We might fall through, we might be substitutes
I feel it was unnecessary of Eversource to tell us that we were going to experience unpredictable service interruptions between midnight and six in the morning if we really weren't. People take that sort of thing seriously when the temperatures don't get below eighty at night. We took it seriously enough to spend the night in Lexington with my parents' central air conditioning instead of our window unit that can be affectionately described as "ramshackle" and got back to find no evidence of blackouts or even brownouts, only a pair of hungry cats. I answered questions for a book-release interview. We wound up the day with a late showing of Ant-Man and the Wasp (2018) at the Capitol Theatre. It is a small Marvel movie but a fun one and not weightless; it has wonderfully clever action sequences, especially once things and people start changing size at the same time as other people start phasing through things; I have more reason to watch Killjoys (2014–) if Hannah John-Kamen stars in it, but if I don't like Apatovian comedies I'm not sure where to go for Paul Rudd; we left before the mid-credits sequence because we had no need to buzzkill the ending with the obligatory Infinity War tie-in and walked back to Davis just in time to watch the last 89 of the night sail majestically past us. Hestia is responding well to her medication and attacks her pill pockets with squeaks of ravenous delight. Autolycus just seems happy that I am back to give him a lap to drape himself over for hours and hours on end. I'm having trouble believing it was just Friday. Links.
1. Courtesy of![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
handful_ofdust: Elspeth Beard, the first English woman to circumnavigate the world on a motorcycle, which she did between 1982 and 1984. Tagged for me. I appreciate it.
2. A poem I like: U.A. Fanthorpe's "Father in the Railway Buffet."
3. Courtesy ofspatch: the tetrahedral kites of Alexander Graham Bell.
4. These fourth/fifth-century amber glass pendants remind me of my oldest Christmas ornament.
5. Courtesy ofskygiants: "Solidarity in the Face of Breaking Strain." Eat mashup, Elon Musk. (I hear Pete Seeger singing.)
6. Ty Burr on the fine art of the movie pan: "One and a half stars merely means a movie has won its battle against badness. One star means it has lost that battle. A half star means it lost the battle and was a terrible idea to start with. No stars: melt the prints into guitar picks."
7. David Schraub has learned things from the internet.
1. Courtesy of
handful_ofdust: Elspeth Beard, the first English woman to circumnavigate the world on a motorcycle, which she did between 1982 and 1984. Tagged for me. I appreciate it.2. A poem I like: U.A. Fanthorpe's "Father in the Railway Buffet."
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spatch: the tetrahedral kites of Alexander Graham Bell.4. These fourth/fifth-century amber glass pendants remind me of my oldest Christmas ornament.
5. Courtesy of
skygiants: "Solidarity in the Face of Breaking Strain." Eat mashup, Elon Musk. (I hear Pete Seeger singing.)6. Ty Burr on the fine art of the movie pan: "One and a half stars merely means a movie has won its battle against badness. One star means it has lost that battle. A half star means it lost the battle and was a terrible idea to start with. No stars: melt the prints into guitar picks."
7. David Schraub has learned things from the internet.
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But then, I am an amber junkie. :o)
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I would certainly own one.
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Those photos of him and his wife Mabel are adorable but then, so are most photos of those two.
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The first passenger flight in Canada! That's awesome, even if the Canadian Army was disappointed.
If I had ever known that Bell worked in aeronautics as well as telecommunications, I had forgotten by the time
Those photos of him and his wife Mabel are adorable but then, so are most photos of those two.
Again, I don't think I've seen a lot of picures of the two of them!
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And the tetrahedral kites are marvelous. I'm imagining
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I really like both what he says and how he says it.
"No ideology is immune from having assholes as adherents. Moreover, people who are assholes can and will express their assholery in the argot of their ideology. So a conservative asshole will use conservative rhetoric and language to effectuate being an asshole, while a socialist asshole will use socialist rhetoric and language. Ditto liberals, ditto centrists, ditto nationalists, ditto anyone. Nothing about the ideology will stop them from doing so, and certainly do not believe your ideology is an exception."
And the tetrahedral kites are marvelous. I'm imagining spatch must have tweeted them? If so I'll retweet.
He just sent me the link, I'm afraid. I see no reason why you shouldn't tweet the kites, though!
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And thanks! I will tweet it then and wave ant
ETA: I did notice he said "Without further adieu" when he meant "ado," but I think I could type the same mistake, or equivalent, without thinking. WE ALL HAVE FEET OF CLAY.
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Yay! (He's not having the best day, so being waved at can't hurt.)
WE ALL HAVE FEET OF CLAY.
FEET OF CLAY AND GOOD INTERNET DISCOURSE ARE NOT INCOMPATIBLE.
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are we only bluffing?
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I love that song.
(And I like the photo.)
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I think the first song I ever heard from The Dreaming was "Houdini." I got it from Audiography in the far-off days of LJ communities.
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