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You wonder whether you have raised a child right…

SOmetimes, if you are lucky, they let you know that you have done at least SOMETHING right. Sent to me by my beloved first born, a young woman i could not be prouder of…and this is just one of uncountable reasons why. That she would send me something like this, to state this, this is something she agrees with fundamentally, that she groks…well, of course i am proud!

“Date a girl who reads. Date a girl who spends her money on books instead of clothes. She has problems with closet space because she has too many books. Date a girl who has a list of books she wants to read, who has had a library card since she was twelve“.

via DATE A GIRL WHO READS by Rosemarie Urquico (In… – The Healthy Warrior.

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December 10, 2011

Books, Family Friends Pets Kids, Thoughts

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books, Daughter, pride, read

Angelina Jolie and her film on the Bosnian War

This film sounds like it evokes the horrors of war in a way that many films have not ever capture – the female horrors of rape, child loss. It is different from male horrors experienced. And as rending, heart breaking as it sounds, that is a valuable voice to hear.

[Jolie] took this focus and directness, this earnest approach to her new film, In the Land of Blood and Honey, which opens in the U.S. this month. She told me that when it came to the technicalities of making a film, “I wasn’t afraid to ask the DP [director of photography]. And I listened to my cast, most of whom lived through the war. I listened to their stories and tried to incorporate it into the work.” Against the backdrop of the war, she has created a moving and surprising love story of a Serbian soldier and the Bosnian woman he reencounters ambiguously during the war. It is difficult not to admire Jolie, particularly after watching her film.

via Angelina Jolie Directs a Film About the Bosnian War – The Daily Beast.

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December 6, 2011

Films/TV, News Reporting, Politics Rights

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angelina jolie, bosnia, war

Anne McCaffrey, Gone Between.

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Anne McCaffrey was a woman who gave my imagination wings, with the first fantasy I ever read – The White Dragon.
She had no idea what a gift I had been given. So much so, my bio (you know, the ones for social etc websites and networks) includes the phrase ‘the rest is subject to change without notice’, – and that is shamelessly borrowed from her.

Thank you, Anne. I rode Pegasus, and sang amongst the stars, talked to dragons, and stretched out to other minds with my own. Thank you.

Anne McCaffrey wasnt just the inventor of Pern, the world where a whole society is based on dragon-riding. She was also an incredibly influential author who helped transform the way science fiction and fantasy authors wrote about women, and the way all of us thought about bodies and selfhood. She was the first woman to win a Hugo Award and a Nebula Award, as well as a Grand Master of science fiction.

via R.I.P. Anne McCaffrey, Creator of Pern and The Ship Who Sang.

Anne McCaffrey, 1926-2011 (tor.com)
RIP: Anne McCaffrey (geeks.thedailywh.at)
R.I.P. Anne McCaffrey, 1926 – 2011 (wired.com)
Anne McCaffrey, RIP (fillingspaces.wordpress.com)

Anne McCaffrey, Dragonriders of Pern, Hugo Award, Nebula Award, Pern, Science fiction, Ship Who Sang, White Dragon

Outland – Disability, Australian, Scifi, Gay – ticks all the boxes for me:)

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An Australian tv series about gay *(disclaimer) scifi fans – with a disabled woman? Could this appeal to me any more succinctly???

Btw, fans (like me) of the absolutely marvellous Boxcutters podcast have long been waiting for this:)

The new television series Outland, set to air on Australia’s ABC1 in February, has been described by some as a gay answer to The Big Bang Theory. Says the show’s producer: “[C]loseted science fiction fans will finally have a voice… a full family of gay Australian characters can go where they never ventured before – prime-time television.”

via Upcoming Outland TV Series: Australian, Geeky, Gay.

*(disclaimer)Ok technically my sexuality is fairly ambiguous, i subscribe to the love the person, notice the packaging later theory – I happen to love my husband, and have for many years, but have loved women too. I find both sexes attractive, IF I find the personality attractive – looks alone just cannot do it, and people become more attractive the more I like them as a person anyway. Thats another post though, but I just don’t get the need for labels and putting people into strict boxes of definition – unless that is where they WANT to be).

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November 19, 2011

Disability, Films/TV, Sexuality

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Australia, Big Bang Theory, Boxcutters, gay, Gay Lesbian and Bisexual, Outland, Television, Television program

My thoughts on the announced Doctor Who movie

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The best two paths this could take :
1) The Time Wars – what formed the reboot Doctor?
2) the start of the Doctor as we know him – as a young Gallifreyan, with Rassilon. What made him a renegade Timelord?

Epic coolness there with both. Basically, lets see what forms our doctor, hmm?

If the intent of the director is to ignore canon, i fully agree with the quote featured in this article from a comment on the first news of this :”I’m just going to say this: it might be a good film. It might be a great film. It might be the greatest film ever made but without it being part of the Whoniverse, it won’t be a Doctor Who film”

In one of those lovely quirks of irony, I was showing my seven year old son the Doctor Who episode Dalek on Sunday. You might remember it. Written by Robert Shearman, it’s arguably the finest Dalek story since the show returned in 2005, and the bit that stuck in my head tonight was the moment when the solitary Dalek managed to absorb the entire Internet.

It struck me that if he’d tried to do that, around twenty minutes after Variety uploaded its story regarding a film being made of Doctor Who, it might just have imploded there and then.

via A few thoughts on the Doctor Who movie news – Den of Geek.

Yates to direct bigscreen ‘Doctor Who’ – Entertainment News, Film News, Media – Variety (mbcalyn.com)
Doctor Who film being planned (guardian.co.uk)
DOCTOR WHO Movie Being Planned by David Yates (geektyrant.com)
New Doctor Who film: should the Doctor take to the big screen? (guardian.co.uk)

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November 16, 2011

Films/TV, Meanderings

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BBC, Dalek, David Yates, Doctor, Doctor Who, Rassilon, Robert Shearman, Whoniverse

Early present for me…

NeilGaiman the cat enjoying a fellow author's work - Image by LilithSativa via Flickr

Neil Gaiman interviewing Terry Pratchett about his latest Discworld novel – but it isn’t Xmas yet! Hey, i will take the gift of video goodness anyway – yay!

Terry Pratchett on Snuff – Boing Boing.

Discworld novel 39: Snuff (anarchic-teapot.net)
Neil Gaiman Interviewing Terry Pratchett of the Day (geeks.thedailywh.at)

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November 2, 2011

Books, News Reporting, YouTube

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book, Discworld, interview, Neil Gaiman, terry pratchett

where has this been hiding????

More Astronomer’s Noise, This is cool beyond words… #DoctorWho

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October 31, 2011

Films/TV, Funny, Music

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DoctorWho

I am a happy little geek…

The Ultimate Kenny Everett Sketch Site Home Page.

Ahh, much of my youth was spent worshipping this man. Off to watch Captain Kremmen,,,

Add to the list of my epic wants…

Rolling in The Hamster Wheel

As a sometime only Chaser’s fan, i am revelling in The Hamster Wheel – looking at media in Australia in a way that is very Australian but with elements of Chasers & The Daily Show crossed. The Hamster Wheel comes from a quote from Jay Rosen “The Hamster Wheel isn’t speed; it’s motion for motion’s sake. The Hamster Wheel is volume without thought. It is news panic, a lack of discipline, an inability to say no.”

The Hamster Wheel – ABC TV.