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Sun, Nov. 21st, 2004 07:34 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
oyceterI supported two independent presses and three independent bookstores this weekend ^_^. Aka, my book spending is still out of control.
Busy weekend. I ended up going to San Francisco yesterday to see Pat Murphy, Debbie Notkins and Karen Joy Fowler talk about the Tiptree Award. I didn't know very much about the Tiptree Award previously, so it was a great fun listening to them talk about how they created the award. And bake sales. I am amused that Bruce Sterling baked cookies. And I didn't realize I would want to take notes until they started talking, so I ended up not being able to. However, I'm not quite sure how new the information would be to people on LJ, given that it seems a good deal of people have been to Wiscon before and probably know all about the Tiptree? Anyhow, I ended up buying the new Tiptree Award anthology and getting that, along with Fowler's Artificial Things and Sarah Canary, signed. I was particularly excited because they mentioned that Kara Dalkey's Japanese Snow Queen story that was in Firebirds, along with a new translation of "Snow Queen" and another short story based on it. One of my favorite fairy tales. Of course, after hearing that, I had to buy the book immediately. I also ended up finding Teresa Nielsen Hayden's Making Book. I did feel rather awkward after the panel, because it seemed like most of the people who had gone there knew each other and were quite comfortable standing around chatting. I ended up sort of hiding behind stacks of books. I'm not very good at the whole social thing, so I keep flip-flopping around as to whether I should try going to a con or not.
Also ended up watching The Incredibles. I liked it, but was rather irked by the gender roles. Why start out by having Elastigirl proclaim that she wouldn't want to give up her secret identity to settle down and then have her be a typical housewife? Also, I was rather annoyed by how the female characters were reluctant to use their special powers while the male ones weren't. And if I were married to Mr. Incredible, I would have been really mad at him, galivanting around while I was stuck at home with the kids. And the girls were all stick thin.
Mostly I wasn't quite sure what Brad Bird was trying to say about superpowers. The boy thinks I'm sort of overanalyzing, but the movie was asking the questions! And while part of me thinks it's unfun to have to supress secret powers, I didn't actually have too much sympathy for Dash wanting to run the race. And there seemed to be this disturbing undertone on normality and how normal people just want to cut super people down to size because of jealousy.
I was very amused by assorted things like the snippet on the dangers of capes. And Edna is the bomb. Daaahlink. Tee hee. I think I may have embarrassed the boy by laughing really loudly everytime Edna was on the screen, but seriously, she was the bomb. And everyone else was laughing too. Movie also gets bonus points for cool uses of superpowers (I liked the speedboat thing).
And today I met![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
fannishly, and we talked about many things ranging from the joys of Angel, Asian mothers complaining about people being too fat, depression and LJ! Yay, fandom folk from Taiwan! There should be a club ;).
Busy weekend. I ended up going to San Francisco yesterday to see Pat Murphy, Debbie Notkins and Karen Joy Fowler talk about the Tiptree Award. I didn't know very much about the Tiptree Award previously, so it was a great fun listening to them talk about how they created the award. And bake sales. I am amused that Bruce Sterling baked cookies. And I didn't realize I would want to take notes until they started talking, so I ended up not being able to. However, I'm not quite sure how new the information would be to people on LJ, given that it seems a good deal of people have been to Wiscon before and probably know all about the Tiptree? Anyhow, I ended up buying the new Tiptree Award anthology and getting that, along with Fowler's Artificial Things and Sarah Canary, signed. I was particularly excited because they mentioned that Kara Dalkey's Japanese Snow Queen story that was in Firebirds, along with a new translation of "Snow Queen" and another short story based on it. One of my favorite fairy tales. Of course, after hearing that, I had to buy the book immediately. I also ended up finding Teresa Nielsen Hayden's Making Book. I did feel rather awkward after the panel, because it seemed like most of the people who had gone there knew each other and were quite comfortable standing around chatting. I ended up sort of hiding behind stacks of books. I'm not very good at the whole social thing, so I keep flip-flopping around as to whether I should try going to a con or not.
Also ended up watching The Incredibles. I liked it, but was rather irked by the gender roles. Why start out by having Elastigirl proclaim that she wouldn't want to give up her secret identity to settle down and then have her be a typical housewife? Also, I was rather annoyed by how the female characters were reluctant to use their special powers while the male ones weren't. And if I were married to Mr. Incredible, I would have been really mad at him, galivanting around while I was stuck at home with the kids. And the girls were all stick thin.
Mostly I wasn't quite sure what Brad Bird was trying to say about superpowers. The boy thinks I'm sort of overanalyzing, but the movie was asking the questions! And while part of me thinks it's unfun to have to supress secret powers, I didn't actually have too much sympathy for Dash wanting to run the race. And there seemed to be this disturbing undertone on normality and how normal people just want to cut super people down to size because of jealousy.
I was very amused by assorted things like the snippet on the dangers of capes. And Edna is the bomb. Daaahlink. Tee hee. I think I may have embarrassed the boy by laughing really loudly everytime Edna was on the screen, but seriously, she was the bomb. And everyone else was laughing too. Movie also gets bonus points for cool uses of superpowers (I liked the speedboat thing).
And today I met
fannishly, and we talked about many things ranging from the joys of Angel, Asian mothers complaining about people being too fat, depression and LJ! Yay, fandom folk from Taiwan! There should be a club ;).Tags: