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I have heard from Patty. She was in Paddington Station stealing Internet and should be hitting Cardiff any minute now. Cardiff. That is so weird. (Also, I really miss her).

On Oct 1, not only do I have a Friends of the Text meeting, I have my first rehearsal for the demo of a musical spoof of Inception created by mithrigil. I'm playing Arthur (and I totally have the best song) and there's a Bollywood number (not mine, but it's existence must be noted). It's amazing how all the disparate parts of my life tend to eventually relate to each other, so much so that I'm now sort of absently thinking to myself, "Should Dogboy & Justine be a musical?"

In light of that, I recorded myself singing on my Mac this morning a bit, because I'm weird about my singing voice, and I need to reassure myself often, that, actually, despite all the mean people in girl's school I can motherfucking sing. I can motherfucking sing! So that was nice.

supertailz: Thing I promised you on Twitter. Everyone else: old story you probably know, but I did write it a couple of years ago now, so I suppose if you're new here this year, you maybe haven't seen it yet. Possibly way more than you want to know about me, but relevant to recent topics. (In fact, this piece feels about a billion times stranger considering recent changes to Craigslist and my social calendar for the week -- I'm not really ashamed of it; mostly, I'm just slightly chagrined at an over-employment (no matter how effective) of the "my mother never loved me" strategy of writing, and how tortured some of the sentences are).

There's a bit of a contretemps going on in my office building about the Unbeleivably Fucking Broken Elevators. People are making noises about rent strikes and violence at this point. I'm suitably entertained.

Tomorrow is the Butch Voices conference in New York. I was planning on going, but have almost come to my final decision not to -- I'm just too busy -- Dances of Vice tonight, the opening of the New York Musical Theater Festival on Monday, the Paley Center thing on Thursday, meetings and rehearsal on Friday, and I should really plan my birthday party too. So I'm skipping it and am going to use tomorrow to buy shoes and do work.

Speaking of Dances of Vice: nothing like getting up with a wardrobe plan and then not being able to find the item in question. So, serious plan B is going on here. Better today than Monday.

The new Harry Potter trailer is that good. Finally, someone realized that Harry's story is, ultimately, a tragedy most of the time for every single person in it. I'm jumping up and down about it. This, this is the world that made me fannish.

Tensions between Native Americans and the rodeos that want them there, sort of.

Irish President Mary McAleese turned down an invitation to be the Grand Marshall of New York City's St. Patrick's Day parade, because parade organizers still will not allow a gay Irish group to march.

As you may know Wiscon 35 did not disinvite Elizabeth Moon as Guest of Honor after her offensive and ignorant remarks about Islam, Muslims, immigrants and more. While Wiscon is presenting the matter as a teachable moment, and the situation is admittedly challenging on a number of levels for the concomm, it places a high burden on those who were the targets of Moon's speech and general consensus seems to be this was the wrong choice (a consensus I am largely inclined to agree with, although I have never attended Wiscon and so don't have any insight or stake in some aspects of this situation).

Regardless, Elizabeth Moon was never the only guest of honor for the con. The other is Nisi Shawl who has been speaking to Moon, and who has this to say about the con. For people considering going or not going or having an opinion, I think Shawl's words are a must-have data point.

Hey, laughingirl does this thing where she gets celebrities to autograph little teddy bears and then auctions them off to raise money to fight breast cancer. She always manages to get amazing people, and there are some auctions that start ending tonight that involve people like the cast of White Collar, James Marsters, Amber Benson, a bunch of awesome authors and a whole lot more.

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[supertailz.livejournal.com]

I think it would strengthen the story and increase the feelings of disconnect and...naivete? perhaps? ...Alas often life is not the perfect narrative, which in and of itself is sometimes a more interesting narrative. ...Now I'm just getting overly involved here; too tangled. :)

Now I want to watch it NOW. Perhaps I'll put it on one of my comps while I work today:) (Not that that would preclude also having a watching party. I could watch it everyday!...at least for a bit:)

Also, while I'm at it, do you like Great Big Sea?

[rm.livejournal.com]

Also, while I'm at it, do you like Great Big Sea?

Oh yes. I'm a true child of the 70s in terms of British Isles folk revival stuff seeming really cool as opposed to super nerdy, when, of course, it's both.

[supertailz.livejournal.com]

Whereas, I'm just British:)

But! They are playing tonight! At Webster Hall! We (Lindsay, Megan, the other person in the "watching party", a dear friend of mine who's a stage manager and our friend from DAW) are going! http://www.ticketmaster.com/event/000044CE1B36E7FF?artistid=1457850&majorcatid=10001&minorcatid=60 You should come! (I realise you are probably not free, but it's GREAT BIG SEA. You should totally come.)

[rm.livejournal.com]

I am totally not free. This is the most overscheduled week I've had in MONTHS. Fall in New York, always like this.

[redstapler.livejournal.com]

*sob*

I'm missing GBS too?!?!

*cues up "Big Yellow Taxi" and misses NYC a lot*

[stardragonca.livejournal.com]

Great Big Sea is not British, and I'm surprised how much more offended I am than I ought to be.

[rm.livejournal.com]

My apologies.

But my understanding is that, that is the style of music, unless there's something identifiably out of the related Canadian folks traditions in it, which there may well be -- I just can't here it.

Talamh an Éisc agus Labradar.

[stardragonca.livejournal.com]

It's distinctly Newfoundlander(not-ever-'Newfie'.) Newfoundlanders will just barely grudging accept being Canadian, from 1949 on. Most of GBS's traditional material is older than that, and is indigenous to this side of the Atlantic.

"The Island of Newfoundland has its own dialects of the English, French, and Irish languages. The English dialect in Labrador shares much with that of Newfoundland. Labrador also has its own dialects of Innu-aimun and Inuktitut."-Wikipedia

I know it sounds the same to your untutored Hillbilly ears, but it's not even mistakable for Nova Scotian to mine, and I'm as far west as the battle of Little Big Horn, and can legitimately claim to have started out as an East Texan.

I have no idea why I jumped on you for it, Irish people call them an Irish band all the time. I'm gooned out of my mind on cough medicine and decongestants, and plead ill heath and unfit temper.


That your apology is accepted was never in doubt.
Peace and Love.

[stardragonca.livejournal.com]

It really wasn't that big a deal, you know?
I made far more of it than I should have.