illusions.

[intertribal]

I have a hilariously auto-biographical story up at Postcards From... mine is the "futuristic horror fantasy", I think, lol.  I like how that manages to incorporate every genre of speculative fiction available.

I walked back from handing back my Nationalism paper ("Born Free: Failed Integration in the Post-Colonial Context", which sounds a lot better than the paper is) with the Hillary Chick in my class.  She was, of course, wearing a Hillary t-shirt.  Everyone knows who she is because she's often nearly late, has a sort of elephant-in-china-shop manner of going about the class, is very blonde and blue-eyed and Barbie-doll-ish, and is constantly wearing Hillary gear.  She works for a Hillary phone bank, and is always busy campaigning.  We were both wearing red coats today.  There was much awkwardness.  She has Hillary's voice.  I would believe that she is Hillary's younger form. 

The NYTimes has an article on the City Room blog called "Three baby hawks believed dead".  I thought, because it's the Washington blog, that it was some kind of very darkly cynical comment about war hawks in Congress who were not going to run for re-election for various reasons.  No, turns out it's actually about birds.

I have another reason I dislike Paolini: he named his "village hamlet" Carvahall.  Does that sound like a village hamlet name to anyone?  Well, I guess I don't know much about village hamlets, but what it really sounds like to me is the magical woods of Carterhaugh, and seriously, just don't steal from Tam Lin.  I mean, come on, yo.

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[royinpink.livejournal.com]

mm, nationalism. something i should know more about. and why steve thinks that Imagined Communities is wrong. it was funny, he went on a tangent explaining how this was a really important book, and how it influenced all these people, and etc. and then he was like "But...unfortunately, it's very wrong."

sorry tangent. i'm in the process of dying.

[royinpink.livejournal.com]

also, i liked the story. for what it's worth.