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Jan. 15th, 2003 03:13 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
jazzfishGood news: Neil Gaiman says that Neverwhere will be available on DVD in June.
Bad news: Ashcroft vs Eldred decision. Copyright law upheld. As Cory Doctorow says, RIP public domain.
Classes: ...interesting. Grant Moss's Shakespeare class is cool, as expected. Chem lab is going to suck, as expected. And Bliss's 20C Lit class will be ... interesting. Starting out with Kierkegaard, moving on to Camus and Kafka, and then some other stuff I'm less familiar with. (And Flannery O'Connor, yuck.) Bliss is an acerbic New Yorker, about the same age as my parents, and he seems to enjoy lightly ridiculing his students (although he does tend to give encouragement afterwards). I'm not wholly sure I'm ready to talk Kierkegaard at nine in the morning, but for now... bring it on.
Watched the first half of Gormenghast again last night. It's not as cool as I remember it, but it's still worth watching. The lack of Flay and Lord Groan will be felt in the next two episodes, though.
And life goes on.
Bad news: Ashcroft vs Eldred decision. Copyright law upheld. As Cory Doctorow says, RIP public domain.
Classes: ...interesting. Grant Moss's Shakespeare class is cool, as expected. Chem lab is going to suck, as expected. And Bliss's 20C Lit class will be ... interesting. Starting out with Kierkegaard, moving on to Camus and Kafka, and then some other stuff I'm less familiar with. (And Flannery O'Connor, yuck.) Bliss is an acerbic New Yorker, about the same age as my parents, and he seems to enjoy lightly ridiculing his students (although he does tend to give encouragement afterwards). I'm not wholly sure I'm ready to talk Kierkegaard at nine in the morning, but for now... bring it on.
Watched the first half of Gormenghast again last night. It's not as cool as I remember it, but it's still worth watching. The lack of Flay and Lord Groan will be felt in the next two episodes, though.
And life goes on.
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Date: 2003-01-15 02:52 pm (UTC)Lord Groan, I totally agree. Loved that character.
Fuschia doesn't go away, does she? She is probably my favorite character, except for the master of ceremonies with his gigantic book...
"Why must everyone be so old?"
"You see what comes of unprecedented breakfasts?"
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Date: 2003-01-15 09:12 pm (UTC)As I recall, Fuschia and Barquentine (the guy with the book) both live at least until the fourth episode. Yeah, that's got to be the case; the third episode is kind of blah. Interesting bits with Cora and Clarisse, and an amusing sequence with Irma Prunesquallor. But it's on the whole not as cool as the other three.