October 2013 Media Thread

ArisKatsaris

This is the monthly thread for posting media of various types that you've found that you enjoy. Post what you're reading, listening to, watching, and your opinion of it. Post recommendations to blogs. Post whatever media you feel like discussing! To see previous recommendations, check out the older threads.

Rules:

Please avoid downvoting recommendations just because you don't personally like the recommended material; remember that liking is a two-place word. If you can point out a specific flaw in a person's recommendation, consider posting a comment to that effect.
If you want to post something that (you know) has been recommended before, but have another recommendation to add, please link to the original, so that the reader has both recommendations.
Please use the comment trees for genres. There is a meta thread for comments about future threads.
If you think there should be a thread for a particular genre of media, please post it to the Other Media thread for now, and add a poll to the Meta thread asking if it should be a thread every month.

Rules:

Please avoid downvoting recommendations just because you don't personally like the recommended material; remember that liking is a two-place word. If you can point out a specific flaw in a person's recommendation, consider posting a comment to that effect.
If you want to post something that (you know) has been recommended before, but have another recommendation to add, please link to the original, so that the reader has both recommendations.
Please use the comment trees for genres. There is a meta thread for comments about future threads.
If you think there should be a thread for a particular genre of media, please post it to the Other Media thread for now, and add a poll to the Meta thread asking if it should be a thread every month.

And everyone disdained my ancestors, the North Britons. I changed my surname from Potts during my Extropian phase years ago. Recently I learned that the Pottses lived as Border Reivers, part of the ancestral group of the Scots-Irish and other marginal Brits from the Border region who migrated to the Colonies and became the ancestors of the hillbillies, white trash and crackers in the U.S.

http://robertpotts.co.uk/familyhistory/borderreivers.htm

And everyone disdained my ancestors, the North Britons.

Yeah, present company included. But it was interesting to see bits of border culture that I strongly identified with, possibly as a result of growing up in Texas (which got some of its culture from the borderers; the rest is Cavalier, German, Mexican, and various other sources), which was one of the things that got me thinking about deliberate cultures and cultural mixing. The borderer conception of liberty, for example, is in some ways the 'purest' of them, and the one most similar to modern libert... (read more)

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