Come and sit down on my knee
The latter portion of the evening has been somewhat marred by computer distress, but I wish to report that Arisia itself has been so far been a success. "Movie Novelizations" was a blast, "The Monomyth Myth" could have gone into next year, I got to lead off the Traditional Ballad Bingo with "Drowned Lovers" as I learned it from Kate Rusby (and even bingo a card of my own to the tune of "happy ending," "spurned love," "father," "execution," and "hanging," which would be a hell of a ballad in its own right), and I performed selections from the improbable research papers "The Other Shoe: Fragmentation in the Post-Medieval Home" and "Eyebrows cue grandiose narcissism." The thing where I am running Zoom off the talkie window and Discord off Bertie is ridiculous, but I don't knock ridiculous when it works.
My poem "Plures" has been accepted by microverses: a hub for tiny speculative narratives. It is the second I have sold them; it is about the uncountable dead.
I have also been informed that people said nice things about my poetry on Twitter.
My father found some of his uncle's flight logs. They are an incomplete selection—we can tell because he numbered them—but seem to have covered at least three decades. I have been charting where he was between 1943 and 1945. A lot of air bases in the Pacific. A lot of C-87s and B-24s.
Tomorrow, I sing chanteys and read something I wrote.
My poem "Plures" has been accepted by microverses: a hub for tiny speculative narratives. It is the second I have sold them; it is about the uncountable dead.
I have also been informed that people said nice things about my poetry on Twitter.
My father found some of his uncle's flight logs. They are an incomplete selection—we can tell because he numbered them—but seem to have covered at least three decades. I have been charting where he was between 1943 and 1945. A lot of air bases in the Pacific. A lot of C-87s and B-24s.
Tomorrow, I sing chanteys and read something I wrote.
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I am glad your day has been vastly successful. Prayers up for the noble Bertie!
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Thank you!
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And that you're singing chanteys.
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Fragilely, but fingers crossed.
And that you're singing chanteys.
Chanteys are very important!
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Thank you!
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Thank you!
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Basically the same aircraft, so that makes a lot of sense.
Hope the chantey-ing goes well.
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Thank you!
Basically the same aircraft, so that makes a lot of sense.
I originally just said "a lot of Liberators," but he does make a distinction in his logs, so I figured I might as well reproduce it. He writes "LB-30" more often than "B-24."
Hope the chantey-ing goes well.
It did! I led off with "Randy Dandy-O" and got to come back around at the end with "Haul on the Bowline."
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It's how I found out about that particular designation.
I hope at some point to transcribe the logs, because they're neat and fragile (and kept in several different hands: my father recognizes his uncle's, which is a nice all-caps engineer's print, but some of his co-pilots could really scrawl), but mostly what I was doing last night was recording the major routes and dates and plotting them against the timeline of the war. He seems to have been part of the buildup to/fortification after some major battles. And in between just a lot of transport and supply.
I may also ask if you recognize a couple of the place-names we haven't been able to identify. One sure looks like a three-letter airport code, but if so, it's either changed or ceased to exist since the war.
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Feel free, I can't guarantee to be able to answer, but I might have suggestions even if I can't nail it down.
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Thank you!
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I don't know this year! Under normal circumstances they are recorded and often end up on YouTube or Vimeo.
[edit] Not this year: "Panels on Zoom will not be recorded for reasons of privacy." I presume because the insides of people's houses rather than the con hotel are involved. I understand it, but also, bah.
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On the other hand, the Boskone panels in February will be recorded, and the schedule, which was just published, is an embarrassment of riches, with ten or eleven options per time slot, and leaning into the advantages of the remote format, bringing in Aliette de Bodard from Paris, having Kim Stanley Robinson as guest, when he might not have schlepped physically back into Boston in midwinter the year after being a Guest of Honor last year, and so on. So if the Arisia sort of thing seems up your alley, you might take a look.
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Thank you!
I do not like the reasons for virtual conventions, but I like the thing where people I don't see otherwise are showing up.
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Do you have a copy of that philosophical odd-shoe paper? The very sole of wit. Also: does the wearing of a monocle focus or suppress narcissism? Inquiring minds...
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Thank you! I have been having a fabulous time.
Do you have a copy of that philosophical odd-shoe paper? The very sole of wit.
Yes, and I will send it to you, because it's actually a wonderful exploration of obscure and none too forthcoming ritual.
Also: does the wearing of a monocle focus or suppress narcissism? Inquiring minds...
Further research required!
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It's wonderful and amazing that your father has found some of his uncle's flight logs. I am all agog.
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They went well! And were a lot of fun. I am hoping for next year in person. The communal aspect is so important.
It's wonderful and amazing that your father has found some of his uncle's flight logs. I am all agog.
Thank you. I love that this history has not been lost.