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[rm]

I just wrenched the hell out of my shoulder stopping myself from falling down a spiral staircase.

Dragon*Con app is in, although we really have no idea of our schedule for the next year. But yay me, getting it done.

Yay, TEDWomen contest app in.

Yay, another media contact re: Dogboy & Justine.

Yay, a contract I sent out TWO MONTHS AGO, was finally received, I got paid, announcement possible soon.

I'm going to get to see the new Harry Potter movie in the UK! THis is sort of weird and exciting, because it once would have been the biggest thing ever for me, and now less so, not because I don't still love Harry Potter (although my relationship has changed with it over time), but because so many big, weird symbolic things happen in my life all the time now.

Oh "these glittery, brittle bonds."

Latest set of arguments in Prop 8 case to be televised.

A tale of two salons.

Tomorrow: CARDIFF.

Comments

[tekalynn.livejournal.com]

Ouch! I hope your shoulder gets better.

[marymac.livejournal.com]

Oh, that lovely falling-might-have-hurt-less equation. Yes. Much sympathy.

[kyburg.livejournal.com]

I envy you like whoa your movie in the UK. Just saying.

[byzantienne.livejournal.com]

I should send you an email about DragonCon; I really want to go this year, but I don't know the con culture at all, especially re: academic panels.

[rm.livejournal.com]

It's super good, in that the academic panels are run by an actual separate academic conference that is then given space in different relevant fan tracks -- so you have real academic cred in having your work accepted and a big audience of enthusiastic fans. It's super good.

[byzantienne.livejournal.com]

Okay, that sounds AWESOME. I'll do some research on it and then probably hit you up for advice on pitching things to them.

[rm.livejournal.com]

They usually put out a CFP with the topic themes for the year, but take submissions outside those topics as well. I forget when I usually see it though.

http://www.utdallas.edu/~mattbrown/DragonCon.html

[redstapler.livejournal.com]

My favorite thing about the "these glittery, brittle bonds" piece?

She writes for Marvel, too.

<3

We are all nerds.

[yoiyami.livejournal.com]

What do you think about this section from the end of the Two Salons article?

Nobody content would ever conjure such violent beauty out of juxtaposing disparate works of art. Only an artist would, and a real artist is never happy, never finished. The simple pleasure of walking down the street in the sunshine is rarely an option for people with such temperaments.

I really don't agree with the statement, and can't quite put my finger on it. The idea of a 'true' artist always unhappy, unfulfilled, never finished, and always has a troublesome personality was really jarring for me. Is that idea still in vogue?

I'd really love to hear what you think if you have time. (Perhaps it could go for a D&J bit?)

[rm.livejournal.com]

I agree with a lot of it, FOR ME (YMMV), except for the last sentence. I'm a very melancholy temperment, and I struggle with anxiety and depression and my art comes from both the discontents of that and the way that those things affect my pattern-recognition. That said, I am also an optimist and very innocent in some ways. I get tremendous, tremendous joy form just walking in the light.

[yoiyami.livejournal.com]

I guess that was it. The article goes on about finding beauty in juxtaposition and yet states that artists rarely enjoy the sunlight. What? The whole point of being an artist is seeing things other people don't see, seeing the beauty in ugliness, and feeling strong enough the need to express that and show other people.
You can't separate that beauty and joy from the ugliness and anxiety; it's the whole picture that artists see. Trying to present the troubles as the only side of the artist is very limiting and one dimensional. I guess I will never get used to the reaction people have when I tell them I'm an artist.

[elusis.livejournal.com]

So I've seen stories several places about the Prop 8 appeal being televised... but the missing piece for me is, did the appeal actually get granted? Last I heard, there was still no agreement on whether anyone had the standing to go to bat for it since the governor and Attorney General both refused to do so.

[heron61.livejournal.com]

*checks* That is indeed very cool.

[bodlon.livejournal.com]

I'll be really curious to hear what you think of HP7. I caught it last night (well, this morning) and have Opinions.