Haul away, you rolling king

[sovay]

So the first pieces of news that greeted me when I woke up were the death of Jeffrey Epstein and the punishment of Arisia for supporting a strike, neither of which was a great chaser to the realization that yesterday's excruciating headache did not have the decency to buzz off overnight, but I also saw via spatch this wonderful production still of The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension (1984):



It is so effectively in character and outside the plot that it looks like fanfic. Have some links.

1. Elie Mystal and Ken White, "Should the North Carolina Gun Store Billboard Targeting 'The Squad' Be Unconstitutional?"

2. Ethan Siegel, "Astronomy Faces a Field-Defining Choice in Choosing the Next Steps for the TMT."

3. Philip Miller, "Biennale." The magazine is dedicated to islands, which I love.

I was supposed to spend the day with my niece, but the current circumstances are looking like spending the evening with her. She wants to watch Ponyo (2008), which I haven't seen in almost a decade. I think I can manage to do that.

Comments

[rosefox]

(Also, reading the Westin decision, it helps if you don't have emails from board members saying "Whew, the hotel going on strike gives us a great opportunity to cancel our convention for what looks like a noble reason rather than have everyone flee the sinking ship while we deal with our massive scandal around harassment!".)

[sovay]

it helps if you don't have emails from board members saying "Whew, the hotel going on strike gives us a great opportunity to cancel our convention for what looks like a noble reason rather than have everyone flee the sinking ship while we deal with our massive scandal around harassment!"

I agree that that seems like a sub-optimal thing to put in writing, no matter who's thinking it.

Thank you for the additional read on the situation.

[sara]

it helps if you don't have emails from board members saying "Whew, the hotel going on strike gives us a great opportunity to cancel our convention for what looks like a noble reason rather than have everyone flee the sinking ship while we deal with our massive scandal around harassment!"

*facepalm* Wow that's MAGICAL. People just can't get their heads around not writing things down.

(At work, everyone thinks it's kind of hilarious that my emails are perfectly civil when I have no qualms about wandering around offering frank opinions about various situations and the people who create them. That's because my conversation around the office isn't publicly disclosable and my email is, tyvm....)

[rosefox]

I've been screaming "CONVENTIONS NEED TO BE RUN LIKE BUSINESSES" for something like ten years now, but alas, they are not.