Moe Lane's Blog, page 489
September 28, 2022
Tweet of the Day, Now Is A Good Time To Be Careful In [Tampa]* edition.
Nathan sums it up well.
That is not what you want to see. Turn around and put some distance between you and that. https://t.co/Erukpd09kg
— Chad Powers (@NathanWurtzel) September 28, 2022
*My bad. But the point remains.
September 27, 2022
09/27/2022 Snippet, UNNAMED STORY.
I was up late reading THE GOLDEN ENCLAVES. Worth it, but two paragraphs is all that I managed to write before running out of steam. Enjoy!
#commissionearned
Patreon!Both Beverly and I realized very quickly that [Lecturer] was not engaged in a typical summer survey of the Berkshire mountains. Oh, superficially it looked like she was going through the countryside, tracing the geographic and chronological evolution of selected ghost stories. The three of us would traipse from farm to hamlet to old-age home, interviewing either the tale-tellers themselves, or their surviving descendants. [Lecturer] would ask her questions, we’d take notes about the answers, and generally there’d be a ten minute recording session at the end of each interview. Her methods were idiosyncratic, but we had assumed that beforehand.
There were two things that leapt out at me about what we were doing, though. The first was the peculiar focus of her research. [Lecturer] wanted stories about ghost farmers or walking scarecrows, and (naturally) murder ballads. That in itself wasn’t really unusual, since most folklore projects look strange and over-specific from the outside. What was odd about it was that [Lecturer] was much more interested in the origins of some materials than she was in their motifs. She’d meticulously note the location of selected works, down to the GPS coordinates, and she would also record them in full. Everything else, she left to us to take notes over.Only, she never looked at our notes. That was the second odd thing. We were obviously in the data-collection stage of the process, but Beverly noticed after the second day that [Lecturer] hadn’t given us any specialized instructions on how to organize any of the information we were gathering.
Tweet of the Day, It’s Damned Close edition.
The classical definition of ‘chutzpah’ being, A man who kills his parents, and then asks for clemency at sentencing on the grounds that he is an orphan.
I will await the opinions of Talmudic scholars, but is this not the literal textbook definition of chutzpah? https://t.co/foURLaNW7K
— David Burge (@iowahawkblog) September 27, 2022
…I mean, it’s real close, isn’t it? Not perfect, but what is?
The THE SANDMAN Honest Trailer.
One of those where Honest Trailers had to gently nitpick because THE SANDMAN* was… you know, good. I am mildly interested about why they didn’t really mention Death at all. This show’s particular version of Death absolutely knocked it out of the park…
*Expensive? Yes. Worth it?
…Also yes.
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Huh. Ticket Scalpers/Scammers targeting Fright Reads.
Said miscreants are charging twenty bucks for five buck tickets that aren’t even sold out (scalping), or haven’t actually been purchased (scamming). Remember, folks: as the article says, buy your tickets via EventBrite. Or just show up at Fright Reads on Saturday.
The WORLD OF TOMORROW short film.
WORLD OF TOMMOROW is very much not really what I normally watch, but I watched it. It was good! Strange and melancholy, but good.
September 26, 2022
Posting may be weird tomorrow on account of THE GOLDEN ENCLAVES.
Seeing as I am anxiously watching the clock until Amazon auto-delivers Naomi Novik’s THE GOLDEN ENCLAVES* to my phone. It’s not that I’ve been waiting for this damn book for an entire year. Oh, no. I’ve been waiting for this damn book for two years, because I knew going in that I’d be buying the whole damn Scholomance series as soon as it came out.
So, there’s that.
*The series is sort of like a Young Adult trilogy about a misunderstood (and extremely powerful) teenager who goes to a magical school and endures many travails and drama, except that it doesn’t suck. Like the previous two, I can’t wait for the flimsy excuse they’re gonna make to not give this book a Hugo.
#commissionearned
Hurricane Ian heading to Cuba, Florida.
Hurricane Ian is definitely going to smack through the western end of Cuba tonight, if it hasn’t yet, and will likely make landfall on the Gulf Coast by Thursday. For everyone in its path: please stay safe, don’t take any chances, and get out of its way if you can. Even a Category 2 hurricane is dangerous.
Live feed of NASA aiming at an asteroid! [UPDATE]
[UPDATE]:
NASA, just now: "Humanity, 1: Asteroid, 0." Straight up.
— Ogiel (Moe Lane) (@Ogiel23) September 26, 2022
The DART mission. Less than a half hour out at this point. Watch the (hopeful) impact here:
