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primeidealCouple interesting links from File 770 the other day. The hotel that hosted Shore Leave (and several other cons I have not attended) is closing in a couple months. "Many fans noticed the hotel was not being invested in since 2018" I was only there briefly but I can confirm the AC was...not invested in. :( Sounds like it has a lot of good memories.
I thought this link was interesting, less so the parts about AI and more so the parts about resentment. Because I'm definitely the kind of person who is always bouncing between different creative projects for fun, whether that be fanfic, roleplaying, poetry, conlanging, whatever...but I've also been that person kind of wistfully staring at "real" writers and thinking, "I wish that was me, but it's probably too late, there are so many people like me that I'll never make it." And, like, that's not true! Part of the reason why I was lurking File 770 was because I'd actually gotten some good news about another submission and now I'm getting hyped for that! But it's a good reminder to tell myself, even when I'm feeling that way, a. don't take it out on other people (I think I'm pretty good about this), and b. let that be an urge to push myself forward. Every creative person needs a healthy level of "you know what, dang it, my ideas are at least as good as some of the stuff out there, if they can do it, so can I!"
Okay, so the other day I'm at the Nationals baseball game in Washington DC. And all the home team players have their own walk-up music (batters) or entering-the-game-in-relief music (pitchers). Some of them are punny. Like, Alex Call is "Call Me Maybe." Jacob Young is "Forever Young" (by Alphaville, not the Bob Dylan song or the will.i.am remix). And then there's relief pitcher Hunter Harvey.
Now, I understand that recently, there was some controversy involving a country music song. I haven't listened to it, so I'm not going to judge. But, apparently, the recently-released song drew disapproval from some on the left wing because the narrator is a working-class white male complaining about rich people and politicians. Which is surprising, because to the best of my knowledge, a great deal of country music involves working-class narrators complaining about rich people and politicians.
Anyway, this guy's entry song is about how the world needs more rednecks, "it's a shame old John Wayne/Didn't live to run for president, and "What this world needs is a little more respect/For the Lord and the law and the working man." This song was written in 1989 (it talks about Gorbachev), by Charlie Daniels ("The Devil Went Down to Georgia,") who died in 2020 and, I think, people missed him and weren't like "oh hooray, we got rid of that jerk." Let me repeat that this guy plays for the team in Washington DC, the capital of the US government bureaucracy. And nobody is upset or weirded out or complaining about this? IDK, man.
I thought this link was interesting, less so the parts about AI and more so the parts about resentment. Because I'm definitely the kind of person who is always bouncing between different creative projects for fun, whether that be fanfic, roleplaying, poetry, conlanging, whatever...but I've also been that person kind of wistfully staring at "real" writers and thinking, "I wish that was me, but it's probably too late, there are so many people like me that I'll never make it." And, like, that's not true! Part of the reason why I was lurking File 770 was because I'd actually gotten some good news about another submission and now I'm getting hyped for that! But it's a good reminder to tell myself, even when I'm feeling that way, a. don't take it out on other people (I think I'm pretty good about this), and b. let that be an urge to push myself forward. Every creative person needs a healthy level of "you know what, dang it, my ideas are at least as good as some of the stuff out there, if they can do it, so can I!"
Okay, so the other day I'm at the Nationals baseball game in Washington DC. And all the home team players have their own walk-up music (batters) or entering-the-game-in-relief music (pitchers). Some of them are punny. Like, Alex Call is "Call Me Maybe." Jacob Young is "Forever Young" (by Alphaville, not the Bob Dylan song or the will.i.am remix). And then there's relief pitcher Hunter Harvey.
Now, I understand that recently, there was some controversy involving a country music song. I haven't listened to it, so I'm not going to judge. But, apparently, the recently-released song drew disapproval from some on the left wing because the narrator is a working-class white male complaining about rich people and politicians. Which is surprising, because to the best of my knowledge, a great deal of country music involves working-class narrators complaining about rich people and politicians.
Anyway, this guy's entry song is about how the world needs more rednecks, "it's a shame old John Wayne/Didn't live to run for president, and "What this world needs is a little more respect/For the Lord and the law and the working man." This song was written in 1989 (it talks about Gorbachev), by Charlie Daniels ("The Devil Went Down to Georgia,") who died in 2020 and, I think, people missed him and weren't like "oh hooray, we got rid of that jerk." Let me repeat that this guy plays for the team in Washington DC, the capital of the US government bureaucracy. And nobody is upset or weirded out or complaining about this? IDK, man.
