@AngryTransLady The real fun ones are when, for some reason, a scan of court order doesn't cut it and they want to see a certified copy of the document, which, at least where I am, costs $40 a pop plus an hour's drive out to the county seat, unless you want to wait 6-8 weeks for them to get through their mail order backlog.
Seriously, fuck the bullshit around name changes.
As ever, on #元宵節 #LanternFestival
—the first full moon of the lunar year, when lanterns light up the night.
A well-known 11th c. lyric attributed to statesman Ouyang Xiu 歐陽修 and also to woman poet Zhu Shujen 朱淑真
@oulipien I didn’t know about this!
The London Review of Books writeup for this went and spoiled the ending, and even if it’s not much of a surprise I’m annoyed with myself for not having known better than to read it, and to find that it actually does change the reading experience.
I guess the rationale was “why does it matter, it’s a long modernist novel where nothing happens,” but it’s not, it’s a long modernist novel where like two things happen, and dude, you can’t just yank the curtain.
@kelidanovus @Impossible_PhD @terrafiedkestrel @dani_tseng @Jamie Did you find the answer???
“‘Wet leg’ is a term that inhabitants of the Isle of Wight, where Teasdale and Chambers grew up, apply to day-trippers and holiday-makers who ferry across the five miles from Southampton, on England’s southern coast. (‘D.F.L.,’ short for ‘down from London,’ and ‘overners,’ from ‘over the water,’ are others.)”
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2023/01/23/the-women-of-wet-leg
@piratescarlett I'm interested in this Tokyo reading list she did for the NYT - some known quantities, some very much not, at least to me.
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/04/books/books-tokyo-japan.html
This novel, a sweet one, made me feel warmer about the possibility of recuperating old confusions and errors—though I didn’t get into it with the guy on BART who wanted to know about my reading habits and told me I looked like a librarian.
@nicole Such a good photo.
What kind of effects pedal is this?!
My favorite "guitar pedal" is an extensively modified 1956 Wollensak T-1500 Tape Reel.
Tape delay, doubling, saturation, tube clipping, you name it!
Core curriculum. It’s urgent about what it is and really uninterested in pretending to be anything else. The main character is on-brand in dismissing Joyce as patriarchy, and yet the book’s got exactly the same arc as Ulysses: building up expectations for a surrogate filial relationship that finally converges, sadly, in a deflationary missed connection.
(Also, why is it so funny that the book’s Joyce booster is a manic trans guy named Kieran? It’s just funny.)
The afterword, on what Binnie learned/received permission to do from Joanna Russ, Gloria Anzaldúa and others, is an actual inspiration.
Latter-day Austro-Hungarian civil servant; THE WARM SOUTH, 2020 Northern Calfornia Book Award (https://www.spdbooks.org/Products/9781948072038/the-warm-south-a-novel.aspx); web developer; lapsed academic; bad at Zen; 🏳️⚧️