calimac

I had tickets to all of these: Friday, San Francisco Symphony, A Concert for MTT.

Of all the silly things happening in politics lately, my candidate for the silliest is Sen.

When I visited the Eugene O'Neill home in Danville last May, I noted that every fall a local theatrical group does an O'Neill Play Festival: usually just one of O'Neill's longer plays for a run of a couple of weeks.

I was never particularly fond of this classic Seventies rock song, but arrange it for the traditional Chinese guzheng (clever of those traditional Chinese to be able to make tape loops) and it becomes absolutely hypnotic. comments

B. and I have returned from our annual driving visit to the Oregon Shakespeare Festival.

In celebration of the Library of America's new issue of a definitive collection of Ursula K.

The Tainted Cup, Robert Jackson Bennett (Del Rey, 2024) This was the discussion topic at today's Mythopoeic Society book group meeting.

Coyote vs.

1.

At the LACon panel on "Memories of Worldcons Past," I asked each panelist to begin by identifying their first Worldcon, and by telling an anecdote about it, preferably something funny and that reveals something about how worldcons past were different than…

In my post on the Hugo winners I commented that few of the finalists in any category had I even heard of.

Sunday I was feeling poorly most of the day, so I skipped out on logging in to any program items.

These, in the late afternoon, both went well.

I had two online panels in the early wee hours this morning, at just about the time when I normally would finally fall into actual sleep.

The great part of not actually being at the worldcon is that you don't feel guilty for missing anything.

So it's the first day of the Worldcon, and I watched an all-Zoom virtual panel, on the topic of "Can We Enjoy the Art of Unethical People?"

The Worldcon is coming up, but though it's only a few hundred miles from here, I'm not going.

There is one additional thing I'm using AI for, besides asking it to find words that I know but have slipped my mind.

I attended an online Zoom presentation by the Lamplighters, the San Francisco Gilbert & Sullivan society, of three songs recently discovered (like, three months ago) that were cut from G&S's opera Iolanthe before the work was finalized for regular perform…

I came upon a list of lesser-known Cumberbatch film performances, and decided to watch a few, mostly late at night in between fitfully trying to get to sleep.

This weekend there was an Asian Food Fest at the San Mateo fairgrounds.

So here's another one.

I haven't been posting much, not just because not much is happening, but because I'm not in a position where I can get much writing done, even light writing like this, let alone more serious material.

Having returned from my trip with a week yet to run on the Menlo Festival, I was able to attend a few more events.

A pillar of Bay Area sf fandom died last week.

We order groceries weekly online via the website of the chain our local store belongs to.

I've counted myself as an experienced traveler for over 40 years, but even at this point I can still learn tips for how to handle things.

Since Mythcon was being held in a slice of territory entirely new to me, I decided to spend a little post-Mythcon time exploring that territory further.

I'm back from my trip to Mythcon, and now's the time to write about the conference part of the trip.

Thursday I drove north out of Texas into Oklahoma.

Texas.

So it's an article about what people who've been "canceled" are doing to make a living.