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Dira Sudis ([personal profile] dira) wrote2009-10-30 12:54 pm
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no seriously, where did all these open tabs come from?

Two things I find rather enchanting, in part for how much they indicate that, no really, people of my grandparents' generation were also people like us, and their entertainment was not all that different from our entertainment, when it had a chance to be: [livejournal.com profile] antarcticlust's post Our Scandalous Great Grandmothers: Feminism & Pre-Code Hollywood and, via [personal profile] copperbadge, archive.org's collection of early film blooper reels, from 1936-1947.

And furthermore, this awesomely fantastic photo of female firefighters at Pearl Harbor. ♥

[livejournal.com profile] emilyray has written an awesome story about dragons, princesses, and lawyers' children: A Love Story.

And I have just now finished reading Pearl North's first book, Libyrinth.

HOMG, y'all. It's an entire book about BOOKS. AND LITERACY. AND GIRLS KICKING ASS AND GETTING THE BOY AND/OR GIRL ACCORDING TO THEIR INDIVIDUAL PREFERENCES. (Um, is that a spoiler? Sorry! IT'S AWESOME!) THERE ARE ENDNOTES, OKAY. ENDNOTES. Never has Ibid. so warmed my heart. Also: hijjinks! And singing! And people locked in total opposition to each other who both have understandable but opposite goals and values. Also, a lot of books. (Um, bad things happen to some of the books, but I am going to assume that secretly there is some kind of LOCKSS system going on and they are not really lost forever. La la la!)

Also, just for [personal profile] minoanmiss: BULL DANCING. HELL YES, BULL DANCING.

Go! Read!


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[personal profile] minoanmiss 2009-10-30 06:10 pm (UTC)(link)
BULL DANCING?!

*makes a note*
celli: due South's Kowalski leaning against a car, captioned "All love is unrequited" (unrequited)

[personal profile] celli 2009-10-30 06:58 pm (UTC)(link)
Completely unrelated, did I tell you about the hockey game I went to last weekend? Chicago Wolves vs. Manitoba Moose. Slod figured out partway through that I knew the rules and was screaming for Chris Chelios because of "some due South fic" and made fun of me relentlessly for...she's still making fun of me.

Also, they lost. But in overtime! And Cheli made a nice save!