dancing fancy piruouettes

[wildestranger]

i. I seem to have acquired three different icons of Spencer Smith fiddling with his cufflinks. Um, oops? Not that I have an addiction or anything. I could stop anytime, honest. If anyone finds a picture of Spencer with riding crop, I'm willing to exchange sexual favours for that. Just saying. Ryan Ross, if you're reading this, that doesn't apply to you. Should you send Spencer over, though...

ii. I was poking around at Wikipedia, as you do, and looking at the Les Liaisons Dangereuses page, when this text comes up.

This article appears to contradict the article Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan.

Yeah, I don't know either. The mind, it boggles.

iii. Also, apparently there's a gay porn version of Les Liaisons Dangereuses? Ahahahaa, some things are just too good to be true. Someone should send me a copy, though.

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[stentoriansista.livejournal.com]

It *is* strangely intriguing! ::lecture pose::
It's really festival in 19th Century lit., since I'm only using one slave narrative. Basically, I'm looking at depictions of the John Canoe (http://www.jamaicans.com/culture/intro/johncanoe.shtml) festival in Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl (http://books.google.com/books?id=VNK0QUMnoCkC&dq=incidents+in+the+life+of+a+slave+girl&pg=PP1&ots=hwCQCs9XgE&sig=hKaAoOvVQ4B_1lRj8L1FNf6a9lI&hl=en&prev=http://www.google.com/search%3Fq%3Dincidents%2Bin%2Bthe%2Blife%2Bof%2Ba%2Bslave%2Bgirl%26ie%3Dutf-8%26oe%3Dutf-8%26rls%3Dorg.mozilla:en-US:official%26client%3Dfirefox-a&sa=X&oi=print&ct=title&cad=one-book-with-thumbnail) and Tom Cringle's Log (http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/7281), among other things, and examining how elements of the festival illustrate social tensions in the slave-holding system and how performance of the festival actions relates to slave identity and culture. I'm getting my M.A. in Folklore and Literature, and since I got to write anything I wanted for this paper as long as it was regarding some aspect of African-American culture, I said "whee!" and went for the obscure. It's great fun though, as long as I can get it finished in the next...4 hours (meep!) Guess I should, um, get back to that...