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Today I am part of a podcast. Please enjoy the latest episode of The Outer Dark, "The State of the Weird 2018, A Roundtable Discussion featuring David Davis, Helen Marshall, Stephen Graham Jones, and Sonya Taaffe."
It was complicated. Originally I was supposed to be part of the roundtable proper, but there was technical snafu and my long-distance participation did not work out. That was upsetting. Fortunately, Scott Nicolay, host of The Outer Dark and moderator of the roundtable, was sufficiently upset to reach out to me about a kind of addendum conversation which we managed this week despite the technical issues escalating to fubar, which is why I still get to be on this incredibly cool poster designed by Yves Tourigny. I appear to be cheerfully grave-robbing the last expedition foolhardy enough to set off this way into the Weird. I am delighted. Anyway, have a listen! It was a lot of fun. I say things about poetry. Other people say things about other forms of the weird as a mode or mood or genre. I wish I'd had the time to talk more about opera, because it's not just Offenbach and Menotti and Peter Maxwell Davies. The world is always changing shape.
It was complicated. Originally I was supposed to be part of the roundtable proper, but there was technical snafu and my long-distance participation did not work out. That was upsetting. Fortunately, Scott Nicolay, host of The Outer Dark and moderator of the roundtable, was sufficiently upset to reach out to me about a kind of addendum conversation which we managed this week despite the technical issues escalating to fubar, which is why I still get to be on this incredibly cool poster designed by Yves Tourigny. I appear to be cheerfully grave-robbing the last expedition foolhardy enough to set off this way into the Weird. I am delighted. Anyway, have a listen! It was a lot of fun. I say things about poetry. Other people say things about other forms of the weird as a mode or mood or genre. I wish I'd had the time to talk more about opera, because it's not just Offenbach and Menotti and Peter Maxwell Davies. The world is always changing shape.
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Thank you! Now I am trying not to be desperately anxious about the fact that I think I show up much less well in open-ended one-on-one conversation than I do on panels where I have some idea of the parameters. Oh, well.
(I really do like the poster. There may be print versions available, in which case I am totally, egotistically putting one on my wall.)
In random other things, this crossed my dash today and I thought you'd enjoy seeing it too
That is lovely and yes.
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(I really do like the poster. There may be print versions available, in which case I am totally, egotistically putting one on my wall.)
It's not egotistical; if I was on a poster like that I think I'd want it on my wall too. It's brilliant.
That is lovely and yes.
:-D
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FWIW I think the interviewer spent way too long getting to the actual questions.
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Because I am having a lot of trouble not reading everything through a filter of devouring self-hatred: does this mean that I don't show up well, but it's not my fault, or I sound all right, but there's not a lot of focus to the discussion?
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