Hee hee, the biological molecule I am is DNA! Neglected to save it, but something like "Incredibly complex, way too intellectual, nobody understands you."
Oh come on JVP, you were confused before that!
(Someone had to say it, and I guess I just got here first.... -- add appropriate smileys)
Ed Cogswell! Maybe that was Ted Cogswell, and the Institute for Twenty-First Century Studies is alive and well -- we'll have to look to the next entry of the proceedings to find out!
JVP, you've clearly never played poker with Alan....or with me.
"Moses supposes his toeses are roses
But Moses supposes erroneously
For nobody's toeses are roses or posies
As Moses supposes his toeses to be."
What we are contains what we become, but is not bounded by it.
The year changes and we change in it (tempores mutantur, et mutamur in illis).
Much love to you, and best wishes to all here.
John Tukey, one of the great statisticians of the last century and the developer of exploratory data analysis and fast Fourier transforms, collected World Almanacs. I made him very happy by finding half a dozen years he didn't have when we were at the AAAS meetings in Detroit.
He was very interested in how the information for previous years changed from one year to the next. In the almanac world, revisionist history is apparently a requirement -- and the changes are generally not marked, and not obvious.
I wonder what happened to his collection?
Um.... Creative Arts was not a vanity press in the standard sense of the word. Reading the article indicates they had some serious local publishing chops. They were known and respected, from the outside, as a good alternative publisher. A lot of their books sold good numbers, and they were distributed through Bookpeople.
It's a real cautionary tale for those working in alternative publishing; but many mainstream publishers could have the same thing happen to them (_not_ the copublishing part, which probably was not the major part of their line!) -- not being able to keep the ball rolling any more and folding.
In the SF/Fantasy field, Derleth co-published several books in his time at Arkham House, and the authors who have talked about this (David H. Keller, for one) all agreed that he behaved honorably.
And Creative Arts resulted in some damn good books being available; the author-screwing seems to have been a late development (not sure on this as there's not enough info in the story for me to be sure). The confused copyrights relate to contracts the authors chose to sign; if all had continued to go well with CA, this would probably not have been a problem. But remember how many mainstream publishers put all sorts of rights into contracts that wouldn't benefit the authors? Remember how J. K. Rowling's agent sold "all rights" to various characters to a big conglomerate (and the ensuing lawsuits and all)?
I'm glad you linked the story, but I think you're being a little glib, catie. It's a real cautionary tale, but not the one you make it out to be.
Those erotic dreams that I have recorded have gotten stuck on my computer with password protection, and I'm afraid I don't remember the password (I don't record them often enough for the word to stay in my memory).
I agree with PNH's comment on the original post, and have pointed several friends to it before it got Threadhood.
Seriously good.
Cassandra, like a discussion on the Morris Dance Discussion List (MDDL, pronounced "muddle"), referring to alcohol as a Good or Bad Thing when one is dancing (hydration-wise) --
it depends on whether each book you read gives you more time than it takes.
Some books (I won't mention Prs nthn, Dn Brwn, Jhn Nrmn, or ... well, you get the idea [vowels deleted to protect the innocent]) clearly cut down on one's lifespan. Others (Gn Wlf, Mr Dr Rssll, Ptr Dcknsn, etc. [vowels deleted to preserve parity]) have a good chance of extending it. Your mileage _will_ vary.
If you don't want to fall in either camp, there are a great many midlist authors who will serve your purposes.... (Sturgeon's Law willing)
Would you then consider knitting as a form of meditation?
I've certainly found that I can remember many of my dreams, and that writing down at least a key image immediately makes that much easier -- this can be as little as three words. Half an hour later, when I'm sitting at the computer, I can expand those three words, usually to between half a page and a page. I can often manage to remember three dreams in a night. Then there are long periods where I don't remember any. I can still remember a dream I had when I was under 6 years old, though.
As to God talking to me in dreams, hasn't happened. But I've been initiated into being a god in more than one dream (the first initiation dream I had, I refused to join the cult; the second, I didn't ... other initiation dreams have followed). One of the odder bits in recent years involved a roadside vendor of liquid air (not frozen, just liquefied) in many different colors.
David McDaniel, the best writer of Man From UNCLE novels, stuck a very obscure reference to The Unstrung Harp into The Vampire Affair, MFUNCLE novel #6. The book begins "It had begun to snow," and ends "It was still snowing": the two sentences which are all we get to see of the novel, The Unstrung Harp. Naturally, he inscribed a copy to me: "To Tom -- will we ever forget the bloaters?"
I watched BTVS from the beginning. One hit and I was hooked. And I am not generally a television person -- I've lived without one, or without watching, for the majority of my life. When Buffy came on, I was living with someone who had a TV, and I don't even remember why someone suggested I watch it.
What kept me coming back was that the show is witty, funny, and intelligent. Less so as time went on, but often enough. (Did anyone else notice that Joss W wrote proportionally fewer episodes each season? And directed less?)
Marci and I cooked a turkey in a Weber barbecue through a recipie from _Sunset_ magazine a couple of times while we were living in cohousing. It came out beautifully -- looked like the pic on the cover of _Sunset!_ and tasted wonderful as well. And it was done significantly faster than the ones cooking in a conventional oven. YMMV. Sometimes recipies are just Right.
It's not just the fuel and maintenance -- it's the staffing. How to keep at least one person, with the ability to make serious fire pretty much instantly, at each one of those stations, for years, and have them respond that quickly....
But it's still damn impressive cinematically, and I'll let Jackson get away with that one.
Thank you, Kip and Claude. Thinking of Roy Kinnear as Grima is a great way to expand my Christmas cheer. He was a lovely character actor (I think my fave performance of his was in _Juggernaut_, where he plays the entertainment director on a ship with large numbers of serious bombs attached -- allowed him serious room to play with the absurdity of his role within the context of the role).
I believe the release date for Season 6 is actually my next birthday.... Avram, there's good in each season, and I'd hope folks wouldn't stop before season 5 at least. I mean, we didn't get the musical until much later!
Joy health love and peace
Be all here in this place
(hey, it beat out
Caput apri defero
Redens laude domino)
You brought back memories of the only explicitly Christian ceremony I grew up with, my father reading that passage (and continuing) on Christmas Eve. Every year. A strong family memory. Thank you very much.
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