August 14, 2017 at 6:29 pm (Eavesdropping, Lists, Recommended, television)
Tags: adaptations, fantasy, Game of Thrones, Gendry, humor, indulgences, Mondays, websites
Ha, ha! Good one Vulture writer Nina Shen Rastogi!
Stay tuned, dear blog readers. Stay tuned.
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.
July 25, 2017 at 1:00 am (Artists and Writers, Eavesdropping, Places, short story collections, Women Writers, Writing)
Tags: Annaghmakerrig, artists residency, dystopia, inspiration, Ireland, science fiction, short story collections, Tyrone Guthrie Centre, writing process
Self is trying to put together a collection. Which involves a laboriously slow process of selection. It is nice, though, re-reading stuff.
from Spores:
(Set in the far future. Very, very, very far. Society’s divided into classes: Earthstar, Silverleaf, Shag, and Common. The main characters are a pair of lab workers named K and R. K is a girl, R is a boy. The story’s told from R’s point of view)
“We be needing foxes,” I said once.
“You lousy hedgehog,” the boss said, giving me a good one. My right eye swelled up almost immediately.
“You not be asking me to fetch, you lousy Common!” He gave me another good one on the way out.
K trembling there in the corner.
The voice was birthed while eavesdropping at the dinner table in Annaghmakerrig.
Stay tuned, dear blog readers. Stay tuned.
July 4, 2017 at 4:30 pm (Conversations, Eavesdropping, Holidays, Personal Bookshelf)
Tags: causes, exhibits, museum, photography, San Francisco
“I want to get married and have at least four kids with ten dogs and live in a mansion with a jungle greenhouse with a pet jaguar.” — Runaway
“It is very difficult for a runaway kid to return after he or she has been on the street for more than a few weeks.” — Police Officer
“Adam and Troy have AIDS. Scooter is dead. Katy gave up her kid and is hanging out in bars in Polk Street selling pot.” — Runaway
“You know, they would rather live in filth and hunger with a group that will accept them than they would with a family that will meet all their physical needs, yet inflict on them emotional pain and torment.” — Preacher
“We won’t lose our jobs, this is a growth industry, good as the utility company.” — Counselor
Happy Fourth of July.
Stay tuned.
May 30, 2017 at 7:13 pm (Artists and Writers, destinations, Eavesdropping, Explorers, Traveling, Women Writers)
Tags: essay, nonfiction
You need to turn off the road taking you to your destination, watching out for elusive signposts while hugging the white beaches, to realize that this Pacific Caledonia shares more than verdant mountains and damp spells with Scotland: a certain predilection for solitude, for creating deserts.
— Léa Outier, “Conversations from the Other Side”
May 25, 2017 at 8:47 pm (Eavesdropping, Links, Lists, Places, postaday, Recommended, Traveling, Weather)
Tags: England, Flowers, London, New York, postaday, postaweek, websites, Wordpress
“One day they’ll be painted over, completely erased . . . “
— Krista Stevens, explaining this week’s Photo Challenge on The Daily Post
The evanescent is powerful: whether it’s a fleeting moment of sunshine in London, or the moment just before the seeds of a dandelion are scattered by the wind, or the delicacy of woodland fungi, or a collection of bird shots, or a moment when sun pierces the cloud cover around Aoraki/Mount Cook, or a 10-year-old photo of New York’s Grand Central, one never forgets the moment that is captured.
Hats off to these six bloggers:
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May 24, 2017 at 9:10 pm (Artists and Writers, Eavesdropping, Links, Places, postaday, Traveling)
Tags: art, memories, museums, Paris, postaday, postaweek, Wordpress
This week’s Daily Post Photo Challenge is EVANESCENT.
What is fleeting, what is most evanescent.
Look at the pictures she chose to take at the Musee de l’Orangerie. Instead of waiting for people to clear out of her photograph, they became part of the moment. And that was even before she found out what this week’s Photo Challenge was.
Moments. That’s all she was interested in capturing this afternoon. Apparently.
Stay tuned, dear blog readers. Stay tuned.
January 11, 2017 at 7:05 am (Artists and Writers, Conversations, Eavesdropping, Explorers, Fan Fiction, Links, Movies, Recommended, Surprises, Women Writers, Writing)
Tags: Jennifer Lawrence, science fiction, websites
Of course, because this is the future and we write fan fiction, watching “Passengers” leads to some interesting gender flipping in our de-construction of said movie.
The idea of having Jennifer Lawrence doing the choosing was entirely Sunny’s. Self thought: Go for it!
Stay tuned.
January 9, 2017 at 5:02 pm (Eavesdropping, Recommended)
Tags: causes, crime, inspiration, Mondays, Protests
You don’t know me, but you’ve been inside me, and that’s why we’re here today . . . Future reference, if you are confused about whether a girl can consent, see if she can speak an entire sentence.
— Emily Doe to her rapist, Brock Turner, quoted in Glamour, December 2016
From Emily Doe:
I had forensic evidence, sober unbiased witnesses, a slurred voice mail, police at the scene. I had everything, and I was still told it was not a slam dunk. I thought, if this is what having it good looks like, what other hells are survivors living? I’m barely getting through this but I am being told I’m the lucky one, some sort of VIP. It was like being checked into a hotel room for a year with stained sheets, rancid water, and a bucket with an attendant saying, No, this is great! Most rooms don’t even have a bucket.
After the trial I was relieved, thinking the hardest part was over, and all that was left was the sentencing. I was excited to finally be given a chance to read my statement and declare, I am here. I am not that floppy thing you found behind the garbage, speaking melted words. I am here, I can stand upright, I can speak clearly, I’ve been listening and am painfully aware of all the hurt you’ve been trying to justify.
I yelled half of my statement. So when it was quickly announced that he’d be receiving six months, I was struck silent.
After Turner was convicted of rape last spring, a judge “sentenced him to just six months, saying anything more would have a severe impact on him.” — Cindi Leive, in Glamour magazine
Stay tuned, dear blog readers. Stay tuned.
January 5, 2017 at 5:47 am (Conversations, Eavesdropping)
Tags: essay, humor, satire, The New Yorker
Self knows it is really lame that she’s just now getting to her New Yorkers of February 2016. Nearly a year ago. But she’s so anal about it. She refuses to throw away a single issue she hasn’t read. That’s a very big pile she’s staring at, right now.
On to “Shouts & Murmurs.” It doesn’t always work. Sometimes it feels like whoever’s doing it is trying too hard to be satirical. Because that is the whole point of “Shouts & Murmurs”– to be satirical. Some people have satire in their blood, and some people can’t be satirical to save their lives. Some people can point to a stick of butter and make the gesture itself seem satirical. Others can say Moo Moo and ape a cow and pretend to be giving birth to a stick of butter and everyone would just look at them and say, Wut?
But, as usual, self digresses.
Here’s one that works: Kelly Stout conjures a judge giving jury instructions.
Jurors, I remind you that part of your duty today is to avoid discussing the details of this case with anyone outside this jury. Do not, for example, Gchat with your best friend from college, because she lives in Philly and doesn’t know any of the restaurants around here, and always says dumb, unhelpful stuff like, “Falafel isn’t as healthy as you think.”
Information from the news or from social media must not influence your finding in this case. For example, do not use Instagram to try to figure out whether Rob’s friend Warren got a Skrillex haircut or if it just looks like that because of the light. Also, Warren may not even be able to come, because his stepmom is in town.
You are allowed to make reasonable inferences, as long as they are based on the evidence. It is OK to speculate that Rob’s roommate may get on your case for being pro-Hillary and have literally zero sense of humor about it when you call him a Bernie Bro, because that is what happened when you guys met up for dim sum.
(How nostalgic self gets when she reads of pre-election chatter like the above!)
Stay tuned, dear blog readers. Stay tuned.
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