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HE'S BACK ...
It's been a while since I've posted here. So without further prelude, here's What's Up With LDW:
JobstuffAmong my most recent posts a couple months ago was about a job interview at a local college for a web writing position. Interview went well, and I believe I'm among the frontrunners for the job -- but it's been nearly a couple months, and the ( Read more... ) -
IT'S NOT ABOUT THE MONEY
The following is one of the rarest of creatures: A political LJ post from Dave. (For that matter, any LJ post from Dave.) Might not happen again for a couple years ( Read more... ) -
FILKONTARIO 2012: THE STONE IS IN THE KETTLE
I should probably post my recollections of FilKONtario before it recedes into the mists. An excellent con, as always. FKO is, of course, a convention I'm predisposed to find favorable, for a number of reasons. It's the unofficial beginning of my convention season, as I don't currently have the funds to swing GAFilk or Conflikt -- as such, it's a ( Read more... ) -
LEDLEY DELMON WHEELER
The date doesn't usually occur to me when it rolls around each year -- but it just occurred to me that this day past would have been my father's 91st birthday ( Read more... ) -
A PASSAGE: SCATTERED THOUGHTS
Note: For those of you among my IRL contacts who know the situation, I've withheld names and locked the post to friends-only, so please do not share or link.She worked in the cubicle next to me for a number of years. She was funny -- sometimes wry, sometimes silly, sometimes caustic, sometimes ribald. She was blunt -- we all knew what she was ( Read more... ) -
LDW'S APOLITICAL POLITICAL CREDO, PART THE FIRST
For more than 20 years now, I've called myself a political moderate. It's a term that's not all that helpfully descriptive, bespeaking little than an aversion to extremes in policy and approach. I've also called myself an independent, which suits me better, as an expression that my views can't be pigeonholed and sanded down to fit within the ( Read more... ) -
... I SUSPECT YOU HAD TO BE THERE
So I'm doing some housecleaning and reconfiguring today -- and I've come across an envelope containing a bevy of Fake Fortunes, created by assorted friends and colleagues at The Company (notably Marcy Mahoney, who used to very occasionally post here as hazmatplaytime a few years back) as something of a send-up of insipid fortune-cookie offerings. A lot of ( Read more... ) -
TURNING OF THE YEARS
So, we appear to be some 26 hours into a new year. Well met, say I. I don't have any momentous departing words for 2011 -- it wasn't particularly momentous either in a positive or a negative sense. Mostly, it was quick -- as in, really quick. Which may be a function of age, or of too-long workdays, or something ( Read more... ) -
FIELD AND FOUNTAIN, MOOR AND MOUNTAIN
To all among my LJ friends who celebrate it, I wish a merry Christmas that's both meaningful and happy, filled with the people and things that bring you joy. To my Christian brethren among you, may we be increasingly cognizant of the reality, import and ramifications of the Incarnation of two millenia ago -- and the incarnation of sorts that's ( Read more... ) -
WHAT'S HE building IN THERE?
Heh. I have a number of Pandora "stations" -- a Ryan Bingham station that gives me a lot of Steve Earle, Lucero and Cross Canadian Ragweed (as well as Bingham); a station seeded with a Dave Mason song that gives me a lot of 60s vocal groups; an early-Genesis station that gives me a lot of Yes, King Crimson, etc ( Read more... )