Geek fiction serious

http://community.livejournal.com/hp_essays. Has some essays that go into quite alot of almost academic depth about Harry Potter etc,

There seems less antagonism toward popular fiction and "geeking out" in public, and "prevailing cultural trend of the assumption of the all emcopassing cultural influence cache that serious literary fiction in the public realm porports to exert" doent seem to go anywhere...

Arguably there is more depth and subject matter in many of these works that can be explored due to there being more periodical and less closed narratives than some of the more literary end of things.
All the great novels were published weekly.

Angel and Buffy (yeah), have probably hads the odd academic paper written about them. Some of the more recent popular geek fiction has pretentions toward being "politically resonant" and "spirtual" though you'd think seeing as this ..stuff would have such an impact on culture that they'd be studied, maybe not taken serious but studied.

Jim Bowen

Heres a trailer for a some kind of doc about homeless people in Osaka, its intresting (probably) there are some more videos about it on the "youtube".

Problems relatively widespread, so I hear?

It'd be very easy to get all sociological about the cultural differences and the nature of homeless in different cultural contexts:

The level of community organisation of homeless peoeple in Japan in comparison to other countries, (while i don't want to draw too many generalisations) is pretty intresting, theres more of a community ethic (of the homelessness that is visible). The problem does on the surface appear more endemic than it is in Western Europe say,

Those cultures that develop outside of normal society is something that tends to be explored, There don't seem to be too many links for exchange, it could be the nature of the problem, that there isnt that much cultural communication. Alot of these groups (that are based on public land) seem to be relatively stable communities. Could be intresting to see how those (dont want to use the word settlement) develop and asert themselves more, maybe play a more active role in their communities?

Print this off, resolve.