My Dad called this house a shack in jest, if I recall correctly - it's not exactly packing cases stapled together or anything. But I think he said there's only one layer of wall and no insulation between inside and outside, and the original electricity setup was *shudder* an amateur endeavor ( Read more... )

Pfaw!  I make a sort of plosive sound of derision at that `too much' notion.  I've run short of good Snughorn to read, it appears (Slughorn and Snape, and there isn't much of it about, wah) so for some reason, let's say writing practice, I feel compelled to compile a probably-not-at-all-comprehensive list of
( Theories found in fanfiction about Severus Snape's hair: )

I went to an interactive theater event last week called "Lush Valley" last week at HERE.  I believe it was meant to inspire political engagement. It was indeed well performed, interestingly conceived, and thought provoking. Fun as well. The premise was that the audience/participants were applying to immigrate to a nation/concept called Lush Valley.

( Read more... )

There is not enough Snape/Hagrid fanfiction.

Hello F-list. The occasional spamming comments in cyrillic have been the liveliest thing on my LJ for some time ( Read more... )

Today I put dessicated clover blossoms on my parents' grave. Some - what is it, seven months? after my father's death, we finally trekked up to Albany to bury his mortal remains: ashes in a shiny vessel that looked like a paintcan. Dave carried it around the house, Dad's house, before we set out at 7:30 this morning ( Read more... )

That's not my line, but it does appertain!

Yes, folks, many things happening - for instance I recently co-produced, co-costumed and did lights for a show at WOW that I neglected to detail here: "Hidden: A Gender", by Kate Bornstein !  Maybe more on that later.

But now I'm actually in a show! It's broad, it's silly, a bit political, it's often ( Read more... )

I've been listening to a lot of folk music recently - the vintage of my parents' early 60s record collection, preferably - and Pete Seeger's voice sounding out "To everything, there is a season... " seems like the appropriate, if perhaps hackneyed soundtrack for this moment.

Although what's actually playing for the Equinox approaching is tacky pop ( Read more... )

I dunno, actually, it is more or less polite to attempt to command my LJ list's attention with two posts rather than a long one with an LJ cut? Hmm. Onward...

7. Dead father graphic novel reading club!    Two excellent works, and they're by queers of note:
Jokes and the Unconscious .Text Daphne Gottlieb, Illustrated by Diane DiMassa of Hothead fame. ( Read more... )

As S. Bear Bergman does, I'll do a numbered list. As I am feeling self-indulgent, it's long with no LJ cut. Yes, rude. Er, I apologize in advance but am still doing it. Right. Actually I'll do it in two posts as I do like to be mannerly, generally ( Read more... )