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| Tuesday, March 13th, 2018 | |
| 10:47 pm | The passing of the great Christopher Lee When I told my husband, he said, "He can't die, he's Dracula." I've known his work all my life. Long before others discovered him as Saruman in "The Lord of the Rings" I knew him as Dracula, and Scaramanda in the James Bond movies, and Sherlock Holmes. He had one of those voices that made me swoon, and I could recognize it anywhere. Here is his obituary. I would love to see the movie on Pakistan in which he played Jinna. He was 93, which is a good age, but I will still miss him. May you thrive and see old friends and make new movies in the Summerlands, Sir Christopher Lee. The man with his knighthood. [[Comments have been disabled, as Tammy no longer checks this page. To comment, please go to her DreamWidth. http://tamorapierce.dreamwidth.org/3454.h |
| Tuesday, March 6th, 2018 | |
| 5:11 am | Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church edited to add: If anyone has word of vigils or community gatherings, feel free to post them here. As I type this, they've caught the young man who shot and killed nine people who had gathered in this church for a prayer meeting. He sat there with them for an hour, and heard them speak, and then he got up and began to shoot. The gun rights dance has already begun, as has the gun control outcry. Fox is already casting this as a war against Christianity, not yet another chapter in the long and ugly history of race in this country. They even have a pastor who urges his fellow pastors and their male parishioners to arm themselves to protect women and children against future assassins. Things to come: the mental health of the suspect, a 21-year-old white man. The arraignment, the trial. The late-night-tv standup routines making light of something as unspeakable as the death of four Black girls in the 16th Street Baptist Church bombing in Birmingham, AL in 1963. Our country has grown monstrous in my lifetime. The military-industrial complex the students on college campuses protested has become our biggest import-export, with the gun being its shining badge and camouflage its hipster wear. Our filmmakers spend billions pouring more and more action, more explosions, more violence, more death onto the movie and tv screens every year. We have become the Great Satan, so busy making money off of killing throughout the world or supplying those who want to do their own killing that we can ignore the slaughters worked upon us internally. No group matters enough to make the killing machine take responsibility for its weapons: not women killed in a gym, not children in a school, not parishioners in a church. Am I cynical? Am I jumping the gun, thinking the outrage spawned by this latest mass murder will die down to a collection of grumbles, apart from the meetings of the true believers? Maybe I am. I was a liberal for a long, long time, a liberal and early on, a protester. I have seen so many ventures for change, big and little, sink to the ground because beyond a certain point, our infrastructure only cares about money, not blood. Not life. Not people. Not change. From where I stand, they ought to have the Koch brothers on the twenty-dollar bill. They're the symbol of the level at which things really matter. Oh, and Fox? This was a RACE murder. Don't call it anything else. How many churches do you think that kid passed, in Charleston SC, to get to Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church? How many Christian churches did he pass, and pass up, to get to a historic Black church? I add this excerpt from an article by Jelani Cobb, Church Shooting in Charleston, in The New Yorker Online, because I think it explains which this shooting at this church is so vile, and Fox's attempt to hijack it out-and-out obscene: "The African Methodist Episcopal Church, founded in 1793, is the oldest denomination established by black people in the United States. It owes its origins to white discrimination against black Christians in the eighteenth century, and an incident in which black churchgoers were interrupted while worshipping and directed to the segregated section of an Episcopal church in Philadelphia. For black Christians, the word sanctuary had a second set of implications. The spiritual aims of worship were paired with the distinctly secular necessity of a place in which not just common faith but common humanity could be taken for granted." #BlackLivesMatter [[Comments have been disabled, as Tammy no longer checks this page. To comment, please go to her DreamWidth. http://tamorapierce.dreamwidth.org/3689.h |
| 5:11 am | RT Booklovers Convention! Hey everyone - Tammy's assistant sliding in to remind y'all that she's going to be in Dallas, TX for the RT Booklovers Convention from the 13-16th! The convention itself runs through the 17th. Wednesday 12:00 1:00 PM Greasing the Wheels: Building Momentum & Reader Commitment in a Series Location: Hyatt Regency, Atrium Level (2nd Floor), Reverchon Room Thursday 11:15 12:15 PM Reality Shifters: Author Chat with Tammy, Kresley Cole, Charlaine Harris, and Gena Showalter Location: Hyatt Regency, Lobby Level, Pegasus B Room 1:30 2:30 PM YA: From Magic to Gadgets to Alernate Worlds, A YA Fantasy Primer for Writers Location: Hyatt Regency, Atrium Level (2nd Floor), Bryan-Beeman B Room Saturday 11:002:00 PM SIGNINGGiant Book Fair (Young Adult Alley) Location: Hyatt Regency, Lobby Level, Landmark Ballroom/Reunion Ballroom 3:00 4:15 PM Strong Heroines: Writing Fictional Girls Who Can Save Themselves Location: Hyatt Regency, Atrium Level, Reverchon Room 6:00 7:45 PM Teen Day Party (Tammy will not be present for the duration) Location: Hyatt Regency, Exhibition Level, Cumberland Room The following titles will be available for purchase at the Giant Book Fair signing through Andersons Book Shop: Alanna: First Adventure (Song of the Lioness, Book 1) Battle Magic First Test (Protector of the Small #1) Sandrys Book (Circle of Magic, Book 1) Song of the Lioness Quartet Terrier: Legend of Beka Cooper #1 Tricksters Choice (Daughter of the Lioness, Book 1) Wild Magic (Immortals, Book 1) Please note that Tammy will NOT be selling her own books at her table. Make any purchases before lining up. Please also include your name on a post-it note on the books you would like signed. This saves time and helps avoid spelling mistakes! [[Comments have been disabled, as Tammy no longer checks this page. To comment, please go to her DreamWidth. http://tamorapierce.dreamwidth.org/2117.h |
| 5:11 am | Babbies! Every spring I become a couch birdwatcher, courtesy of the Cornell Bird Labs and the Peregrine folks in Harrisburg PA. (Cornell is an expansion--I used to just watch the peregrines, and there's a stork cam in Germany which isn't up yet because it's still wintery there.) If you look at the bar on the link, you'll see other nest sites to check out, but I'm posting the Barn Owl Site Barn Owl cam for starters, because Peep #1 has hatched! (And there are more to come) I love spring. I love this spring, after this last winter. I normally love gray weather--it's easier on my eyes--but even I got depressed this winter. Now I'm out looking at random flowers and actually smiling at the sun. And adding new bird cams to watch the peeps hatch. I hope the stork cam comes online soon. The storks don't know it, but their nest is so big that sparrows nest in the underside. [[Comments have been disabled, as Tammy no longer checks this page. To comment, please go to her DreamWidth. http://tamorapierce.dreamwidth.org/1772.h |