Stream of something or other

The best way to get yourself to use Dreamwidth more: let your LJ paid account lapse. Except that it makes me slightly twitchy to have different icons in the two places, but I'll probably get over that. Maybe.

This week marks my 7-year anniversary on Livejournal. Man, that's a long time. You know what tends to freak me out, in terms of marking time on LJ? People's kids. Because kids grow up alarmingly fast offline, but online, it's like one day you've got anecdotes about kindergarten, and the next, fwoom, you've got stories about high school. People who were pregnant when I started this journal now have small humans running around who read books and go to school and probably have their own iPhones already. It's scary.

Speaking of the passage of time, there's a new Wheel of Time book out today. I decided I'd go back and finish the series once it was done at some point in the mid-to-late-'90s; I'm not sure if I'm still planning on following through on that or not.

I downloaded the White Collar pilot; I just need to find time to watch it. I'm a little behind on Flash Forward, but still intending to catch up. And I'm still watching and liking SGU, although I could do with less introspection and more explosions at this point. (Greer gets more awesome every week, yes?)

Tor has an interview up with Sydney Padua of 2D Goggles/The Thrilling Adventures of Lovelace and Babbage. Which was nominated as a Yuletide fandom. And which someone is going to write, right? Because that would make me UNBEARABLY HAPPY.

Time for food! *goes to get a sandwich*

The death of a beautiful woman, is unquestionably the most poetical topic in the world.

Violence against women, female teens, surges on TV

Incidents of violence against women on mainstream U.S. television has increased by 120 percent in the past five years, with the depiction of teen girls as victims rising by some 400 percent, the Parents Television Council said in a report on Wednesday. ... The report suggested that violent acts against women and teen girls was increasing at rates that far exceed the two percent increase in overall violence that the study found existed on TV between 2004-2009.

For extra ick factor, check out:


Sexist violence sickens crime critic

She said that when a female corpse recently appeared on the jacket of a crime-writing colleague's new book, the author pointed out to her publisher that the victim in the story was actually a man. Mann said the publisher replied: "Never mind that. Dead, brutalised women sell books, dead men don't. Nor do dead children or geriatrics."

I don't always take the Parents Television Council very seriously, but it's hard not to get freaked out about stuff like this sometimes, especially when it's juxtaposed against news stories about violence against real women and girls. What does it do to our minds when we see these kinds of images day after day?

(Subject line from Edgar Allen Poe)