Scott H. Young pointed me to this article by Ben Cashnosa about loneliness as a peril of the unconventional life...hell, you can be conventional and be lonely, but being odd tends to make it even more likely. Being alone and being lonely are two different animals that resemble each other, but they aren't alike.
I have spent the afternoon and evening working on a playlist for Womyn Making Waves tomorrow and learning how to create a Spinitron record. I also updated the blog for the first time in months. Womyn Making Waves is a show devoted to women's music on WEFT 90.1fm.You can listen on line starting at 1pm Central Time.
Music is one of those languages that is much easier to experience than to create or understand (at least for me). I'm an audience, mostly, but I have been doing the community radio thing off and on for years (starting in 1984? with Feminist Effusion. I had my own show for several years in the late 80's early 90's and then became part of the Womyn Making Waves group a few years ago. My tag line is "I'm not a lesbian but I play one on the radio," because WMW plays music by women, but also womyn with a y.
Now I am responsible for 3 blogs...hope I can keep up.
Came downstairs to get away from Guitar Hero and the vacuum cleaner, got a song from itunes for kathi (unchained melody in Spanish by il divo), and hit twitter because I was on the go from the time I got to work until the time I left (that should be talked about in Circulating Zen however) and did no social networking today at all.
Found a tweet from Book View Cafe that announced that East of the Sun, West of Acousticville by Judith Tarr, which was originally published in Stars by Janis Ian and Mike Resnick. Then someone (now I don't know who) mentioned The Variants (comic book fans answer to The Guild) (btw, I can't recommend Felicia Day enough...she blogs, she tweets, she reviews (and has excellent taste in reading material) and she is as cute as a bug's behind.
So now it's almost time for supper, I haven't put my laundry away, haven't looked at Spinitron. My entire life is hyperlinked.
Snagged from Unclutterer: Closing the Book on a Bad Read.
Is it okay to abandon a book half read? Is it okay to get rid of a book from your shelves if you aren't ever going to read it? Are there books that are "bad"?
I have cluttered my life and my bookshelves with self help books and diet books and trashy novels and sometimes it, like all clutter, makes me truly claustrophobic. (The rest of the time my clutter and my ability to take up all available space is a protective wall, but that is another issue entirely.)
I have been meaning to "get rid of shit" all summer. It hasn't happened, but articles like the one above (from my cluttered news feed), inspire me.
What does everyone else think.
so...i've moved several hundred songs this evening...sitting in the gopher the way i do every other Saturday night, d&d to the west, werewolves to the east, and me in the middle with my trusty netbook.
Feels more like mid-September than the first of August. Students are coming back...the new semester is looming. Getting ready to start my 36th year in a college town (actually 35 because of the year I spent in Coulterville). Still, August is the time of year for new beginnings. I asked Ria if she was going to re-invent herself for 7th grade...she is way too cute to be emo, but she wants to be all gothy and hang with the vampires...i can only encourage it. I may have to go to Hot Topic and get her the Twilight sweatshirt and a copy of Wuthering Heights (the librarian said it was too complex and that she wouldn't like it, but Ria says that she is a complex person and should be able to read what she wants to). She also says @Neilhimself (Gaiman) is awesome.
Mark is basically repeating freshman year...he's smart but he hates school. Personally, I think Papa Teece ought to home school him. He'd still have social outlets because of the store and living in a small town. He'd learn a lot more than he will learn at Heritage High School. It's not up to me, though. TC would have to be willing and Mark would have to cooperate.
Still trying to finish Palimsest. I don't know why it has been so hard to read. It is fascinating, the idea of a magic land that can only be reached by sex between two people who are each infected with a map.
