I didn't sign up for the big spring and summer exchanges, but...

[selenak]

I signed up for history_exchange; it has a minimum word count of 500, and I can do that despite rl business. You can sign up here, and the list of nominated historical characters one can write about is here. (I offered the Brontes, Eleanor of Aquitaine, Elizabeth I., Charles II. and Byron.)


And a link:


A great conversation between Neil Gaiman and Kazuo Ishiguro about fantasy, genre, Samurai movies versus Errol Flynn swashbucklers, Stevens the Butler as a monster, and Doctor Who, among other subjects.


And another: Why it's time to let Edward Snowden come home. From my part of the world, Obama's quick embrace of the NSA and all the utter invasion of privacy the Patriot Act granted the government is one of the biggest dissappointments of his presidency, along with the non-closing of Guantanamo and the persecution of whistleblowers (not just Snowden) in general.

Comments

[espresso_addict]

Thanks for the Gaiman & Ishiguro link; fascinating.

[selenak]

You're welcome!

[aris_tgd]

To be fair, I'll give you the NSA/Patriot Act/persecution of whistleblowers, but the non-closing of Guantanamo is really on Congress' shoulders. But yeah, seriously.