Christmas grab-bag
Dec. 25th, 2009 01:36 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
icepixieMerry Christmas and/or Friday to everyone on my flist. I hope yours has been as nice as mine. (Let's just say it was a very electronics-and-jewelry-friendly year. ;))
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Still trying to find a title for my Flying Down to Rio fic. Although the idea of writing a series of Astaire/Rogers moviefics and titling them all with puns, preferably puns on literary works, has its merits, I'm not quite sure I'm ready to go there. Besides. I can't think of a good one for this particular fic. Although if you can think of a good one based on Yeats's "A Drinking Song," I would love to hear it.
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I finally got the Yuletide archive to load, although it's still laughing at my attempt to comment on the fics I'm reading. I'll have to go back later and leave some love.
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Finished Willa Cather's O Pioneers! yesterday, and thought it was incredible. I think that woman's one of the unsung geniuses of American literature. Wikipedia mentions that she's starting to be re-evaluated in an ecocritical light; I think I need to check out what the MLA Bibliography has to say on that, because with my attachment to place and setting and the natural world in literature, I think that might be right up my alley.
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Have a link to a pretty song. (The singer is a former member of eastmountainsouth. Light bulb went off for me when I learned that.)
Since I find myself making sporadic posts that enthuse about music, I'm thinking I might start making a linkspam post every two or three weeks linking to streaming or download versions of songs I've been listening to lately. They'd likely be somewhat similar to the one in the link--I tend toward the folk, indie folk, celtic folk, anything with "folk" in it.
Since I haven't done a poll in a while, here's one:
[Poll #1503426]
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Still trying to find a title for my Flying Down to Rio fic. Although the idea of writing a series of Astaire/Rogers moviefics and titling them all with puns, preferably puns on literary works, has its merits, I'm not quite sure I'm ready to go there. Besides. I can't think of a good one for this particular fic. Although if you can think of a good one based on Yeats's "A Drinking Song," I would love to hear it.
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I finally got the Yuletide archive to load, although it's still laughing at my attempt to comment on the fics I'm reading. I'll have to go back later and leave some love.
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Finished Willa Cather's O Pioneers! yesterday, and thought it was incredible. I think that woman's one of the unsung geniuses of American literature. Wikipedia mentions that she's starting to be re-evaluated in an ecocritical light; I think I need to check out what the MLA Bibliography has to say on that, because with my attachment to place and setting and the natural world in literature, I think that might be right up my alley.
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Have a link to a pretty song. (The singer is a former member of eastmountainsouth. Light bulb went off for me when I learned that.)
Since I find myself making sporadic posts that enthuse about music, I'm thinking I might start making a linkspam post every two or three weeks linking to streaming or download versions of songs I've been listening to lately. They'd likely be somewhat similar to the one in the link--I tend toward the folk, indie folk, celtic folk, anything with "folk" in it.
Since I haven't done a poll in a while, here's one:
[Poll #1503426]
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Date: 2009-12-25 08:44 pm (UTC)I'll definitely be doing them. Should be fun!