BELATED YEAR IN REVIEW

Format blatantly stolen from the Librarian in Black:

Books--Ready Player One, Wolf Hall
Comics--20th Century Boys, Mr Wonderful, Ooku, Starstruck
Magazine--The New Yorker
Movies (theater)--Hanna, Trollhunter, Detective Dee and the Mystery of the Phantom Flame
Movies (DVD)--Summer Wars, Attack the Block, Bellflower
Movie (Streaming/On Demand)--Margin Call
TV Shows (streaming)--Shigurui: Death Frenzy, Eden of the East, Breaking Bad, MI-5, Burn Notice, Party Down
TV Shows (live)--Community, Fringe, Parks & Recreation
TV Show (DVD)--Archer, Leverage
Item of Clothing--Corset
Tabletop RPG--Agents of Oblivion
Mobile Game--Chuzzle
Albums: Wo Fat: Noche Del Chupacabra, Uncle Acid and the Deadbeats: Bloodlust, Lo Pan: Salvador
Song –Valkilly: "Love Via Revolver", The Vaccines: "Post Break-Up Sex"
Radio--Radio K, Mirrorshades
Web sites: TV Tropes, Good Show Sir, Bitch Blogs, Chunket, Fast ‘N” Bulbous
Twitter Twerps: Snarkey’s Machine, KeithATC, Warren Ellis, Patton Oswalt
App--Instapaper
Webapp--8tracks
Work Con--Handheld Librarian
Fun Con--Anime Detour
Library Trend–E-books, Hackerspaces
Concert – Droids Attack
Nightclub--Ground Zero
Bar--Triple Rock

Cheese--Machego
Treat – cupcakes from the Cupcake food truck, banh mi from Vellee Deli
Boyfriend--JSeux

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TOP TEN LIPSYNCH FOR YOUR LIFE SONGS FOR A DRAG KING EQUIVALENT OF RUPAUL'S DRAG RACE

The Advocate has suggested that the greatest (i.e. only good) reality show ever, Rupaul's Drag Race , have a drag king contestant. That's fine, but it would be much more entertaining to have a whole drag king competition. One of the best parts of Drag Race is seeing all the different types of queens compete: beauty queens, funny queens, conceptual queens, androgynous queens, scary queens, singing and dancing queens. I want to see punk kings, gangsta rap kings, cock-rocking metal kings, panty-dropping R & B kings, country kings, baggy-pants burlesque comic kings, and of course, Elvis. I picked out some songs that make me think of different aspects of masculinity: swaggering men, heartbroken men, lustful men, romantic men, philosophical men, and suicidally depressed men (interesting fact: I can think of dozens of songs by men about suicide, but only one female one: "Gloomy Sunday". What's up with that?) "That's Life" - Frank Sinatra

WOMEN IN, ON AND AROUND FILM

Over at the Bitch Blog , they were talking about female movie directors, so I had to make sure psychotronic faves like Stephanie Rothman and Doris Wishman were given their due. I hadn't known that one of my favorite female badasses, the Kill-Bill -influencing Dag from Bury Me An Angel (introduced to me by Dr. S ), was also a woman director's creation (should've known). Then I put in a word for the woman who started me on my movie-obsessed path, the fabulous Pauline Kael . She taught me to own my loves and hates and call 'em as I see 'em. Maybe some people wouldn't consider her a feminist icon because she didn't always like the "right" movies, but read her review of Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore for some keen feminist insight. She totally terrified those guys in the movie boys' club. I mean, George Lucas named the villain in Willow after her! Here's Kael on the New Testament: Pasolini's The Gospel According To St. Mathew

Things I Learned in 2020

Well, this has been quite a year, yessiree bob. But I’m being thankful right now of what I have and how my powers of Super-Introversion were activated by the current crisis as a laser-focus on learning stuff. Not that there weren’t many long hours of being too tired and paralyzed to move from the couch to the bed and vice-versa. And dusting and many other cleaning activities that didn’t aid in bodily sanitation were left by the wayside. Anyway, I hope that you too can make a list of things that you learned other than the details of the Electoral College. How to make quick pasta sauce with canned tomatoes How to make instant oatmeal How to make creamed spinach Basic ASL Basic Inkscape Video conferencing with Zoom/Teams/Webex/Meet/Jitsi How to make ink-jet Shrinky Dinks Basic screencasting with Screen-Cast-O-Matic and Camtasia Online training creation with Niche Academy Online playlist transfer with Soundiiz Mask making Cuttlebone casting Intermediate Tinkercad Slide digitization Basic

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