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Thursday, August 13th, 2009
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1:54a - Stealth
My cousin Scarlett has some pale pink nail polish that is exactly the same color as my actual nails*, so I painted two of them on my left hand. If I look at just the polished two, I can tell that they're polished. If I look at just the unpolished nails, I can tell that they're unpolished. But if I just look down at my hand, it is unclear which is which. It is my favorite sort of sneaky illusion - the kind that is quite difficult, that makes no difference, and that doesn't impress anyone because they can't even tell you're doing it.
*relevant: I have played piano since age 7 and don't let my nails grow long enough to have a white part.
current mood:  clevah (comment on this)
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2:17a - Current Peeves:
1. The "woman who has sex like a man" character type.
2. People calling things urban fantasy which are in fact stories of urban characters who escape to pastoral fantasy worlds. A la, for instance, C.S. Lewis's Narnia series, a cornerstone exemplar of traditional fantasy, and something used to define the genre (not subgenre).
3. Ridiculous explanations for artificial gravity. Look, I know that it's difficult to make a movie or tv show in which there's no gravity - we're not in space, and you'd need a budget you probably can't get. I can forgive you for having gravity. Just stop drawing my attention to it with explanations that don't hold up even to people who've never taken physics. And really don't flaunt your bad explanation by putting the word "gravity" in the title of your show, having your characters talk about it all the time, and throwing internal consistency out the window every time you have the opportunity to do a flashy effect. Jesus Christ.
current mood:  No (5 comments |comment on this)
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