Adult content

I've long regretted the loss of the word 'adult'. What does its current use imply--that the fiction I write and prefer to read is childish because it doesn't contain explicit sex?

A Simpsons episode we saw recently had the family going to the Lackluster video rental. Bart sees Moe sneaking into an alcove marked 'Adult' and follows, only to be disappointed to find shelves labelled Truffaut, Merchant and Ivory, Bergman, Spike and Ang Lee. Nice one! At our video store those are under the 'Festival' category.

Which reminds me, the films I most want to see at this month's film festival are the three Miyazaki animes I've missed up till now. So I suppose I'm neither grown-up nor adult. Not that I care.

Adult content

I've long regretted the loss of the word 'adult'. What does its current use imply--that the fiction I write and prefer to read is childish because it doesn't contain explicit sex?

A Simpsons episode we saw recently had the family going to the Lackluster video rental. Bart sees Moe sneaking into an alcove marked 'Adult' and follows, only to be disappointed to find shelves labelled Truffaut, Merchant and Ivory, Bergman, Spike and Ang Lee. Nice one! At our video store those are under the 'Festival' category.

Which reminds me, the films I most want to see at this month's film festival are the three Miyazaki animes I've missed up till now. So I suppose I'm neither grown-up nor adult. Not that I care.

An alternative to Myers-Briggs

Gacked from mistraltoes, here are 20 questions to a better personality. I had a go and was horrified to come out as a politician, a breed I despise. Very little of the description applied to me, except for wanting to be liked, being sensitive to criticism, and loving animals. The rest was so wrong.

But it worked well when I did it as Vila, so I did the rest of the original Liberator crew. FWIW, Blake got the same results I did.

( B7 personality test results )

An alternative to Myers-Briggs

Gacked from mistraltoes, here are 20 questions to a better personality. I had a go and was horrified to come out as a politician, a breed I despise. Very little of the description applied to me, except for wanting to be liked, being sensitive to criticism, and loving animals. The rest was so wrong.

But it worked well when I did it as Vila, so I did the rest of the original Liberator crew. FWIW, Blake got the same results I did.

( B7 personality test results )