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pjthompson) wrote2019-08-14 05:01 pm
pjthompson) wrote2019-08-14 05:01 pm
Musings
A reminder to myself: “I can’t afford to hate anyone. I don’t have that kind of time.” —Takashi Shimura, in Akira Kurosawa’s Ikiru
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Sometimes when I see the Trumpets waving their Trump 2020 signs I think it says Trump ZoZo. (Demon In-Joke)
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I will vote for Bernie if he's the one although very reluctantly because I think he's as much a Russian operative as Trump is. But anything blue is better than Trump.
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Yes, I’m wanting a kitty again, why do you ask? Actually, I’m in the process of making the house kitten safe before I take that action. It’s a slow process, given the arthritic knees, but I am working towards that goal.
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Weird irrelevant fact: Five of the accused Salem witches were executed on my father's birthday, July 19. Eight were executed on my birthday, September 22. The other five were executed on August 19, and Giles Corey, the other victim of the hysteria, was pressed to death on September 19. I've always wanted to go to Salem, not so much for the touristy aspects as to pay my respects, but I doubt that will happen now. I watched an episode of America's Hidden Stories on the efforts to finally locate the actual execution spot. Turns out the family who owns the property had handed down that knowledge through the generations but because no one in town wanted to talk about it, it had never made it into the history books. When the historians who were investigating it showed up on the property, the owner confirmed their suspicions. They erected a memorial there in 2017. So many secrets in Salem, so much official censorship.
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I will admit that Action Bronson watching Ancient Aliens (Viceland) is infinitely more entertaining than Ancient Aliens. With Action, I don't usually want to throw anything at the TV even once. Granted, Action Bronson is stupid in his own way, just not Ancient Aliens stupid.
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I think the people in the Swiffer commercials are way the hell too anal.
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Everyone is eager to label other people fools, but everyone has something they're foolish about. I guess it's a multiplicity of foolishness that makes a true fool—or maybe it's a blindness to our own idiocy.
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You never know what will launch someone on a screed. Sometimes it seems innocuous but echoes in the haunted chambers of their mind in ways the rest of us can't see. Which is why I try not to take screeds too seriously. But sometimes they strike one of my private nerves—and we're off!
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So strange how one's taste and appreciation changes over time, sometimes dramatically. Yet it's necessary. If you're not changing you're stagnant and dead inside. I was just reading “Dover Beach” by Matthew Arnold, a poem that made my young undergrad heart go "blech" back in the day. It seemed so stiff and formal. But today when I read it, it flowed, it spoke to me, I really took it in. How strange and wonderful is the passage of time.
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Bridging scenes are the worst. Going from point A to C in a necessary but difficult scene makes me want to scream. Sometimes it indicates I'm going in the wrong direction, other times it just means it's boring. And will probably be edited out but I still have to write it first.
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Whenever I hear the word Apologia I think it should be the name of one of Prince's former backup musicians.
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On Carl Jung's birthday (July 26), I of course had a very interesting dream (said in a cheesy Austrian accent).
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Sometimes when I see the Trumpets waving their Trump 2020 signs I think it says Trump ZoZo. (Demon In-Joke)
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I will vote for Bernie if he's the one although very reluctantly because I think he's as much a Russian operative as Trump is. But anything blue is better than Trump.
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Sunday snoozles pic.twitter.com/Mf48xmaoso
— Mr. Meowgi (@Mr_Meowwwgi) August 11, 2019
Hey, you.
— Damnit, Justin! (@jray05) August 8, 2019
This is important.
Cheetahs don't roar, they meow like housecats. pic.twitter.com/N6F3ibUgcD
(Sorry the Twitter Embed isn't working on Dreamwidth. You can click through if you're interested.)
Yes, I’m wanting a kitty again, why do you ask? Actually, I’m in the process of making the house kitten safe before I take that action. It’s a slow process, given the arthritic knees, but I am working towards that goal.
*
Weird irrelevant fact: Five of the accused Salem witches were executed on my father's birthday, July 19. Eight were executed on my birthday, September 22. The other five were executed on August 19, and Giles Corey, the other victim of the hysteria, was pressed to death on September 19. I've always wanted to go to Salem, not so much for the touristy aspects as to pay my respects, but I doubt that will happen now. I watched an episode of America's Hidden Stories on the efforts to finally locate the actual execution spot. Turns out the family who owns the property had handed down that knowledge through the generations but because no one in town wanted to talk about it, it had never made it into the history books. When the historians who were investigating it showed up on the property, the owner confirmed their suspicions. They erected a memorial there in 2017. So many secrets in Salem, so much official censorship.
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I will admit that Action Bronson watching Ancient Aliens (Viceland) is infinitely more entertaining than Ancient Aliens. With Action, I don't usually want to throw anything at the TV even once. Granted, Action Bronson is stupid in his own way, just not Ancient Aliens stupid.
*
I think the people in the Swiffer commercials are way the hell too anal.
*
Everyone is eager to label other people fools, but everyone has something they're foolish about. I guess it's a multiplicity of foolishness that makes a true fool—or maybe it's a blindness to our own idiocy.
*
You never know what will launch someone on a screed. Sometimes it seems innocuous but echoes in the haunted chambers of their mind in ways the rest of us can't see. Which is why I try not to take screeds too seriously. But sometimes they strike one of my private nerves—and we're off!
*
So strange how one's taste and appreciation changes over time, sometimes dramatically. Yet it's necessary. If you're not changing you're stagnant and dead inside. I was just reading “Dover Beach” by Matthew Arnold, a poem that made my young undergrad heart go "blech" back in the day. It seemed so stiff and formal. But today when I read it, it flowed, it spoke to me, I really took it in. How strange and wonderful is the passage of time.
*
Bridging scenes are the worst. Going from point A to C in a necessary but difficult scene makes me want to scream. Sometimes it indicates I'm going in the wrong direction, other times it just means it's boring. And will probably be edited out but I still have to write it first.
*
Whenever I hear the word Apologia I think it should be the name of one of Prince's former backup musicians.
*
On Carl Jung's birthday (July 26), I of course had a very interesting dream (said in a cheesy Austrian accent).
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I find the U.S. system flawed, because when it comes down to it, you usually only really have the choice between two candidates and the president has so much power. Sure, you can vote for others, but it's not going to make a difference from what I've seen.
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It was another distraction ploy of his, mainly, to get people to stop talking about gun violence and recession. He doesn't give a damn that it costs time and money to Denmark or the American taxpayer. He's nothing but a sociopathic narcissist.
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And how rude is it to first invite yourself and then cancel in a hissy fit of temper, because you won't be allowed to buy something that wasn't for sale in the first place? It is a huge insult to the queen, had it been another country, this could have resulted in an international crisis. As it is, I'm sure she's probably quite relieved. He apparently tried to push his way through to meet her in 1991, but she slipped out through the backdoor. ;)
And about Greenland. At first I thought that yes, he probably asked about it, but surely his advisors would have explained that the colonial times are over, and you can't just buy a self-governing part of a country, because people can't be sold--and that would be that, but of course with Trump, it wasn't.
To be honest, when he ran for presidency, I thought it was a joke and wasn't concerned at all, because who would vote for him?
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And the scariest part of all about Trump is that he has ambitions to be a dictator, of establishing a Trump Dynasty. "Sovereignty" is not a concept he understands. If you combine that with clear indications that his mind is going and the clear mandate he has from Putin to wreck the American-West European alliance so Putin can work his schemes, we are living in terrifying times.
We all thought he was a joke when he ran for president, but he just kept winning—with Russian help, Republican cowardice, and Democratic ineptitude. The joke was definitely on us because we were so complacent and believed "it can't happen here." It can, and it did.
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But right now I'm in the first draft stage, so I'm safely far away...
Good luck?
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When I switched from writing fan fic to original fic, I had a nasty shock when I realized how difficult it was to find Readers. Almost everything I could find was geared for criticism to get you ready to publish - there was very little acknowledgement that I might want to write purely for the joy of it.
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I actually found that doing the criticism of other people's work taught me more about my own process then having my work criticized. Although the criticism was also valuable because it showed me my blind spots. The most valuable thing of all, though, was forming those friendships.
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For me, I realized that what I wanted out of writing was the fandom experience of friends who squee about your characters, but with the power to control canon. So my group isn't exactly beta readers in the classical sense of the word. It's people who get invested in each other's stories. And that takes a very special kind of friend indeed. I found one in fandom, one IRL and one through here.
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