James Cameron's Avatar . Not Avatar: the Last Airbender , which I'm not seeing for tangentially similar reasons . I first saw the full trailer for Avatar before Boondock Saints 2 . I took issue with certain aspects of it right away, and when Adam and Elayna and I saw it on TV, I seized the opportunity to discuss. I had Adam pause the TiVo, and said "I have problems with this trailer and this...

Title: Paradise. Fandom: Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles. Word Count: 2200 Spoilers: For the entire run of the series. Rating and warnings: PG for non-graphic violence. Synopsis: Five timelines that might have happened. Author’s note: I did my best to get the character ages and details of who knows what in which timeline right, but it’s very complicated. Any inconsistencies are probably errors...

Since I wrote this post last year, I have gone through several potential future wives. I e-mailed with the girl mentioned in the post, and after a few weeks, I didn't really think we were right for each other, but my parents insisted I meet her in person anyway since she was in Oakland. We had an incredibly awkward dinner together, so awkward that at the end she actually said she was sorry I had...

Still really behind in posting... Cunningham, Michael, and George Alexander - Queens: Portraits of Black Women and Their Fabulous Hair Like Cunningham's Crowns (same photographer, different interviewer), this is a a gorgeous book of photography coupled with personal interviews, only this time, it is on... hair! Yes, Actual Black Women (tm) talking about their Actual Hair (tm)! Hopefully those...

Eye update: still not feeling great at all, but I've gone from "howling in pain" to "it feels like my eyelids are made of sandpaper" to a kind of persistent low-level ache. Even if I put off laundry till tomorrow, I have a lot that really needs to get done yesterday , and which I might have accomplished if I didn't have soap in my eye. And now, what I actually came here to post, which is the yarn...

oyceter mentioned reading the final volume, reminding me that all 23 volumes of the whole series are finally available, so I put in an Amazon order for the final volumes and read the whole thing myself. I am now starting a detailed reread and am also rewatching the anime series. I think I'll try to post about one volume per day. I hope there'll be lots of fun discussion! But in part that...

For IBARW : I'm a white woman of economic and academic privilege. I grew up in an overwhelmingly white neighborhood, in a house in which my mother and I could live only because of the intervention of the Supreme Court. My parents and my school practiced that liberal outreach that I identified early on as a modern variant of noblesse oblige . Which is a damn sight better than segregation and exclusion...

It's International Blog Against Racism Week again, and boy do we have things to choose from -- at levels of fame ranging all the way from Sonia Sotomayor and Henry Louis Gates, Jr. down to things like the U.S. cover of Justine Larbalestier's Liar . (And quieter things than that, no doubt, from one corner of the world to the other, in every city and town.) Riffling through my brain to see what I...

Behind the cut are IBARW posts collected on delicious in the last 24 hours ( more details ). kateorman : Race, racism, and TV links :: My plans to do a couple of longer postings this year have fallen through, so what I'd like to is to share with you some of the links I bookmarked when researching my essay for a forthcoming volume of Time, Unincorporated. I'll group them into broad...

It's International Blog Against Racism Week . (Thanks to jenwrites for alerting me to this.) I'm listening and reading and trying to learn. Thanks to all the people who post their experiences, their advice, their do's and do-not's. It helps. I'd appreciate novel recommendations. I'm sadly aware that most of the books on my shelves are by white authors featuring white characters. I'd like...