Robinson L maintains a livejournal account under the handle Arkan2, where he reviews and/or rants about books, movies, tv shows, his college, and politics. Reportedly crashed into an asteroid in late 2004 and died a fiery death. He got better. He aspires to be (in no particular order) a successful author, an activist, and a parent.
- 2014-07-16 03:02 - Ferretbrain Presents the TeXt Factor Halloween Special Girl Books for Girls: Episode/Phase/Part Five - link Vampire Academy movie update! I watched this on DVD today and ... I liked it. I really liked it. Zoey Deutch as Rose blew me away: tough, snarky, loyal, vulnerable, immature, lovestruck; knocked them all out of the park, as far as I'm concerned. A...
- 2014-05-09 00:00 - Episode 10 - The Final! - link Oooh - I sure hope not, because I really like that idea.
- 2014-05-06 03:30 - Ferretbrain Presents the TeXt Factor Halloween Special Girl Books for Girls: Episode/Phase/Part Five - link I still haven't seen the movie yet, and am working my way slowly through book 5 (of 6) - combination of new job and technology in general apparently having decided it hates me recently. I hear the film has gotten pretty negative reception, but I still want...
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2014-03-24 12:30 - To Rescue Karadur -
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Rose Iron - daughter of Lord Iron, leader of the Metal council
When I read this, all I can think is that Rose's father must spend his spare time <a href="http://www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/the-cambist-and-lord-iron-a-fai... - 2014-03-19 20:30 - Going Bullshit - link I haven't, but I'm prepared to believe that it can be done in such a way that it works. In fact a lot of what happens in Going Bovine is still meaningful, because Cameron's wish is to live, and the hallucination let him do just that by givi...
- 2014-03-18 22:36 - Going Bullshit - link @Arthur: Yep, pretty messy. According to wikipedia, it's 496-pages long. Unfortunately, I can't tell you offhand where in that Dulcie appears and starts explaining about the Dr. X stuff, because I listened to the book on CD. I would guess it's wit...
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2014-03-05 20:00 - A Glass of Dickness -
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I forgot about this for like, ever, but it's too good an observation to pass up.
Corith grew up in privilege in a society where people who look like him are in charge and his own tribe is one of the most powerful, in a culture which po...
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2014-03-05 15:00 - The White Wolf's Rehash -
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Always enjoy another Moorcock review (kinda sad the series is nearing completion).
the Rose speaks overtly about there being functional and dysfunctional versions of Law and Chaos and gives specific names to the dysfunctional versions ...
- 2014-03-03 16:00 - We're Gonna Have a Pirate Party Tonight (Well Alright!) - link Sorry, impossible to tell if you're being serious or facetious over the internet - in the review, you say "the experience of being a pirate" is supported to an equal or greater extent than itself. Which I can only presume is either a joke that I don't get,...
- 2014-03-03 15:30 - We're Gonna Have a Pirate Party Tonight (Well Alright!) - link Okay, so I'm a little bit familiar with the Assassin's Creed series, though I've never played them and didn't even know this particular game even existed previously. My sisters got the first two games shortly after Christmas, and seem to be...
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2014-03-01 22:36 - So Is Monopoly Crap, or What? -
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The second reason there's nothing ironic about the Landlord's Game winding up as Monopoly is that there is no reason on Earth to assume that a board game endorses the core behaviours of its gameplay.
Assuming for the sake of ar... - 2014-01-29 15:15 - Look Upon My Pigs, Ye Mighty, and Despair - link Yes, sorry for the confusion, there; I was playing around with an ambiguity in one of Arthur's earlier comments. I considered linking to another post I'd made after getting my Ferretbrain id which expressed similar sentiments, but the old comment ...
- 2014-01-29 03:30 - Look Upon My Pigs, Ye Mighty, and Despair - link I do believe in fairies! I do! I do! In any case, Arthur, I take your vote of confidence in the accuracy of my self-assessment in the spirit it was intended ... whatever that s...
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2014-01-29 00:30 - Look Upon My Pigs, Ye Mighty, and Despair -
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This didn't work, but that's because Naziism has more in common with a paranoid fantasy than a political philosophy.
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arguably the Holocaust was in perfect alignment with their self-interest from their point of view.
Sure, you could say that, although in context I understood "self-interest" to be interpreted very much in the Machiavellian r... - 2014-01-24 15:30 - The Stereotype Business - link Interesting argument, Dan. You make good points, but I'm also inclined to sympathize with the arguments put forward by Abigail and others above. I think one of the consequences of capitalism's hyper-rational ethos (or is it mythos?) is that the extent ...
