July 17, 2018 at 10:30 pm (Eavesdropping, Lists)
Tags: causes, discoveries, Huffpost, The New Yorker
The Daily Stormer is a relatively popular neo-Nazi blog, although it’s impossible to know exactly how popular. (From the style guide: “The site continues to grow month by month, indicating that there is no ceiling on this.” Also from the guide: “We should always claim we are winning, and should celebrate any wins with exteme exaggeration.”)
— Andrew Marantz, in a piece from The New Yorker’s Talk of the Town, 15 January 2018
Apparently, a HuffPost reporter, Ashley Feinberg, got sent a style guide, which is seventeen pages long. Excerpts:
- Links must not “stretch into the spacing between words.”
- Images must be exactly three hundred and twenty pixels wide, to avoid anything “aesthetically problematic.”
- Each post “should be filled with as much visual stimulation as possible,” in order to “appeal to the ADHD culture.”
- Passages from mainstream sources must be unaltered, so that “we can never be accused of ‘fake news’ — or delisted by Facebook as such.”
- There is NO SUCH THING AS TOO MUCH HYPERBOLE: “Even when a person can say to themselves ‘this is ridiculous,’ they are still affected by it on an emotional level. Refer to teenagers who get arrested for racist Twitter posts as ‘eternally noble warriors bravely fighting for divine war to protect the blood heritage of our sacred ancestors’ . . . You and anyone reading can say omg corny lol. But it just doesn’t matter to the primitive part of the brain.”
Stay tuned, dear blog readers. Stay tuned.
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June 24, 2018 at 12:26 am (Artists and Writers, Books, Conversations, Eavesdropping, Memoirs, Recommended, Surprises, Traveling)
Tags: elections, nonfiction, politics, reading lists, Saturday, summer, travel books
Finished In the Lake of the Woods in the wee hours. Got back past 11 p.m. from the City, resumed reading and just could not put it down until she knew what became of the missing wife.
She then turned to the next book on her reading list, Travels with Charley, by John Steinbeck. She’s still on the Introduction, by Jay Parini:
- East of the Mississippi, the conversations he overheard usually revolved around baseball; west of the Mississippi, the topic was hunting. Even though this was the autumn of an election year — Kennedy versus Nixon — there was no rigorous political debate to be heard anywhere.
Stay tuned, dear blog readers. Stay tuned.
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March 27, 2018 at 3:20 am (Conversations, Eavesdropping, Lists, Surprises, television)
Tags: adaptations, humor, Mondays, mysteries, Twitter
Self didn’t get to see the final episode. She’s here in Mendocino, reading tweets.
She didn’t get to watch last week’s episode either, but there were lots of tweets about CATS. Wait, what?
Then, there was almost a Twitter silence. For about five minutes. Which meant, everyone was watching and something was going down.
This evening, the tweet-storm began with something about coulottes. Sara?
- Oh my GOD! THE CAT! I wanna unsee that so hard rn
- I have anxiety.
- I don’t understand why they had you go through with that charade. Laszlo could not have shaken them some other way? So what if they followed? They couldn’t be less conspicuous than Roosevelt and his horsemen.
- Okay so that’s him.
- I suspect there’s something about this opera specifically that mirrors the plot of this episode. If only I understood Italian opera . . .
- Geez, does EVERYBODY carry around a chloroform-laden rag with them?
- Nothing like going after a brutal serial killer in your opera’s finest.
- Keep making noise!
- Joseph!
- HURRY!
- This seems like a bad idea.
- I’m barely breathing.
- The suspense is killing me.
- Laszlo, your ego might get you killed.
- What?!
- Heart is beating so frickin fast!
- “It’s not only love that resides in the heart, it’s pain.
- My nerves tho.
- I can’t take it!
Stay tuned, dear blog readers. Stay tuned.
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February 15, 2018 at 11:12 pm (Eavesdropping, Family, Links, Surprises)
Tags: Cal Poly, Cee Neuner, discoveries, memories, San Luis Obispo
Self’s word is AMAZING.
Here’s a picture of something son left behind in his room. He attended college in Cal Poly-San Luis Obispo. His freshman dorm was Muir, the Math and Sciences dorm. He moved to shared housing for his sophomore year, but his third and fourth years at Cal Poly, he was back in Muir — as an RA, or Resident Assistant.
When he graduated, the crowd that attended commencement included a group of students who had all gone through Muir and had the good fortune (they said) to have son as an RA.
Excavating Son’s Room: Amazing Discovery
Stay tuned, dear blog readers. Stay tuned.
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December 25, 2017 at 10:13 am (Artists and Writers, Conversations, Eavesdropping, Filipino Writers, Food and Drink, Holidays, plans, Traveling, Women Writers, Writing)
Tags: breakfast, Christmas, Mondays, museums, Paris, work-in-progress, writing process
4th Floor, near Charles de Gaulle. The first floor of this building is a store that sells harps. The window stays lighted at night, and she loves to look at the harps on display.
Self was planning to walk along the Champs Elysée. She’s had a big breakfast and is now back in her room, writing her novel-in-progress.
Last night, she walked a few blocks to the Arc de Triomphe and got off this moody night-time shot:
Christmas Eve, 2017
This morning, she went down for breakfast, and eavesdropped on the other guests: they talked of reading books, falling asleep at midnight, taking a leisurely stroll.
She will spend Christmas Day writing.
(Oops, not quite. She remembers the artists in Tyrone Guthrie telling her that things do not all close down on Christmas. She looked up the Louvre. It is open today. The hotel has been asking her to let them clean her room because she’s been inside most of the last two days. So that’s what she’ll do: she’ll take the metro to the Louvre)
Stay tuned.
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December 16, 2017 at 7:05 pm (Artists and Writers, Eavesdropping, Lists)
Tags: politics, Saturday, Twitter
@ProPublica
@mcspocky
@RealRBHJr
@marion_mcgarry
@TriskelCork
@LillianHowan
@NSIDC
@dailywalks
@TheMarySue
@RWAKissofDeath
@JanetFitch323
@_kingslayer2017
@WatchersOTWall
@kate_mccrea
@GraceLP
@Pigsyinspace
@jeanleesworld
@ErinLMcCoy
@FreeFolkMemes
@ASOIAFQuotesGOT
@thedailybeast
@karltaro
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November 6, 2017 at 4:51 pm (Eavesdropping, Places, postaday, Traveling, Weather)
Tags: Cork, Ireland, Mondays, postaday, postaweek, Wordpress
Light rain in the afternoon, on Lancaster Quay, Cork
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September 6, 2017 at 7:19 pm (Eavesdropping, Links, Places, postaday, Surprises, Traveling)
Tags: New York, postaday, postaweek, Wordpress
This week’s Photo Challenge is WAITING (Technically, it’s the challenge for the next two weeks, since The Daily Post is going to take a break next week).
What better city to write/reflect about waiting than New York City? Self arrived close to midnight last night. A light drizzle began this morning; she hasn’t had the energy to step out of her room.
But looking out at the adjoining buildings is providing plenty of opportunity for the Photo Challenge (Self loves windows. And New York City is ALL about windows)
The man in the photo is the next building over, two floors down. Which means he is on the sixteenth floor. He is very industrious, since he’s been at his desk since 10 a.m. What does he want? What is he waiting for?
Two buildings over, people sit at their desks. It’s funny how all the airconditioning units in these old buildings stick out like that. What do these people want? What are they waiting for?
Final picture: Diagonally across from self’s building is a rooftop that, judging from the number of professional-looking floodlights aimed at something in particular, will likely be LIT tonight. Self can hardly wait.
Stay tuned, dear blog readers. Stay tuned.
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August 14, 2017 at 6:29 pm (Eavesdropping, Lists, Recommended, television)
Tags: adaptations, fantasy, Game of Thrones, Gendry, humor, indulgences, Mondays, websites
- In the final scene of tonight’s episode, all your Game of Thrones boyfriends (Jon! Jorah! Gendry! Tormund!) find themselves together in Eastwatch castle, and it’s like the angriest sitcom crossover episode you’ve ever seen.
Ha, ha! Good one Vulture writer Nina Shen Rastogi!
Stay tuned, dear blog readers. Stay tuned.
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July 30, 2017 at 4:46 pm (Eavesdropping, Links, Recommended, Sundays, television)
Tags: adaptations, California, fantasy, Game of Thrones, Gendry, humor, review, summer, websites
Self had to sign up for Amazon Prime solely in order to be able to watch Game of Thrones Season 7. She got the first week of HBO free, but now she’s being charged $14.99/month. It’s all good because if she weren’t able to watch GoT Season 7, especially now with confirmation that Gendry would be returning (At last! My Gendry is in the House! Gendry is back, people!), she would just die.
Under the foolish assumption that having HBO deliver the show directly to her feed means she can watch Episode 3 about 12 hours ahead of anyone else, she keeps checking her Amazon link to make sure it is “good” and that the signal is strong. As of right now, there is nada.
So, here she is, all lonesome and frustrated and wondering how she is going to fill the next 12 hours. And then she stumbles on The Verge. Wow, whoever writes the show re-caps is so on point!
There’s this:
We’re back in King’s Landing before you can say “the feature-film debut of pop sensation Britney Spears,” and it seems to me like we could have just stayed here and held off on the 90-second greyscale explainer video until later, but it’s not my show. Cersei and Qyburn take a stroll through the Red Keep’s basement collection of skulls, where he unveils his dragon-slaying plan: a sinister-looking mechanical crossbow loaded with an enormous spear, which he claims “the finest artisan blacksmiths in King’s Landing” have been working on for months.”
- Wait a minute: Did Qyburn actually use the words “finest artisan blacksmiths in King’s Landing?” Or did he just say “finest blacksmiths”? Because there is a difference. At this point, any mention of the word “blacksmith” has self going waaaay waaaay back in time, to Seasons 2 and 3. Because reasons. Anyhoo, end of digression.
I don’t know, I mean, it’s just a crossbow loaded with a spear. It looks to be only about 1.5 times larger than the one Joffrey was using to pick off prostitutes six years ago. But it successfully shoots a centuries-old dragon skull that is sitting perfectly still . . . on the ground . . . about 15 feet away. Oh baby, here is a foolproof plan if I ever saw one. And artisanal!
Stay tuned, dear blog readers. Stay tuned.
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