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When I staggered to the window to catch a breath of air
I would have appreciated this evening's lightning snow storm significantly more if I had not had to stand in it for forty minutes after the bus refused to pick me up because I reached its doors just after the light changed; it had just started its engine to pull away from the stop, but the driver honked at me to make sure that I got the point that he was between stops now and I was therefore SOL. I had at that point literally run up a slushy hillside to make the bus, carrying two umbrellas (one for ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
derspatchel, who had not realized when he left for work this morning that the day's overcast was going to turn into freezing rain and then enormous snowflakes that lit up like a disco when the lightning flashed) as well as a computer bag and my hat and gloves and I was not amused. The storm also blew my umbrella inside out, but that was just melodrama.
I hope the death of LJ is not impending, especially since so many people have just started posting long-form again, but I've been backed up to Dreamwidth and crossposting since 2013, so you can find me there if necessary: I use the same name. Was very surprised no one had taken it already, but not complaining. By now I would answer to it if someone yelled it across a room, though it is not mine in the same way as the others.
Links that have taken my interest of late: a critical obituary for Leia Organa, analog hauntology, and a genderqueer sky pirate from 1915. I would love to see this last on something that is not YouTube. Arthouses of Boston, are you listening?
derspatchel, who had not realized when he left for work this morning that the day's overcast was going to turn into freezing rain and then enormous snowflakes that lit up like a disco when the lightning flashed) as well as a computer bag and my hat and gloves and I was not amused. The storm also blew my umbrella inside out, but that was just melodrama.I hope the death of LJ is not impending, especially since so many people have just started posting long-form again, but I've been backed up to Dreamwidth and crossposting since 2013, so you can find me there if necessary: I use the same name. Was very surprised no one had taken it already, but not complaining. By now I would answer to it if someone yelled it across a room, though it is not mine in the same way as the others.
Links that have taken my interest of late: a critical obituary for Leia Organa, analog hauntology, and a genderqueer sky pirate from 1915. I would love to see this last on something that is not YouTube. Arthouses of Boston, are you listening?
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It always feels personal somehow.
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The honking seemed gratuitous to me. I wasn't going to throw myself under his wheels just because he was being a jerk.
(Even if their rules say they can't reopen doors after taking off, he could have shrugged.)
The rules are as unpredictably flexible as any other interaction with the public—I have been on buses that wouldn't even close the doors until you paid the fare and buses that started moving as soon as everybody was aboard and even buses that have waved me past without paying if my card had just run out.
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Thank you! There was indeed a respite before heading back out into the slush—and when we went out to the movies, we took a cab home!
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A significant percentage of my friendlist is currently worried about this information. I hope the situation is not as bad as the forecast, and I have no plans at the present time to delete my presence on LJ or move entirely to Dreamwidth, but just in case it all goes sideways, I am letting people know else where I am.
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Admittedly, when I first watched The Ring, it occurred to me that the story would not have worked with the then-new home entertainment technology of DVDs, because imagine a menu popping up that read PLAY EVIL CURSED MOVIE? Y/N
Of course that might not have stopped people.
Semi-related -- in a lecture some twenty years ago, my teacher raised the question of whether humans were analogue, or actually digital -- i.e. Is our consciousness continuous, or constantly recreated?
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Do you think digital hauntings work differently?
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In a just world the local annual sci-fi marathon would screen a print in February, since they tend to feature at least one silent or otherwise early, obscure genre film each year, but I have my suspicions about the likelihood of justice.
About the Organa Obituary
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I couldn't evaluate how much was canon (outside of the original movies) and how much was the writer's invention since the release of Rogue One, but I liked it.
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This is a really idiotic question: how does crossposting work? I've been backing up to Dreamwidth, but I have no idea how to synchronize live.
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How was The Tempest? Did it have snow lightning?
This is a really idiotic question: how does crossposting work? I've been backing up to Dreamwidth, but I have no idea how to synchronize live.
Does this page answer your question? If not, I will try to explain the setup.
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I wish! It was tiny: ASP has been cutting casts to the bone, and beyond. Last year, they had no Mamillius (save as an offstage voice). This year, no Gonzalo. Alonso (here the Queen of Naples) was Trinculo and Stephano, Sebastian. That said, the Caliban, Trinculo, Stephano scenes were terrific, an absolute delight. But then Stephano is one of their founding members: you've seen him as Ferdinand in The Duchess of Malfi and as Sir Andrew Aguecheek. Brilliant work with the cask and bottle. Great Caliban, a sort of komodo dragon. Good trickster Ariel: she can sing and she can move, and played most of the voices in the shipwreck, and Juno as well. Both Naples and Prospero were women, and quite sound. Antonio was all right. Ferdinand was large and sweet. Miranda was weakest, though she had her moments: the chess game had become a match at martial arts (she threw him) and the giving of hands, a handpile (slip out and slap). Eight players.
What I liked is that the company were putting the story across really well. Some of the audience, I think, hadn't known it, and were hooked. "With the help of your good hands" was a clever new idea to them—there was this laugh of discovery.
Oh, and there was gramophone music playing before the lights went down, and "I Do Like To Be Beside the Seaside" tickled me pink.
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He is good; I'm glad he's still around.
Miranda is almost always weakest and it drives me up the wall. There is no textual reason for it. Toyah Willcox is memorable and individual and sympathetic and she is part of the reason I love Jarman's Tempest so.
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So in order to post on LJ, I'd have to post on DW? It only goes one way?
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To the best of my knowledge, yes. If it is possible to crosspost from LJ, I've never known or seen how.
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I look forward to it.
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I have been using the quiet at work to save old LJ memories, and back up my posts to Dreamwidth. It's possible I ell start cross posting too.
There is some pithy comment or quote that goes here about the political and the personal, as regards the LJ server move, but my brain is not pulling up the reference file this soon after being asleep.
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Thank you. It was extremely cool thundersnow; if I had just decided to go out for a walk in it, it would have been great!
I have been using the quiet at work to save old LJ memories, and back up my posts to Dreamwidth. It's possible I ell start cross posting too.
I have no plans at this time to abandon LJ; my journal has always been linked to my real-life identity and I have never put online, openly or friendlocked, the kind of information that I really worry about governments anonymously collecting. I really don't want to lose the conversations people are just starting to have.
There is some pithy comment or quote that goes here about the political and the personal, as regards the LJ server move, but my brain is not pulling up the reference file this soon after being asleep.
Well, the timeliness is ridiculous.
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I also plan to continue to crossposting to both LJ and DW, but I'm "Brigdh" on DW, if you'd like to add me there as well.
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You're very welcome! I could only tell to a certain degree how much was canon and how much was invention, but I was really impressed by it.
I also plan to continue to crossposting to both LJ and DW, but I'm "Brigdh" on DW, if you'd like to add me there as well.
Done!