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sovay ([personal profile] sovay) wrote2016-12-29 10:32 pm

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] 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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About the Organa Obituary

[personal profile] dewline 2016-12-31 06:18 pm (UTC)(link)
That was something I didn't expect, and yet it hangs together...from a certain point of view.
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Re: About the Organa Obituary

[personal profile] dewline 2017-01-01 12:46 pm (UTC)(link)
Some of it comes from the original, pre-Disney Extended Universe, particularly Tarkin's fuller name - correct spelling is "Wilhuff Tarkin" - if memory serves, but I couldn't tell you all of the sources.