drupagliassotti @ November 27, 2011 # No Comment Yet
Well, done with the 50,000 words challenge, anyway; Imprimatur itself is still about three to five chapters away from completion, I suspect. I’ll keep working on it, but at least today’s sprint for the finish line will allow me to grade papers tomorrow secure in the knowledge that there’s no imminent deadline hanging over me. [...]
drupagliassotti @ November 18, 2011 # No Comment Yet
Alas, attending a communication conference in New Orleans isn’t very conducive to writing! However, I managed to crank out almost 4,000 words on the airplane ride on the way over, so I’m not feeling completely panicked. That puts me just over 50 percent, which is about right for mid-month. I’d prefer to have more padding, [...]
drupagliassotti @ August 31, 2011 # One Comment
This is an extended quote from Sherry Turkle, found in part two of the three-part interview Henry Jenkins conducted with her on his blog: Evocative objects are objects that cause us to reflect on ourselves or on other things. Put otherwise, they give us materials that help us to do this in new and richer [...]
drupagliassotti @ July 26, 2011 # No Comment Yet
Well, in the last few weeks I’ve been immersed in a variety of projects — moving to a new apartment, revising Clockwork Heart 2, tinkering around with a couple of other novels that are in various stages of completion, kicking into gear some steampunk- and m/m romance-related research projects, and preparing for a special issue [...]
drupagliassotti @ January 9, 2011 # No Comment Yet
Yesterday several university colleagues and I went to the Los Angeles County Museum of Art because I really, really wanted to catch the Fashioning Fashion: European Dress in Detail, 1700-1915 exhibit. I love extravagant, aristocratic historical fashion — especially men’s jackets and waistcoats, cravats and canes! The exhibit contains both men’s and women’s clothing — [...]
drupagliassotti @ October 22, 2010 # No Comment Yet
Today we’re dedicating the new building in which my department is housed, the Swenson Center for the Social & Behavioral Sciences, which is my university’s first LEED-certified building. Here it is in the mist at about 7 a.m. — yes, I really do get there that early. Early-morning classes are the price you pay to [...]
drupagliassotti @ October 19, 2010 # No Comment Yet
Boys’ Love Manga co-editor Mark McHarry and contributor Hope Donovan gave a talk about the global yaoi phenomenon on KUCI’s Subversities radio show this last Monday, Oct. 18. Listen to an MP3 of the show on the Subversities blog! We would like to get together with other BL scholars, fans, and interested parties at Yaoi-Con [...]
drupagliassotti @ July 1, 2010 # No Comment Yet
I’ll be going to Anime Expo tomorrow (Friday) to participate in the Anime and Manga Research Circle panel at noon. I’d love to talk to other BL or m/m romance researchers, writers, and/or fans! Or, heck, we can talk steampunk or horror, too … don’t hesitate to drop by and say hello!
drupagliassotti @ May 21, 2010 # 2 Comments
Day 3 (Friday): (New photos added here.) On the way out of the train station to the Edo-Tokyo Museum we spotted several sumo wrestlers in their topknots and bright yukata heading off to a sumo championship; they were the beginning-level wrestlers, as the higher-ranking wrestlers compete later in the day. I love the fact that [...]
drupagliassotti @ May 17, 2010 # No Comment Yet
My co-editor Mark pointed out that in yesterday’s New York Times article “At Queens Libraries, a Passion for Japanese Comics Endures,” the book shown front and center is How to Draw Manga: Drawing Yaoi. Nice catch, Mark! The article is about how library cuts may adversely affect the library’s manga collection. Too bad. I know [...]