Random Good Things
Sep. 14th, 2011 08:39 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
eldritchhobbitApologies for being quiet lately. At the moment, there just aren't enough hours in the week. However, soon you'll be hearing from me every day (in October), so maybe you should just count your blessings. Ha!
Some good things...
* Pumpkin spice lattes are back at Starbucks. For me, this is like Christmas and New Year's Day combined. Mmmm, pumpkin. Fall, come to me!
* The fabulous Rebecca MacPherson has joined the new group blog The Fabulous Female, which celebrates women of history and today.
* Speaking of fabulous people, and related to my last post, the always-awesome![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
cookiefleck made it to the ceremony for Buddy Holly's new star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. She posted pictures here.
* Next week Tori Amos's new album, Night of Hunters, is released. New Tori Amos Album Day is one of those holidays I always try to observe. The album is up now for NPR's "First Listen." If you only have time for one track, I recommend "Your Ghost."
* I've accepted a lovely invitation to be one of five special guest speakers at next year's conference on dystopia and the problem of technology (official title TBA), which will be sponsored by The Working Group on Political Theory at Duke University. It should be a fantastic event.
* Later this week we're hearing Wes Moore, the author of the New York Times bestseller The Other Wes Moore, speak about his work, and then attending a reception with him. I'm looking forward to it.
* Here's a new quiz from Smart Pop Books (in support of Nyx in the House of Night: Mythology, Folklore, and Religion in the P.C. and Kristin Cast Vampyre Series, which includes an essay by yours truly).
* Speaking of Smart Pop Books, Fringe Science: Parallel Universes, White Tulips, and Mad Scientists is now available. You can read excerpts from the essays, including my "In Search of Fringe's Literary Ancestors," here.
* Happy early birthday wishes toekeppich, jinxed_wood, princeofcairo, chickenfried_jo, and llembas! May each of you enjoy many happy returns of the day.
Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it, and if I were a bird I would fly about the earth seeking the successive autumns.
- George Eliot
Some good things...
* Pumpkin spice lattes are back at Starbucks. For me, this is like Christmas and New Year's Day combined. Mmmm, pumpkin. Fall, come to me!
* The fabulous Rebecca MacPherson has joined the new group blog The Fabulous Female, which celebrates women of history and today.
* Speaking of fabulous people, and related to my last post, the always-awesome
cookiefleck made it to the ceremony for Buddy Holly's new star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. She posted pictures here. * Next week Tori Amos's new album, Night of Hunters, is released. New Tori Amos Album Day is one of those holidays I always try to observe. The album is up now for NPR's "First Listen." If you only have time for one track, I recommend "Your Ghost."
* I've accepted a lovely invitation to be one of five special guest speakers at next year's conference on dystopia and the problem of technology (official title TBA), which will be sponsored by The Working Group on Political Theory at Duke University. It should be a fantastic event.
* Later this week we're hearing Wes Moore, the author of the New York Times bestseller The Other Wes Moore, speak about his work, and then attending a reception with him. I'm looking forward to it.
* Here's a new quiz from Smart Pop Books (in support of Nyx in the House of Night: Mythology, Folklore, and Religion in the P.C. and Kristin Cast Vampyre Series, which includes an essay by yours truly).
* Speaking of Smart Pop Books, Fringe Science: Parallel Universes, White Tulips, and Mad Scientists is now available. You can read excerpts from the essays, including my "In Search of Fringe's Literary Ancestors," here.
* Happy early birthday wishes to
ekeppich, jinxed_wood, princeofcairo, chickenfried_jo, and llembas! May each of you enjoy many happy returns of the day. Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it, and if I were a bird I would fly about the earth seeking the successive autumns.
- George Eliot
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Date: 2011-09-14 01:08 pm (UTC)Sounds immensely cool. I hope you'll be allowed blog about it.
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Date: 2011-09-15 01:08 pm (UTC)If you see a post with a big red "Message Redacted," you'll know Big Brother didn't approve. ;)
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Date: 2011-09-14 01:22 pm (UTC)Come back Summer!!!
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Date: 2011-09-15 07:18 pm (UTC)The high should be in the 50s here tomorrow. Since I'm only comfortable when it's under 70, and most happy when it's in the 40s-50s, I say bring it on! I'll trade you all my springs and summers for all of your autumns and winters! :)
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Date: 2011-09-14 02:34 pm (UTC)Thanks for the link to the essay excerpts for Fringe Science. I went to the D*C panel that discussed that book, erroneously thinking it would be a much different sort of discussion, but have been somewhat curious about it since.
eta: Also I did not realize that you had an essay in! I am definitely more interested in it now.
(I should not write comments before coffee.)
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Date: 2011-09-15 07:20 pm (UTC)Oh, thank you. I'm so glad to hear you're interested in the book. I really appreciate it. I wish I could've been there for that panel!
(Nothing works without coffee, if you're like me! LOL.)
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Date: 2011-09-14 02:39 pm (UTC)Thanks for the Tori Amos link...that's awesome. I'm beginning to enjoy T.A. after a long time of not really getting into her, so I appreciated and enjoyed this. :) Made putting away groceries much easier with that to listen to, I tell you!
Hugs,
Febobe :)
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Date: 2011-09-15 07:21 pm (UTC)Doesn't the new album sound amazing? I can't wait. Thanks for sharing the excitement with me.
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Date: 2011-09-15 04:56 pm (UTC)OCTOBER IS ALMOST HERE!!!!!
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Date: 2011-09-15 07:22 pm (UTC)It's not long now! \o/
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