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Dreamwidth
People trying to find me on Dreamwidth, know that I’m avram over there. -
MoCCA 2016
This year’s MoCCA Art Fest was held at Metropolitan West, on West 48th St, all the way over on 12th Avenue, even further west and more inconvenient than last year’s venue. I guess next year’s’ll be in a barge, mid-Hudson.
Here’s my shoulder-cracking haul:
Books
- New Contruction by Sam Alden.
- A Stray in the Woods by Alison Wilgus.
- Beef With ( Read more... )
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And he that humbleth himself shall be exalted
“I am, in all modesty, a skilled author, one of the finest writing today.” - John C Wright, 23 Aug 2015
“So, all modesty aside, I understand materialism, and the arguments for and against it, far better than anyone who had arisen to argue with me here.” - John C Wright, 18 Oct 2012
“In all modesty, my science fiction writing is first rate. If I ( Read more... ) -
The Wright order
I see that, in the comments under Tom Doherty’s recent message on Tor.com, there is one from John C Wright, in which he makes the following claim:
I am not unrepentantly homophobic. I am nothing of the kind. It is a lie.
I follow the Catholic teaching on same sex attraction and how ( Read more... ) -
MoCCA 2015
I haven’t done one of these in ages. Still been going to MoCCA every year, but I’ve been forgetting to record my hauls.
This year the festival was held at Center 548, way over (way, way, way the fuck over) on West 22nd St, near 11th Ave. The festival was held on the second through 4th floors of the building, with a tiny elevator and treacherously ( Read more... ) -
Ello
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Israel/Gaza, as seen by four social networks
How four social networks inform me about the current Israel/Gaza conflict, in order of where I first started seeing things:
- Facebook: Shares of pro-Israel/anti-Gaza graphics, some of them direct Israeli Defense Force propaganda with the identifying logo at the bottom. All of the sharers are personally known to me, and all are Jewish. Most (maybe ( Read more... )
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I voted
If I were living in Ohio or Florida, I’d have held my nose and voted for the war criminal. But I’m not! I’m living in New York, a state which is going to deliver its electoral votes to the Democratic Party candidate this year, no matter what I did at the voting booth. So I was free to vote my conscience, and did:
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We're fine
We’re in a second-floor apartment, over a hundred feet above sea level, so it wasn’t likely we’d see any flooding. There was some chance that we’d suffer the failure of some bit of urban infrastructure (power, water, etc) due to problems in the rest of the city, but things went pretty well. Lights flickered occasionally, but we never actually lost ( Read more... ) -
Talk about infinite canvas!
