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Jun. 12th, 2011 19:31Saturday June 11, 2011 Neighborhood sale. Two yard sales on my block, less than last year.
***To the Uptown Lunds for MnSpec (Minnesota Speculative Fiction Writers Meetup.) Lunds is an upscale supermarket, so it has a good selection of food samples. I snacked on samples, then bought food for the Meetup.
The Meetup was smaller than usual; five people. I suspect being on Saturday rather than the usual Sunday had much to do with this.
Scheduled topic: Open reading. Two people read. Some discussion of their stories, and then conversation.
I worked out background and other stuff for "Down Among the Sane Men." Listening to writers read their work stimulates me.
(Note: I'm not going to work out the complete background. There are two planets, several hundred years of future history, intelligent nonhumans.... And it's a short story.)
***Afterwards, shopped at CVS pharmacy.
On to Pilgrim Lutheran School's bag sale. I found enough things I needed/wanted to fill a bag.
And then home.
***The fireworks season is starting.
***Divinity placed under arrest
MILITANT atheists will be delighted by a Google news alert about a "dangerous god seized by police in Gipsy Hill". This was Google's headline on a story credited to the Streatham Guardian, which covers the neighbourhood of that name in south London.
A few more operations of that kind could save all sorts of trouble in various parts of the world, some might think... if only the story had not been downgraded to mere canine custody in the Streatham Guardian's own coverage of it.
New Scientist http://is.gd/7mtZ5L
***To the Uptown Lunds for MnSpec (Minnesota Speculative Fiction Writers Meetup.) Lunds is an upscale supermarket, so it has a good selection of food samples. I snacked on samples, then bought food for the Meetup.
The Meetup was smaller than usual; five people. I suspect being on Saturday rather than the usual Sunday had much to do with this.
Scheduled topic: Open reading. Two people read. Some discussion of their stories, and then conversation.
I worked out background and other stuff for "Down Among the Sane Men." Listening to writers read their work stimulates me.
(Note: I'm not going to work out the complete background. There are two planets, several hundred years of future history, intelligent nonhumans.... And it's a short story.)
***Afterwards, shopped at CVS pharmacy.
On to Pilgrim Lutheran School's bag sale. I found enough things I needed/wanted to fill a bag.
And then home.
***The fireworks season is starting.
***Divinity placed under arrest
MILITANT atheists will be delighted by a Google news alert about a "dangerous god seized by police in Gipsy Hill". This was Google's headline on a story credited to the Streatham Guardian, which covers the neighbourhood of that name in south London.
A few more operations of that kind could save all sorts of trouble in various parts of the world, some might think... if only the story had not been downgraded to mere canine custody in the Streatham Guardian's own coverage of it.
New Scientist http://is.gd/7mtZ5L