Music: "The Day the World Went Away", Ark Sano piano cover of Nine Inch Nails
Fandom: Parable of the Sower and Parable of the Talents by Octavia Butler. See notes at the vid post for sources used to construct the vid.
Notes: Premiered at the 2012
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wiscon_vidparty. Note that this is a slightly different version than the one that played at the party.Streaming and download links at my journal.
Music: "The Day the World Went Away", Ark Sano piano cover of Nine Inch Nails
Fandom: Parable of the Sower and Parable of the Talents by Octavia Butler. See notes at the vid post for sources used to construct the vid.
Notes: Premiered at the 2012
wiscon_vidparty. Note that this is a slightly different version than the one that played at the party.Streaming and download links at my journal.
Black Steel
Music: Black Steel by Tricky (original song by Public Enemy; vocals by Martina Topley-Bird)
Video: Born in Flames (dir. Lizzie Borden, 1983)
Edited by Lila Futuransky
"The right to violence is like the right to pee. You've got to have the right place and the right time." Revolutionary becoming in a past speculative future: a transformative homage to Lizzie Borden's 1983 film Born in Flames.
Streaming, download etc at
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cathschaffstump about writing process. Belated thanks, Catherine, for inviting me and lovely to trade hugs at WisCon!As is tradition with voyaging to Wisconsin, there was the maternal clan visit, which consisted of much pot roast, far too much pie, and a marathon of horse-racing movies that required Kleenex and recitation of every racing bloodline from Man O'War to Sunday Silence.
Next WisCon. It's been a while. The Concourse has so many sense memories for me. It's strange to remember coming here with my first-ever novel to workshop and to think this time I came here on the verge of publishing my seventh. This year, I only took on one reading and I'm still in awe at my compatriots--
ellen_kushner, Caroline Stevermer, and Franny Billingsley. They were SMASHING. If time had permitted, I'm quite certain I could have stayed up all night talking to deliasherman. I had a lovely lunch with glvalentine and a great conversation with Chris Barzak which I hope to continue at some later date. I met the most sparkly Nancy Werlin, also hoping to talk to her again some day. Sad I couldn't spend more time with Annalee Newitz and Charlie Jane Anders, who are also made of awesome.And there were so many people I missed--Stephanie Burgis & Patrick Samphire, Gwenda Bond, Ysabeau Wilce (who sent me chocolate via courier since she couldn't be here herself!!)...the list goes on and on.
I can remember early years of feeling like I was on the outside looking in, nose pressed to glass, so anxious about being on the outside that I could barely speak. This year, I was with people I most admire whom I'm so proud to also now call friends. There was no anxiety at all (perhaps there should have been--I went over on my reading time! Oops!). We talked about Things that Matter to all of us as writers, as women, as people. I have oft likened it to being in Fairyland, and this year was no exception.
I was very sorry I had to cut it short this year. Maybe next year will be less frantic. (Who am I kidding?)
And now, I must write like the wind before June 15th swallows me whole. I fear things will be again sparse and dark for a bit until I come up for air, but I hope you're having a lovely weekend, whatever you may be up to.
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- Sat, 13:11: Just updated OS to Lion. Kinda ticked that MobileMe/Backup is going away. Can Dropbox do autosaves?
- Sat, 20:56: I want this day back http://t.co/t3CAkS72
- Sun, 00:48: Been up over 18 hours. Should probably consider that thing they call "sleep." #whataconcept
- Sun, 11:37: RT @PassiveVoiceBlg: We are seeing the not-so-slow-motion popping of the Amazon self-publishing bubble http://t.co/YBc6Kg7a
Hello, Mike.
So I was perusing your latest issue on efanzines - the website that I can honestly state helps maintain my sanity - and noted three items of, er, note. First off, this loc cannot appear in the 12th issue of aMfO (interesting shorthand, I must say) because today is the 27th day of May and your cut-off date for locs was 12 days ago. You bugger! The net result of this is that I have to wait until the 13th issue is posted, or get my fanny in gear and print copies of Askance for actual mailing, which is something I have always meant to do, just couldn't really afford doing. Well, I'll try to get that goal accomplished.
Then you started nattering about whether or not "perzine" or "perszine" should be the proper shorthand term for "personal fanzine." For many years I have used the former term, which seems to the more accepted and used of these two possibilities. Your chemical analysis of the syllabic elements was interesting, and I think the idea that fanzines (in general, not just personal ones) tend to be a bit explosive and unpredictable in content works best. Then again, I might just throw in my personalized version: Purczine. I like it, but it's a bit unwieldy since it requires one to remember that the 'c' is pronounced like an 's', and go ahead and pronounce the 'z' as is. Think I'll stick with perzine. Why buck tradition?I had to refer back to aMfO #9, preserved for relative eternity at efanzines.com, to find your Ten Commandments of e-list behaviour to see what you were babbling about. I must agree with your listing, although sometimes it is difficult to refrain from making comments about politics and/or religion, oftentimes both together here in the USofA, since when they are mixed, people - especially public figures - say really stupid things, and e-lists (especially Facebook) are a popular means of pointing out these stupid utterances to illustrate how moronic the speakers are. In fact, I daresay that finding such stupidity is now a popular media game. But overall, I do agree with your Ten Commandments of e-list behaviour; they are very common sense, something missing from modern society.
When I saw Paul Skelton's byline, that certainly brought back fannish memories. I really enjoyed Small Friendly Dog back in the day, and it is good to see Paul writing in fanzines again. At one point - I think it was something like 1979 or thereabouts - I told him that I had planted a tomato plant in Cas' honour - the Cas Skelton Feel-Good Tomato Patch - because she was going through a rough patch of health at that time. Even made up a little sign and stuck it in the garden, making it official. That garden is long gone now, since that was when I was still living at home in St. Louis Park, Minnesota, and now I live in College Station, Texas, where, unless you truck in tonnes of good topsoil, mulch and fertilizer, nothing can grow except weeds, wild-flowers, cacti, and fire ant hills. It gets beastly hot here, which is Not Good for tomatoes. Besides, we could have a garden if we were really ambitious and did it, but like I said, this is an expensive and labour-intensive area for any kind of a garden. Well, rock gardens would be much easier to maintain. There's a thought...
Anyhow. I like the way you use the letters of comment to create a kind of narrative dialogue, moving smoothly from topic to topic. It's good, and I enjoyed reading that. Now to see how you eventually use this loc of mine to fit in a couple issues from now.
So thank you for posting, and maybe we can trade real paper-copy zines. I have the June issue of Askance to get ready now, so I will do my best to make good on having copies to mail.
All the best,
John Purcell
"There cannot be a crisis next week. My schedule is already full."
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And then, they're disappointed and can't seem to understand why casual SFF readers don't give a shit about the John Clute, M. John Harrison, and James Nicoll of this world?
Seriously, if you say "John Clute, M. John Harrison and", "James Nicoll" is not going to be the name that leaps to mind to complete the trio.
(For the record, I like a lot of anime, dislike many comics not because of the medium but because many comics are fuck-awful but, and this is the important bit, many are not, and ditto for movies. I prefer SF to F but A: that's more of a chocolate versus butterscotch thing than my god over your heathen beliefs thing and B: F and SF overlap a lot)
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