…no one has the right to live without being shocked. No one has the right to spend their life without being offended.
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Tagged: censorship, free speech, offense, philip pullman, rights
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Monthly Archives: March 2010
Norwescon, Sakura-Con, and Easter Weekend 11
I keep seeing questions about why Norwescon and Sakura-Con are both scheduled for Easter weekend this year. Here’s my attempt at an answer, with the disclaimer that I’m not speaking officially for Norwescon or Sakura-Con.
Tagged: convention, easter, norwescon, sakuracon, seattle
Law and Order and the Lakewood Shootings 0
I’m finding myself quite intrigued by my reactions as I watched last night’s Law and Order, which was based loosely on the Lakewood police shootings of last fall. When I saw last week’s promos for this episode, I had wondered about the possibility of it being a fictionalized take on the Lakewood shootings, but it was soon quite obvious that this was the case.
Categories: Life,Television
Tagged: lakewood, law and order, police, shooting, Television, tv, washington
Norwescon Preplanning 0
As part of yesterday’s Norwescon planning meeting, I sketched out a basic idea of the events that I’m going to concentrate on being around to photograph for at least some portion of the event — which also necessarily ends up as a rough map of where I’ll be at any particular time during the con. With everything that’s going on, I can’t guarantee I’ll be at each of these events for the entire scheduled time. Still, I’ll be doing my best to catch as much as I can. It’s shaping up to be a busy weekend, but one that should be a lot of fun.
Dark Loyalties 0
A couple weeks ago, I posted a survey and asked for respondents from the local Seattle Gothic, or seagoth, community for a research project I was working on for my Law and Justice Research Methods class. For those of you curious about the final results, I’ve published the entire report. You can watch the presentation, read the report on the site, download the prettier .pdf version, or even download the .pdf version along with all the data files in case you want to do your own number crunching.
Categories: Life
Tagged: goth, gothic, laj400, research, school, seagoth, seattle
