Sunday post of assorted items

[starlady]

I had a great day yesterday where I really felt like I wasn't in grad school--not that I don't love being in grad school (I do) and not that I didn't do work for grad school yesterday (I did), but it could easily have been a day that slipped out of the life of an alternate me in an alternate universe, where I live in the Bay area for some reason anyway. It was a really fun day, too.

Serious

# A lot of people have seen this already, but for those who haven't: Hideaki Akaiwa, face-puncher of a tsunami

# The New York Philarmonic performed Takemitsu's Requiem two weeks ago in honor of the victims of Japan's disasters, and the performance is now available to download, with the proceeds going to relief efforts.

# Murder in the Time of Cholera: PW (that's Philadelphia Weekly, for all of you not from the 215) looks at the murder of immigrant laborers, and the murder's coverup, in 1832. This is a famous case locally, and it looks like it's starting to crack; I also was unaware of the associated paranormal phenomena. (via cofax7)

Fun (for certain values of fun)

# Six terrifying ways crows are smarter than you think. I fucking love crows. Which is good, because apparently they can recognize human faces! (via cofax7, I think)

# seekingferret's review of Zadie Smith's The Autograph Man is phenomenal.

# The Disney Princesses as the Seven Deadly Sins

# snacky has remixed more Softer Narnia comics!

# I say Yuletide for this show, YULETIDE:

# There are subscriptions available on the Archive of Our Own! \o/ I am starlady. Fandoms currently in the pipeline for posting are Narnia and Sherlock Holmes, plus a few random others.

Comments

[hl]

I would so totally watch that show. Now I'm sad it will never be! ;_; (Would Yuletide be even possible, connected at HP as it is?)

[starlady]

If we nominated it as "The Aurors" and not as Harry Potter, I think it totally would be according to current guidelines. I'm going to try, anyway!

[kaigou]

Six terrifying ways crows are smarter than you think.

I read that as "cows", not "crows", and having read the article on crows, my first thought upon misreading was: "wow! cows are as smart as crows! who'da thunk it."

Uhm.

Long day.

[seekingferret]

Philip Roth has a great crows are smarter than you scene in The Human Stain. (One of those Philip Roth scenes where the writing is so beautiful that you can almost forget for a second how condescending, superior, arrogant, and disgusting it is, though.)