So yes, I'm a metalhead. But I also like many other kinds of music - not just power metal, but prog metal, death metal, doom metal, stoner metal... and also classical, jazz, blues, etc.

Alberta Hunter was 89 years old when she gave this performance. 89! Skip ahead to about 0:25 if you want to jump straight to the music.

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Read the Matthew Swift books by Kate Griffin, all four currently in circulation. It was recommended to me by incandescens, whose opinion in these matters is trustworthy (and who, incidentally, should be congratulated on her book deal. The series is highly anticipated in certain circles, especially but not exclusively those named supertailzQuite enjoyed the first one, an ( Read more... )

The subject line of the top email in my inbox right now: "Meathouse Man LARP".

I'm frightened.

Something to tide you over:

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Amusing, even to that minority of you that don't write Russian world leader slash fiction. It really picks up at about 1:10.

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This essay happens to be about the current state of the leather daddy community, but with only one or two small alterations it could just as well be about SF/F fandom: http://www.leatherati.com/2013/03/new-blood-in-an-old-guard-world/

It doesn't become music until about a third of the way in.

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This story is amazing. It's worth reading all the background information, too.http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130311/19422822287/deep-dive-analysis-brett-gibbs-gets-his-day-court-prenda-law-

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They just don't make 'em like they used to.