sundries

[rm]

Progress continues. Since yesterday budgets have been written, song ideas bandied about, web developers and designers found, and a funding request written. I'm still agog that all you've got to do is go (actually, that's always been my attitude, but I don't think I quite had m head screwed on about the money and scale part of it). I mean, I know it won't be easy, but don't I always say I'm in it for the ordeal?

We're in the throes of getting web stuff up and all that, but for now, we do have a Twitter, so if you want to follow us early and often, that's at @TrebleEntendre.

Meanwhile, quick sundries now, because Patty and I have a date at 2, and I want to go out and see the world a little first, it looks like a nice day.

ETA: I've been out and back. I bought a totally hot pair of jeans (all on my own, and without someone in the industry telling me I had to to look young. They're really tight and yet oddly masculine, so yay), a German phrase book, a film magazine (which has led to me stumbling on a must-do seminar for me, that I just missed a convenient date of, so I've written to them about 2011) and a copy of The Great Gatsby.

Oh, hey, I meant to link to a fic today, but no one reads this on the weekends, so it's better for all if it waits.

Apparently Americans are being warned about travel in Europe. Should I really register with the consular? I've never bothered before. But this is a long trip. I don't find myself at all freaked by these things though -- I was in Rome when the Rome and Vienna airports were bombed when I was a kid, and I remember my parents talking about how you had to lie about your nationality if the plane got hijacked. This shit isn't anything new.

Another story on the female engagement teams in Afghanistan.

Sketches and plans for Park 51.

Spirit Day, October 20, so honor and remember those who have killed themselves because of anti-gay hate. The images going around LJ show six young lives lost. But there have been several other LGBT suicides in the last month (at least three of which have been featured in the news), so it is important to note that this is for all of them. Spread the word.

We remember you who have suffered or died
at the hands of others,
Women who have loved women;
Men who have loved men;
And all of those who have refused
the roles others
have expected us to play.
Nothing shall purge
your deaths from our
memories.

Actually, while we're on the subject of that memorial from Sydney, can one of you who lives there actually assure me that that thing is still there? Also, what sort of permits does one need for filming in Sydney? I mean, if it was just say under 10 people (cast and crew -- really off the top of my head for the scene in question it's just 6)? Could I get away with just doing it? Trying to figure out the logistics of an old project of mine, and it's too much of a nightmare to do between distance and paperwork. I suppose I should just Google it, but hey, I thought I'd ask.

Comments

[karnythia.livejournal.com]

I'm really uncomfortable with the use of their pics in the Spirit Day announcement. No one seems to have bothered with getting family approval.

[rm.livejournal.com]

That's one of the reasons I'm not reproducing the images here (I'm not actually sure what I think about it, but I know people are uncomfortable, and that's not a distraction that helps the message). The other is that it's not just them that need to be remembered.

[karnythia.livejournal.com]

I agree.

[bethynyc.livejournal.com]

I love that you had the idea for the musical and just made it happen. I feel like I'm watching the modern version of a Mickey Rooney/Judy Garland Let's Put On A Show, Kids! movie.

(dives back into her own play--break over!)

[tanyad.livejournal.com]

Do you mind if I snag that photo and poem for the Project site? I deleted their images but still have the information up for the October 20 event.

[rm.livejournal.com]

Sure. The poem is just a transcription of what's on the memorial. It's hard to see in the photo.

[tanyad.livejournal.com]

Ah I gotcha. Thanks for the ok to use it.

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[sociallyawkrd.livejournal.com]

I realize I am not the most well traveled of your whole f-list but I do consider myself relatively well traveled. I think i am at 20 countries and 4 continents including living abroad doing foreign aid work after college.

I always, always register with the state dept. Part of it is based on a scary experience in a war torn country during that living abroad period but the other bit has more to do with the people who are not me. Often if you are abroad when a disaster strikes the state dept may be the only way your family is getting information on you.

It is a personal preference I suppose and I personally would not be any more worried about going to Europe (way more crime against tourists in Europe than most of the places we drag our kid that the average American considers unsafe...sigh..)than normal but I always register.

And ramble. I always do that too.

[austengirl.livejournal.com]

I'm excited that Things Are Happening that you're making happen and look forward to reading about how they develop.

I've never registered with the State Department, but as sociallyawkward said, it is personal preference. I don't know if it's worth doing due to the length of your trip and intra-European travel you'll be doing while you're there.

This is a link I've had in the back of my mind to pass on to you: http://aqueductpress.blogspot.com/2010/09/politics-of-discourse-feminist-and.html A thoughtful post on discourse, and the ongoing WisCon/Elizabeth Moon situation.

[feyandstrange.livejournal.com]

It won't hurt to register with the consulate, ever - and if something does happen, either because of terrorism or because of a random bus hitting you or Patty or anyone else, they will know where to contact you and vice versa in an emergency. And just in case a discotheque or a cab blows up, they know to find you in jail or hospital and make sure your country's got your back.

It's one thing to lie about your nationality if you find yourself on a bus that's been hijacked buy terrorists, but the consular list is a totally different thing - that's letting the US know that there's a US citizen in town who they may need to help if shit goes badly. I think it ridiculously unlikely that they will have to evacuate Switzerland because the Slavs invade, but I like knowing the Marines will make sure I'm on the plane if I'm on the list.

[merchimerch.livejournal.com]

Registering with the consulate is easy nowadays, since you can do it online. I'd recommend it. I do it whenever I travel to Central Asia for my research, whether it's a month or a year long trip. Mostly it just means that you get the emails that tell you what is going on in terms of security. But it also means that the embassy is aware that you're in country in case they want to invite you to something nifty like speaking to a student group or something.

[seventorches.livejournal.com]

I feel so shallow asking this given the other content of your post, but what's the brand of the jeans? I'm getting ready to need buying a new pair and I absolutely hate shopping for trousers. (your build is probably nothing like mine, so the answer may not help me anyway, but any intel is good to have)

[rm.livejournal.com]

They're the slim fit ones from H&M, and I love them, because they are striaght leg and easy to tuck into boots and really tight, but not so tight that they give you chicken legs. (I tried on something I thought was jeans elsewhere yesterday and they were "jeggings" and I still hate myself).