filkferengi

I don't really do politics. The usual line is, "Ze spouse speaks law, politics, baseball, and wrestling. I speak French, Spanish, science fiction, & fantasy. The difference is, my fantasy is better written than his, especially in an election year." [That was somehow much less funny lately.]

The closest I get to politics is two opinions:

1. Leave me alone.
2. GOOMU [Get Out Of My Uterus]. [Feel free to use; that's a good one.]

Howsomever, good is good, but great is better. Speaking of which, I was just listening to this this morning:

https://taliskimberley.bandcamp.com/track/damned-if-you-dont

Talis is always delightful, but she's put some of her best stuff for free or name-your-own-price here:

https://taliskimberley.bandcamp.com/album/free-album-songs-of-common-ground

I also enjoy the common sense of this one:
https://taliskimberley.bandcamp.com/track/spoon

Current Mood: quixotic
Current Music: Talis Kimberley--Spoon

September, 2016

Spider Robinson--”Two Heads Are Better Than One” [reread--Mark Reads]
Tasha Tudor--Favorite Stories
Joan Aiken--The Monkey’s Wedding & Other Stories
Duffy Brown--Geared For The Grave
Paul Cornell--”Don’t You Worry, You Aliens”
Danielle Hart--”Mutual Affection” [Pride & Prejudice fanfic]
Danielle Hart--”Nightmares” [Kou & Drou fanfic]
Danielle Hart--”The New Middle-Class Married Life” [Kou & Drou fanfic]
Georgia Perez--Through The Eyes Of The Eagle
Tomie de Paola--Strega Nona
Tomie de Paola--Big Anthony And The Magic Ring
Tomie de Paola--Helga’s Dowry
Tomie de Paola--The Baby Sister
Bonnie Carey--Grasshopper To The Rescue
Heidi Petach--Goldilocks And The Three Hares
Rebecca Campbell--”The High Lonesome Frontier”
Patricia Wentworth--Eternity Ring
Catherine McLean--”Between The Seams”
Catherine McLean--”The Judgment Of [Elaine Of] Paris”
Frances Ward Weller--Madaket Millie
Trosclair & James Rice--Cajun Night Before Christmas
a_t_rain--”Mike Adams, Justina Vorrutyer, and Wyx Hargraves, Authors Of Macbeth” [Bujold fanfic]
a_t_rain--”We That Are Young” [Bujold fanfic]
a_t_rain--”Protective Coloration” [Bujold fanfic] [reread]
a_t_rain--”Fidele” [Bujold fanfic] [reread]
a_t_rain--”And Cry ‘Content‘ To That Which Grieves My Heart” [Bujold fanfic]
Vanessa Julian-Ottie--Sebastian Explores
a_t_rain--”Hostage Negotiation Is The Family Business” [Bujold fanfic]
a_t_rain--”We‘re All Mad Here” [Bujold fanfic]
Gwynne Powell--”Now Is The Winter Of Our Discontent” [Bujold fanfic] [reread]
a_t_rain--”Burying Baron Burr” [Bujold fanfic]
Philomytha--”A Bit Of A Loose Screw” [Bujold fanfic]
a_t_rain--”Cold Case” [Bujold fanfic]
a_t_rain--”Dirty Angel” [Bujold fanfic]
a_t_rain--”The Fast-Penta Test” [Bujold fanfic]
a_t_rain--”Loyalty” [Bujold fanfic]
Minutia_R--”The Mutant Bridegroom” [Bujold fanfic]
a_t_rain--”Lessons In Self-Defense” [Bujold fanfic]
a_t_rain--”Magnetism And Gravitation” [Bujold fanfic]
a_t_rain--”A Bit Too Much Good Work” [Bujold fanfic]
a_t_rain--”Cheating” [Bujold fanfic]
a_t_rain--”On A Cold Planet” [Bujold fanfic]
a_t_rain--”Impostor” [Bujold fanfic]
a_t_rain--”Diamonds And Hearts” [Bujold fanfic]
a_t_rain--”Three Conversations Donna Vorrutyer Had About Bisexuality” [Bujold fanfic]
a_t_rain--”Give My Regards To Brodsky” [Bujold fanfic]
a_t_rain--”Cargo” [Bujold fanfic]
a_t_rain--”Ordinary” [Bujold fanfic]
Nancy Willard--Simple Pictures Are Best
Jay Williams--One Big Wish
a_t_rain--”A Brief History Of Pornography In The Imperial Security Service” [Bujold fanfic]
avanti_90--”Better Than Running Away” [Bujold fanfic]
a_t_rain--”Thou Shalt Not Covet Thy Neighbor‘s …” [Bujold fanfic]
a_t_rain--”Acknowledged Bastards” [Bujold fanfic]
Jean Flowers (Camille Minichino)--Death Takes Priority
Carol J. Perry--Tails, You Lose
Diane Duane--A Wizard Abroad [reread--Mark Reads]
Gwynne Powell--”Gift Of The Gods” [Bujold fanfic]
Gwynne Powell--”Glimpses After A Campaign” [Bujold fanfic]
Gwynne Powell--”Victory” [Bujold fanfic]
Gwynne Powell--”Security Report” [Bujold fanfic]
Gwynne Powell--”Explanations” [Bujold fanfic]
Gwynne Powell--”Duty Calls” [Bujold fanfic]
N. K. Jemisin--”The City Born Great”

My word, that's quite the collection of quality Bujold fanfic, right there!

Current Music: Broceliande--Now Is Yole Comen

The album with the train station video is available for free download here:

https://arstidir.bandcamp.com/album/rst-ir-live-in-dresden-2013-free-download-includes-heyr-himna-smi-ur

Current Music: Arstidir--Heyr Himna Smithur

Date: Sun, 18 Dec 2016 20:55:11 -0600 (CST)
From: Lois Bujold
Subject: [LMB] 5GU music

This has been sloshing around the internet for some time, I'm sure, but
it's very like what I imagine some of those 5GU 5-voiced Temple choirs
to sound like.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_yYcq1_Vxco

There's another recording of the same in a train station with acoustics
like a Cedonian stone temple. Minus the PA system and the trains, natch.

Ta, L.

Current Mood: chipper
Current Music: Arstidir--Heyr Hima Smithur

Back in the spring, my bridesmaid & I got together for lunch. I wasn't sure what to do with her afterwards. Her allergies mean she wasn't up for a walk at the nature preserve, & she's so fidgety, she's got Restless Body Syndrome. ;)

She's a kindergarten teacher, & I have lots of extra credits over on paperbackswap.com, so I suggested ordering some books for her class. She gave specific searching parameters, & we ordered some things. So far, so fine.

But I'm the filkferengi, used to shopping for several people at once. At the next book sale, I started seriously checking out the kid books. It was a whole new revelation. Lots of the library book sales I go to had recently started raising their prices, to $2 for an adult hardback. That doesn't sound like much, but adds up quickly, & actually is a lot for a beat-up ex-library discard. The kid books, however, are still .25-.50 most places, which filled my frugal heart with acquisitive glee.

Bridesmaid Kim was very excited, too--at first. The first box was pounced upon with grateful glee, as was the second. By the third, she was getting a big glassy-eyed & starting to whimper. So, I quit buying for her, but that left me with lots of boxes potentially for me. There's the shelf in the hallway, the large box in the media room [formerly known as the book room], the two boxes in the living room, not to mention the tall stacks on the kitchen and coffee tables. Eep!

Still, finding all those made for a very fun spring and summer. It seems as if every author I like has written a kid's book: Jane Yolen, Jay Williams, et-extensive-cetera. Now I've discovered all kinds of groovy new authors, mostly artists: Jan Brett, Molly Brett, Steven Kellogg, Lesley Anne Ivory [cats!].

As I'm [very] gradually working through them, it's quite convenient. When ze spouse is watching a particularly news segment, it's the simplest thing in the world to reach down & read half a kid's book or so. If nothing else, it's certainly beefing up my monthly books-read total. Fun times in filkferengi town!

Current Mood: satisfied
Current Music: Scythian--Follow Me Up To Carlow

Here's a fun article about the first modern book-seller. Lots of the innovations he introduced are fundamentals today.

http://lithub.com/the-man-who-invented-bookselling-as-we-know-it/#

Current Mood: informative
Current Music: Apryl Knight--Time Traveler's Tunes

Every year on his blog, John Scalzi has a week of threads for holiday gift-giving. In his non-book thread, Elise Matthesen, the wonderfully creative jeweler who crafted the exquisite torque-of-many-nomination-pins that graces Lois McMaster Bujold on formal occasions, posted the following:

If you’re a Bujold fan, mention Winterfair when you make your order, and I will send you a free gift: a little planet pendant on sterling silver. (Lois saw them once and said, “Hey, those are like the planet pendants from my book!”)

https://www.etsy.com/shop/LionessElise

For fans of Bujold or wonderful sparklies, it doesn't get much on-topic-er than that.

filkferengi

P. S. The main non-book gift thread is here: http://whatever.scalzi.com/2016/11/30/whatever-holiday-shopping-guide-2016-day-three-arts-crafts-music-and-more/ The other threads are on the other week-days of last week.

Current Mood: artistic
Current Music: Heather Dale--Two Cornish Carols

After many years of talking about this story, I finally found it online. It's very short; wherever one stands on the discussion spectrum, this is a fun story to read.

If they implemented this, I don't know if it'd work or not, but it'd sure be fun to see them try. It's by Jack C. Haldeman II.

https://www.sff.net/people/jack.haldeman/people.htm

Current Music: The Fibs--Vote Those Rascals Out

Because the

filkferengi just had to share the love. Note: all of these albums are on bandcamp, which means you can listen to the whole thing for free before buying, if you want to. [If you run the cursor over the song title, a link to lyrics frequently appears on the right.]

Amanda Palmer did an album with her dad. The whole album's $1.
http://amandapalmer.bandcamp.com/album/you-got-me-singing-2

The PDX Broadsides have a new album. These folks are funny!
https://thepdxbroadsides.bandcamp.com/album/somethings-rotten

Emily Holbert also has some good stuff. This album includes her recording of her own song "The Maiden And The Selkie" which was so gorgeously covered by Heather Dale [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nGT5lBve_v4 or https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=om8LzIcFmbA - with lyrics]

https://emholbert.bandcamp.com/album/foxfire

Now, *that*'s a message we can all approve of!

;)

Current Mood: giggly
Current Music: Emily Holbert--The Maiden And The Selkie

Here's a link to an excellent concert by two of my favorite bands:

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLMh12dgY1ImElLd1Dasho10po5hJMuW-7

:)

Current Music: SJ Tucker--Wild River Child

"Wise Child," a Liaden novelette by Sharon Lee and Steve Miller, is now live. It starts on the Baen.com front page, or you can read the whole thing here: http://www.baen.com/wisechild

Current Mood: giggly
Current Music: Cheshire Moon--Persephone

New York Review of Science Fiction #330, the David Hartwell memorial issue, is free to download [in pdf, epub, & mobi] here:

https://weightlessbooks.com/format/new-york-review-of-science-fiction-330/

Current Mood: calm
Current Music: The Duhks--Death Came A-Knockin'

An older friend recently shared some of her de-cluttering woes. This was my reply.

Thank you for your frank sharing of your collecting and de-cluttering woes. Your efforts give me inspiration to renew my own. The older I get, the more I count opportunity cost: one day to read a book, another to get caught on what I got behind on while reading the book. If each book I read is going to cost two days of my life, then it had better be worthwhile. I'm stacked spouse-higher in places, with books that are perfectly interesting, but which I'm not likely to be able to get to. Hence the increased de-cluttering urgency. My house needs excavating every 5-10 years, whether I like it or not.

And I mostly don't [either do, or like the doing]. In spite of ze spouse's support [enthusiastic volunteering to rent fleet of U-Haul trucks ;)], it's hard to let go. We hoarders see things in layers of time. There's the past, emotional associations, the present satisfaction at hoarding a treasure, and the future possibilities of something being useful. Last month, I went through the mystery section & got rid of at least 10 feet that I hadn't read in several years & wasn't likely to get [back] to.

Full of smug, self-satisfaction, I turned to the science fiction section, and ... ground to a halt, like spinning wheels in clogging sand. I finally figured out why. Although I read more mysteries these days [especially cosies with punny titles & cats on the covers], my primary identification is as an sf fan. It's primordial, from reading Lester Del Rey & Rip Foster in 4th grade. Getting rid of sf isn't a light twinge, like mystery; it's deep gouging, worse even than peeling a sunburn too early.

It still needs doing, of course; I'm close to getting claustrophic in my own house, which is just silly. I don't want to just throw things at the thrift stores; rather like pets, I want to send my friends off to good homes. Right when I'm in this mode, the Georgia Tech library [where I sent several truckloads in the last purge, 10 years ago] is closed for renovations for the next 2-3 years. So, I do the swap-site thing [paperbackswap.com, et. al.], but that gets expensive, with all the shipping.

As Yul Brynner said in "The King And I," "Is a puzzlement." But we persevere.

Excelsior!

So, how are y'all getting on with your domestic de-cluttering endeavors?

Current Mood: determined
Current Music: Rhonda Vincent--All American Bluegrass Girl

Another link or two:

Focused interview:
http://www.nerds-feather.com/2016/02/6-books-with-science-fiction-and.html

Nice pro review:
http://www.barnesandnoble.com/blog/sci-fi-fantasy/gentleman-jole-the-red-queen-after-the-happily-ever-after/

Ta, L.

Yay!

Current Music: Crime & The Forces Of Evil--High Barbaree

There're some interesting insights in here:

https://www.goodreads.com/interviews/show/1101.Lois_McMaster_Bujold

Current Mood: excited
Current Music: Betsy Tinney--Valentina's Dance

http://www.theguardian.com/books/2015/dec/27/terry-pratchett-remembered-by-rhianna-pratchett-daughter-obituary-2015

This is very cool! Between my own dad's passing this month and the cat comments, I found plenty to relate to.

Current Mood: contemplative
Current Music: Iris DeMent--Let The Mystery Be

This came from the Heyer list this morning. Since I don't have an e-reader, I can neither confirm nor deny. I hope it's true, so everyone can get in on the fun in more ways.

filkferengi

There are a whole bunch of Heyer ebooks on sale for $1.99 - 80 hour
sale? At B&N, Kobo, Amazon.

Current Mood: bouncy
Current Music: Piers Cawley--A Child Of The Library

Back in July, I went to Confluence & saw far too many concerts. Just in case anyone's wondering why I continue to subject myself to such excellence, here's part of why, the video of the music guest of honor:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AqP6VhyAwjg

The signer & guest musicians are good, & the goh herself isn't too bad, either!

;)

This was just what I needed to transition from that post-housefilk euphoria. Folks drove in from South Carolina & Mississippi, & there was protracted skyping with the crowd from Denver. Fun!

Current Mood: bouncy
Current Music: Southern Culture On The Skids--My House Has Wheels

Over on the Bujold list, we've been discussing podcasts, & someone asked for recommendations. Herewith my post:

I am a simple soul and mostly stick with the Funny Music Project [thefump.com], which puts up funny songs every week for free.

There are also Marc Gunn's podcasts [http://marcgunn.com/podcasts/], especially the Irish Celtic Music podcast, all of which can be downloaded for free.

Then I asked my hunky hubby & received a positively Miles Vorkosigan-like embarrassment of riches.

Here are his podcasts-

Oral Argument (Legal)
Motley Fool
NPR Wait! Wait! Don't tell me.
First 40 Miles (Hiking)
This American Life
Atlanta Braves Talk
Dan Carlin's Common Sense
Dan Carlin's Hardcore History
Art of Wrestling
TED Radio Hour
Talk is Jericho
Steve Austin Show- Unleashed
Listen Money Matters
The Public Speaker
Intelligence Squared Debates-US
Intelligence Squared-UK
Book TV Afterwords
Uncommon Knowledge
You Are Not So Smart
Philosophize This
Grammar Girl
Stuff You Should Know
My History Can Beat Up Your Politics
NPR Planet Money
Stuff You Missed In History Class
Useless Information Podcast
Clark Howard
Handel on the Law
C-span Q&A
Dave Ramsey
Baseball Tonight
Econtalk

Current Mood: accomplished
Current Music: Marian Call--The Rainbow Connection

Message: 4
Date: Mon, 10 Aug 2015 10:41:00 -0500 (CDT)
From: Lois McMaster Bujold
Subject: [LMB] cover art post improved URL

More specifically, here:

https://www.goodreads.com/author_blog_posts/8859376-new-vorkosigan-book-cover-art

That one shouldn't change as much.

Ta, L.

Current Mood: jubilant
Current Music: Hot Tuna--Death Don't Have No Mercy

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Political?

Books Read 2016: September

Bujold says - 5GU music P. S.

Bujold says - 5GU music

Kid Books

first modern book-seller

Holiday Sparklies

I found it! [at long last]

Some fun albums

Heather Dale Band & Tricky Pixie Concert link

new Liaden novelette

David Hartwell Memorial issue of NYRSF - free download

De-Cluttering Woes

More Bujold interviews

Bujold interview

Terry Pratchett's daughter remembers her dad

Heyer e-book sale?

concert video

Podcast recommendations

Bujold cover art preview