conversational randomness

[trochee]

I had a lovely conversation (first time in real time!) with anthrochica tonight. We got to confirm our mutual suspicions about each others' accents (apparently about right), talk grad school (not as much as I expected), avoid politics (rather well), exchange all sorts of creative book and extracurricular reading suggestions (see below) and try to work out if she friended me first or vice versa (we couldn't figure it out).

Among the other conversational detritus, I realized I needed to keep a list of things we talked about so I could share the links. Here it is:

The Brunching Shuttlecocks no longer make new material, but their Geek Hierarchy is worth understanding, and explains the Furry culture (oh my god, what is a fursona?), a Christian preachy homophobic evangelical variant of which came up today at bOINGbOING.

Speaking of furries (no, this wasn't the whole conversation, though it was probably the part where I laughed the hardest) -- we'd both somehow gotten a free copy of Wild Animus (I love that the publisher is called "Too Far" -- I should say so!). Then I remembered that exterra had released that copy on BookCrossing, panning it. (If you'd like to join BookCrossing, tell 'em I sent you.)

We also talked about imtboo's difficult role as Nadezda in Srbjana Biljanovic's Family Stories, and how it was difficult to watch, because it was so scary after the elections.

My last note -- though not the end of the conversation, just where I stopped making notes -- was to mention Roger Zelazny's Amber series, which I should really revisit, and to have recommended to me the His Dark Materials series. All in all, a good conversation. I wish we could have it in person.

Comments

[lapsedmodernist.livejournal.com]

I wish we could have it in person.

quidem. Next year in Jerusalem? Or, barring that, next summer on the East Coast?

[trochee.livejournal.com]

Now, Jerusalem would be great.

East Coast summers, we'll see. Don't know yet, though it's looking like it might happen for me.

Ah, I also see that I forgot to include our mutual admiration for obscure bits of Latin within English text. however, googling quidem didn't help. I infer from context that it means "I wish it too"?

[lapsedmodernist.livejournal.com]

quidem: indeed, certainly.

[alice-ayers.livejournal.com]

I got a proof of that,too! Weird. I'm totally joining Book Crossing.

[boobirdsfly.livejournal.com]

"We also talked about imtboo's difficult role as Nadezda in Srbjana Biljanovic's Family Stories, and how it was difficult to watch, because it was so scary after the elections."

Hmmmm... But you saw it *before* the election...
I wonder if we could have made it any easier to watch...( i don't know that difficult helped... )

[trochee.livejournal.com]

picky, picky.

Actually, I was explaining why I didn't want to go see it closing night, after the elections. But I glossed over that detail.

I'm not sure you're obliged to make it easy to watch.