Three Interests Meme from forests_of_fire

[jesse_the_k]

Thanks to forests_of_fire for prompting me to comment on three of my profile interests.

I’m happy to share the love:

1. Comment on this entry saying Rhubarb!, and I'll pick three things from your profile interests or tags.

2. Write about the words/phrases I picked in your journal and link back here. Spread the love.

podbooks

It’s actually a typo for podfic. I love listening to fannish audio content. Especially now, these fans’ voices bridge from my loneliness out to the world. In one of my earlier lives, I wrote technical manuals and narrated audio versions. While I’m listening to fannish podfic I also appreciate the technical choices narrators make: this doubled attention helps me really relax.

community radio

I loved listening to radio when I was a kid. Before the internet, community radio helped like-minded radicals find, yell at, entertain and love each other. My first experience was WBAI 99.5 New York City. WBAI joined the Pacifica network in 1960. I stayed up late following NYC radical left politics 1967–71. WBAI live-streamed the 1968 Columbia student strikes, and feminists across the US marching on 26 Aug 1970, the 50th anniversary of woman suffrage.

When I moved to Madison in 1973, I missed community radio. A scant two years later, WORT organized itself into a reliable local companion. Its music schedule is wonderfully eclectic, and supports local music venues. Its news and public affairs shows keep me informed and got me interested in city government. I hung out at its very first pledge drive; I’ve performed in WORT’s studio; I’ve answered phones at later pledge drives; I attempted to volunteer on the nightly news but it was Too Much. Happily there are dedicated volunteers making sure WORT stays on the air from their homes.

Wilby Wonderful

is a 2004 movie. It’s a crucial element in the joy-by-actor-association that is C6D aka Six Degrees of Canada multi-fandom. Written and directed by queer Canadian Daniel MacIvor, it’s a tender, sad, grim, funny look at small-town life in the Maritimes.

CN: suicide One recurring theme is a gay man — Jim Allodi — trying to kill himself because the town’s cruising spot is about to be publicized. He doesn’t die — in fact he spends quality time with the town’s dyslexic guardian spirit, Callum Keith Rennie in overalls. Although there’s a happyish ending, I’ve never rewatched because it’s hard to see this sad man attempt suicide by various methods.

Sandra Oh, Paul Gross, Elliot Page, and Maury Chaikin contribute great performances. Highly recommended. Streaming now in the US free with ads and no captions on Tubi. Right now there’s 234 works on AO3 with the Wilby Wonderful tag. Speranza’s classic The Lights captures the heat of outdoor sex and the terror of being busted.

Comments

[sovay]

Before the internet, community radio helped like-minded radicals find, yell at, entertain and love each other. My first experience was WBAI 99.5 New York City.

My parents used to wake up to WBAI in the days when one of the hosts/DJs always started the day with Phil Ochs' "Outside of a Small Circle of Friends." I was so honored to be interviewed by Jim Freund on Hour of the Wolf in 2018; it felt like a family tradition.

Wilby Wonderful

Has a fantastic cast and I'll look for it.

Comment on this entry saying Rhubarb!, and I'll pick three things from your profile interests or tags.

Oh, sure! Rhubarb, even though my profile interests were imported directly from LJ where I hardly ever changed them and most accurately reflect a snapshot of me in 2004/5.

Your Parents Are Brave

[jesse_the_k]

...that song is hard enough to hear once!

For you we have:

• Arrogant worms
• Jeunet and Caro
• Less Than Jake — who are live-streaming 11 December

[cosmolinguist]

Rhubarb!

For you we have

[jesse_the_k]

• narrativium
• extelligence
• linux

[stonepicnicking_okapi]

All very interesting. Rhubarb!

Glad to amuse

[jesse_the_k]

for you we have:

• dorothy l sayers
• gervase fen
• any British detective you don’t like

Re: Glad to amuse

[stonepicnicking_okapi]

Cool! Thanks!

[gloss]

Rhubarb!

Hurray for Wilby Wonderful!

[jesse_the_k]

Indeed, it's an awesome thing!

Your prompts are:

• civic irresponsibility
• justice
• sarah schulman

There’s almost a theme here, eh?

[julian]

Oh, sure. I like rhubarb, and I like talking about myself, although IIRC, you used my interests list to ask some interview questions of me in a different meme, a couple years back, *but anyway*: rhubarb!

(Especially in strawberry-rhubarb pie.)

I'm a big fan of memes.

[jesse_the_k]

I see many bold (overlapping) interests! There's a reason we follow each other, eh?

For you:

• bare feet
• intentional communities
• multiplicity

[isis]

I approve of your taste in Canadian movies!

I'm not surprised by your approval

[jesse_the_k]

...since you led me there from Due South.

[oursin]

Rhubarb!

bah humbug indeed

[jesse_the_k]

How about:

• laurie colwin
• footnotes
• apostrophe

[worlds_of_smoke]

Thank you for sharing this! Wilby Wonderful sounds interesting, though I tend to avoid anything that mentions or deals with suicide.

Rhubarb!

My very great pleasure

[jesse_the_k]

While the script plays it for laughs, the actor's eyes convey such blankness and fear ... I think I'll look forward to rewatching in 2024.

Here you go:

• lemons
• quiet moments of awe
• the looking glass wars

[peachpai]

That film sounds incredibly interesting, thanks for the rec!

[jesse_the_k]

It's absolutely itself -- with highs and lows.

[runpunkrun]

Rhubarb! (Though it may take me a while; I'm drowning in fancake admin at the moment.)

Take all the time you wish

[jesse_the_k]

I'll be ready when you are for answers to

• chewing on things
• office supplies
• closed captioning

Re: Take all the time you wish

[runpunkrun]

Okay, in my defense, you DID say I could take my time: three interests meme.

[sasha_feather]

Rhubarb! I went and added a few interests to my profile. :)

I couldn't tell new from old

[jesse_the_k]

...so have at 'em

• infectious diseases
• empowerment
• walking

As we were told to mumble as extras in a scene...

[emceeaich]

Rhubarb, rhubarb, ...

Re: As we were told to mumble as extras in a scene...

[jesse_the_k]

Hey, we're in the same generation. I learned that the happy extras must say peas and carrots, peas and carrots.

• cycling
• metaverse
• wonderful life

Re: As we were told to mumble as extras in a scene...

[emceeaich]

Responded to in my journal.

[tarasacon]

This sounds like fun, but I went and looked at interests I have listed, even added some new ones, but I can tell I’m unlikely to have anything much to say about most of them. But I enjoyed reading about yours! :)

Don't know if that was an invitation or not.

[jesse_the_k]

If you're casting about for a writing prompt some day, I'd be delighted to hear your thoughts on any of

• ethnobotany
• civil engineering
• microbiomes

or you can completely ignore this!

Re: Don't know if that was an invitation or not.

[tarasacon]

It wasn't intended to be, but two of those are things I might actually have the brain to write a bit about at some point. Thanks for the potential prompt. :)