Nathan Hall

cosascool: Enric Adrian Gener

Tue, 03 Apr 2012 09:33:40 -0400

Enric Adrian Gener

"Awkward moment when Rue is some black girl and not the little blonde innocent girl you picture,” she..."

Mon, 02 Apr 2012 15:09:41 -0400

““Awkward moment when Rue is some black girl and not the little blonde innocent girl you picture,” she wrote. She cc’ed a friend on the tweet, @EganMcCoy.
“That tweet was very telling, in terms of a mentality that is probably very widespread,” says Adam, speaking softly from his office high above Toronto’s downtown financial district. He doesn’t sound angry, but he also isn’t amused. The phrases “some black girl” and “little blonde innocent girl” are ringing in my head as he talks, as are thoughts about how the heroes in our imaginations are white until proven otherwise, a variation on the principle of innocent until proven guilty that, for so many minorities, is routinely upended.”

- The Book Bench: White Until Proven Black: Imagining Race in Hunger Games : The New Yorker

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Fri, 30 Mar 2012 07:27:13 -0400

Twenty Must Read Retold Tales – An Introduction to the Genre...

Thu, 29 Mar 2012 16:21:01 -0400

Twenty Must Read Retold Tales – An Introduction to the Genre (via Twenty Must Read Retold Tales - An Introduction to the Genre | The Ranting Dragon)

"Similar: that scene from “Tootsie” in which Dustin Hoffman is Teri Garr’s acting coach. She’s..."

Wed, 28 Mar 2012 10:51:22 -0400

“Similar: that scene from “Tootsie” in which Dustin Hoffman is Teri Garr’s acting coach. She’s struggling with an audition piece. “I’m no good with confrontational characters,” she lamely apologizes. “Well, that’s too bad,” Hoffman snaps back. “Because you’re competing with hundreds of actresses who have no problem with confrontational characters. And that’s why one of them is going to get this part instead of you!””

- Bad Movie, Good Lesson – Andy Ihnatko’s Celestial Waste of Bandwidth (BETA)

At a friend’s insistence, I have started watching Buffy....

Wed, 28 Mar 2012 10:37:24 -0400

At a friend’s insistence, I have started watching Buffy. Two episodes in and I didn’t have the instant revulsion that I was anticipating.

Also finished watching the short-lived tv series of the Dresden Files last night. I can only assume that it was the same wisdom that guided Syfy to change their name from Sci-Fi and start making such excellent contributions to film as Sharktopus that also lead them to cancel Dresden.

neil-gaiman: Alan Moore (AKA Translucia Baboon), David J and...

Tue, 27 Mar 2012 16:00:59 -0400

neil-gaiman:

Alan Moore (AKA Translucia Baboon), David J and Alex Jones were The Sinister Ducks. This was their 1983 break-out single, “March of the Sinister Ducks”.

It was also their only single.

Alan is vocals and all the duck noises. Cover art by Kevin O’Neill.

Posted by permission of Translucia Baboon and David J.

You’re welcome.

"The discovery of cosmic acceleration and Dark Energy upended cosmology almost overnight. In spite of..."

Tue, 20 Mar 2012 13:37:17 -0400

“The discovery of cosmic acceleration and Dark Energy upended cosmology almost overnight. In spite of the community’s incredulity, further studies, including studies of cosmic geometry, gave new support for the reality of Dark Energy. Like it or not, this unanticipated form of anti-gravity was now a powerful actor on cosmology’s stage.”

- The Story Of Dark Energy, In A Nutshell : 13.7: Cosmos And Culture : NPR

Celebrating Charles R. Knight, the artist who first brought dinosaurs and megafauna to life

Thu, 08 Mar 2012 13:39:16 -0500

Celebrating Charles R. Knight, the artist who first brought dinosaurs and megafauna to life:

Now I know the name of the artist who introduced my very young brain to worlds I had never dreamed possible.

Neil Gaiman: On Writing. (A bit long. Sorry.)

Tue, 28 Feb 2012 13:36:00 -0500

Neil Gaiman: On Writing. (A bit long. Sorry.):

neil-gaiman:

For the record, I’ve never been involved in a creative writing program. In my case, that was mostly because I knew I wanted to be a writer, and had enough hubris to know that I’d rather make my mistakes on the job. It was also because I had a vague suspicion that people in authority might suggest that I should write respectable but dull fiction, and then I’d be forced to kill them, and it would all end in tears or in prison. Many of my friends have enjoyed creative writing programs no end. Some of them teach them.

Why English culture is bewitched by magic | Books |...

Tue, 28 Feb 2012 13:27:40 -0500

Why English culture is bewitched by magic | Books | guardian.co.uk

"The proponent of paper books will one day sound “like a Victorian–era man arguing the benefits of..."

Tue, 28 Feb 2012 10:25:42 -0500

“The proponent of paper books will one day sound “like a Victorian–era man arguing the benefits of candelight over Edison’s newfangled electric lanterns,” Larsen writes. Indeed, an e-book needs multiple pages and a cardboard cover like a lightbulb needs wax.”

- n 1: Bones of the Book