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I believe nominations are now open for the 2010 Rhysling Awards. Eligible poems of mine are listed here. I shall go and read a lot of everyone else's.
I have a schedule for Arisia:
Non-Standard Fantasy
Sat 10:00 AM
Greer Gilman, Debra Doyle, Sarah Smith, Sonya Taaffe, Daniel Rabuzzi (m)
We've all read standard fantasy stories. Rural-born protagonists with destinies known only to others. Elderly mentors with hidden powers. Enchanted items that help the heroes on their quests. Tolkien-influenced creatures such as elves, dwarves and orcs. Settings based on Medieval western Europe. What fantasy works don't follow this model? China Meiville's Nebula-nominated novel Perdido Street Station and Storm Constantine's Wraeththu Chronicles are two examples. Come share your favorites.
Shanty Sing
Sat 5:00 PM
Shana Fuqua (m), Jeff Keller, Sonya Taaffe, S. J. Tucker, Betsy Tinney
Songs of ships of the sea and possibly of space. Join in singing sea shanties!
Reading — Sonya Taaffe
Sun 11:30 AM
Sonya will be reading a selection from her own works.
SF/Fantasy in the Underworld
Sun 12:00 PM
Esther Friesner, Greer Gilman, Karl G. Heinemann, David Sklar (m), Sonya Taaffe
The passage through hell and back again, from the Odyssey and Gilgamesh to Moria and elsewhere.
Evolution of the Female Protagonist & Antagonist
Sun 1:00 PM
Greer Gilman, Genevieve Iseult Eldredge (m), Phoebe Wray, Sonya Taaffe, Leah Cypess
How has the female protagonist and antagonist changed over the years? Has the change been for the better? Most would argue that the modern female protagonist/antagonist is more realistic and multi-dimensional. Is this true? What have been some positive changes? What have been some negative ones? Is there still room to evolve? If so, how?
Here Comes the Bride
Sun 2:00 PM
James Zavaglia, Stephen R. Wilk, Frank Wu, Adam Lipkin (m), Sonya Taaffe
This is the 75th anniversary of The Bride of Frankenstein. Why do some people consider this the best Frankenstein movie ever made? Is the Monster redeemable? Why does the Bride reject him on first sight? How does she know he's a monster? And why wasn't Dr. Pretorius given his own movie series?
Analyzing Fairy Tales, Mythology, and Folklore
Sun 4:00 PM
Stephen R. Wilk, Katherine Crighton (m), Julia Starkey, Danielle Ackley-McPhail, Sonya Taaffe
What makes something a fairy tale, myth, or legend? What is it that resonates with us in each of these types of stories? In literature, what parts of the original tales are still used—and needed? What do readers—and societies as a whole—get from these kinds of stories? And how are they changing/evolving as culture changes/evolves? Where are they headed?
Kipling Songs
Mon 2:00 PM
Jeff Keller, Sonya Taaffe
Rudyard Kipling wrote a wealth of poems that make excellent songs, as demonstrated by the likes of Peter Bellamy and (esp. in Filk and SCA circles) Leslie Fish. We'll indulge in a number of them, and maybe a few parodies. If you can, bring some to share!
As you can see, it's more than a little insane; I can't imgine how I am going to survive Sunday. On the other hand, I'm on a panel about Bride of Frankenstein and another with Kipling. Any chance of seeing anyone I know there?
I have a schedule for Arisia:
Non-Standard Fantasy
Sat 10:00 AM
Greer Gilman, Debra Doyle, Sarah Smith, Sonya Taaffe, Daniel Rabuzzi (m)
We've all read standard fantasy stories. Rural-born protagonists with destinies known only to others. Elderly mentors with hidden powers. Enchanted items that help the heroes on their quests. Tolkien-influenced creatures such as elves, dwarves and orcs. Settings based on Medieval western Europe. What fantasy works don't follow this model? China Meiville's Nebula-nominated novel Perdido Street Station and Storm Constantine's Wraeththu Chronicles are two examples. Come share your favorites.
Shanty Sing
Sat 5:00 PM
Shana Fuqua (m), Jeff Keller, Sonya Taaffe, S. J. Tucker, Betsy Tinney
Songs of ships of the sea and possibly of space. Join in singing sea shanties!
Reading — Sonya Taaffe
Sun 11:30 AM
Sonya will be reading a selection from her own works.
SF/Fantasy in the Underworld
Sun 12:00 PM
Esther Friesner, Greer Gilman, Karl G. Heinemann, David Sklar (m), Sonya Taaffe
The passage through hell and back again, from the Odyssey and Gilgamesh to Moria and elsewhere.
Evolution of the Female Protagonist & Antagonist
Sun 1:00 PM
Greer Gilman, Genevieve Iseult Eldredge (m), Phoebe Wray, Sonya Taaffe, Leah Cypess
How has the female protagonist and antagonist changed over the years? Has the change been for the better? Most would argue that the modern female protagonist/antagonist is more realistic and multi-dimensional. Is this true? What have been some positive changes? What have been some negative ones? Is there still room to evolve? If so, how?
Here Comes the Bride
Sun 2:00 PM
James Zavaglia, Stephen R. Wilk, Frank Wu, Adam Lipkin (m), Sonya Taaffe
This is the 75th anniversary of The Bride of Frankenstein. Why do some people consider this the best Frankenstein movie ever made? Is the Monster redeemable? Why does the Bride reject him on first sight? How does she know he's a monster? And why wasn't Dr. Pretorius given his own movie series?
Analyzing Fairy Tales, Mythology, and Folklore
Sun 4:00 PM
Stephen R. Wilk, Katherine Crighton (m), Julia Starkey, Danielle Ackley-McPhail, Sonya Taaffe
What makes something a fairy tale, myth, or legend? What is it that resonates with us in each of these types of stories? In literature, what parts of the original tales are still used—and needed? What do readers—and societies as a whole—get from these kinds of stories? And how are they changing/evolving as culture changes/evolves? Where are they headed?
Kipling Songs
Mon 2:00 PM
Jeff Keller, Sonya Taaffe
Rudyard Kipling wrote a wealth of poems that make excellent songs, as demonstrated by the likes of Peter Bellamy and (esp. in Filk and SCA circles) Leslie Fish. We'll indulge in a number of them, and maybe a few parodies. If you can, bring some to share!
As you can see, it's more than a little insane; I can't imgine how I am going to survive Sunday. On the other hand, I'm on a panel about Bride of Frankenstein and another with Kipling. Any chance of seeing anyone I know there?
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As for surviving Sunday, see if you can bring (or get someone to bring you) a snack or something to keep you going through the 1130-1500 marathon...if I had that sort of schedule I'd be worrying about low blood sugar for sure. (Also hydration!)
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Excellent!
As for surviving Sunday, see if you can bring (or get someone to bring you) a snack or something to keep you going through the 1130-1500 marathon...if I had that sort of schedule I'd be worrying about low blood sugar for sure. (Also hydration!)
Oh, yeah. I'm bringing sandwiches.
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I don't know if I can come--it depends a lot on how work seems, and whether the car needs more repairs, and what other family members' schedules are. But If I can, I'd sure like to come. I'd get to meet blue-shark-icon person, for one thing (and see you and Greer--though probably only to wave, given how busy you'll both be).
If I don't make it, I hope it goes smashingly, and that you arrive on Monday unscathed (... but it's still more than a weekend hence... I can send you good wishes closer to the time, too).
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That would be wonderful. Please let me know if this is likely to happen!
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A propos of... some entries back---we saw the Leslie Howard Pygmalion. It was *wonderful*! I loved him--the intense expressions he would give--the cruel casualness. And Col. Pickering was wonderful. And I really, really liked Eliza, too. I think I liked her better than Audrey Hepburn. She had--did you say this in your entry?--a kind of foxlike delicacy to her. Her father was excellent too. Oh, the whole movie was wonderful. We all enjoyed it a whole lot.
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I am so very glad!
(I called her catlike, not foxlike, but I am not going to argue: Wendy Hiller is wonderful. I think you should write your review up.)
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If you wind up by some freak chance in Boston for any of Arisia, let me know. Maybe I can sneak you in for the music, or something.
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They have extraordinarily promising panels this year. I'm intrigued.
But I've got this book to finish, see. . . .
Is all right. If you have to pick a con in the Boston area, anyway, it should be Readercon.
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Why don't you? If there's a filk meeting going on that you can attend . . . ?
Sunday afternoon. Though it looks like you'll be in panels then.
Sunday is panel-filled doom. But have a good time!
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Maybe someone will tape it? I'd love to have you there!
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Would you like me to?
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Yeah, I've just been listening to that a lot. It's kind of my default Sr. Blandina song, these days--along with Martina Topley-Bird's "Too Tough to Die".
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All right; it's on the setlist! You want Bellamy or Leslie Fish's version?
It's kind of my default Sr. Blandina song, these days--along with Martina Topley-Bird's "Too Tough to Die".
I can see that . . .
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Hello! Comments notification appears to have failed me drastically-I just saw this reply. I'm so sorry for not responding sooner.
We're both on the Bride of Frankenstein panel. I just re-watched it a couple weeks ago. I'd forgotten how fast-paced it is, how sprightly.
Una O'Connor!
I love the parallel stories - both Dr. Frankenstein and his monster get brides, of a sort.
Yes. And how the doctor keeps getting seduced from one to the other. It's full of changing partners—Henry and Elizabeth, Henry and Dr. Pretorius, the Monster and the hermit, the Monster and Pretorius, the Monster and his bride; and finally the ones who live and the ones who don't. "We belong dead."
Gary Westfal made an interesting point that of all the Frankenstein creatures in various films, she is the only one who moves in weird jerks and starts, appropriate for a creature born of lightning. Your thoughts?
I hadn't thought to connect it to lightning, but that's neat. I believe storms are also involved in the creation of the Monster, but with her it's explicit: kites and wires and sparks racing all the way down the coil. What I love is how nonhuman all her movements are. Those quick turns of her head are birdlike, but she hisses like a cat. He moves like something resurrected and sluggishly relearning life, but she—despite her bones and her heart—was never a dead or a living girl at all. Especially in 1935, that's striking.
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Good luck with Sunday! You'd better survive, cos many of us would be very disappointed not to read more of your poetry.
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We have no overlapping panels this year. Our mutual schedule:
Friday: nada.
Saturday: 10 AM, 11 AM, 1 PM, 4 PM, 5 PM
Sunday: 11:30 AM, noon, 1 PM, 2 PM, 4 PM, 6 PM, 7 PM
Monday: noon?, 1 PM
Given our commitments Friday and Saturday evenings, it looks like the only opportunity to do dinner with folks will be Sunday at 8 PM.
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I know. It was just moved to two o'clock. I'll mention this tomorrow.
Oh, God, Sunday.