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7th November, 2009. 8:19 pm. Captain Beaky
For the benefit of anyone who's ever heard me say "And leaping off, said 'follow me!'... and ran head first into a tree" and not got the reference, may I present Captain Beaky:
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7th November, 2009. 12:11 pm. book question.
does anyone have a copy of margaret drabble's the garrick year that i can borrow? it appears to be OP, it's not lendable at the library, and used copies are going for, as one says, stupid money.
thank you in advance.
Current mood: hopeful.
Current music: imaginary music.
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womzilla |
7th November, 2009. 8:45 am. Scholarship Offer: An Announcement and Clarification
[I just posted this on behalf of all three of us to the IAFA mailing list. Since the original announcement was made here on LJ, I thought the clarification should be, as well.]
As some of you have probably already heard, the three of us -- Arthur Hlavaty, Bernadette Bosky, and Kevin Maroney -- are offering a scholarship to this year's ICFA for a person of color who would otherwise not be able to attend. The offer originally published on Arthur's Livejournal, at http://supergee.livejournal.com/1969375.html; it has been reprinted in several places.
We are making this offer as a family that has, separately and collectively, a long and happy history with the Conference. We're amazed by the quality of the people who have e-mailed and expect that next week we will be able to announce a beneficiary who will bring a great deal to the Conference.
There has been some confusion about the sponsorship of this scholarship. We wish to stress that it is completely the responsibility of the three of us. Neither the Conference nor the Association are involved with the administration nor funding of the scholarship in any way. It is a scholarship *to* the Conference, not *from* the Conference.
Also, we wish to apologize for the lack of official communication with the conference before last night. The circumstances which lead to us being able to make this offer came about very suddenly, and when we realized we could do this, we rushed the
announcement out, because we knew that the formal deadline for papers, panels, and other Conference activities had passed. We wanted to give the recipient the best chance of being able to participate fully in the Conference. In our haste, we didn't think to notify any of the members of the Conference Board of our plans; the first any of them -- any of you -- heard about it was when the offer had already been made. This was, literally, thoughtless, and we are sorry for any inconvenience, confusion,
or upset the oversight has caused.
Thanks for reading. Please pass this announcement along to any person or venue where you think it might be of interest, and we will see you all in Orlando in the year and years to come.
Current mood: anticipatory.
Current music: "Peace and Hate", The Submarines.
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supergee |
7th November, 2009. 6:41 am.
Shakesville discusses Bernard-Henri Levy's latest defense of Roman Polanski. Everyone says Levy is the intellectual heir of Jean-Paul Sartre. I guess you start with excusing rapists and work your way up to excusing gulags.
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pir_anha |
7th November, 2009. 12:31 am. spots!
you can now click on the images to see a larger version!
i have no idea what this plant is, but i shall endeavour to find out. it was nothing special during the summer, but now it is changing colours and those dots have appeared on the leaves, which are just gorgeous.
i've moved the first images to smugmug, where i've registered a trial account. i looked at a lot of photo hosting sites, and the organization and features there sound like they'll suit me best. it requires a minimum of effort to set up pricing, and the quality seems to be good (i have samples on order), so i should be up and ready quickly so people who want to can actually order prints (and cards, posters, tshirts [1], mugs, calendars, etc).
[1] the sizing here isn't friendly to us larger people, so i'll have to set up a separate account for this elsewhere, or impress upon the smugmug people that large bodies want nice tshirts too.
this entry is crossposted from http://piranha.dreamwidth.org/508223.html. you can comment there using a dreamwidth account, your LJ (or any other) openID, or even as anonymous (please sign). there are currently  comments.
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elisem |
6th November, 2009. 9:57 pm. ArtLog: Beads of the Month gobsmackery
Uh, we're sold out of April MOAMs and November MOAMs.
Still got other sizes left for those months, though. But wow: we sold out of two months of MOAMs in twenty-two hours.
Edited to add:
We are now also sold out of October MOAMs.
Current mood: gobsmacked, for sure.
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