I guess Portus is over now. There is still the Post-Portus Dance Party which starts in about three hours, but the name kind of implies that it really shouldn’t be counted. The weekend was… interesting. Apparently at some point I pissed off Eris again and she decided that this week would be her revenge. I [...]
On my 18th birthday a friend gave me two books, The Toa of Pooh, by Benjamin Hoff (still one of the best introductions to Taoism as far as I’m concerned), and All I Need to Know I Learned In Kindergarten, by Robert Fulghum. That evening was the beginning of my idle research into eastern philosophy [...]
So I’m looking down the barrel at one hell of a fun couple of weeks. While my luck didn’t grant me the privilege to head down to Orlando this weekend for the Nerdapalooza festivities, it has tossed me a few bones to compensate. First up, this Saturday is the DC (actually Vienna, VA) stop on [...]
The Devil’s Snare Lauren Fairweather buy here (scroll down) For those who are not up to date on their Wizard Rock (WRock) knowledge, Lauren Fairweather is one half of the WRock group The Moaning Myrtles. About a year ago Lauren started writing songs outside of the Myrtles and The Devil’s Snare is her first solo [...]
As we have seen across the book, convergence culture is highly generative: some ideas spread top down, starting with commercial media and being adopted and appropriated by a range of different publics as they spread outward across the culture. Others emerge bottom up from various sites of participatory culture and getting pulled into the mainstream [...]