bugling
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chazzbannerThis led me to look up
"what is the horse racing trumpet song called"
(catsman would point out that it is not a song. A song has words, except for a few specially called 'a song without words.')
It's "First Call."
This lead me to the Bugle Call Wikipedia page. I like listening to the samples. Some have given words, as in the last part of Reveille:
"The corporal's worse than the privates,
The sergeant's worse than the corporals,
Lieutenant's worse than the sergeants,
And the captain's worst of all!"
And while we're at it, here's an example of an elk bugle.
Other than that:
In late morning I spent an enjoyable hour on the SJs terrace, reading. And, oh yes, I made an appointment with a podiatrist.
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Reading roundup, fiction edition
Jun. 18th, 2026 12:49 pmsholioOut Law by Jim Butcher - This is a Dresden Files novella set during or perhaps shortly after Twelve Months that came out in May. It took me a while to read it because the summary looked like it featured Marcone heavily and I ... really do not like Marcone AT ALL. (I know this is a very minority opinion among Dresden Files readers.) However, it turns out that he appears for a couple pages in the beginning to set up the plot, and is otherwise Sir Not Appearing In This Book. And I really enjoyed it!
Spoilers/reactions: ( Under here )
Emmett Hardy series by Chris Kelsey (books 1-6) - This is a noir-flavored series of mystery/crime/police procedurals set in small-town Oklahoma in the 1960s and 1970s that I inhaled over the course of the spring.
More about that: ( Under the cut, no specific spoilers )
The Inheritance by Ilona Andrews - This is "Ilona Andrews does portal fantasy." The first 2/3 or so of the book was GREAT. And then the ending was staggeringly disappointing. So all in all, I'm still trying to figure out how I feel about it.
Spoilers proceed: ( Under here )
eco-friendly electronics, 615 recipes, farm books
Jun. 18th, 2026 10:36 amtozkaHappy Thursday! The grass pollen is really trying to get me this week so I'm hiding inside with the windows closed and air con cranked.
Here's some links!
Art
Amazing collage art by Lynne Perrella!
Northwest Troll sculptures by Danish environmental artist Thomas Dambo
Anticapitalist design case studies collected by Prof. Matthew Wizinsky who wrote a book called Design after Capitalism
Tech
How to Buy Ethical and Eco-Friendly Electronics from Wired, last updated March 2026. It smells a little of affiliate link stink, but the early parts about how to pick devices that can/will last longer, fixing them, buying secondhand, etc is good advice.
Sigil Séance Against Space Billionaires = tech x witchcraft!
An interesting alternative to organizing RSS feeds besides alphabetically or by topic.
Books
Newly released from Project Gutenberg:
- An Island Garden by Celia Thaxter (with illustrations!). This caught my eye because I'm reading Elizabeth and Her German Garden which came out around the same time
- A Calendar of Dinners, with 615 Recipes by Marion Harris Neil. I think this is actually a promo cookbooks from Crisco, but this one is VERY detailed. And there's vegetarian dishes, too!
RSS Feeds
A few recent blogs added to my feed reader:
- Farms on my Bookshelf (RSS) -- a book blog focused on memoirs of people who "got away from it all" aka left the city to start farms, or what have you
- A1 Mail Art Archive (RSS) -- old school mail art exchanges
- A Hundred Years Ago (RSS) -- food blog focused on recipes from a hundred years ago!
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Whumpex and more
Jun. 17th, 2026 11:17 pmsholio![[community profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/community.png){kind=small}
whumpex revealed this week and I loved my gift!Strategic Alliances (Babylon 5, Londo & G'Kar & Na'Toth, 2900 wds, post-canon)
One of my requests was for Londo and Na'Toth interacting, maybe teaming up if something happened to G'Kar, and this satisfied that craving very nicely.
I picked up a pinch hit for Whumpex as well as my assignment, so I have a couple of things in the collection.
I also wrote a pinch hit for Casefic (done, not revealed) and I have my Id Pro Quo assignment. There are a few different exchanges currently or soon to be in nominations, including Multifandom Tropefest and Just Married, but I really need to not sign up for anything new in the near future; I'm enjoying doing exchanges again, but I want July to be mostly recharge time.
I finished my Dungeon Crawler Carl reread, and now I'm going back and rereading particular chapters for clues and other lore. I don't know if I'd say I'm having fandom feelings about it (for one thing, the state of most of the fanfic is dire) but I'm really enjoying it. I'm into it enough that I ended up backing Matt Dinniman's Patreon because I don't want to wait until the next book comes out to read new chapters.
let's try
Jun. 17th, 2026 06:48 pmchazzbannerThe dental appointment was at 2:00, and I had all the morning (well, after 10) to buy shoes. So I did.
My walking shoes were pretty warn down, and my heel started hurting - on Sunday, I think. My first thought was oh no planters fasciitis. Then I thought, shoes. Get new shoes as a first step (p.s. they need minimal breaking in).
I'll see what it's like for a few days. I have to almost teach myself how to walk correctly on my right foot, as I've been doing a kind of roll to theside because of pain. If there isn't much progress I'll contact a podiatrist.
The thing is, I have just over two months before I go on a vacation that includes considerable (city) walking!
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Childproofing the World - Sue Storm's Role in The Fantastic Four: First Steps (2025)
Jun. 16th, 2026 09:15 pmmuccamukk(This probably should be a fic, but I don't have the brain space to write fic right now.)
Preamble
Firstly, this isn't vague-blogging or subtweeting or whatever, and I'm not intending to tell any specific person they're wrong on the Internet. It's something that I've been thinking about since I saw FF:FS last year.I'm further not telling anyone they should like the film if they didn't, or that they're bad for not wanting to watch a Disney movie prominently featuring pregnancy and parenthood. I'm sympathetic to having had enough of that genre and/or have been burned by it too many times. Totally fair! If you don't like plots with babies, you won't like this movie. There is definitely a baby!
I do, however, intend this to be something of a rebuttal to the "I don't like that the only female character was just a mom" line of criticism, which I've run into since the trailer. I also want to explain why I think that framing Sue's role as primarily a mother is reductive, and ignores some of the more interesting things the film was doing with her character.
( This will be long, and will spoil the entire movie )
car drama
Jun. 16th, 2026 08:06 pmchazzbannerIt started when I drove to cz_moon's neighborhood for coffee Sunday morning. My 'low air in tire' light came on, in fact indicating the right front tire. I drove carefully there and back again.
I knew I should take my car to the garage as soon as it opened on Monday (8 a.m.) - so I did. The new guy was very .. well, "we have 35 cars with appointments today, we'll try to take a look at it but we can't guarantee..." I left my car there and took the bus home.
Somehow I managed to talk myself out of an anxiety attack. At worst it could be like this: I'd ask
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ordenchaz to drive me to pick up meals that day. If the car wasn't ready by 11:30 on Tuesday, I'd tell kitgordon that he'd have to drive to the book group potluck. My Wednesday dental appointment? I could take the bus.I got a call in late morning saying that the car needed two new front tires, and a wheel alignment. Fine. The tires would be ordered from a distributor, and should be delivered by 2 o'clock.
At 4:00 the garage called me to let me know that the tires were delivered later than they had expected. They'd make sure they'd have a mechanic work on it as soon as they got to the shop the next morning (today).
I got a call that it was fixed and ready to pick up, about 9:30 this morning. I said I'd had started to worry. I had believed his promise, but "what if... what if the earth spun off its axis and something went wrong!" :-)
So I picked up my car (took the bus and walked ten minutes), and had enough time to stop at the co-op, then go home and relax a bit, before heading off to pick up kitgordon.
I felt decidedly relaxed when I got back this afternoon.
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Fandom 50 S4 Post 28: Concert observations from a casual fan
Jun. 16th, 2026 01:05 pmglitteryvIn chrono order for funsies.
Jin's concert September 2025.
I really liked hearing from someone who had gone to Jin's concerts in Seoul thinking that it was gonna be OK . . . only to end up realizing how amazing he is as a performer. Also how unique his concert was. FWIW, I think that a lot of ppl (ARMYs included) had the same kind of awakening to Jin's AWESOMECAKINESS and talents, heheh.
A good review of the BTS comeback performance on March 21st, 2026.
This one was interesting due to how, because she's not an ARMY (though she knows and enjoys BTS music, but, again, in a v. casual way?), she talked abt the negative aspects of BTS' comeback show in Gwanghwamun. The lines, the extreme security measures that ended up inconveniencing way too many ppl including herself and her mother.
THAT SAID, she enjoyed BTS' performance (and really dug the addition of "Arirang" into "Body to Body".)
NB: A lot was discussed abt the way the police and the city of Seoul organized the crowds to the point of driving everyone bonkers. OTOH, however, there were zero reports of ppl being harmed--an important point given the Itaewon crowd crush tragedy a few years ago.
Could things have been a bit looser? Maybe, but there we are.
BTS' first concert in YEARS. Seoul Day 1 of the ARIRANG tour.
Let me point out that, in addition to this being the literal first concert and all the pressures that come with that, the weather did its best to be HORRIBLE. It was chilly (46F / 7.7 Celsius) AND there was non-stop rain. So the stage was potentially slippery. Due to the condensation and other things associated with moderate, (again) non-stop rain, some of the effects (especially the smoke) went sideways. There was a steady fog for the first Act, frex.
ANYWAYS, NOLGGUYA had some opinions (a few criticisms that feel valid (to me) and tons of praise) on the show.
Here goes nothing!
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Sorta Music Monday
Jun. 15th, 2026 09:51 ammuccamukkWho taught you how to move on? Who showed you how to make it look so damn easy? ... I know you didn't learn on your own. Girl, who taught you how to move on?
Which is, all and all, misogynistic: she can't just have gotten over this loser, some dude has to have helped, and he's now mad at the dude because dudes have more agency. Et cetera.
However, it does sound a little like he's asking for a hook up, since his rebound flings have not been satisfactory, and he would like to try out the dude who's been working so well for her. As the bridge says:
Who's been keeping you up at night?🤔🤔🤔
Seems like you've been doing alright.
Maybe I'd be too if I knew:
Who taught you how to move on?
* I just watched the video so I could link to it, and it's very funny to me that they don't show Shaboozey actually in the motorhome because he is tol.
** I guess he could be saying "Girl" in a gay way, but I suspect not coming from Kevin Powers. Note, also, that she seems to have moved to California and cut her hair, so...