Francesca Forrest's Blog, page 23

"I didn't know..."

My friend KM is an amazing storyteller: she can tell you something that happened to her, and her face is so animated, and her voice, that you listen enthralled, and it's like whatever the thing was, it's happening to you, too.

Last week she was telling me a story that Laurie Anderson told, a story about rescuing her twin brothers from death in an icy lake when she was eight and they were two. KM heard this story on Anderson Cooper's podcast about grief,** so when she was telling the story, I was...

Crowdfunding the purchase of Twitter

Now I know several of my friends on here have no interest in/actively dislike Twitter, but I do like it, so my thoughts these last few weeks have turned to 🎶How-do-you-solve-the-problem-of-the-owner.🎶

And I got to thinking, why not crowdfund a buyout? World's largest Kickstarter--$44 billion! Since Kickstarter doesn't take donated money unless the goal is met, and since $44 billion is not likely to be met, people could donate without worrying that it was a scam that was designed just to enrich wh...

"But they always said hello and stopped to chat"

The Boston Globe broke a story on Tuesday about busting up a Russian smuggling network and arresting a key link--a 35-year-old in New Hampshire who was receiving high-end US tech in the mail, repackaging it, and sending it to Estonia, where another agent would take it across the border to Russia.

Today they had two stories describing how the smuggling operation worked in detail, including the long-term investment in agents and their embeddedness in the United States. It's all so spy movie!

"What t...

snow, woodland marimba, Netflix

It snowed!

I knocked the snow off the clothesline and it fell all at once, from the entire length of the clothesline, a rope of snow hitting the ground.

I'm back from my dad's house, but while I was there, I found a tiny nature preserve that has been set up across the street from my high school. It's on low-lying land unsuitable for development: a land conservancy has bought it and made it into a preserve, so high school students can learn about wetlands and local people can go for walks.

Because ...

Hot Chocolate Run 2022

So I collected some wishes to run with this year, as I did in 2018 --not as many as that year, though, because I didn't fundraise really. This year I wrapped the wishes around paperclips and then safety-pinned them to my jacket. They looked like this:

(The words you see aren't the words of the wishes: they're the words printed on the back of the sheet of paper I printed the wishes on.)

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As I mentioned in a locked entry, I wasn't able to be at home--and therefor to participate in the actual race--on ...

Datlow!

When I first came online in 2006 and fell in with the SFF... H writing community, a name that kept on coming up was Ellen Datlow's. I became aware that she was an editor and that she published best-of anthologies. I used to whisper her name to myself with strong emphasis on the first syllable of her surname. Ellen DATlow, Ellen DATlow...

Nothing of mine ever ended up in a best-of anthology, but it's okay--other good things came my way.

Then this afternoon, Vanessa Fogg (a writer I love; her novel...

Interview with Vedant Saboo and Mike Weber, Frutero's creators

As part of my happy role as Frutero ice cream enthusiast, I am pleased to bring you an interview with Vedant Saboo and Mike Weber, who created the Philadelphia-based company.

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Vedant and Mike enjoying some ice cream

The two became friends in business school, and in 2019, Vedant brought Mike to India and got him to try tropical fruit ice cream--which he loved. As Vedant recalls in an interview for Authority magazine,

Mike and I thought there must be more people like us who would love tropical fruit ...

Coming Friday--an interview with these guys!

It's Mike and Vedant, founders of Frutero ice cream! Tune in Friday for a question-and-answer session.

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a meme! a meme!

I got five questions from osprey_archer !

1. What's a skill that you're proud of having?

... I'm realizing that it's hard to write an answer to this because as soon as I start composing in a direction, I think, Now you really sound like an insufferable asshole.

Am I perhaps proud of the skill of being able to guess when I'm about to sound like an insufferable asshole? ... Mmmm, I am not particularly proud of that. And I'm not even sure if my assessment is correct, so.

So ... skill implies something t...

Wakanomori on DW

Readers here will know I sometimes refer to Wakanomori, and some may even have been mutual friends on LJ, back on the day.

Well now he has a Dreamwidth journal

Here's to 2006 in 2022, Waka!

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