I went to the memorial held at the University of Arizona this evening, along with many-several thousand other people. I was too late (at 4:20) to have a hope of getting into McHale, (the line stretched up Mountain to Second and along Second at least to Campbell) so I went directly to the football stadium instead, where the overflow was, and the ( Read more... )

So, I wrote a thing. About the events in Tucson today. I don't know if it's prose, or poetry, or prose-poetry, or what.

( Attempting to process the inexplicable in words )

There is a meme to post the first sentence of the first post in each month --

Went to the Boar's Den event today and really enjoyed hanging out & seeing people. It's still the second where I am! This deserves to be shared: today is the Centenary of First Ever Air to Ground Radio Message: "Come and Get this Goddam Cat" because yes, there were cats ( Read more... )

I have been missing one of my notebooks - the one with all the Troy stuff, including the notes and drafts of 'Fragments from a Manuscript on the Matter of Troy' - for a while now, and this evening I found it! I had put it in a tooled leather cover, so of course it wasn't visible when I was looking for it as a green-or-purple spiral-bound thing ( Read more... )

This is fun --

Gakked from several people: What song was #1 on the charts the day you were born?

The Drifters - Save the Last Dance for Me

First time I've ever tried to embed a YouTube....

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Oh always remember the Fifth of November, with Gunpowder, Treason and Plot ( Read more... )

( Interesting )

I have been terribly remiss in wishing people happy birthdays -- But I hope all of you that I have missed had lovely days & a delightful & happy coming year.

*Especially* tomato_n_john!

Another meme --

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A true thing.

You Are An INTP
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A nifty challenge/fest: lgbtfest "lj user="penknife">'s post with details and links.

Richard Taylor and WETA are just all kinds of cool: A mermaid tale

Oh, now this is fabulous: Amadis de Gaul being translated into English. This is one of the main novels that Don Quixote was a satire of.

A wonderful set of wee planets including directions on how to make ( Read more... )