{"id":12242,"date":"2009-07-14T09:34:44","date_gmt":"2009-07-14T16:34:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/journals\/jed\/2009\/07\/14\/12242.html"},"modified":"2009-07-14T09:34:44","modified_gmt":"2009-07-14T16:34:44","slug":"items-with-assorted-themes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/2009\/07\/14\/items-with-assorted-themes\/","title":{"rendered":"Items with assorted themes"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>These links are sort of grouped thematically, but there are only two or three per grouping, so I decided to lump them all together in one entry instead of posting them as several separate entries. The themes are bolded for ease of scanning.<\/p>\n<p>A couple of items vaguely related to <strong>publishing<\/strong> and books and such:<\/p>\n<ul>\n  <li>Various friends and I have occasionally held <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/logos\/things\/reading.html\">story readings<\/a> for about twenty years now, though I haven't been to one in quite a while. I was recently reminded that various Yale, Boston, and Bay Area groups also do this, and in fact that those affiliated groups have a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gurman.org\/storyreading\/\">Storyreading web page<\/a>. My best guess is that our readings derived indirectly from the Yale group, but we've never known for sure.<\/li>\n  <li>Print-on-demand magazines: <a href=\"http:\/\/magcloud.com\/\">MagCloud<\/a>.<\/li>\n  <li>Snarky discussion of <a href=\"http:\/\/talulahmankiller.wordpress.com\/2009\/06\/18\/the-werewolf-ate-my-homework\/\">too-common tropes in YA fiction<\/a>, by Talulah Mankiller.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>A couple of items related to <strong>women<\/strong>:<\/p>\n<ul>\n  <li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tomboytools.com\/\">Tomboy Tools<\/a>: \"Learn today, teach tomorrow, build forever.\" They sell tools&mdash;hammers, drills, plumbing tools, gardening tools, paintbrushes, goggles, etc&mdash;for women. Many of the tools are pink, though some are blue. They also have some kind of sales and\/or training program; I can't tell from a cursory examination of the website how that works, but it kind of looks like a cross between Tupperware parties and home-repair training. I honestly don't know enough about them to have a sense of whether what they do is a good thing or not, but I was tickled by the pink tools.<\/li>\n  <li>The decision to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/blogs\/monkeysee\/2009\/07\/let_there_be_bike_shorts_a_gee_1.html?sc=fb&cc=fp\">cover up Supergirl's panties<\/a> in comic books. It's about time.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>A couple of items related to <strong>race<\/strong>:<\/p>\n<ul>\n  <li>\"<a href=\"http:\/\/www.racialicious.com\/2009\/06\/24\/the-intersection-of-race-and-steampunk-colonialisms-after-effects-other-stories-from-a-steampunk-of-colours-perspective-essay\/\">The Intersection of Race and Steampunk<\/a>: Colonialism's After-Effects & Other Stories, from a Steampunk of Colour's Perspective,\" by Jha. Good stuff. See also Lavie Tidhar's <a href=\"http:\/\/www.irosf.com\/q\/zine\/article\/10114\">Steampunk<\/a> backgrounder article from a few years ago at <cite>IROSF<\/cite>, and Ben's <a href=\"http:\/\/www.benjaminrosenbaum.com\/blog\/archives\/2009_06.html#000744\">characterization<\/a> of Steampunk and related genres as having to do with \"archaic technology which is whimsically given the job of implementing far greater functionality than it could actually support.\"<\/li>\n  <li>Entertaining brainstorming from 2007 about the nonexistent roleplaying game <a href=\"http:\/\/www.story-games.com\/forums\/comments.php?DiscussionID=3548&page=1#Item_1\">Caucasian Adventures<\/a>. \"In the same way that Japanese-inspired RPGs are sometimes accused of being exotified stereotypes of outsiders looking in, so too is Caucasian Adventures an exaggerated image of white culture.\"<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>A couple of items related to the elections in <strong>Iran<\/strong>:<\/p>\n<ul>\n  <li>Good discussion from mid-June of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.motherjones.com\/kevin-drum\/2009\/06\/twitter-revolution\">Twitter vs the mainstream media<\/a> in reporting on the Iran election and subsequent events.<\/li>\n  <li>Interesting piece about the role of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/hostednews\/ap\/article\/ALeqM5hkzosTgK3ner6HkyGtGYXjNNo9vQD9918E0G0\">women in Iran's protests<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>A couple of <strong>videos<\/strong>:<\/p>\n<ul>\n  <li>How to make <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=aC-KOYQsIvU\">hot \"ice\"<\/a> (video).<\/li>\n  <li>Nice <cite>Colbert Report<\/cite> bit on the false <a href=\"http:\/\/www.colbertnation.com\/the-colbert-report-videos\/220019\/june-29-2009\/jeff-goldblum-will-be-missed\">rumors of Jeff Goldblum's death<\/a>. Best part is Goldblum's eulogy for himself.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>These links are sort of grouped thematically, but there are only two or three per grouping, so I decided to&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[53],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12242","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-links"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12242","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12242"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12242\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12242"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}