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Wednesday, May 23rd, 2012
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7:21 pm - "Jack, you have debauched my sloth."
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I think I need a 12-step program. Also, I have finally found a fandom where I actually want to write fic. Oh God, I am so screwed.
Yes, I've made the capital error of starting to read the Aubrey and Maturin novels. It's not that I don't enjoy them -- they're great fun. The problem is that I'm addicted to them, and my time for reading is limited right now. I'm working a temporary contract job and I have a manuscript due. Thank God for reading my iPod on BART.
But I am craving more, more, more Aubrey and Maturn. Talk to me about the series! Share the best slashfic! Although I'm not sure it counts as slash -- this pairing is practically canon. Some of the dialogue practically demands to be read as pillow-talk.
I adored the Hornblower novels when I was a kid and read them all. It's not surprising I should fall in love with these books.
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(5 stories | tell me tell me tell me)
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| Wednesday, April 18th, 2012
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8:54 pm - Must make an icon of this
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| Monday, April 2nd, 2012
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1:58 am - What Did I Miss?
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| Monday, March 19th, 2012
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9:47 am - My FOGcon Schedule
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Friday morning I'll be doing Access stuff. In the evening I may have a Social Media Meetup for people interested in putting a face to the pixels, assuming I can find someone other than me to organize it. (Volunteers? Please? Truly, it's not much work. I am just swamped, especially after having been sick all last week.) Your best bet for hangout time with me is Friday afternoon and night.
Saturday starts bright and early.
9:00-10:15 A.M.
What I Reread and Why
Salon B/C
When many readers start slipping into depression, we compulsively re-read a set of books and series that comfort us. For example, each of these books/series may have a strong female protagonist who, after being misunderstood or rejected by her birth family, goes on to create a new family that understands. Do other people find themselves re-reading certain books or series under specific conditions? What books? What do we gain by this re-reading? Is it different than random re-reading? More generally, what books, or types of books, do we re-read? Are there books that you really enjoyed that you will never again pick up? What do we gain by revisiting a story when we already know the plot?
Moderator: Lynn Kendall
Panelists: Anaea Lay, Jackie Gross, Andrew Clark
At 8PM Saturday, or right after the end of the Unaward Banquet (whichever comes first), we'll be celebrating ![[personal profile]](http://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png) gramina's fiftieth birthday in the consuite, and YOU are invited. We're providing cake, decorations, and the birthday girl herself.
At 9:30PM, she'll go off filking, while I am doing a Very Special Reading with a couple of other good writers in the Santa Rosa room.
At 11PM, there will be a queer/poly/kinky/sex radicals munch in the hotel bar. Like the reading, this is strictly Legal Adults Only, thanks.
Sunday I will probably be cross-eyed with exhaustion, but I'll plow ahead anyway.
What are you doing at FOGcon? Or instead of FOGcon?
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| Saturday, March 3rd, 2012
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7:00 pm - Comparative Pay: CEOs to Average Workers
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| Saturday, February 25th, 2012
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12:01 pm - My tweets
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1:14 am - For Oursin and All Sherlock Fans
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| Friday, February 24th, 2012
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12:01 pm - My tweets
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| Sunday, February 19th, 2012
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3:21 pm - SUGGESTIONS WANTED: SF/F about the Body
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This year's FOGcon theme is The Body in SF/F, and we have wonderful Honored Guests who have written on that topic. Nalo Hopkinson, Shelley Jackson, and the late Mary Shelley. I've posted their bibliographies to the site for members who want to read up before the con.
I'd love to post more suggestions of great books and stories on the subject. What comes to your mind as the most illuminating, powerful, or influential SF/F writing about the body? In addition to listing titles and authors, you could tell us a bit about your suggestions.
The first ones I think of are these:
Samuel Delany, "Aye, and Gomorrah"
Ursula K. Le Guin, The Left Hand of Darkness
Matt Ruff, Set This House in order
Cordwainer Smith, "Scanners Live in Vain"
James Tiptree, Jr., "The Girl Who Was Plugged In"
What are your favorite fictional explorations of what it means to have or be a body? Of the ways a slight anatomical difference can change everything?
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3:19 pm - My tweets
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| Friday, February 17th, 2012
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9:09 pm - My tweets
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| Thursday, February 16th, 2012
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12:01 pm - My tweets
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| Wednesday, February 15th, 2012
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12:01 pm - My tweets
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| Monday, February 13th, 2012
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9:57 pm - Мои твиты
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| Wednesday, February 8th, 2012
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1:44 am - Yahrzeit
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Elegy For Jane
I remember the neckcurls, limp and damp as tendrils;
And her quick look, a sidelong pickerel smile;
And how, once started into talk, the light syllables leaped for her.
And she balanced in the delight of her thought,
A wren, happy, tail into the wind,
Her song trembling the twigs and small branches.
The shade sang with her;
The leaves, their whispers turned to kissing,
And the mould sang in the bleached valleys under the rose.
Oh, when she was sad, she cast herself down into such a pure depth,
Even a father could not find her:
Scraping her cheek against straw,
Stirring the clearest water.
My sparrow, you are not here,
Waiting like a fern, making a spiney shadow.
The sides of wet stones cannot console me,
Nor the moss, wound with the last light.
If only I could nudge you from this sleep,
My maimed darling, my skittery pigeon.
Over this damp grave I speak the words of my love:
I, with no rights in this matter,
Neither father nor lover.
--Theodore Roethke
Diane Michelle Thompson, July 10, 1974 - February 8, 1997
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| Friday, February 3rd, 2012
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2:50 pm - My tweets
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| Thursday, February 2nd, 2012
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11:56 pm - Ain't I a Woman?
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| Wednesday, February 1st, 2012
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9:12 pm - In case you haven't heard
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Susan G. Komen Foundation cares more about outlawing abortion than preventing cancer. They're going to stop funding Planned Parenthood breast cancer screenings. If you #standwithPP, be sure to add your name to this open letter: bit.ly/zuqdYj
Also, from Jezebel, the most heartwarming story of 2012:
Brilliant State Senator Attaches Rectal Exam to Anti-Abortion Bill
A crafty state senator has done something so wonderful that we should all be cheering while simultaneously smacking our foreheads, because why didn't we think of this earlier? The hero in question is Virginia senator Janet Howell. The Democrat wasn't happy with a proposed bill that requires women to have an ultrasound before they can have an abortion, so she attached a very special amendment to the bill.
Howell simply attached an amendment that requires men to undergo a rectal exam and a cardiac stress test before they can be prescribed medication for erectile dysfunction. Genius. Here's what Howell had to say on the matter:
We need some gender equity here. The Virginia senate is about to pass a bill that will require a woman to have totally unnecessary medical procedure at their cost and inconvenience. If we're going to do that to women, why not do that to men?
Yes! Yes! A thousand times, yes! It's like Howell has single-handedly invented a twisted new Golden Rule of Politics: "Do unto others' nether regions as they would do unto yours." And from then on, the good men of Virginia realized it actually feels really terrible when the government tries to "protect" you from yourself, and women were free to do with their bodies whatever they damn well pleased and—screeeech. Dream sequence over.
Howell's amendment was sadly defeated—though narrowly, 21 to 19—and the rectums of Virginia rejoiced.
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1:50 pm - Мои твиты
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| Monday, January 30th, 2012
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5:28 pm - My tweets
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| Sunday, January 29th, 2012
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2:29 pm - My tweets
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| Friday, January 27th, 2012
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12:01 pm - Мои твиты
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| Thursday, January 26th, 2012
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8:22 pm - My tweets
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| Wednesday, January 25th, 2012
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6:22 pm - Jersey Girl Alert!
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The first Stephanie Plum novel (Janet Evanovich writes them) is coming out as a movie. Debbie Reynolds as Grandma Mazur! Can she play Hungarian?
The books are problematic in lots of ways, but they do capture and celebrate the Jersey/Philly working-class ethnic addytood. (This is something people there are *proud of*, not an external stereotype.) I'm just afraid the books will be WASPified beyond recognition.
The casting of Morelli and Ranger looks good. I'm not so sure about Katherine Heigl as Stephanie.
Anyone interested in going? I'll be away until 2/6, but I could see it opening night.
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4:11 pm - My Google Categories, Let Me Show You Them
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Poor Google. They got a lot wrong.
Below you can review the interests and inferred demographics that Google has associated with your cookie. You can remove or edit these at any time.
Arts & Entertainment
Arts & Entertainment - Comics & Animation - Comics
Arts & Entertainment - Movies - Science Fiction & Fantasy Films
Beauty & Fitness - Fashion & Style - Fashion Modeling
News - Politics
Online Communities - Blogging Resources & Services
Online Communities - Social Networks
Reference - General Reference - Time & Calendars
Science - Astronomy
Shopping - Apparel - Women's Clothing
Your demographics
We infer your age and gender based on the websites you've visited. You can remove or edit these at any time.
Age: 25-34
Gender: Female
No, I am not especially interested in comics. I'm text-based, thanks. Few if any of my favorite movies are SF, although I read SF/F books. My interest in fashion modeling lies solely in the vast and widening gap in physique between models and average women. I like astronomy and love the stars, but my scientific passion is geology.
Yes on blogging, social media, and politics.
Either I'm amazingly immature for my age, or Google doesn't know many 52-year-old women.
Find your ad preference manager. Must be signed into your Google account.
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| Monday, January 23rd, 2012
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3:34 pm - Мои твиты
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| Sunday, January 22nd, 2012
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5:37 pm - Мои твиты
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2:21 am - Wimsey Fic Recommendation
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| Saturday, January 21st, 2012
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5:23 pm - Мои твиты
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| Friday, January 20th, 2012
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4:04 am - Мои твиты
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