🌈 Romie glows in the dark 📽

You like bonnets? We've got 'em. We've got bonnets like nobody's business! Nobody can out-bonnet the Starz

Like, I love Studio Ghibli and I love almost anything Disney made before 1987 (the later stuff doesn't have the individuality and sketchiness I'm drawn to), but if I'm thinking of references to pull from for one of my films, I'm not pulling stills from Totoro. Different artform.

But it's not a record scratch if someone says animated movie, or Disney movie. I don't refuse to consider them part of the cinema. It's a mental blip where if you say movie without the qualifier, I don't remember you could mean something animated. You're not wrong, it's just not where my mind goes.

If something's longer than an hour, or really longer than 40 minutes, I'd call it an animated feature. If something's less than say six minutes, I'd say it's a cartoon. In between that, I'm probably calling it an animated short (unless it's an episode of a larger series).

I'd also like to share the medieval belief that weasels conceive through the ear, and since Mary was said to conceive Jesus at the word of Gabriel, they were a symbol of Mary.

You will be visited by three spirits

When I talk about movies, I always mean live action. I like animation, but it's hard for me to remember that's in the same category; for me it isn't, any more than a painting is a photograph or a rock concert is a symphony or a stage play is a dance or The Pitt is anime.

And I love the scene in Cinderella where she's washing the floor and appears in the bubbles. Plus I always notice that when the king bangs his desk, everything on it moves. The animators didn't cut corners or skip steps with that movie.

Good point about Rashomon; I wasn't thinking of it because it wasn't on the list of US releases I was looking at. I think that's the first Kurosawa I saw.

I think there are only two movies I care about that were released in 1950: Sunset Boulevard and Harvey.

I don't think either of them won much of anything at the Oscars; All About Eve pretty much swept.

And so ok I guess there is a third movie I like from 1950

I wonder what anti tornado clothing would look like. Maybe very strappy so you could buckle yourself to things. With a helmet and goggles. And parachute pants just because.

"people in nordic countries have figured out there's no bad weather there's just bad clothing"

bullshit, people in nordic countries have figured out
(1) sauna
(2) stay inside and get very drunk
(3) geothermal heating; heat yourself with literal volcano
(4) way more hot coffee than is advisable

exhausted because I spent too much of the day in the cold

(yes, I dress properly, and no this does not magically negate my thin-skinned, proportionally high surface area, low-blood-pressure body needing to torch itself to stay conscious)

Do They Have Christmas in Canada?, by Romie Faienza (Stopwalk 1/2) track by Romie Faienza (Stopwalk 1/2)

I wrote a send up of it, "Do They Have Christmas in Canada." stopwalk.bandcamp.com/track/do-the...

I noticed in another comment you assert that meaning is "encoded within the text itself", and I actually believe this is wrong as well.

"This raises the question of where the meaning is" I would say the meaning is within each person who shares that language.

Many thanks to Kat for assembling this massive and beautifully organized table of contents. If you want to re-read something Strange Horizons published this year and can't quite remember the issue or author name, you can now probably find it.

You guys I think this might be the color of my personal hell. An eternity in an open featureless space that stretches forever made entirely of atmosphere where it is slightly damp and 2-3 degrees too cold to be comfortable

YouTube video by themaeshi The Mae Shi - "R U Professional" - CHRISTIAN BALE Tribute - SONG VERSION

this holds up. I still like it just as much. www.youtube.com/watch?v=7oFj...

I laughed at this payoff

gonna write a book about Hating After Forty

the hater's council just vetoed this actually.

"a real hater hates attention seekers by ignoring them" wise words from one hater elder.

"hate reading is for homework dorks" said another senior hater on condition of anonymity as this statement was a compound diss targeting other council members

per this wordcloud, my non-secret hidden message this year is... "fiction rights makes women mean, science guys."

See which words you used the most here: anisota.net/harvest

sunset in Boston area is at 4:13pm today. 4:13!

I didn't parse this graphic correctly at first and thought you'd inaugurated your own awards, the LJB Awards. Which I was excited about! So if you ever do decide to start your own award, you will have at least one audience member.

For no logical reason, there are some technologies I'm happy to fiddle with and some I hate. I love dip pens and love ballpoint pens; hate gel pens and hate fountain pens. Felt tip pens are in the marker category and escape judgment.

These are sincere pleasures. I'm not trying to be virtuous or hold to an ethical line. I find radio waves wonderous and smartphones annoying.

Or the radio! If I don't want to pick my own programming, I turn on the radio. Lot of good college radio stations around here, with active weird DJs. My favorite station is probably WMBR (MIT) but I also listen to a lot of WERS (Emerson) and WMFO (Tufts).

If I had a Spotify Wrapped, it would show that I've listened to a lot of Mike Duncan podcasts about the French Revolution and ensuing revolutions triggered by the French Revolution.

I mostly listen to music on CDs. I have accidentally continued to be hard to remotely surveil.

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