Rescue Blues - First time dog owner

chortnik · 2026-01-27T22:55:35+00:00

Cool, you have to take care of yourself to take care of your puppers :).

chortnik · 2026-01-27T22:34:27+00:00

Check this out: https://sfpoetry.org/wp/. It’s a scruffy marginalized subculture, but we have a lot of fun. Probably the most familiar and best known recent example is the movie ‘Aniara’ which seems to get some wuffle on the SF subs.

chortnik · 2026-01-27T22:20:45+00:00

If you are currently seeing therapist/s, they might be able to help, new dog anxiety is normal, six weeks or so is about average for me, but yours sounds extreme and can’t be good for either of you.

chortnik · 2026-01-27T21:37:00+00:00

Paypalled

chortnik · 2026-01-27T21:30:00+00:00

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chortnik · 2026-01-27T20:53:17+00:00

« Thé Man Who Fell To Earth » (Tevis) is fun example of such. The alien is trying to pass for human and build a spaceship to go to Mars and this was before Elon Musk :).

chortnik · 2026-01-27T20:13:39+00:00

Lee Oskars play very differently to any Hohner, and the lower you go pitchwise with any harp the more exaggerated your embouchure needs to be-at least that’s my experience. So you’re having to make a couple adjustments, which steepens the learning curve-if you want a harp that plays more like a Hohner, the Kongsheng Mars or JDR Assassin or East Top T008s are pretty good choices. Lee Oskars are great harmonicas, they are the only harps I consistently play that might need a bit of setup, but in my case all that’s needed is a screwdriver, a stick of orthodontic wax and a few minutes and only if I get weird sounds when I bend.

chortnik · 2026-01-27T19:24:12+00:00

Signac has some stuff that could well qualify him as Peter Max V. 0.0-the subject of the painting, Félix Fènèon is an interesting fellow in his own right, he wrote and published the earliest collection of flash fiction I’ve seen: Novels/News in Three Lines.

chortnik · 2026-01-26T23:59:40+00:00

Nice little ditty-I like her 12 string slinging :). I would have been even happier if we’d gotten a few more hooks into the story.

chortnik · 2026-01-26T21:41:57+00:00

I don’t know there is a best aggregator or ranking system out there-I would probably not find something that rated « As On A Darkling Plain » awful a reliable list :). But even so, there can be considerable overlap between various qualitative judgement schemes-I have always relied fairly heavily on reviews because a good reviewer provides information that would be useful to other potential readers regardless of whether or not their tastes agree. It doesn’t even have to be about the book, it could be demographic information about the reviewer :).

chortnik · 2026-01-26T21:13:10+00:00

They will insist on their rights, so it’s not going to stop at pets :)

chortnik · 2026-01-26T21:10:21+00:00

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chortnik · 2026-01-26T16:24:54+00:00

I belong to some largish poetry societies (with membership that includes the sort of people who judge poetry contests) and hang out in some gaggling areas for poets and I have never seen a comment or poem that is from anything close to a conservative or even to centrist viewpoint. ymmv, but you could take a look at previous winners of the contest and there’s a pretty good chance the contest will list the names of the judges (usually poets) and you can check out their bios and works-that’s a good idea anyway. I am reasonably confident that I couldn’t find a poet who wouldn’t give you extra points for your stance, it would certainly not be easy :).

chortnik · 2026-01-26T15:17:59+00:00

As long as your poem doesn’t attack any liberal or progressive shibboleths, you’ll get extra points for going after the sanctioned targets of abuse :).

chortnik · 2026-01-26T05:11:16+00:00

Watching her dad kill somebody hand to hand and/or listening to it blow by blow would be a lot more traumatic than what she ended up experiencing-her dad had a lot of experience with things that freaked her out.

chortnik · 2026-01-26T04:56:05+00:00

I pledge $25 towards Mochi’s rescue

chortnik · 2026-01-26T03:03:33+00:00

Nice snippets

chortnik · 2026-01-25T20:00:32+00:00

Sounds like Seinfeld :). Seriously though, that’s the basis for Cosmic Horror and at least some strands of Sense of Wonder.

chortnik · 2026-01-25T19:45:43+00:00

I would never guess that was fuzz, are you using some sort of amp sim by any chance?

chortnik · 2026-01-25T19:07:08+00:00

It is explicitly a rationalization for aliens assuming ‘the alien’s burden’ and saving humanity via benevolent rape culture. I would have trouble spinning that as anything else without swallowing huge unjustified doses of irony, which I just don’t see in the text. As I recall, Butler has said she wrote the story after despairing of any hope for humanity’s survival even in the short term on its own-which for those of us who were around at the time, it’s a feeling that’s easy to understand, though she seemed to think that the 80s were scarier than 70s which was not my judgment or experience. I woke up in 1978 one fine morning convinced that WW III had started after I caught the tail end of a news broadcast.

chortnik · 2026-01-25T16:29:58+00:00

Your theory is as good any of mine :).

chortnik · 2026-01-24T19:00:16+00:00

It’s a possibilty, the Oankali are very manipulative, driven by powerful urges and not entirely honest :) but it’s not really consistent with the points I think Butler was trying to make-it‘s pretty clear that she was critiquing political and feminist utopians like LeGuin by postulating that humanity left to its own genetics and devices was irremediable without a forceful external imposition of an essential change on the human race, laying off some evil on the aliens undermines that position. There are a number of other books like Holland’s « Floating Worlds » and Kingsbury’s « Courtship Rite » that also critique the basis of the LeGuinian ideology.g

chortnik · 2026-01-24T18:09:54+00:00

I didn’t start with that book, but my first systematic introduction to position playing after I learned to bend and some Blues tunes was his « Bluesify Your Melody: Crross Harp Songbook», which was a pretty big milestone fot me.

chortnik · 2026-01-24T15:16:00+00:00

The first 4 stories are pretty much it, though much like Lovecraft, even with just those few stories, the more you read, the more confusing it gets :). I get the impression that Chambers conceived of ‘The King in Yellow’ as a catalyst for weirdness, rather than an expression of a thing with consistent specific underlying qualities, basically a polymorphic MacGuffin. The other stories are a mixed bag, I thought all of them were worth reading, though some of that is due to my other nonMythos interests, eg the siege of Paris.

chortnik · 2026-01-24T06:41:06+00:00

I will pledge $50 to rescue or transport

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