As long as we're putting together a spontaneously poetry anthology that expresses our ineffable feelings with regard to this all-too-effable election:
Do not go gentle into that good night,
Old age should burn and rave at close of day;
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.
Though wise men at their end know dark is right,
Because their words had forked no lightning they
Do not go gentle into that good night.
Good men, the last wave by, crying how bright
Their frail deeds might have danced in a green bay,
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.
Wild men who caught and sang the sun in flight,
And learn, too late, they grieved it on its way,
Do not go gentle into that good night.
Grave men, near death, who see with blinding sight
Blind eyes could blaze like meteors and be gay,
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.
And you, my father, there on the sad height,
Curse, bless, me now with your fierce tears, I pray.
Do not go gentle into that good night.
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.
--Dylan Thomas
[I need this myself, to keep from sinking into despair.]
Dear Ghod, that such wonderments exist in the world...! One who can do justice to Shakespeare and Runyon simultaneously is indeed a person of many capacities and blessedness great.
Shel Silverstein also did a beatnik Hamlet -- I don't have a URL for it right handy, but I know it's out there somewhere (Google doth provide much direction for the misdirected).
And prithee, neglect not _Twisted Tales From Shakespeare_ by Richard Armour. I know not if it is still in print, but 'tis worth finding. (My 10th grade English teacher hooked us on this and on _The Princess Bride_ -- back in the mid 70's.)
Oh, well then. I'm all set. Birkies, and backup sandals, Tevas, are present and accounted for.
Y'know, as a Jew of Eastern European origin who did lose extended family members in the Holocaust, I wish "Nazi" had not been trivialized as an epithet. It is sometimes appropriate (i.e., if one is wondering if the situation in Rwanda is the kind of genocide meant when Holocaust Remembrance folk say "Never again."). I am just as offended when PETA uses the term as when a right-wing fundie does.
That little column there is a laundry list of rhetorical and factual errors, a true How Not To Argue Your Point Fairly if ever I saw one. (Alas, I've seen many such screeds.)
What say we start making donations to the Democratic Party, or NOW, or the ACLU, or any other nice progressive (feminist, les-bi-gay-trans positive, for extra points) in honor of Matera? Like Planned Parenthood's pledge drive in "honor" of W's inaugration?
I like imagining Matera's face when he starts receiving donation notifications from organizations that he considers Evil.
Now, where do I find a pair of Liberal Democratic Jackboots? How I hate to be improperly dressed for the revolution...
I really like the skull-and-crossbones touch.
As a tech writer, I've had my share of version control snafus (It's even less fun when the snafu'ed object is a template -- or, rather, several versions of a template. Argh. But I digress.). My sympathies, to you and NESFA -- I suspect they're deeply embarrassed by this (or at least I *hope* they are). Last I knew, they had several crackerjack proofreaders and editors, and I'm sure it sticks in their respective craws as well (albeit in a non-auctorial fashion).
Will you be at Boskone? (I believe there's a "no weapons policy," but I don't think they enforce it against a rapier wit!)
I was wondering if that was the same Barbara Walker who wrote _The Women's Encyclopedia of Myths and Secrets_. Sounds like they share an affinity for generating and/or noticing patterns and algorithms (archetypes/myths being another kind of pattern) -- they just manifest it differently.
Bless you, Teresa, for noticing the connection between technical writing and knitting/crocheting patterns! I'm a tech writer who got back into crocheting a year ago, and just re-taught myself how to knit from _Stitch-n-Bitch_. Just about every pattern I read has me longing to rewrite it (with extreme prejudice) so that it is, byghod, CLEAR and UNAMBIGUOUS. WITH illustrations.
*whew* I feel better now.
Never mind the need to standardize terminology, etc. etc....
Sheesh. I hate unneccessary obfuscation. I think generations of knitters/crocheters are just used to making do with difficult-to-follow patterns, and don't really think about rebelling. On the other hand, it does foster a lovely subculture at knitting/yarn stores, where the knowledgeble staff are happy to help neophytes choose projects and supplies, and are still around to rescue those projects when they go all askew weeks or months later...
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