sovay: (Sydney Carton)
sovay ([personal profile] sovay) wrote2021-03-11 01:45 am

I lost my fake ID, but you lost the motel key

How today has gone: the noises I just made on discovering a not completely empty bag of cough drops in the farthest corner of the counters in the kitchen are more traditionally associated with the lottery. Have some links.

1. I am delighted that [personal profile] sholio has made a gifset of Bill Maxwell from The Greatest American Hero (1981–83): "FBI agent and absolute weirdo."

2. Courtesy of [personal profile] moon_custafer: cogent thoughts on having feelings about problematic art. "And so if Harry Potter or BA or Voltron or whatever other problematic thing was your lifeline it's okay to be upset that it was yanked away from you by bigoted creators and racist corporations and bad writing. It's okay to mourn that thing, to miss the joy it brought you, to think back on the good memories you had of it, to not want to jump on the hate bandwagon, to be upset when people mock the people like you who cared about it."

3. Courtesy of [personal profile] ashlyme: Judith Bingham's Salt in the Blood (1995), a maritime ghost story for chorus and orchestra, full of chanteys and fragments of ships' logs. I want a libretto.

P.S. Courtesy of my father: "Meet the Sea Slugs That Chop Off Their Heads and Grow New Bodies." It should maybe come with a content warning for video, but personally I cannot resist statements like "Self-amputation, known as autotomy, isn't uncommon in the animal kingdom. Having the ability to jettison a body part, such as a tail, helps many animals avoid predation. However, no animal had ever been observed ditching its entire body."
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[personal profile] heron61 2021-03-11 11:35 am (UTC)(link)
Voltron is problematic? I haven't seen it since the 80s, so I had no idea.
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[personal profile] vass 2021-03-11 01:44 pm (UTC)(link)
Having the ability to jettison a body part, such as a tail, helps many animals avoid predation. However, no animal had ever been observed ditching its entire body.

I admire these pioneers in the treatment of neck pain.
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[personal profile] kenjari 2021-03-11 01:48 pm (UTC)(link)
I have access to a pdf of the Cd booklet for Salt in the Blood, which includes the libretto. I can email it if you like.
(You can always ask me about tracking down music stuff - it's literally my job and I really enjoy it.)
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[personal profile] larryhammer 2021-03-11 02:52 pm (UTC)(link)
:adds "autotomy" to the queue for [personal profile] prettygoodword:
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[personal profile] selkie 2021-03-11 03:14 pm (UTC)(link)
For your amusement, my 4 am post-suffocation-nightmare (spoiler: a window had been left open, I was not suffocating, just pollinated) reaction to the slug video:

THE POOR SLU-UH-UGGGSSSSS
What if they secretly really liked that body and we can't know, because
THEY ARE SLUGS, SLUGS OF THE SEA

This morning: ew the detached bodies basically solar-powered themselves for months before decomposing, this is how the puny humans get super fucked in the slugpocalypse

Why'm I wearing your class ring?

[personal profile] chanter1944 2021-03-11 03:40 pm (UTC)(link)
See comment subject line. Thanks, now the quoted song is stuck in my head! I don't even like it much. :P
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[personal profile] minoanmiss 2021-03-11 03:57 pm (UTC)(link)
You run PGW? I LOVE PGW!
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[personal profile] minoanmiss 2021-03-11 03:58 pm (UTC)(link)
Dang, I should have sent you a jar of citron-ginger-hooney. I don't know when next I can get to the Post Office.
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[personal profile] larryhammer 2021-03-11 04:01 pm (UTC)(link)
Er, yeah. That's me.

(Maybe I should do more cross-linking in the profiles ... )
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[personal profile] minoanmiss 2021-03-11 04:05 pm (UTC)(link)

You dn't have to, but I did feel I should say some kind of thanks for all the delightful nuggets of knowledge. :)

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[personal profile] larryhammer 2021-03-11 04:23 pm (UTC)(link)
Yer welcome!
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[personal profile] rachelmanija 2021-03-11 04:29 pm (UTC)(link)
Wouldn't it be amazing if it turned out that the solution to diseases that don't affect the head was to rip your own head off and grow a new body?
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[personal profile] ashlyme 2021-03-11 04:42 pm (UTC)(link)
I'm so glad you enjoyed Salt in the Blood! I'm going to hunt down the CD.

I liked sea slugs before I read that article. Now I seriously respect them.
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[personal profile] ashlyme 2021-03-11 04:43 pm (UTC)(link)
*hugs for nightmares*
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[personal profile] jesse_the_k 2021-03-11 05:16 pm (UTC)(link)

Yessss!

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[personal profile] jesse_the_k 2021-03-11 05:19 pm (UTC)(link)

As a latecomer to the marvels of PGW, I want you to know that as soon as I saw autotomy I thought "wonder if that's appeared on [personal profile] prettygoodword?"

jesse_the_k: Professorial human suit but with head of Golden Retriever, labeled "Woof" (doctor dog to you)

[personal profile] jesse_the_k 2021-03-11 05:20 pm (UTC)(link)

Based on my experiences with the medical profession, non-zero doctors have already put this into practice.

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[personal profile] larryhammer 2021-03-11 05:26 pm (UTC)(link)
After twenty-odd years, I've run more than a few accidental repeats, but I'm pretty sure I've never posted that one before.
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[personal profile] spatch 2021-03-11 05:41 pm (UTC)(link)
Turns out William Katt once confirmed at DragonCon that Robert Culp was eating real dog biscuits and if you read further down the thread, it also turns out that Culp would apparently eat anything as a challenge.

This pleased a fan so much they made their own vegan Bill Maxwell dog biscuit crackers. And who says television isn't truly inspiring.
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[personal profile] radiantfracture 2021-03-11 06:55 pm (UTC)(link)
I giggled at the gifs.

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