Actingup
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('Bah Humbug' readers - there's a place for you over there.)
We don't have Thanksgiving here, so this is a little thread of thanks in time for those who celebrate Christmas and related festivals. Hanukkah has just ended, and in our (largely Christian) family we were fortunate enough to be with the Jewish partner of a family member as they led us through a little ceremony to mark the last night, all the more poignant following an ISIS-inspired attack on the community a week ago. Tomorrow we'll have the family at lunch, and then the day after that we'll be watching cricket as we settle into the long, lazy days of summer.
I'm thankful for everybody here for the positive interactions, the arguments, the jokes (good and bad), and for a space in which to push boundaries (subject to content guidelines). I'm thankful for the people who run contest and event support threads and who dream up crazy event ideas in the first place. For our benevolent / fascist admins, for the card-counters, for those who find bugs and dream of a better Literotica, and for the many supportive authors who are happy to read other peoples' works and give feedback (and for me, particularly @PennyThompson and @Nynah who have been amazing and so much fun). I'm really grateful personally for the chance to find my creative voice again after years of focusing on dry, withering policy and science. And, not surprisingly, that rediscovered creative voice is helping me in my 'real world' job as well, because I can now express shocking things and spin wild visions in 750 words or more, and it turns out that there's a need for that in the big bad world.
Merry Christmas all!
Edit - it's worth watching the Chris Rea clip below, not for the sound quality, but for the hilarity of a rare and completely over-the-top performance of his mega-airplay Christmas song after a concert filled with his fabulous blues and slide guitar. For an earlier 2014 performance similar to this, Chris said "the gig was on 20 December, so the road crew kept badgering me to do it. I went, 'If I'm going to sing this fucking song, we're gonna do it properly.' So, we hired 12 snow cannons. When we started the song, you couldn't hear it for the noise of the crowd, and we let go with the machines. We put three feet of artificial snow in the stalls. The venue charged me £12,000 to clean it up (source Wikepedia). RIP Chris Rea @ChloeTzang
We don't have Thanksgiving here, so this is a little thread of thanks in time for those who celebrate Christmas and related festivals. Hanukkah has just ended, and in our (largely Christian) family we were fortunate enough to be with the Jewish partner of a family member as they led us through a little ceremony to mark the last night, all the more poignant following an ISIS-inspired attack on the community a week ago. Tomorrow we'll have the family at lunch, and then the day after that we'll be watching cricket as we settle into the long, lazy days of summer.
I'm thankful for everybody here for the positive interactions, the arguments, the jokes (good and bad), and for a space in which to push boundaries (subject to content guidelines). I'm thankful for the people who run contest and event support threads and who dream up crazy event ideas in the first place. For our benevolent / fascist admins, for the card-counters, for those who find bugs and dream of a better Literotica, and for the many supportive authors who are happy to read other peoples' works and give feedback (and for me, particularly @PennyThompson and @Nynah who have been amazing and so much fun). I'm really grateful personally for the chance to find my creative voice again after years of focusing on dry, withering policy and science. And, not surprisingly, that rediscovered creative voice is helping me in my 'real world' job as well, because I can now express shocking things and spin wild visions in 750 words or more, and it turns out that there's a need for that in the big bad world.
Merry Christmas all!
Edit - it's worth watching the Chris Rea clip below, not for the sound quality, but for the hilarity of a rare and completely over-the-top performance of his mega-airplay Christmas song after a concert filled with his fabulous blues and slide guitar. For an earlier 2014 performance similar to this, Chris said "the gig was on 20 December, so the road crew kept badgering me to do it. I went, 'If I'm going to sing this fucking song, we're gonna do it properly.' So, we hired 12 snow cannons. When we started the song, you couldn't hear it for the noise of the crowd, and we let go with the machines. We put three feet of artificial snow in the stalls. The venue charged me £12,000 to clean it up (source Wikepedia). RIP Chris Rea @ChloeTzang
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