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And I got a little love for the offering
I am seriously considering setting up a Patreon, mostly to see if people will give me money to write about film with the same frequency I have been doing for the last several years, i.e., at least twice a month I talk about something that really interests me (and more often if I have regular access to TCM and/or arthouse theaters). Advice from people with Patreons of their own would be greatly appreciated. I have never run anything of this nature before. I don't even have a PayPal account.
In other news—
For the third year in a row, Strange Horizons has been nominated for a Hugo Award. Editor-in-Chief Niall Harrison talks about the ways in which the honor is complicated this year.
I did not know that anyone had, in poetry, called T.S. Eliot on his anti-Semitism while he was alive, much less to his face at a conference in 1951. That's where Emanuel Litvinoff comes in: "To T. S. Eliot."
I have just discovered there is a Takarazuka musical about the Mayerling affair. Given that a very distant relative of mine figures as the antagonist in at least five retellings of the story I've been able to verify, I'd love to know if anyone has information about this one. The whole phenomenon really entertains me. (Especially the Frank Wildhorn musical.) I am very invested in someday tracking down the TV film where Eduard Graf von Taaffe is played by Raymond Massey.
I have three books and an actor I really want to talk about. It's one of the reasons I need time.
In other news—
For the third year in a row, Strange Horizons has been nominated for a Hugo Award. Editor-in-Chief Niall Harrison talks about the ways in which the honor is complicated this year.
I did not know that anyone had, in poetry, called T.S. Eliot on his anti-Semitism while he was alive, much less to his face at a conference in 1951. That's where Emanuel Litvinoff comes in: "To T. S. Eliot."
I have just discovered there is a Takarazuka musical about the Mayerling affair. Given that a very distant relative of mine figures as the antagonist in at least five retellings of the story I've been able to verify, I'd love to know if anyone has information about this one. The whole phenomenon really entertains me. (Especially the Frank Wildhorn musical.) I am very invested in someday tracking down the TV film where Eduard Graf von Taaffe is played by Raymond Massey.
I have three books and an actor I really want to talk about. It's one of the reasons I need time.
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I was glad to see that Strange Horizons was not a Puppy nominee, as neither were several novels, magazines, movies, and other media that I enjoy (see File 770: Entering the Lists, "a scorecard of the effectiveness of Sad Puppies and Rabid Puppies slates"). I am still very displeased by the entire thing.
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Vox stalked my friend via my Youtube favorites, posted some videos she made on his blog in an effort to humiliate her, and then justified the whole thing because not only did she dismiss anything he said to her, she actively ingratiated me into her group of friends.
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That's very unsettling. Is he still stalking her and/or you?
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I do know that EW posted an article about the Sad Puppies, the Sad Puppies authors are pissed because the article said that they're all white men when in fact there's one non-white and a couple of women in less prestigious categories like Fan Writer, Editor, and Short Story, and one of Vox Day's bootlickers is posing as me in order to make me look like a misogynist.
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Oh, yeah? Point me toward them.
and one of Vox Day's bootlickers is posing as me in order to make me look like a misogynist.
Okay. That's awful. Is this in comments of EW or generally across the internet? How are you doing?
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http://atlaslab.bandcamp.com/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VB-xNB4uj9c
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qXBdXp-Z32o
Here's some solo stuff by Emma.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2OBlYrFoVnw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vNXltPZpMSo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8IoJ05bDy70
Some of them have been following me across the internet. Usually there's someone to catalog and report it to Vox, no matter how innocuous what I said is. I'm doing good, though.
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Thank you! I am enjoying it greatly. I know I can't be suffering a new music deficit—if nothing else,
I'm doing good, though.
I'm glad to hear it. Stay all right.
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Their EP is coming out in the summer, with proper studio versions of the demo songs and the two songs on Youtube. Not Shadow Song, unfortunately.
I just found out the pizza place that won't serve to same-sex weddings made about a million in donations.
Imagine how many Atlas Lab double albums that could fund.
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Nice! Maybe I have a chance of catching one of their shows someday.
I just found out the pizza place that won't serve to same-sex weddings made about a million in donations.
I hadn't heard. I can indeed think of many better causes. Feh.
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