Most often, silence in a blog means that HEAPS of stuff is going on. It’s half true with me; when things aren’t exploding in all directions, I’m trying to recover, almost catatonic for hours. Of course, there’s Storybox stuff, which is continually blowing my mind, and a lot of it is about stuff that doesn’t make it to the screen. That sounds kind of obvious, but it never really occurred to me.
Season 5 of Buffy is much, much better than I’d remembered. Skanky fun with the splendiferous Glorificus! Retroactive Dawnie! “Fool for Love”! And the “Sacrifice” theme music in “The Gift” is the saddest thing in the whole world — at the crucial moment, I cried and cried. I couldn’t bring myself to watch “The Body” and “Forever”, though. A bit too raw, right now.
Then there’s the challenge of trying to focus my interests into a workable Masters topic. Annotating urban spaces; writing from “the margins”; the rhetoric and poetics of design; negotiating design instrumentality in social activity; concepts of literacy; concepts of virtuality in design use; mediation; the horror and therapy of desubjectifying design. Head. About. To. Explode. In a good way.
I totally read that line as “a workable Marsters topic” because of the previous paragraph.
I actually misspelled it as “Marsters” when I was typing.