Stuff and Moonshine

Weekend Report

2022-06-12T23:31:29Z

Last week I read The Aosawa Murders. I have Thoughts about it but haven’t yet processed them fully enough to post.

Friday my workplace held their annual customer-appreciation BBQ, which involved the most people I’ve ever seen at that location. I also learnt that the cemetery next door is home to a turkey that chases visitors. My benefits have/are about to kick in, so next week we can go to the dentist, yay.

Yesterday was our (me/Andrew) seventeenth anniversary. Rain kept being forecast so we stayed in, but I got us some chocolate.

A client at the medical centre Saturday morning was insisting they couldn’t tell him to wear a mask because ”the government dropped the mandate,” and threatening to call building security on them if they insisted he wear one. AFAIK Life Labs is technically a private company even if what they do is still covered by OHIP, so they can have mask requirements for their own premises, but I don’t know if they stood on this one.

Later I offered some pumpkin seeds to a pigeon, but she (?) didn’t seem interested. Kept hanging around though, and at one point jumped on my purse but it wasn’t a stable platform. Suspect she was hoping if she held out long enough I’d give her crumbs.

For Pride month, a comic by/about Kevin Conroy and his Batman performance.

A lot of Tumblr users reference old-time radio drama as a genre/aesthetic, so today I posted a link to an episode of the Nero Wolfe series with Sydney Greenstreet (and various Archies, but Harry Bartell is the one I like). I even spent $10 on the new “blaze” function to show it to more users.

It’s blatant corporate branding, but I couldn’t resist buying a No Name™ mug.

My writing continues to consist of short Team Fortress 2 fanfics; I got some comments today. Meanwhile, found this video of some TF2 cosplayers doing a photoshoot back in 2012, and it made me feel so happy to watch it. It reminded me of set-painting for university theatre productions, that kind of people getting together and doing some crazy performing-art projects. I miss that.

I’m positive that when I went to bed last night I had on my grey cardigan over my nightgown, but when I woke up I couldn’t find it. So I must have taken it off in my sleep, but where did I put it?

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Highlights of This Year’s Yuletide Nomination Queries (So Far)

2020-10-03T13:08:51Z

Cordelia (Movie Poster 2020) - Yes, we are approving this with the man and woman who appear on the poster as characters. However. We also got this with character nominations "Audience's Crushed Hopes and Dreams (Cordelia movie poster)" and "Swirly Historical Wallpaper (Cordelia movie poster)". Does the nominator of those characters want these characters, somehow, in a separate anthropomorphic nomination? Keep in mind that anyone offering has to offer both the wallpaper and the crushed hopes and dreams.

Emma (2020) - there is a nomination for Jane Foster, whom we can't find in this canon. Is Jane Fairfax meant, or someone else?

The Prisoner (1967) - nominator, for the character of Two, did you mean any particular version?

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Vaguewidth

2018-04-15T01:49:27Z

After months of lag, my brain went off in a particular direction back in March, and it still won’t stop. And there’s nothing to do but travel with it, but it’s a fandom-of-one (or at least a very small fandom) situation, and even when it crosses over with other things, well that just tightens the Venn diagram.

And I’ve also been reading King Lear, and I can’t find a vid of any productions that I really like (i.e., ones that satisfy my Feels about Kent).

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SF Con Report

2012-11-11T21:54:40Z

Home from SFContario (green_trilobite was too exhausted to stick around for the dead-dog.) A good time was had: I woke up Saturday morning with a possible story idea, I got pressed-ganged into the Masquerade for wearing my jetpack, and today wound up moderating a panel on the portrayal of disability and prosthetics in SF, due to the absence of half the projected panel members. Given the circumstances, I decided to *begin* with questions and comments from the audience, and it became a somewhat wide-ranging conversation but there was a neuroscientist in the front row and someone brought up C. L. Moore's 'Of No Woman Born' before I did and thanked me afterwards for a "lively discussion" so I think it went well.

The-guy-from-the-Readercon-incident was there, because he's not banned from cons other than Readercon. I mention this because I don't know him by sight, so late Friday night I was chatting with several people, while sensing that something was making green_trilobite uncomfortable, but didn't find out until afterwards that it was the company. But that was the only really awkward incident. Last night I looked around the Con Suite at a bunch of people of various ages talking about interesting and arcane topics while no loud music played in the background and wondered, for a moment, how this party would look to non-fans -- would they be horrified or envious? But I suppose it doesn't matter, and anyway, to assume non-fans are all of the same mind is even more of a logical fallacy than to assume it of fans.

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