help from Angelinos

Hey, anybody on my f-list from or living in LA?

Can you tell me names of medium to smallish venues where outlaw country music or southwestern desert-type music (think Eagles, Steve Earle, etc.) would be the standard fare? Or at least not unusual?

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Plus, LJ? You suck at comment notification.

she said I swear I'm not the devil

Hey, are you guys following the discussion of gender and fan studies over at Henry Jenkins' blog?

Today's bit is part of a discussion between Catherine Tosenberger and Geoffrey Long, and includes discourse about fanon vs. canon, touching on differences between fandoms and how some items that are really fringe in some fandoms have become mainstays in others.

One of the things I find interesting about Tosenberger in particular is that her 'ships in HP fandom revolve around the Weasley twins and include twincest, and her current fandom obsession is the gen vs. incest divide in Supernatural fanfic.

ETA: Oh, hey, and while we're thinking about all those published novels like Wide Sargasso Sea which could be considered fanfic but aren't, have y'all heard that there's supposed to be a book published that's Rhett Butler's POV of Gone With The Wind? That is wrong, wrong, WRONG. Rhett is a man of mystery; I don't want to know what he's thinking. He's the strong, silent type. The other "sequels" were bad enough. Scarlett, leave Tara? As. If.