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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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poem translation

There's a woman from Timor-Leste I follow on Facebook, Esteviana Amaral, who shares beautiful, sometimes funny, sometimes touching reflections on daily life. Kirsty Sword Gusmão put me onto her with this video (in which you can hear Tetun spoken beautifully). Since then, I've been enjoying--and sometimes translating--her work. Here is one from last Thursday. ( Her original post )

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(The photo is the one Esteviana shared with the post)

Her words:

Iha momentu balu ita presiza tuur no haree de'it natureza...

Every Protection

A happy kaleidoscoping of events brought me and osprey_archer to the Yiddish Book Center last Tuesday. I'd wandered its grounds before (its buildings are designed to like an Old World shtetl) but never been inside: on Tuesday we took a tour, and I got to see an exhibit the healing angel's signifcant other (... they need a name here... let's call them "the musician") had told me about: "Every Protection: Pregnancy and Childbirth in the Jewish Pale of Settlement" . These are works of art by the ar...

Wednesday reading: A Garter as a Lesser Gift

24 more minutes of Wednesday, so this squeaks in ;-)

I really loved Aster Glenn Gray's World War II retelling of Gawain and the Green Knight. rachelmanija has a great review of it here , which I agree with 100 percent.

So rather than write a review, what I want to do here is call attention to some of the lines and phrases, that, for me, exemplify the wonderful voice AGG uses to tell the tale. It's beautiful language that's not *drenching* (sometimes beautiful language can be like a thunderstorm and...

A beautiful story

Some of you may have seen art by this guy before: he does comics with very realistic birds. This is a story in 31 tweets, and it's just beautiful--funny, profound, and heart-pricking by turns.

Link is to the first tweet.

First image:



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palmas de caraná y chambira

Different palms for different purposes: the caraná palms are for the roofs of the malocas (communal houses). Look how beautiful the weaving is for the roofs:


Photo by Andrés Felipe Velasco, from his page "Tejido Palma de Caraná" on his website Buscando La Raiz

Velasco writes that there are close to 25 types of weaving, representing worms, deer, and crabs, among others.

This 4-minute video shows collecting the leaves of caraná and then weaving them for the roof. So beautiful. The man credited at th...