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jesse_the_k) wrote2020-12-07 06:40 pm
Three Interests Meme from forests_of_fire
Thanks to forests_of_fire for prompting me to comment on three of my profile interests.
I’m happy to share the love:
Comment on this entry saying Rhubarb!, and I'll pick three things from your profile interests or tags.
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.
Your Parents Are Brave
...that song is hard enough to hear once!
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