If there's a book of jubilations, we'll have to write it for ourselves

[sovay]

I am more or less neurologically allergic to Zoom, but I had a wonderful time last night participating in a panel on weird fiction for TylerCon with Steve Berman, Ruthanna Emrys, Will Ludwigsen, and Adam McOmber, and now you can enjoy it, too! We talk about weirdness, coziness, marginalization and weird community, tentacles, Lacan. I had no idea my office was so dreadfully underlit.

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[negothick]

Zoom works OK for talking (though my screen freezes annoyingly), but for music--oh, how it hurts my ears (and yours, even more so, I'm sure). If there's anything worse than people attempting to sing or play along through a time-lag, I don't want to hear it. Even one person singing can be painful. For religious services, I just close my eyes or look at the siddur and pray harder.

[sovay]

For religious services, I just close my eyes or look at the siddur and pray harder.

A Besere Velt has been trying to use it for rehearsals, but I think it's more of a morale-building/community-reinforcing exercise than anything else.

My problem with Zoom is not actually the time lag; it is the entire interface. I expect Skype and FaceTime would be just as bad. But it's what everyone is using and I want to stay in touch with some of those everyones, so.