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Apr. 3rd, 2011 02:27 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
elfinblaze- I bought the first half of season 2 of Glee on DVD last weekend, so this weekend I've been catching up with that and rewatching. It's amazing how much you notice fits together when you watch all the episodes back-to-back.
- Spoilers up to and including season 2, episode 16, of Glee, "Original Song": Glee relationships chart. Yeah, it's messy. And the adults on the show wouldn't be much better.
- I finally found that quote I was looking for:
Sir Ian McKellen: There are a lot of actors, I'm probably one, who are most at home when they're on stage. I'm sure it's one of the reasons I became an actor. I was a shy gay man at a time when it was illegal to be gay. The world was full of difficulty and the joy of theatre is that you get to the stage where you know what's going to happen next. That's a wonderfully secure situation. Most people would think acting on stage is a brave thing to do – but for us it's safe.
Sir Patrick Stewart: Yes, at 12 years old in the dangerous world that I was in, with a very difficult home life, I found the stage was the safest place to be. It was predetermined and predictable – and furthermore you got to be someone else. All the problems only began when you left the building.
When I first heard that a few years ago, about the stage being the safest place to be, it really clicked for me. That's why it's possible to be shy in everyday life and love performing or at least be confident performing. That's why I find it easier to deliver a prepared speech, than to socialise with people I don't know. That's why I immediately related to Tina when I started watching Glee. It appeals to the lapsed performer in me.
- And now appealing to the geek in me: Psychobabble: Curing homosexuality?
"It helps to answer a perplexing question – how can there be 'gay genes' given that gay sex doesn't lead to procreation?" says Dean Hamer of the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Maryland, who was not involved in the work. "The answer is remarkably simple: the same gene that causes men to like men also causes women to like men, and as a result to have more children."
- Wicked Pretty Things: An YA Anthology That Tried To De-Gay A Character and How Two Writers, Jessica Verday and Seanan McGuire, Stood Up And Said "NO!"
Author Jessica Verday was one of a number of authors whose short stories were slated to be published in an upcoming anthology edited by Trisha Telep, "a collection of dark fairy YA stories (with a bit of a romantic edge)." Last week Jessica announced she has pulled her story, "Flesh Which Is Not Flesh," from the collection. Why?
"I was told that the story I wrote, which features Wesley (a boy) and Cameron (a boy), who were both in love with each other, would have to be published as a male/female story because a male/male story would not be acceptable to the publishers."
If you hadn't heard about it before, this is a good summary of the whole debacle. Good on the authors for standing on principle, even at the risk of not getting published.
- Confessions of a Book Hoarder.
I hoped to rid myself of a quarter of my books. Nothing so ridiculous happened, of course, but the fact that I found about a half dozen copies of Joseph Boyden's Through Black Spruce — which I still have not read — and four copies of Lucy Knisley's graphic novel French Milk — ditto — was proof enough that my addiction had crossed the line into a dark, uncharted area, where intervention may be necessary. I thought it was also fitting that I found both of my e-readers gathering dust under piles of books.
Thankfully, I've never had any problems throwing out truly terrible books, and I've read some dire ones. In fact, I gleefully toss them in the bin. I do however keep books I haven't read in the vague hope that I really will get around to them one day. Some of those books I got almost 10 years ago. That one day hasn't come yet.
- Spoilers up to and including season 2, episode 16, of Glee, "Original Song": Glee relationships chart. Yeah, it's messy. And the adults on the show wouldn't be much better.
- I finally found that quote I was looking for:
Sir Ian McKellen: There are a lot of actors, I'm probably one, who are most at home when they're on stage. I'm sure it's one of the reasons I became an actor. I was a shy gay man at a time when it was illegal to be gay. The world was full of difficulty and the joy of theatre is that you get to the stage where you know what's going to happen next. That's a wonderfully secure situation. Most people would think acting on stage is a brave thing to do – but for us it's safe.
Sir Patrick Stewart: Yes, at 12 years old in the dangerous world that I was in, with a very difficult home life, I found the stage was the safest place to be. It was predetermined and predictable – and furthermore you got to be someone else. All the problems only began when you left the building.
When I first heard that a few years ago, about the stage being the safest place to be, it really clicked for me. That's why it's possible to be shy in everyday life and love performing or at least be confident performing. That's why I find it easier to deliver a prepared speech, than to socialise with people I don't know. That's why I immediately related to Tina when I started watching Glee. It appeals to the lapsed performer in me.
- And now appealing to the geek in me: Psychobabble: Curing homosexuality?
"It helps to answer a perplexing question – how can there be 'gay genes' given that gay sex doesn't lead to procreation?" says Dean Hamer of the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Maryland, who was not involved in the work. "The answer is remarkably simple: the same gene that causes men to like men also causes women to like men, and as a result to have more children."
- Wicked Pretty Things: An YA Anthology That Tried To De-Gay A Character and How Two Writers, Jessica Verday and Seanan McGuire, Stood Up And Said "NO!"
Author Jessica Verday was one of a number of authors whose short stories were slated to be published in an upcoming anthology edited by Trisha Telep, "a collection of dark fairy YA stories (with a bit of a romantic edge)." Last week Jessica announced she has pulled her story, "Flesh Which Is Not Flesh," from the collection. Why?
"I was told that the story I wrote, which features Wesley (a boy) and Cameron (a boy), who were both in love with each other, would have to be published as a male/female story because a male/male story would not be acceptable to the publishers."
If you hadn't heard about it before, this is a good summary of the whole debacle. Good on the authors for standing on principle, even at the risk of not getting published.
- Confessions of a Book Hoarder.
I hoped to rid myself of a quarter of my books. Nothing so ridiculous happened, of course, but the fact that I found about a half dozen copies of Joseph Boyden's Through Black Spruce — which I still have not read — and four copies of Lucy Knisley's graphic novel French Milk — ditto — was proof enough that my addiction had crossed the line into a dark, uncharted area, where intervention may be necessary. I thought it was also fitting that I found both of my e-readers gathering dust under piles of books.
Thankfully, I've never had any problems throwing out truly terrible books, and I've read some dire ones. In fact, I gleefully toss them in the bin. I do however keep books I haven't read in the vague hope that I really will get around to them one day. Some of those books I got almost 10 years ago. That one day hasn't come yet.
