pipe dreams

Maybe over xmas holidays I will drive up to Quebec. Get a taste of that, uh, liberal Quebecois policy on marijuana. I have heard first person accounts. Would love to check it out. Man, it is really way past my bedtime now. Fortunately I don't have to get up early for a lab tomorrow, like I normally would...

Alexander and Hephaistion, Lucius (LaCroix), old/obscure fandoms

I remembered the name of the book that I read that I found so enlightening about the ancient Greeks' and Romans' views on men having sex with men (and with women, and women having sex with women, etc.) (They didn't view things the same way either; there were significant differences between how Greeks viewed m/m and how the Romans did.)

Anyway, the scholarly book I stumbled on (almost literally) in my local library was called Bisexuality in the Ancient World and the author was Eva Cantarella. Amazon info is here:
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0300048440/002-7895544-8369626?v=glance&n=283155&s=books&v=glance

I thought it would prove useful if I ever had to write backstory for LaCroix (the former General Lucius, before he was brought over by his daughter Divia) from Forever Knight. Or if I ever decided to write Alexander/Hephaistion fic.

I guess I just don't have what it takes to keep up with all the "cool" slash. There was a Zebracon workshop I had to miss (school, hospital clinical) that I wish I'd been to, and it was how to (paraphrasing) keep your slash fire burning when there's no one left in your fandom or it's not "cool" anymore and many people have moved on. Which is, well, a problem. Especially because I just don't have enough time to watch things like NUMB3RS and I no longer have cable/satellite, so I can't watch Rome on HBO. I don't have enough time to watch TV, period.

I seem to always like the little shows that don't make it. Dead Like Me -- I fucking loved that show. I got the 1st season DVD. It was a little kernel of personal growth and hope surrounded by the dark, cynical POV of an 18-going-on-40 yr old girl who just became a Reaper, within an ironic context where her personal/spiritual growth doesn't really even begin until she's dead. I totally responded to the vibe of that show! Of course, Showtime cancelled it.
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