Meme stolen from musesfool:

Footnote: My memory of this year starts at around November, aka the TIME I STARTED TO LIVE AGAIN, so this list may seem a little end-of-the-year-focussed.

Your main fandom of the year? Dexter.

Your favourite film watched this year? Probably XXY, though I thoroughly enjoyed Iron Man.

Your favourite book read this year? A difficult question this year, since I hardly remember any kind of fiction reading. On the non-fiction front, I have to say that I'm in love with Stephen Jay Gould's The Mismeasure of Man, because, while not new, I only realised the scope and brilliance of his argument when confronted with the context. I got to appreciate Zygmunt Bauman (esp. Dialectic of Modernity and Wasted Lives) and Andrea Smith's Conquest. Sexual Violence and American Indian Genocide broadened my horizon with the elegance of detailed historical feminist research and the bluntness of a sledge hammer. One publication that I awaited anxiously and that lived up to my expectations was Jan Philipp Reemtsma's Vertrauen und Gewalt. Versuch über eine besondere Konstellation der Moderne. [Violence and Trust. An Essay on an exceptional constellation of modern thought.]

Your favourite album or song to listen to this year? José James: The Dreamer, Parov Stelar (& band): Shine, Gotan Project's new live album, Sisters: Gender Riots, Nneka: Heartbeat, and, last but definitely not least: Buraka som Sistema: Kalemba (Wegue Wegue).

Your favourite TV show of the year? Pushing Daisies, though True Blood and SPN S4 were strong contenders this year, too.

Your favourite LJ community of the year? Hm. Wasn't around much.

Your best new fandom discovery of the year? The only new thing that makes me want to write fic at this point is True Blood - and I'm mainly interested in Pam & Eric as badly dressed Sapphire and Steel clones - (I'm too heartbroken about the Pushing Daisies cancellation) and maybe Lucifer; but I'd like to finish that one first.

Your biggest fandom disappointment of the year? Pushing Daisies! Cancellation! What the heck! Also, House, and the whole anticlimactic something that was Dexter S3. (Of course, the whole trainwreck that's Heroes and Grey's, but these were anticipated)

Your TV boyfriend of the year? Either Josh Lyman or one Sgt. Doakes, mentally added in all Dexter's S3.

Your TV girlfriend of the year? Charlotte "Chuck" Charles.

Your biggest squee moment of the year? Werecollie! Boston Legal's final episode! (I'm going to miss that show so much)

The most missed of your old fandoms? The West Wing and Weiß Kreuz. I've got serious cravings for good stories in both of them.

The fandom you haven't tried yet, but want to? I hear a lot about Entourage, Life and Merlin.

Your biggest fan anticipations for the New Year? Dexter S4! True Blood S2! BSG comes back! Also, Massive Attack may just finally - finally finally finally - publish a new album (MA are one of the only bands I still feel genuinely fannish about) and there's a Blur reuinion up the alley.

Sí se puede

Thank you, thank you, thank you!

I'm losing my shit - in a very scientific and wordy sense - over at sociologists. If anyone wants to come and join me, you're more than welcome!

Car crash kills Austrian's right-winged leader.

I have no words. None. I don't even know where to start.

In other news, I just ordered all of Sherman Alexie's books I could find, because he's just that awesome:

For some reason, I have always found Native Americans to be sexually attractive. But the semidark skin and traditional breechcloth thing isn't easy to find in porn or real life. I was wondering if you had some pointers for someone with a bad case of Native American Jungle Fever.

Native Amateur
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"The letter writer is correct," says Sherman Alexie, a Native American and a National Book Award–winning author who was willing to demean himself by giving me a quote. "There is a dearth of Native American porn."

But Alexie tells me that once, while hunting for antique board games, he typed "cowboy and Indian action figures" into Google and found his way to a site that featured U.S. Cavalry soldiers and loinclothed Indians smoking more than peace pipes. But that's all he's got, pornwise. As for real life...

"There's just no way your reader is going to find an Indian willing to put on a loincloth for sexual purposes," says Alexie. "Unless that Indian is a seriously damaged, culturally disconnected, politically unaware, and unsafe-sex-practicing slut."

ETA: To clarify - Sherman Alexie is answering Dan Savage's mail here, do go over an read!

Happy birthday sakemaki! <3 The world is lucky to have you in it. *snompage*

Happy belated birthday danceswithelves, may this day be full of cake, too!

SPN fandom: *blows itself up with amazing competence*

Massive Heroes S3 spoilers are here. I laughed until I cried. I cried until I laughed. This series officially has gone off the map of coherent character development and is venturing into lala-land (even more than before).

It could all be a trick. Except that I can totally see every single one of the plot twists. David Kring, like RTD in a way.

( notebooks for edgebot )

Next steps for livelongnmarry:

- send letter off to satoris
- start assembling care package for rospberry (the prospect of gathering shiny things from all over Austria might excite me more than the recipient. \o/)
- send off book #1 to livredor
- resize images of notebooks for edgebot and put them online and figure out details for the prompt notebook.

Sorry that I've been lazy when it comes to correspondence, the last two weeks have been hellishly busy.

Also, I'm very much in love with Boston Legal. I have no idea how that happened. Really, I got nothing. It's probably the combination of Candice Bergen, William Shatner and James Spader that kinda did me and now I can't look away. There's also more booktalk (Naomi Novik's Black Powder War and Empire of Ivory, Liz Williams Detective Inspector Chen novels and Havemercy by Jaida Jones and Danielle Bennett</i>) and maybe an entry that manages to present a coherent thought. We shall see. Until then, the potentially most unfunny internet things of the past few days (sorry, ashenmote, there doesn't seem to be much funny around):

(*) Sigh.

(*) Sigh. (Sigh, sigh, and sigh).

(*) Sigh. I should note that the author states that she respects the choice of the indivdual not to come out, but this find that closeted people (real closeted people, I mean - not fans who hide their fannish activities) generally overestimate the risks of coming out and underestimate the costs of the closet. I think that formerly closeted people who come out often realize how poorly they judged the risks and the benefits of coming out. observation baffles me, to put it mildly. Then again, context matters, and Austria really is as reactionary as a democratic country can get towards the LGBT movement and its members, but --- yeah, the repercussion LGBT folks have to face when coming out in austrian academia are harsh, discriminatory and disgusting and I'm not even touching other sectors.

Trailer to S3 Dexter. (Obviously spoilerish to everybody not having finished S2).

Omg omg omg omg omg <3!

A new still from the upcoming S3 of Dexter (non-spoilery). I think that's drool on my keyboard.

Top three funniest internet things on the internet in the past 24 hours:

*) From Michaela Ecks' Twitter: Anyone good with PR who might be able to help me with an ongoing situation? If so, would love to get in touch ASAP.

*) Somebody is ruining my plans to become a corporate enterpreneur by leeching off FOSS software! D:!

*) Fanlib is going down down down down. *lights cigarette*

The WTO being unfunny? Why I never. If an article contains WTO (or its fugly twin, IMF) it's pretty much a candidate for unfunnybusiness. If you have to debate with yourself whether the WTO is actually not funny or just really wanky then I'm not really surprised that the wank!radar of this community is, er, broken. (Except if the Yes Men are involved).

I'm so totally over the top, madly, blissfully, ravingly in love with Bones S1 + S2. The dialogue is - almost (hello, Dexter!) unparalleled - and I want Brennan's necklaces. Definite rec! A lot of these episodes feel like the first Kathy Reichs novels and thus are a lot better than the stuff she writes these days; should the never Temperance Brennan novels have put you off to this date.

Also, if I was going any slower on my thesis, I would be going backwards. Ack ack ack.

Has anyone played Monkey Island 3? The part towards the end where Guybrush finds a button that says "Ask me about Grim Fandango?" And when you want to pick it up he replies, "I don't want anyone to ask me about Grim Fandango," with a sort of disgusted sneer? That's the way I feel about the constant E3 PS3 whateverthefuck spam. The lounge does need a tag for that kind of, er, abundant, overzealous commitment to redundant information.

Go fug yourself has a take on Twilight. Am amused. Am also back from house sitting my parent's house and am happy that the Flat isn't nearly as much work as half of that garden. Work now, less scarce-ness later. Also, hot_daily, thanks for being so, you know, hot.

My offers for livelongnmarry:

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Since tags have run out, my entries are here, here and here.

*) I have a job at a local bookstore starting next month. I'll be paid to sell books /cheer.