Sitting in a Media Advocacy class—about 30 Ivy-educated adults—and the professor put up this photograph and asked us who knew what event this was. I was the only person who knew that it was the March for Women’s Lives in 2004.
I was there with my family and my closest friends, and I remember it pretty much changing my life, and I remember being horrified the next day when I saw how no one—no one!—covered it. And I remember that changing my life in a different way: the stark realization that the media have the ability to shape our understanding of history, and the responsibility is on each of us to get our message out, because we can’t trust anyone else to do it for us.
There’s a lot of eye-rolling about the capital-I Internet and the advent of Web 2.0, but I can tell you now that if blogging was then what it is now, you all would have known we were there.
It’s horrifying to me that I don’t remember ever hearing about this. Excuse me while I go remedy that problem.
“Tales from the Pit” #195
I wish MaRo had come to my career day. Of course, if he had, I would have been the obnoxious little know-it-all asking, “What kind of computers do you use?” and “Do you still have that massive purpose-built D&D table I saw in InQuest ten years ago?”.
Spent ten minutes grinding for a Solrock to show to Bill’s grandfather, got this instead.
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“Glee” promo stills for “The Spanish Teacher.” More here.
So this is happening.
So they’ve remembered he teaches Spanish, eh?
…what. I’m… VERY worried that there will be racist bullshit in this episode.
More than usual.
Based on the last image, I’m not so much worried that there will be racist bullshit and massive cultural appropriation as I am certain of it. One more reason to be glad that I stopped watching this show around the end of the first season.
Of course, I suppose it’s also possible that they’re all just suddenly part of a really campy Spanish remake of The Matrix.
Neil Gaiman
can you become a regular writer for doctor who please?Can he just be a regular writer for everything?
Jacquelynn and I just watched this in preparation for the Doctor Who ExCo, and whooeee do we have one hell of an interesting and provocative discussion point for this episode—on the final non-exam day of the course, no less.
And if you want to know what it is, you’ll have to take the class.
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Jacquelynn and I have been throwing around ideas for what poster or banner we want to have up for the Doctor Who ExCo at the ExCo Fair. While we almost certainly won’t be using anything like this—aside from anything else, the students currently attending Oberlin are mostly too young and too Fearless to get it—it kept tickling my brain, so I took five minutes and made it.
If you’ve got Mad PhotoShop Skillz, feel free to make a better one. For comparison, the original Oberlin poster (which used a much older Blue Marble image) can be seen here. I also first created and posted a version that used exactly the same language as the Oberlin original, which required less messing with the font size and which you can see here.
Just the words “He Shall From Time to Time” make me all West Wing wet in my Sorkin place.
Guess what I’m watching until the actual event starts.
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Jonathan Coulton is wise.
http://www.jonathancoulton.com/2012/01/21/megaupload/
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I wish I had summed it up so smartly. But you know me: talk talk talk.
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In which Dresden Codak author Aaron Diaz reblogs something from Wil Wheaton who reblogged it from John Hodgman who reblogged it from Neil Gaiman who cribbed it from a post by Jonathan Coulton.
The order may be off, but the list of people involved isn’t. The internet is weird and awesome.
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Because she wasn’t already badass enough as Adelle DeWitt in Dollhouse.
