Anyone wanna go?

The Red Book Series: Vampyr

When
Friday, 11/20
9:30 p.m.
Price
Free with a $7 bar minimum


Ellen Kushner introduces Vampyr
Carl Theodor Dreyer, France/Germany, 1932 (73 min)

A student of the occult enters a small village outside of Paris that is plagued by vampires. Dreyer's film combines gorgeous cinematography and complex characters that never allow the audience to stop thinking.

Novelist, performer and public radio personality Ellen Kushner is the host and writer of the national series PRI's Sound & Spirit. Her award-winning novels include the mannerpunk cult classic Swordspoint and Thomas the Rhymer (World Fantasy Award). She is a co-founder of the Interstitial Arts Foundation and lives in New York City.


Inspired by the exhibition The Red Book of C. G. Jung, the Red Book series presents classic films that explore Jungian themes, including the various archetypes and the exploration of the self through fantasy.

Members may reserve seats in advance.

Grrrr. My Shadowrun 20th Anniversary book traveled 5 miles in 24 hours. It went from the Jersey City Post office to the Union City post office. That was the 6:54 am update, so I supposed it's possible that the package has since traveled the additional .3 miles to my house. But I doubt it.

1) No more Lou Dobbs on CNN. Very cool. Now if we can just get him to quit his radio show, too...

2) My sister is going home today. My folks will be here for a while longer.

3) Worked all day yesterday on the edits to the Colonial Gothic Plymouth setting book. Phew. I already have the next project; it's about 30K words worth of setting stuff. Luckily it's split into like 20 smallish chapters. I'm going to ration them out over the next month or two so I don't have to do a marathon like I did this time. Also, it's not due until Feb. I'd like to finish earlier though; I think if I do they'll find me something else to do.

4) Growing increasingly annoyed by what I read about the shooting at Fort Hood. Basically from what I can tell (which is little and may be wrong), the people who should have known better did know better. But, because his irrationality was intertwined with his religion, they did nothing. I'm sorry, what? He subscribed to a magical, illogical system of belief, and therefore he got a pass when it came to acting highly irrational? I think there's a flaw in that kind of thinking. The same kind of flaw in this kind of thinking: my organization doesn't believe in science and logic, and therefore we shouldn't have to pay taxes--and, by the way, we will pay out vast amounts of this untaxed money to influence public policy, such as discriminating against people who like to rub slippery bits with people we think they shouldn't. Religion: fucking up the world since Adam rode a dinosaur.

5) I told my dad this weekend re: the Catholic Church pay millions of dollars to defeat the gay marriage thing in Maine that I thought his religion was not only actively harmful to the world, but actually evil, and that if wanted to belong and retain my respect, he really couldn't just be a passive believer anymore, but would have to actually become an activist within his church.

1) Busy weekend: Friday train to boston, bus to Concord NH. Saturday drove to Exeter, picked up Penske truck, drove to Newmarket, unloaded nearly all the contents of my folks' giant storage locker, loaded 50% into penske truck (making it 100% full), and reloaded the rest into the storage locker--me being the only one who could lift much at all, K still being in NJ and my sister being willing to carry the other end of furniture but not boxes of books and suchlike 1-person jobs. Sunday drove from NH to NJ, unloaded the whole truck, and returned it to Penske

2) Scored some great stuff, to wit: a sleeper loveseat, an armchair, a desk, an armoire, a dresser, 3 oriental rugs of varying sizes from small to ridiculous; a set of shelves; a floor lamp; a sidetable; an enormous pub sign showing a White Hart chained; with a crown for a collar; and a coffin.

3) My sister and parents are now at my house, painting as far as I know. Cool! Also, nervous making. They're going to do a ton of work on the place, but it makes me crazy not to be there to approve or deny ideas. Leap of faith!

4) Thinking about starting a gaming blog. Got a lot of edits, playtests, and, potentially, actual games to talk about. Might be a thing. I'm guessing wordpress. In related gaming news, might be joining white wolf and shadowrun games I found on meetup.org. I own piles of whitewolf stuff, ordered a cheapish copy of Shadowrun on Friday. Woot!

5)Got a big project to finish up by Weds for Colonial Gothic, which could be tough with my folks here, and because I have to help K with her evaluations for her flunkies, due by Thursday. And I already have the next Colonial Gothic project to edit, and it's bigger--an actual book this time--the kind that comes out on paper and everything!

"So, have you been eating less or throwing up more? You look a little leaner."

My trainer to me, in re: the fact that last time we had a session with him, I had to quit halfway through to go throw up, a lot. I think that caused him to catch on to the fact that I could maybe use some VO2 max work, because today we did a ridiculous medley he called "bears." In one continuous set: 20 back squats, 12 overhead presses, 12 rear deadlifts, and 12 standing rows. Oof. We did three sets of this, and then some back extension stuff on the slant board.

Once again, I felt as though I might hurl, but I didn't say anything and stuck it out. It took me about 45 minutes after we finished to not feel like ass, but now I feel good, and sore, and virtuous. Must be more faithful. K was eying the gym's extended plans today, so I know she's on board. Like: buy a 100 pack of training and get your next year's membership for free kind of plans. How we'd pay is beyond me, but...

Oh, and PS, I don't think I'm actually leaner--he was just saying that to make the joke, boo!

K just went home sick from work, with all the fluey signs. Fever, headache, achiness, sore throat, and so on. I just found out, but my sister had this thing last week, missing work weds-fri. In addition to the fact that being sick sucks, K has no more sick days left, and I bet anything her company will actually not pay her for any days she misses. Which is highly annoying, given how many hours of overtime (unpaid) she puts in there. Poor K! She's supposed to buy a thermometer on the way home--we'll see what it says. I too have a scratchy throat, but otherwise feel fine. I'll probably leave a little early today to go take care of K, in any case.

...on healthcare. Screw you, Whole Paycheck--I won't be spending any money at one of your stores any time soon. You're ridiculously overpriced, anyhow.

Kateeeee Sackhoff will be a series regular in 24 s8, which starts airing in Jan 2010. Sweet! Also, it's going to be set in NY! I wonder if it's going to shoot in NY at all?

Holy crap, my mayor just got arrested! Part of a giant internation money laundering, embezelling, human sacrifice ring. Okay, not human sacrifice, but, still, wow!

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/24/nyregion/24jersey.html?hp

It even made the bbc, though they were more interested in the sephardic rabbis who were also arrested.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/8165607.stm

A recent poll showed that 71% of Republicans would likely vote for Palin if she ran for president in 2012.

I know, we're supposed to be a nation that respects different viewpoints even when we disagree, but, holy crap. That is all kinds of stupid. And depressing.