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| Saturday, November 14th, 2009 |
bearsir
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1:34p |
Nearest Exit SF book launch!
Multiple award-winning writer, performer, gender-jammer and instigator S Bear Bergman returns to Sodom By The Bay with hir new book, The Nearest Exit May Be Behind You. Alternately unsettling and affirming, devastating and delicious, The Nearest Exit May Be Behind You is a new collection of essays on gender and identity that's irrevocably honest and endlessly illuminating. With humour and grace, Bergman spins stories from women’s spaces to the old boys' network, from gay male bathhouses to lesbian potlucks, from being a child to preparing to have one; and throughout shows just what kind of things you learn when you’re visibly queer to the naked eye. As usual, expect digressions, jokes, off-label stories, time for questions and reckless flirting. cost: Pay What You Can, suggested donation $10. No one will be turned away for lack of funds. Books will also be available for sale from the literist@s at Modern Times. **seating is limited**! please, RSVP by email to booking at sbearbergman dot com with your name and and the number of people. Sunday, 15 November 7:30pm (doors at 7) Center for Sex and Culture 1519 Mission |
ceemage
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4:52p |
Eastercon 2011 News
The buzz on teh interwebs is "rumours of an Eastercon bid for 2011 at Novacon." Well, given that the flyers are up on many walls, I would say that Illustrious is a bit more than just a rumour. Many of the names on the flyer are reassuringly familiar, including Chris O'Shea and both Dowds. ETA: Website is http://www.illustrious.org.uk/ |
ceemage
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3:02p |
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| Friday, November 13th, 2009 |
songquake
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5:10p |
Writer's Block: Super-human
Apparition or flying or bilocation. Clearly. I have too many loved ones too spread out for any other superpower to appeal. |
sfba_sf_fans
[ look_skyward ]
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1:02a |
Steampunk costuming?
I posted this in ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/community.gif) steamfashion as well, but since this is a local project, I figured I might get some good responses here. I am directing a new musical in San Francisco that takes place in a steampunk-esque world - it's a fantasy adventure story about a troupe of traveling actors in a time of war - the given time period on the script is "five years after 'Once Upon A Time'", so it's like this blending of a fairy tale world into grit and industry. That all said, I am in search of a costume designer for this project - it's a paid job, with a materials budget. Experiencing doing costuming for theatre is a plus, but what I'm really looking for is someone who can use creativity, ingenuity, and resourcefulness to bring this world to life through the costumes...and using what might be a laughable amount of money. If I've piqued anyone's interest, feel free to comment here with your e-mail and I'll be in touch, and please pass this along to anyone you know who might be interested as well... thank you!! |
gerisullivan
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1:48a |
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| Thursday, November 12th, 2009 |
sfba_sf_fans
[ evilgrins ]
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1:42p |
Good times
 2:59 PM 11/11/09 · My love of crossovers nearly joygasmed cuz of this. First there was the original crew of Star Trek teaming with the X·Men, interesting turn of the Phoenix Force combining with Gary Mitchell. Then in another comic, roundabout the same time within a couple months, the crew of the Enterprise·D wind up in the past, on their way home from Star Trek: First Contact, but not their past and in an effort to get home they cross paths with the X·Men... ...the whole thing got mixed up with that time travelling despot Kang the Conqueror. To finalize all this, after the crew of the Enterprise·D got home they discovered that somehow the X·Men got caught up in their wake. Which worked out well as their was an issue with a world where a good chunk of the population started randomly generating superhuman abilities, which was well done not in comic form this time but an actual novel. Wolverine reprogramming the holodeck so he and Worf could go toe to toe with Juggernaut, Sabretooth, and a few other of his rogues made for a fun ending. ( cover of the original issue ) Current Mood:  nostalgicCurrent Music: NUMB3RS |
sfba_sf_fans
[ evilgrins ]
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1:14p |
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ceemage
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8:53p |
Novacon schedule
Details of our proposed webcasting schedule from Novacon this weekend are now here. |
| Wednesday, November 11th, 2009 |
gerisullivan
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8:58p |
Apples: Note so I can find it again when I forget
Gala apples are attractive to look at, but they've gone flavorless and the texture isn't as good as I remember them, even in season. They're not crisp enough. Galas aren't bitter like red delicious, but they're no longer an apple I want to spend money on. Fuji apples are my current commonly-found-in-the-grocery-store fave. They smell like apples and they taste like apples. When I go to an orchard, I like to taste test and am likely to select different (and more local) varieties. But after not buying grocery store apples for years and years, it's nice to finally have one I know I like. (And to remember which variety it is.) |
gerisullivan
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5:30p |
"The 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month...."
In 1989, I spent the first three weeks of November on my first trip to the UK. I stayed with friends I'd already met in person in the States: Chuch and Sue Harris that April, Walter and Madeleine Willis the December before, Rob Hansen and Avedon Carol a few years before that, if memory serves. I met other friends in person for the first time: Vin¢ Clarke, James & Peggy White, & ATom.... Chuch, Vin¢, Rob, Avedon, and I went to Novacon 19, my first British convention. I came home from the UK with permanent ties to British fandom and Sixth fandom, ties that grew far broader and deeper in the years that followed. Going back in 1992, I finally met Dave Langford, ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) brisingamen, peake, and so many more friends. Then there was Precursor and Intersection followed again three years later by the first UK Corflu. Then death stepped in and bolluxed my "every three years" schedule. I was back for Vin¢'s memorial in December, 1998 and then...oh, dear, was the next and my most recent trip the short long weekend for plokta.con Release 2.0 in 2002? Yes, that's most likely. Back on that first trip, I think I was just back from Norn Iron when the Berlin Wall came down. This week's 20th anniversary celebrations of that rekindled memories of my own 20th anniversary and how pleased I was to be nearby, if not on the continent itself, when the Wall fell. Then it was November 11th. I grew up with VFW poppies. Even though the name was changed to Veterans Day the year I was born, I knew it first as Armistice Day. World War I wasn't all that long before. My grandfather fought in it, as did seemingly everyone of his generation. Yes, the Great War had firmly picked up its "I" and "First" when referred to as a World War. It was supposed to have been the war to end all wars, but only a few decades later, we needed to differentiate it from World War II. My father came home from the Army, from the Battle of the Bulge, married mom, and started having what turned out to be three kids. I'm the youngest of those. In 1989, Sue Harris bemoaned how few people wore poppies or even knew what they meant compared to her own childhood. Her adult children knew, but had no need or desire to wear poppies themselves. "It was all so long ago; it's not relevant. It doesn't matter now." Only it does, of course. Ever since 1918, it has. I believe it always will. It's not the only war, the only battle for which this is true, but it certainly is one of them. Sue was noticeably pleased that I grokked the poppies, that I bought one and attached it to my jacket before she'd said a word about her children's generation. Today, and each November 11th, I'm proud of every person on my friends list and in blogs who noted the date and wrote about its meaning to them. I thank you myself, and I thank you for Sue Harris. pecunium's post knocked my socks off. If you haven't already done so, please do: 11.11.09. Read, watch battlefield footage from the Somme. Listen to "Hanging on the old barbed wire" embedded in Terry's post. Then, please, remember. "It's about life, and death and the birth of hope." — Terry Karney Thank you. |
| Tuesday, November 10th, 2009 |
gerisullivan
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6:52p |
Kitchens: Environmental Impact Statements and the 5-Year Rule
I'm having my first full taste of ServiceMagic, and am very happy, indeed. The Benzo Company not only has an excellent tagline -- "Where well planned meets well built" presented in a clean, attractive font and format on their work trailer, Chris Laurenzo is an excellent, attentive home handyman. From what I've seen of his pricing, work ethic, and overall sensibilities, I'll also gladly use him for any larger building projects I find myself in a position to have done. Chris installed deadbolts in four, steel-wrapped, exterior doors that have been waiting for deadbolts since I moved in. Back in 2004, I installed the new deadbolt on the door that already had the necessary holes drilled, then wimped out rather than drilling the new holes needed to install the deadbolts in the other four doors. That seemed wiser than having to replace the doors themselves after my clumsy drilling efforts destroyed them. This Girl Homeowner is reasonably okay drilling guide holes for nails and screws, and sometimes using the drill to install the screws themselves. Cleanly aligned large holes at a 90-degree angle through both metal and wood? Not so much.... Chris also replaced the half-broken light over my garage doors, a light that's out of reach of any ladders I have. And he repaired two drawers in my kitchen that broke this year. Metal slides are all very nice, but when they mount onto plastic end brackets, 30 years of service is likely to do them in. Especially if you put as much stuff in your kitchen drawers as I do. ( That brings me to Environmental Impact Statements and the 5-Year Rule. )Progress. Progress is good. It took me 20 years to find a home handyman I wasn't living with at Toad Hall. It only happened then thanks to Realtor Bob and only because I was putting the house on the market. On the handyman front, I'm well ahead of my usual game here. Three cheers for ServiceMagic, and the friends here on LJ who mentioned having success with them in other parts of the country. I still think well of Angie's List, especially in denser markets than one finds here in Wales. The ServiceMagic approach helped me look further afield than I would have on my own, and led me to a great home handyman. Huzzah! |
| Sunday, November 8th, 2009 |
bearsir
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10:01a |
some things
The problem with LJ these days is that there are some thing brewing I am just not quite ready to blog about. And so I try to figure out how to edit that bit out from the other bits, and discover to no one's surprise that they're all connected underneath. Oh, Muriel Rukeyser, you were so right. However: There was an NYC trip, which was lovely and meant we got to see a lot of people I personally really like, including the fantatsic [ Error: Irreparable invalid markup ('<lj-user="boymeat">') in entry. Owner must fix manually. Raw contents below.] The problem with LJ these days is that there are some thing brewing I am just not quite ready to blog about. And so I try to figure out how to edit that bit out from the other bits, and discover to no one's surprise that they're all connected underneath. Oh, Muriel Rukeyser, you were so right. However: There was an NYC trip, which was lovely and meant we got to see a lot of people I personally really like, including the fantatsic <lj-user="boymeat"> and <lj-user="kathryntact"> who so kindly let us stay at their house, and a few minutes with <lj-user="lolitasir"> and <lj-user="naylandblake"> each, separately, but with a certain amount of smooching and extraction of promises to Visit Again Soon, Dammit. Check. Queer Shabbaton NYC 09 was marvelous, and I am not just saying that because it was run in part by my dear <lj-user="nicejewishbutch">, in whose company we basked, and we talked and learned and ate and ate and ate. We ate fantastic food elsewhere in the city (including the most amazing shojin cuisine meal at Kajitsu), saw Altar Boyz (our wedding gift from <lj-user="sweetambiguity"> and <lj-user="makeplayhappen">, celebrated my Secret Agent Lover Man's birthday, ate with my family, and generally elsewise caroused. My reading in Bklyn at Collect Pond was great, fun, well attended. My awesome hosts made delicious food for the guests, even. The crowd was warm (and hot!), attentive and engaged, and lots of people I didn't know were there. Which was, in a word, odd. But also (let's be honest) awesome. A nice Aussie artist, a friend of an old friend, was there and exclaimed "I've never been to a book reading! I had no idea they were such fun!" Didn't know how to tell her that it's not always friendly hotties and delicious homemade food and a performer on the stage. Oh, well. Off in the morning for book tour: <a href="http://www.sbearbergman.com/tour">Vancouver, Seattle, San Francisco, and Fort Collins/Colorado State</a> (please note a change of venue in Vancouver - the event is now at Wise Hall, 1882 Adanac Street). Come see me? And, if you do, please come and say hello? Now back to locating everything I want to pack and finishing all the cooking for my SALM to eat while I'm away. We haven't been apart this long in a long, long time. I predict many, many video chats. |
| Friday, November 6th, 2009 |
ceemage
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4:26p |
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ceemage
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6:58a |
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| Thursday, November 5th, 2009 |
gerisullivan
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6:23p |
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sfba_sf_fans
[ kevin_standlee ]
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7:28a |
SFSFC Awards 2009 SMOFCon Scholarship
Kirsten M. Berry is the recipient of the 2009 SFSFC SMOFCon Scholarship. She will receive a $500 grant to attend SMOFCon 27, the annual convention about running SF genre conventions, which this year will be in Austin TX over the weekend of December 4-6. See the full announcement on the SFSFC web site for details. Current Mood: accomplished |
songquake
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12:52a |
YANKEES WIN!!!
i love my boys so, so much. and i have to say, it's something being a serious fan of the most hated team in baseball. i mean, i never know to whom it is safe to expose this fandom, even among natives of this city (because other than the red sox fans, nobody hates yankees as much as mets fans). i'm a cradle yankees fan. a birthright fan. i attended my first game in yankees stadium in april, 1979, at the age of 5 months. yes. i remember being in elementary school and just adoring dave winfield. and since 2001, any time that i'm at my parents' during baseball season, i'm glued to the yes network. hell, in chicago this fall, i even bought the mlb postseason.tv package. and it's worth all the derision i get from fans of other teams when the yanks win. (what, me? competitive? nawww...). my boys... goodness. i love them all. even joba didn't suck tonight. mo, derek, jorge, andy, alex, nicky (omg SO CUTE -- joflo says that's what luke would be like if he were a professional baseball player), tex, robbie, hideki, cc, aj, and... even johnny damon. i think i've finally forgiven him for having played for boston. and HOLY CRAP. i just saw mariano rivera GRIN. i didn't know that the man could even smile! i saw hideki matsui grin earlier, too! gush gush gush. my boys were such a good team this year. they all looked like they were having SO MUCH FUN all the time. they play to win, but they're still playing. they look like they honestly like and enjoy one another. and that means so much. girardi did a good job for that. (btw, i don't love any of the steinbrenners. actually, when selig came up to award the trophies, he said something like "George has been a good friend for a long time, so this one is definitely for him." now first of all, the commissioner of baseball is not the dude who is supposed to be dedicating any team's trophy. but besides that, i looked at my father and said, "it figures that selig and steinbrenner would be good buds." cause they're both kinda slimy.) TICKERTAPE PARADE 11AM ON FRIDAY. THAT'S MY BIRTHDAY, BITCHES. WHO'S COMING? i haven't been to a tickertape parade since the rangers won the stanley cup in 1994. okay. this entry is done. no more offending the majority of my flist for me. |
| Wednesday, November 4th, 2009 |
sfba_sf_fans
[ lady_leandra ]
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9:25p |
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songquake
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4:58p |
HEY NEW YORKERS
i'm back in the city. and i need some networking help, asap! does anyone play classical piano or know someone who does? does anyone know of recording spaces? i ask because peaceofpie just sent me this link. eric whitacre happens to be one of my most favorite, favorite composers, and i would LOVE to get to premier a piece of his. but individuals need to submit "audition tapes" that are sound files. and i have neither an audition tape, nor an accompanist, nor a place to record. i'm also sending out begging requests via the antifolk scene, but most of the pianists there are self-taught and not great with reading music, it seems. i'm gonna keep asking around, but part of "asking around" is, i think, asking here. if you are able to help, please do! this is the chance of a lifetime for me. |
songquake
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3:03p |
to the 52% of maine voters who are homophobes
(swiped from rahmbamarama's discussion on how sad folks are about the gay marriage thing. again, for the record, i think it sucks any time a majority gets to take rights away from a minority. that said, i continue to hope for the abolition of state involvement in defining families.) |
| Tuesday, November 3rd, 2009 |
sfba_sf_fans
[ evilgrins ]
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1:02p |
V's?
1:31 PM 11/1/09 · So, V hasn't even started yet and I'm already bugged by something. In a commercial for the new series people are referring to the aliens as the V's, sort of cutesy little way of shortening The Visitors, which they are also known as. It's not a big thing but I'm a bit bothered as I think that may be what this series is being called V is based on, as opposed to the original series reason. Deathcamp survivors of the Nazi's started the "V" thing as the symbol they used during their resistance against that regime. V for Victory. Anyway, Sunday (today from my perspective) starting at 1pm they're showing the entire V series so I'll be able to see if they actually were ever referred to as V's in this. I don't remember that aspect but it's possible I could've forgotten it. ( figured a cut might be a good way to go )12:02 AM 11/2/09 · After a very long time, a VERY long time, V finally ended. Then it started again. Regardless, I have my answer. The Visitors were never referred to as the V's in the first series. 9:32 AM 11/3/09 · Last minute additions, before I post this. Sunday they showed V: The Final Battle all day long. Monday & Tuesday Syfy showed V: the mini·series from about 8am to 7pm... ...and, of course, V's new series kicks off Tuesday night on ABC at 8pm. Current Mood: nostalgicCurrent Music: V |
gerisullivan
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4:12a |
Happy, Happy Birthday....
...to rangercraig! Thank you for being so utterly wonderful all through Anticipation. May your coming year bring you tenfold the joy and fun you helped me have in Montréal. |
| Monday, November 2nd, 2009 |
gerisullivan
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2:06p |
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| Sunday, November 1st, 2009 |
gerisullivan
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5:24p |
Dreamwidth and Me
Six months in, I just don't seem to be using Dreamwidth. I'll be converting to a free account rather than disappearing entirely, but LiveJournal remains the place to find me. I wish the entire Dreamwidth crew the best of success with Dreamwidth's continued development and thank my friends who are hanging out here for continuing to crosspost to LJ however much they choose to. |
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