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â by marion zimmer bradley i wanted to love it i was prepared to love it i opened the book expecting to love it the cover is of a woman in a gown carrying a sword riding a majestic white horse iâ wished â to love it and was horrified by my own disgust when i began to read it it is ten million pages ofâ nothing happening â over and over again â everything about what she describes i felt i will add that the weight and heft of the trade paperback promised me hours of immersion in a world where a woman in a gown carrying a sword riding a majestic horse or the many women who this woman clearly represented would enthrall me reader this did not happen instead i had i don t know how many hours of tedium where as ortberg relates powerful witches sit around casting no spells while the world falls apart around their ears a great many characters almost have sex and then donâ t eventually someone has sex in a muddy field then for about four hundred pages queen guinevere gwynhywywhfarre in the book i believe is afraid to go outside then she does not go outside then christianity ruins everything and morgaine continues to doâ absolutely nothing with all the magic sheâ s full of now a lot of people like this book â a lot of people whose taste and intellect i admire really like this book and others that i also hate or merely aggressively didn t enjoy i m looking at you middlemarch â for a long time i felt this must be a profound lapse of taste or intellect in me â while this may in fact be true i prefer to take another mental and psychological path for several reasons â i am now proposing the mellow hate here are the tenets of the doctrine of the mellow hate applicable only to things i note not people i or you hate a thing this hate has only to do with the thing in question it has nothing to do with those who may love it it also has nothing to do with those who may also hate it for the loving and the hating of a thing is personal and the reasons of either do not transfer lightly or easily or even sometimes at all from person to person so do not try to argue a person into the loving or the hating of something for verily it will not work and it may piss that person off for few if any appreciate incursions into their personal preferences so if a person loves or hates and you disagree leave them to their love or hate as they should leave you to love or hate but if in the fulness of time you find another that hates the thing you hate and are able to muster arguments that make sense to you as to the reasons why your hate burns with such passion or sluggish loathing by all means make common cause with that person and take comfort in the fact that you are not alone same for those who love what you love but you probably don t need a rule for that filed under personality quirks of the poor and obscure tagged with books one ringy dingy april 23 2014 by admin office phone rings i answer it hello is this jill p smith i m afraid not i m looking for the jill p smith who worked at other institution and other details wonder to self does this person think all jill smiths are in a club do we have a secret handshake did i miss a memo do we have special powers of knowing one another s contact details and whereabouts must inquire â i m sorry while i know there are a lot of other jill smiths i have actually never personally met another person with my name well i m looking for more unhelpfulâ detail about this other jill smith refrain from going into helpful librarian mode because i really don t need to be directory assistance â i m sorry i really don t know what to tell you i am not her and i don t know her so i don t know how to contact her okay well i m looking sheâ suddenly seems to realize that she can tell me stuff about jill p smith forever and i m still not going to know this person okay thanks so much for your time sure good luck filed under daily life personality quirks of the poor and obscure tagged with the echo chamber of my head you have got to be kidding me pompous petty pedantry april 18 2014 by admin occasionally someone will show me an article tweet blog post or other piece of media where some god of the mount olympusâ of correctness blasts someone else or a lot of someone elses for daring to use language incorrectly â such articles run the gamut from smug to downright insufferable and they are usually written with just enough flashy stylish confidence that they seem more than superficially clever â when my friends show them to me or post them to facebook and say thinking of jill i try to separate what i have to believe or hope to believe is a compliment to my love for and respect for language fromâ the apparent belief that i will be entertained byâ the shaming of some haplessâ person whose only sin is using language wrong i hate these pieces here s why i hate them in two short vignettes from my own life first story last year i spoke at a conference to a packed room that was lively and responsive â they laughed at my jokes they participated in my unorthodox somewhat interactive presentation we all had fun â there were a couple of hair raising moments where i had to improvise quickly sketching out something that would have been demonstrated in a video clip that wouldn t load â afterward people came up to me and said how much they enjoyed it â considering how much time and effort a colleague who couldn t join me in the actual presentation and i had put in it was extremely gratifying then this gentleman came up to me and said i have to tell you how much i enjoyed your presentation but i also have to say you said cite to which is redundant you should have just said cite â the glow of my pleasure dimmed a little â i felt abashed and slightly ashamed even though this had occurred during the moments i was covering for the video that did not play and i had been ad libbing madly laying the tracks of my speech just ahead of the oncoming train â his comment much as i tried to put it in context stuck in my craw in the way that the one negative comment in a sea of positives always will second story today i tweeted opening night of twogents yesterday at the folgerlibrary with fiascotheater was so much fun hie thee hence â jill smith writingortyping april 18 2014 i was still riding the high of the truly inventive hilarious show john and i had seen the night before â i loved that show i would see it again in a heartbeat â i want as many people as possible to see it because i think it is shakespeare for everyone people who love shakespeare people who are afraid of shakespeare people who have never thought that shakespeare could be for them â imagine my chagrin when i saw this reply â writingortyping folgerlibrary just to clarify the first perf is not opening night that term refers to perf after which reviews appear â peter marks petermarksdrama april 18 2014 again i felt abashed and the glow of my pleasure was dimmed a bit similar to the first story â i was also irritated why the hell does this guy evenâ care â then i looked him up and realized oh he s a drama critic â this definition isâ crucial to his amour propre â as a professional two thoughts on this one first thought â if i had been a newcomer to theatre or to shakespeare instead of a lifelong participant in theatre as an audience member a crew member and an actor i might have shrunk from ever seeing another show again â after all here s a professional telling me you are doing it wrong â shakespeare is scary enough for enough people after all that it doesn t take a lot to spook a person â but inâ a context where live theatre in general isn t exactly booming i would gently suggestâ that picking irrelevant nitsâ isn t the best way to be an ambassador especially for someone whose livelihood depends on a thriving theatre community second thought â if i am anything i am a librarian so after having this grit of pedantry in my shoe for a while i looked up opening night because i ve never heard of a more specific definition of this term than the first night where people pay full price to see a show in other words the performance after rehearsals and previews and it suddenly occurred to me is this dude even right â every single definition that i was able to find including in the oxford english dictionary was merely this opening nightâ n the first night of a play film etc now was he wrong i don t know there may be somewhere a definition of opening night that is more specific than the one i repeatedlyâ found â interestingly enough my hardbound third edition of theâ american heritage dictionary doesn t even have an entry forâ the term â but the point is neither was i wrong and i certainly wasn t wrong as a member of the audience hoi polloi who might not be expected to know the intricacies of professional usage in a specific context people like to treat language like math or a game there are absolute rules of right and wrong and moreover there are points to be scored â i find both approaches frankly tedious but per my first thoughtâ above i also think it s dangerous â similar to experiencing theatre people need to play with language to learn it and to love it â if you hem them in and constantly tell them you are doing it wrong they will cease to love playing with language and that would be a shame â or worse if you have an age to read something more erudite on the subject please see stephen fry s essay here or this kinetic typography video and of course there is always xkcd filed under personality quirks of the poor and obscure that s entertainment tagged with art stoopid internet the echo chamber of my head you have got to be kidding me national sibling day april 10 2014 by admin background i m an adult of divorce my folks split up when i was in law school today is national sibling day apparently i was lucky enough to get a stepbrother i adore in the divorce and remarriage stakes â the text below is an edited version of something i wrote in august 2007 when i was a child i had a fairly typical child s view of family crayola stick figure people proudly standing in front of an improbably colored house mommy daddy me there was a vague notion that another small stick person might come to join us one day it happened to other people after all it might well happen to us but for the time being mommydaddyme was a fixed constellation a part of a larger system that also contained star clusters like grammygrampa and uncleauntcousin i remember one kid in my first grade class whose parents were divorced it was so outside my six year experience that it was frightening an unknown condition that was potentially contagious as time went on of course it happened more and more often as the mid 70 s wound down into the late 70 s and all through the 80 s other people s constellations were more like volatile molecules whizzing around and bouncing off of one another mommydaddyme though we continued we mostly stood still like one of those time lapse movies where people flow like a jittery river around a statue or monument everything else changes the monument endures i like to joke that my life turned into an after school special when i was 26 when my parents divorced it used to be a way to deflect unwanted sympathy make people laugh so they don t feel they have to try to figure out how to make it better now it s just something i say an old tired laugh line i have a hard time letting go of the fact was the monument was gone and its component elements entered the shifting passing flow entering the speedy world of the molecule after spending years in the still changeless silence of space can bring on some sharp shocks about 25 years after i had stopped wondering about the possibility of another little stick figure i suddenly had a stepbrother eight years my junior this does strange things to the part of your brain that controls definitions people ask me now if i have any siblings and my automatic answer might be a halting no and then well sort of after all it s pretty silly to call brian my father s second wife s son when there s a perfectly good three syllable word for his place in my constellation at the same time using the â term stepbrother seems disingenuous we didn t grow up together i didn t get to lord it over him until he got bigger than me i could say he s my made to order big little brother there s something strange about calling someone your brother when you ve never lived in the same household yet anything else is inefficient and inaccurate â we have learned that we have an uncanny and yet comforting comfortable affinity â we finish each others sentences our partners have a hard time believing we are not biological siblings â bri and i have discovered that we can define our own families speaking as one who never thought she wanted a sibling my brother is an unearned unexpected joy happy sibling day brian filed under personality quirks of the poor and obscure tagged with family reruns missed connections winter 1989 syracuse ny january 18 2014 by admin you the guy who made the effort to lift a window and holler dumb bitch me the girl who had just slipped on the ice falling flat on my back in the street i was recently reminded of our relationship when a friend related her story of a well meaning person who told her to be careful after she had already slipped in slushy conditions while our time together was admittedly brief our connection has clearly stayed with me through the years deciding voluntarily to endure several syracuse winters confers a certain spartan distinction in and of itself forswearing the dubious comforts of a dormitory and striking out to taste college town apartment life and the delights of alternate side street parking in subzero conditions can but add luster to this achievement â but you you uncompromising cheerleader you wanted me to be better try harder maintain balance in a slick unmanageable hellscape â you expected more from me in that twilight hour when we had to shift our vehicles battling like gladiators for that plum spot just outside the front door i admit i was breathless from your attentions or maybe it was just that i had the wind knocked out of me â landing flat on your back will do that to you i wonder sometimes did you subsequently set foot on an icy step fall and strike some crucial bit of anatomy not your head of course any skull that contains the random assortment of neurons that would fire in such a fashion to produce a response such as yours to my situation that frigid night would clearly put a brain in the nice to have category â i have little faith but i do have hope that a sort of enduring karma was visited upon you at some point â you were after all memorable filed under personality quirks of the poor and obscure overheard at our house ventriloquist edition january 12 2014 by admin me to the microwave which is emitting a loud hum buzz stop that it s annoying john in a high floaty voice okay filed under daily life tagged with overheard overheard at our 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