
| nytimesbooks | 5:52p | When Detroit Never Slept In this novel of midcentury Detroit, a young woman searches for authenticity and passion. |
| nytimesbooks | 9:44p | Couple’s Retreat Jane Gardam revisits the complex marriage explored in her novel “Old Filth.” |
| nytimesbooks | 6:16p | A New Nation An account of America’s first quarter-century, presented with great insight and scholarship. |
| nytimesbooks | 6:23p | One Moment in Time The story of the 1968 Summer Olympics, when black American athletes took a stand. |
| nytimesbooks | 9:11p | The Story of a Landing William Langewiesche argues that the plane itself deserves high credit for “the miracle on the Hudson.” |
| nytimesbooks | 10:49p | Improv Tonight The story of Chicago’s Second City comedy troupe, told through interviews with its acclaimed alumni. |
| nytimesbooks | 8:00p | Southern Deviations The reigning master of the legal thriller turns to the hallowed literary turf of the Mississippi Delta. |
| nytimesbooks | 7:18p | She Who Must Be Obeyed This biography of Madame Chiang Kai-shek presents her as far more complicated, awful and brilliant than we had imagined. |
| nytimesbooks | 9:20p | You Be the Judge A professor of government reviews what he has taught in one of the most popular courses at Harvard. |
| nytimesbooks | 7:24p | Battling the Skeptics Michael Specter takes on those he sees as denying science, from promoters of alternative medicines to anti-vaccine zealots. |
| ancienthistory | 11:17p | Forum Topic of the Week - Classics vs. Classical The examination of Classical Literature is this week's popular thread on the Ancient/Classical History Forum. Not that we've been able to come up with firm definitions, but there have been some responses: Forum Topic of the Week - Classics vs. Classical originally appeared on About.com Ancient / Classical History on Friday, November 27th, 2009 at 23:17:46. |
| beandaily_ij | 11:11p | Daily Beans Thank you all for the well wishes with the new house. It was an exhausting day yesterday, but all went rather well, we did quite some work. For ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} myhappyface more Vronsky  |
| thinkgeek | 10:56p | Geek Toys: USB Plasma Ball |
| Saturday, November 28th, 2009 | ||
| fandom_wank | 12:15a | I hope you find your sanity, Snape. From the annals of livejournal, I bring you, "Snape is a wonderful man and everyone around him was awful" wank. (Read more ...) |
| Thursday, November 26th, 2009 | ||
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elfwreck |
10:34p | OD'd on tryptophan The post I wrote last night and didn't send 'cos I'd just posted something else and I always feel ridiculous making two posts in an hour: I like the dressing. Rob makes the best turkey dressing in the world. He makes croutons from sourdough bread & italian dressing, and it's got sausage and ground beef and celery and onions, and chantrelles & crimini mushrooms and cherries and water chestnuts. And Blossom came down from Wolf Creek and made cranberry relish; yaaay! and I made mashed potatoes, and Gail made apples-and-sweet-potatoes with the recipe Rob got from the WitchesWithBrains yahoogroup, and we had brussels sprouts and candied carrots, and pumpkin pie that Rob made yesterday. And turkey. And gravy made from the turkey drippings. Mygods I'm stuffed. It's all really, really yummy food. And we'll have leftovers for daaaaayz. Including enough cranberry relish to make piroshkis tomorrow and maybe to have to take to work next week. And I'm, like, DRUGGED. From the tryptophan. I want to sleep now and wake up... Tuesday. Instead, we have four extra people in our room who are watching the movie "Crowley" while I try to find new fanfic. This entry is crossposted at http://elf.dreamwidth.org/284746.html. |
| Friday, November 27th, 2009 | ||
| ancienthistory | 9:22a | The Lost Persian Army When news came out about the discovery of the lost Persian army of Cambyses that was mentioned by Herodotus (see Hdt 3.26 f), I noticed Zahi Hawass wasn't involved. Since Hawass is ubiquitous in the area of Egyptian archaeology, this was a big red flag. Hawass subsequently called the reports misleading and the Rogue Classicist posted a "Don't Eat that Elmer" warning blog about it. There are lots of spurious claims made about ancient artifacts, so I decided against blogging about the army bones and other remains. I changed my mind this morning. The Today Show had a segment on it, so you may want more information. Please read Persianesque Magazine's article King Cambyses's Persian Army: Lost and Found? for details. If you want even more, the Rogue Classicist posted a long list of articles in his weekly newsletter, Explorator: "The latest claim that Cambyses' lost army has been found got far too much press coverage this week: The Lost Persian Army originally appeared on About.com Ancient / Classical History on Friday, November 27th, 2009 at 09:22:37. |
| ancienthistory | 7:53a | This Day in Ancient History - Horace died  Son of a freedman, the Roman poet Horace lived from
December 8, 65 B.C. to November 27, 8 B.C. Suetonius writes: [Horace] was born on the sixth of the ides of December, in the consulship of Lucius Cotta and Lucius Torquatus; and died on the fifth of the calends of December, in the consulship of Caius Marcius Censorinus and Caius Asinius Gallus; having completed his fifty-ninth year.Horace fought on the losing side of the Battle of Philippi, under Caesar's assassin Brutus. Later, Augustus commissioned the Roman satirist Horace to compose a poem for the Secular Games, a 3-day event that was meant to mark the end of one era and the beginning of the next. The secular games included theatrical performances and religious rituals. If you're studying Latin literature, Horace is one of the Roman poets you're likely to encounter. Because he advocates the golden mean, rather than indulging in great passions, he may be less appealing to adolescents than more passionate Roman poets, like Ovid or Catullus. Horace image © Clipart.com."This day in ancient history" caveat: please see Unreliability of Dates. This Day in Ancient History - Horace died originally appeared on About.com Ancient / Classical History on Friday, November 27th, 2009 at 07:53:47. |
| ggreigljf | 2:25a | Not A Lot Of People Know That I didn’t. Edward Woodward started his career at the Byre. |
| Thursday, November 26th, 2009 | ||
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elfwreck |
10:20p | Pagan terminology meta I put together a list of Pagan terms for use by nonpagans, specifically writers, at ![[info - community]](http://s.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/community.png){kind=small} writing_religion: Pagan terminology for nonpagan writers.It's about 2700 words long. I'd welcome any feedback or questions; part of me thinks it's okay, and part thinks it's about 1/3 done and needs at total rewrite--but if I waited until I thought it was "finished," I'd never get it posted. And there really isn't enough info available *about* Pagans that's not written for people who are joining/members of Pagan religions. And incompleteness is not necessarily wrong, in this case. It's more important to me that nonpagans understand the complexity of the issues than that they learn the details involved. This entry is crossposted at http://elf.dreamwidth.org/284671.html. |
