Links found lately on my friends list

[daemonluna]

It's a strange assortment. (But then again, when is it not?)

A link to a photographer's exploration of gender and sexuality.

And some thoughts on writing angst.

Lego man porn.

A compendium of links about peeing standing up (for women).

seanarenay has posted a whole bunch of Grey's Anatomy icons!

carlanime, look! Ballet Shoes icons!

And Lemony Snicket and wizard of Oz icons, too.

How teen magazines create lesbians!

The book bar, what to do with after you've been weeding. (Library weeding, not garden weeding, obviously.)

CBC eyes partners for TV downloads.

Here's an interview with Cara Pifko from the Globe & Mail.

Toronto celebrates Canada Reads. (What caught my eye right away: "Cara Pifko will do a reading from Miriam Toews' novel A Complicated Kindness." Though I did NOT like the book, I think I could bring myself to sit through the reading...)

SLG comic I must try to remember to find, Paris. "Together, Watson and Gane reproduce the Bohemian Paris of the early 1950s, where Juliet, a penniless American art student, shares a flat with Paulette, a revolutionary with an extensive lingerie collection. To make ends meet, Juliet paints portraits of wealthy debutantes. One of her subjects is Deborah, a young woman trapped in the old social order of her wealthy family. Juliet herself has felt confined in the rigid academic structure of her art education and finds an unlikely kindred spirit in Deborah. And though Juliet wasn’t expecting romance, this is Paris after all, where both inspiration and love abound. Juliet and Deborah’s love for art bring them together, even as their friends and family try to drive them apart."

Comments

[daemonluna.livejournal.com]

My only problem with the book bar is that I KNOW what old weeded books feel like. And smell like. Dusty and musty pretty much sums it up.

And sometimes you find fun stuff, like The Peaceful Atom (c1963, "when your mothers and fathers were children, no-one had even HEARD of Atomic Energy!") and sometimes it's all tax law from thirty years ago.

[andrew6.livejournal.com]

"SLG comic I must try to remember to find, Paris"

In Calgary, your best bet for finding this would be Another Dimension Comics, in Kensington. Second best would probably be Comikazi, at that mall deep in the North--past the university. There's an outside chance Redd Skull would have it--worth a shot if AD doesn't, just because it's much closer to you.

If you're desperate, I'm pretty sure I saw an issue at Happy Harbor here in Edmonton.

Assuming it hasn't sold out, any comic shop should be able to order the book for you, if you ask. I don't believe the series has enough issues out for there to be a trade paperback collection, yet.

Andrew

[daemonluna.livejournal.com]

The comic shop rundown is truly appreciated, but it was more of a remembering to look next time I'm near one of the aforementioned. (Probably Another Dimension or Redd Skull.) (Wasted youth spent scouring the city for manga? Who, me?)

It's probably a good thing for my bank account that I don't regularily visit any of the comic shops any more. Sigh. I mostly wait to see if things will come out as a trade these days, and if it's something that looks interesting but I'm not sure I want to own it, the public library's getting more and more graphic novels by the day.