Another handful of things I’ve read in the last couple of weeks.
- Eruditorium Press: Four Tiny Essays On SF/F. The one about the counter-Marvel aesthetic hasn’t aged well in the 3 1/2 years since it was written, but Hugboxing vs Scab Picking really spoke to me. Not about queerness, but about other issues relevant to my life, and more for roleplaying games (the pen & pencil kind) than for reading.
- Colossal: Get Up Close to Frank Lloyd Wright’s Unrealized Buildings with David Romero’s Digital Models. Some of these look very Star Wars to me.
- Business Insider: How data centers are deepening the water crisis. I sent this to a friend who lives in Phoenix (the Phoenix area is discussed in the article). She said that people shouldn’t be able to build these things in the West because there’s not enough water. She’s not wrong.
- Articles of Interest: This Smells Like Shit. I Love It!. I’m into perfume and I found this interesting because it’s been obvious to me for a while that there’s something about a lot of these aggressive perfumes that are popular with srs bzns perfume people that I just don’t get.
- Washington Post: The 39 definitive rules of office fashion. I wish someone had told me this stuff when I started working!
- Straight Arrow News : Exclusive: Evidence of cell phone surveillance detected at anti-ICE protest. Not a surprise. Never heard of this outlet but it’s financed by the guy who started Ameritrade as an unbiased straight-down-the-middle news org.
- History Blog: Unique 10th c. timber with face carving found in Poland.
- NBC: Arizona patient dies in emergency room from plague and Fox 10 Phoenix: 1 person dies of the plague in northern Arizona. As a medievalist by training: YIKES!
- Tatler: Remembering Mary Drage: the ballerina who turned down Princess Margaret’s suitor (and a title) to honour her Catholic faith. This was in the 1950s and royal permission was still required for a man in the succession, even distantly, to marry a Catholic woman. And Queen Elizabeth wouldn’t grant it.
- NT Times: Yes, Gen Z Is Staring at You. The Question Is Why. I had no idea about the “Gen Z stare” but tbh my immediate response is “whatever”.