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.
articles
- Book Review: “Schroedinger's Ball” A comedy with a quantum physics theme? Robinson L smells a winner
- The Oracle Renamed Robinson L hops halfheartedly aboard the Catherine Fisher bandwagon.
- The Problem With "The Iron Ring" Robinson L encounters a critical lack of narrative inertia in Lloyd Alexander's 1997 children's fantasy.
- Race in Popular Culture Robinson L is valiantly undeterred by Racefail.
playpen posts
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at 10:35 on 25-08-2010
Hello all, I have a question. My sister, ptolemaeus, is going to be studying in London this Fall in a program through her university here in the states. Does anybody have any suggesti...
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at 03:02 on 05-08-2010
Well Jamie, if you ever find a drinking game you really want to try out, my youngest sisters and their friends (all well below drinking age) have had some success with non-alcoholic substitute...
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at 21:00 on 04-08-2010
Oh for crap's sake. I was just looking at my local library system's latest newsletter and fully a third of the entries were about Harry Potter ...
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at 20:30 on 28-07-2010
Spoiler, if stuff that happens in the first minute of an episode counts as a spoiler: Liz X is not a non-recurring character.
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at 15:00 on 28-07-2010
This is my impression. In general, Davies appears to a Tokenist, whereas Moffat seems mostly to occupy the “colorblind” camp. This means that Davies' idea of racial sensit...
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at 20:30 on 26-07-2010
Quick follow-up which hopefully will not result in conversational necromancy! I just yesterday got around to reading that <a href="http://motivatedgrammar.wordpress.com/2009/09/10/sin...
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comments
- 15:00, 30-08-2010 on Book Review: “Schroedinger's Ball”:
Jamie: is Johnny's being simultaneously alive and dead the framework of the whole plot (i.e. does the rest of the bo...
permalink - 22:00, 06-08-2010 on Ferretbrain Presents the TeXt Factor Episode Eleven – The Final!:
Thanks for the thoughtful responses, Arthur, Dan.
Andy G: I'm speaking as someone who found Woman in White ...
permalink - 20:00, 04-08-2010 on The Reading Canary: Fighting Fantasy (Part 4):
This article is the second (and so far, final) ferretbrain article to be re...
permalink - 21:15, 03-08-2010 on This song is why:
*Looks at last paragraph of previous post, beats head repeatedly against wall* Thank you for drawing this to my attenti...
permalink - 22:36, 02-08-2010 on Ferretbrain Presents the TeXt Factor Episode 8 – Thomas More Is a Dick:
So, really, am I the only one here seeing parallels between Miss Halcombe's fantasy about Indiana Hartright going on an away mis...
permalink - 18:30, 02-08-2010 on This song is why:
Sorry, may comment more when I've gotten around to reading the article proper. For now I just want to pop in and address this:<b...
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