Sakura of DOOM

!!! Thanks so much to the person who gave me more LJ time!

And since I'm collecting them already:

selenak writes on Powers and Principalities, a book on what a realistic world with superheroes may look like.

Probably linked elsewhere, but since I'm collecting them now: Christian Science Monitor on Ayn Rand, Nietzsche, and The Incredibles.

And scrollgirl thinks about Spiderman (the movie) and egalitarianism here.

I'm still sort of grumpy because both Targets I went to were sold out of the on-sale Buffy S7 DVDs. Grrrrrr.

But I found my own copy of Ursula Synge's Swan's Wing, as last seen recced by rachelmanija, during my weekly bookstore trawl. They have a second copy there as well for $2, if anyone still wants it. And I saw two copies of Justine Larbaelstier's The Battle of the Sexes in Science Fiction at the bookstore, but I wasn't sure if I should get it or not. Anyone have an opinion on it?

I 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. ( Read more... )

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 ;).