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sovay ([personal profile] sovay) wrote2018-03-08 02:15 pm

I dreamt of the hell to come if I didn't wake up and run

My poem "The Great Fire" has been accepted by Not One of Us. It's about chronic illness and politics; it's the first poem I've written since December. I am very happy about it. I had nightmares about packing for a fancy, long-planned trip with friends and not being able to get enough medications to travel, so you can tell what's been on my mind.

We have been hit by the second nor'easter in as many weeks, this one wintry enough to drop tree-breaking weights of wet slush and snow and not just city-flooding rain, although we got plenty of that yesterday, too. The town in which my brother lives is entirely without power. My mother has heat and needed the assistance of a neighbor's truck to get out of her driveway. The afternoon looked like it was clearing, but now there's new flurries of snow swirling through the overcast. Quantities of public transit have fallen over, I need not say.

The correction at the bottom of this New York Times article has been making the rounds and well it might, because it's glorious: "Because of an editing error involving a satirical text-swapping web browser extension, an earlier version of this article misquoted a passage from an article by the Times reporter Jim Tankersley. The sentence referred to America's narrowing trade deficit during 'the Great Recession,' not during 'the Time of Shedding and Cold Rocks.' (Pro tip: Disable your 'Millennials to Snake People' extension when copying and pasting.)"

I have no idea where this clip fits into Pacific Rim Uprising (2018), but since it features Hermann Gottlieb hugging Newt Geiszler after they take out an elevator full of inimical-looking dudes, I am looking forward to finding out. Of course Hermann has a rule about public displays of affection. Of course.

Courtesy of [personal profile] handful_ofdust: Boris Karloff shirtless. Nice eyebrows, too.
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[personal profile] asakiyume 2018-03-08 07:26 pm (UTC)(link)
Very, very glad about the poem.

How on earth did you find that Pacific Rim Uprising clip so FAST? There were only like 20 views when, on your prompting, I went to look.
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[personal profile] moon_custafer 2018-03-08 07:29 pm (UTC)(link)
Also like how Hermann makes a more effective weapon of his cane than Newt does of a gun (makes sense, really – with a cane, you can adapt the force of your attack to the situation).
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[personal profile] davidgillon 2018-03-08 11:00 pm (UTC)(link)
I once had to use one of my crutches to hit someone (he'd decided it would be funny to throw me to the ground). They make a pretty good weapon.
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[personal profile] drwex 2018-03-09 06:45 pm (UTC)(link)
Good general rule - within two arm's lengths a melee weapon is almost always better than a gun, unless the gun-user already has it in hand and is trained, and not encumbered in using lethal force.
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[personal profile] gwynnega 2018-03-08 08:03 pm (UTC)(link)
Congratulations on the swift poetry sale!

That New York Times correction is wonderful.

I suspect Karloff's good looks would have been more widely recognized if he hadn't made his name playing the Monster. (Then again, if he hadn't, he might well have remained a relatively unknown character actor.)
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[personal profile] moon_custafer 2018-03-08 09:38 pm (UTC)(link)
There’s an old Charley Chan novel*, The Black Camel, in which (spoilers) a phony Hollywood psychic turns out to be a stage magician working undercover to investigate the murder of his movie-star younger brother. The character was played my Lugosi in a movie adaptation, but I’ve always pictured him as Karloff – not sure who I like as the brother – we’re told the two bear the sort of family resemblance that’s not noticed unless you see them (or their photos) side-by-side, but then it’s impossible to overlook.

* The novels are probably still problematic, but in my (admittedly white) opinion, less so than the movies, in that you can mentally cast an actual Chinese actor in the role, and Det. Chan’s dialogue, though grammatically idiosyncratic, is less stereotypical than in the adaptations.
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[personal profile] moon_custafer 2018-03-09 02:04 am (UTC)(link)
Well, in the book he was killed a couple of years earlier, so we never actually see him. Chan gets suspicious when he discovers someone’s gone to a lot of trouble to eliminate all photos of him in the vicinity. From the description he kind of comes across as an Errol Flynn type, though.
Edited 2018-03-09 02:09 (UTC)
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[personal profile] moon_custafer 2018-03-09 02:07 am (UTC)(link)
Oh, there’s an adorable anecdote about Karloff — one time there was a drought, so he used to rush home from the studio to water his garden as soon as shooting was over every day. Sometimes he didn’t stop to have his Creature makeup removed. ?No idea if this is a true story but I do hope it is.
Edited 2018-03-09 02:10 (UTC)
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[personal profile] yhlee 2018-03-08 09:20 pm (UTC)(link)
Congrats on the poem sale!
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[personal profile] davidgillon 2018-03-08 10:57 pm (UTC)(link)
Congrats on the sale!

After checking out that Pacific Rim clip I found https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mYsEFh8l-mk which has that and several more. I love the chibi-Jaeger two minutes in.
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[personal profile] rosefox 2018-03-09 09:15 am (UTC)(link)
SO SHINY
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[personal profile] choco_frosh 2018-03-08 11:33 pm (UTC)(link)
Man, I want that web-browser extension.
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[personal profile] ethelmay 2018-03-09 12:41 am (UTC)(link)
http://www.slate.com/blogs/future_tense/2015/05/26/this_chrome_extension_replaces_the_word_millennials_with_snake_people.html

"If nothing else, Millennials to Snake People is good for a laugh or two. But if you install it, be warned: You may need to ask a snake person how to remove it from your browser."
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[personal profile] jesse_the_k 2018-03-09 12:40 am (UTC)(link)
Congrats on the sale!

I couldn't breathe for a minute there after reading the NYT correction. My only regret is that "Regret the Error," the fabulous column on journalism correction ethics and practice, is no longer published. This would have been an excellent reason to resurrect the blink tag.
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[personal profile] kore 2018-03-10 12:31 am (UTC)(link)
NICE!
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[personal profile] cyphomandra 2018-03-09 10:22 am (UTC)(link)
Congratulations on the sale!! And the poem, although not the inciting events.

I am very excited about Pacific Rim Uprising.
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[personal profile] selkie 2018-03-09 01:51 pm (UTC)(link)
Congratulations! Your work is something of which the world needs more.