It's Saturday, my brain is fried, so here's linkage for the weekend.
First up, via the Advocate, this remake of Lady Gaga/Beyoncé's 'Telephone' by servicemen in Afghanistan. [Update, apparently Aaron, one of the soldiers in the video, has two mums.]
Second, here's part of the reason for my brain being fried: climate change is making my allergies worse. I've always been violently allergic to tree pollen. Now, according to Mother Jones, more CO2 means more pollen--which means a more pronounced reaction to foodstuffs related to some common tree pollen species. "People who are genetically presdisposed to fruit and nut allergies," people, y'know, like me, tuh, "may find that increased exposure to birch pollen makes their food reactions worse. Similarly, more ragweed pollen could aggravate symptoms in people allergic to melon." (Thanks, Cindy.)
This one's old but I find myself thinking about it on and off: how to make a stylus for your iPad from a pencil and a sock. Seriously. Very cool. (Thanks, Jennifer.)
Another Jennifer tells me she'll be curating a lesbian poetry series at Kissed By Venus a website which "presents original short fiction, book reviews, author interviews, and commentary on lesbian fiction (and related subjects) by a wide range of writers and readers, from all corners of the lesbian fiction world."
The Publishing Triangle announced their awards last night at a ceremony at the New School's Tishman Auditorium, "where prizes were given in the categories of lesbian poetry, gay poetry, debut fiction, LGBT fiction, gay nonfiction and lesbian nonfiction." LambdaLiterary.org has the skinny.
And finally our weekly roundup of links for writers is up over at Sterling Editing. Lots of good stuff, including a long article from the New Yorker on the future of books. (For those who don't track all the industry goings-on, it's a good catch-up article.) As you'll see from the post, Kelley and I are planning to be off the grid from May 17 through June 6. With any luck, I'll see through my allergies and the allurements of Hild clearly enough to do a real blog post before then.
Meanwhile, have a fabulous weekend.
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Ack, we're all allergic here, too. My daughter now even has developed a cold from it. Sheesh. Hope you feel better soon. :)
ReplyDeleteYep, we've bumped into a couple of people with 'summer colds' whom we flee immediately. Any virus (or bacterium) may as well be the plague to me. I just can't afford to go down with anything that will stress my immune system further. Gaargh!
ReplyDeleteThat video is awesome! Too bad they had to disable comments on the youtube site because of nasty homophobe comments.
ReplyDeleteThat sux about the allergy thing. I think I read that somewhere about else too about climate change and allergies. I remember thinking how lucky I am not to be affected by that. Hope it doesn't get worse.
Glad you like the video. It's fun to watch grownups play.
ReplyDeleteHave you tried upping your vitamin B1 intake? I don't know if there's a connection for anyone else, but I had really bad allergies before I started the B1 shots. I barely have any now, just have to use flonase a couple of times in the spring and fall.
ReplyDeleteHope you feel better soon!
I haven't tried the B, no. As far as I know, the only things I'm habitually, chronically short of are D and magnesium--which I'm supplementing to the no-longer-short place.
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ReplyDeleteI love Kissed by Venus! And Lambda Literary, obviously.
ReplyDeleteI didn't know one of the soldiers in that video had two moms! Huh. Thanks for sharing!