Mixed thoughts


Triggered by stuff on other blogs

writing as jo(e), a professor at a small college in upstate NY, bemoans her lack of fashion sense as compared to others her age. I confess to living day-to-day in jeans and knit tops myself, but I have started buying some nicer pieces, for when I have to pretend to be a grown-up, at... wait for it... Chicos. *winces* Yes, that bastion of the middle-class white woman, derided by the fashion-savvy and working-class alike. However, I'm still buying trousers and jeans at K-Mart and Wal-Mart, because Lee Riders fit, dammit.

Which reminds me, I've got to go replace Daughter's jeans and trouser wardrobe. They're all too short. She shares my problem of being too tall for Petites and too short for Regular-length. She believes in solving this by walking on the hems like everyone else in high school; I prefer to wear two-inch heels. The thought of her purposely walking on her hems gives me apoplexy, but she does look damned funny with her ankles showing underneath what are supposed to be full-length trousers.

The Park Bench (for geeky females and the men who deal with them) points us to this quick 10-question interview with Alec Baldwin . What I got from the whole thing is that it behooves the American public to see that he stays gainfully employed, because when he is so he's a funny, self-depreciating guy instead of a wild, drunk, ranting pain-in-the-ass.

The University of Illinois has just forbidden all employees, including faculty members, from wearing partisan campaign gear or even parking on campus with a partisan bumper sticker. Excuse me, but aren't universities traditionally hotbeds of political activism? Hat-tip to Respublica, who spent yesterday cleaning out ivy, just like me.

Neil Gaiman asks that if he doesn't get around to writing a planned sequel to something before he passes away, nobody else does it. This is in response to the announcement that Eoin Colfer (author of the Artemis Fowl series) has been asked by Douglas Adam's widow to write the sixth book in the (ever-increasingly misnamed) Hitchhikers' Guide to the Galaxy trio. Hubs remarked rather sagaciously that the best way to prevent that sort of thing from happening (posthumous sequels) was to never announce that one has plans for a sequel.

Visit pinkraygun for all your sci-fi pumpkin-carving template needs -- Torchwood, Lost, Doctor Who, etc. Daughter would so squee if I carved her this:



Yes, standard Who-joke applies: "Who'd look at a pumpkin and think - 'This could be more sonic?'"

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