Wonder Woman straightens her hair, succumbing to the current unstylishness of curls.
catvalente on the general state of SF poetry today. Appropriately, I am reading my first Rhysling anthology right now, sorting out what I will vote for. Even in this, pre-vetted by previous publication and consequent nomination, she has a point for a certain percentage of them. Mostly, however, I am delighted that she has brought the existence of SF poetry, and the SFPA, to the attention of so many people by posting this.
The (relative) antiquity of "chairperson".
Roasted Lemon Zest Powder at Chocolate & Zucchini - what an elegant and inspiring idea! Is this an ingredient of great commonness of which I have somehow not previously heard? Did it used to be, perhaps?
Hildegard von Bingen as the first female food writer in the West. This tempts me to go looking for potential alternatives. The corpus of her work is larger than, offhand, any other female writer from the eleventh century or earlier, but that does not automatically give her priority in all subjects she wrote about.
catvalente on the general state of SF poetry today. Appropriately, I am reading my first Rhysling anthology right now, sorting out what I will vote for. Even in this, pre-vetted by previous publication and consequent nomination, she has a point for a certain percentage of them. Mostly, however, I am delighted that she has brought the existence of SF poetry, and the SFPA, to the attention of so many people by posting this. The (relative) antiquity of "chairperson".
Roasted Lemon Zest Powder at Chocolate & Zucchini - what an elegant and inspiring idea! Is this an ingredient of great commonness of which I have somehow not previously heard? Did it used to be, perhaps?
Hildegard von Bingen as the first female food writer in the West. This tempts me to go looking for potential alternatives. The corpus of her work is larger than, offhand, any other female writer from the eleventh century or earlier, but that does not automatically give her priority in all subjects she wrote about.
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The other problem that applied to other manuscripts in OE came later, with a revival in interest, when the Exeter Book only survived intact by chance. A certain highly placed cleric (must ask "my friend the medievalist" which one) wrote around to monasteries asking for any interesting manuscripts they might have in the language, particularly if they had pretty pictures but even if they didn't. The monastery in question wrote back saying sorry, no, we've got nothing like that; but this is where the book was later found. MFTM says it's pretty clear why they said that; the book was at one time used as a doorstop - and at one time, judging from the damage to the cover, as a butcher's chopping block, and they were probably too embarrassed. If they had sent it off, it would have been disassembled and the pages lost like most OE codices, and we would have lost the biggest collection of OE literature - including the Riddles.
If what we have survives by chance, and so very much was lost (only three other major literature codices made it), what else have we lost?
Initially, I only saw that jms (creator of Babylon 5) was writing it, and since I've always loved the Greek influence on Wonder Woman, but have also been angered by her swimsuit costume, I decided to subscribe.
Once news of the costume change hit, my sister, a hardcore Lynda Carter as Wonder Woman fan (though, oddly, not an actual comic reader) has been ranting non-stop. It's basically been big sister (Brigid) vs. me and little sister (Holly), who *is* a comic book reader and is attracted to the title because Jim Lee is doing the art.
Oh, and while I've always preferred the curly hair, I can say, as someone who has worked in a comic book store for a period in the late 90s and then again in the late 00s, that artists often draw her with straight hair. I have always assumed it was due to laziness.
Is it the zest of a roasted lemon that is then powdered?
Did they make lemon zest, powder it, and then roast it?
Did they make lemon zest, roast it, and then powder it?
I'm sure its awesome anyway, I'm just unable to work out which of these it is.