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A Uniquely Portable Magic

Thu, 10 Jan 2013 20:16:21 GMT

The NYRSF event on Tuesday night was a pleasure: wonderful audience, wonderful reading by vschanoes from a devilishly funny and brutally painful novella, wonderful group to schmooze with, and a wonderful meal afterward at Milady's. Also an enjoyable round of drinks beforehand in the beautifully candlelit darkness of The Room, a little bar all brick and iron and stone and heavy wood—the perfect venue to set the mood for "Taibhse," the story I read, and just a few doors up from the SGDA.

Curator and host Jim Freund recorded the readings in both audio and video format; the story is in text format at my very Web 1.0 site The Vale of Broken Links; and I posted a couple of pictures on my website. (Podium is weirdly tall? Or five-foot-four is shorter than it used to be?)

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When is the next More Joy Day?

Wed, 09 Jan 2013 19:30:46 GMT

jenlev, this reminds me of your lovely coffeeshop tradition, and I'm pretty sure I'll be copying the idea.

Found in a bookstore on January 2nd.

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LBM Day

Tue, 11 Dec 2012 21:24:08 GMT

Studio portrait of my mom when she was, I think, about thirty.

Happy birthday, Mom, wherever you may be.

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Hooray for new old friends

Sun, 25 Nov 2012 16:22:26 GMT

malkingrey and melissajm and sterlinglikesilver, welcome!

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Romney's Tax Plan Explained

Tue, 16 Oct 2012 21:18:22 GMT

In a clear visual format.

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John Crowley v. New York Times on Prescriptive v. Descriptive

Sat, 29 Sep 2012 07:11:21 GMT

The Times's "Which Language Rules to Flout. Or Flaunt?" and John Crowley in reply.

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Slow-Motion Owl Attack

Wed, 12 Oct 2011 18:18:28 GMT

A short video: Eagle owl at 1,000 frames per second toward a camera.

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HSUS adoption event video

Fri, 09 Sep 2011 21:15:29 GMT

The Humane Society rescued seven hundred cats from a hoarding situation in June. Three months later, they held a big adoption event, and produced a really nice video of it. Under four minutes.

( Video embedded under here )

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Yeah, We Felt That

Tue, 23 Aug 2011 18:28:15 GMT

I hope that everyone near the Virginia epicenter is okay.

Whole house shook here. The whole house shakes a little bit whenever a schoolbus or heavy truck trundles by outside, but this was shakier and swayier enough for me to think This seriously might actually be a small earthquake and get up with notions of collecting animals, getting into a doorway, getting a pair of shoes on, grabbing the disaster go-bag. (In that order, for better or worse.)

The radio reported it five to ten minutes earlier than my local TV cable news station or CNN. My across-the-street neighbor, talking loudly on his phone (he managed to call out to say to a friend "Did you feel that?" just before the circuits got overloaded), was announcing "We just had an earthquake" before 1010 WINS reported it, but he might have been guessing, same as me. (Interestingly, neither his first thought nor mine was "bomb blast, Manhattan." Ten years ago, when WBAI's signal cut out in the middle of a reading I was doing on "Hour of the Wolf," I said to the host, with a coldness in my gut, "Uh, Jim...you better turn on CNN," because my first thought was that something had happened to the Empire State Building, where the broadcast antenna was.)

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Kitten vs. Two Scary Things

Mon, 25 Jul 2011 21:45:17 GMT

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Readercon

Sat, 25 Jun 2011 17:32:19 GMT

Thurs 8:00 PM ME How to Write for a Living When You Can't Live Off Your Fiction. Elaine Isaak, Alexander Jablokov, Barbara Krasnoff (leader), John Edward Lawson, Terry McGarry. You've just been laid off from your staff job, you can't live on the royalties from your fiction writing, and your significant other has taken a cut in pay. How do you pay the rent? Well, you can find freelance work writing articles, white papers, reviews, blogs, and other non-SFnal stuff. Despite today's lean journalistic market, it's still possible to make a living writing, editing, and/or publishing. Let's talk about where and how you can sell yourself as a professional writer, whether blogging can be done for a living, and how else you can use your talent to keep the wolf from the door. Bring whatever ideas, sources, and contacts you have.

Friday 12:00 PM Vin. Kaffeeklatsch.

Saturday 7:00 PM NH Reading.

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Jack Hardy

Thu, 17 Mar 2011 00:37:35 GMT

Jack Hardy, Folk Singer and Keeper of the Tradition, Dies at 63

I didn't hear about this until Sunday, when a friend who used to go to his song circles here in the city and his late-night fireside sings up at Falcon Ridge came to a gig we did down in the Village, and mentioned it at dinner afterward. I didn't know him personally, but it is a great loss and I am very sad. Here's some coverage from the Times.

A Circle of Song in Tribute to a Torchbearer of Folk

Video Library: Remembering Jack Hardy. Tim Robinson performs at a gathering commemorating Jack Hardy, a folk musician who held weekly sessions at his apartment until his recent death.

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Sat, 01 Jan 2011 00:06:12 GMT

( talking cats )

( cats playing pattycake )

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