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cblj_backupGood morning all, and welcome to Radio Free Monday! RFM is two years old today. That's two years of help-giving, roommate-finding, pet-saving, kickstartering, indigogoing awesome. And thank you all for playing along with my little delusion of grandeur.
ONWARDS.
Ways To Give:
cluegirl let me know that there's an initiative under way to help stop the spread of hantavirus on the Pine Ridge reservation in South Dakota. You can read more about Native American Aid here and donate to help provide medical supplies and other services here.
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meganphntmgrl is looking for financial help but more importantly temporary housing for two months in NYC, in order to interview for jobs in the area. She's had a hell of a year and could really use the assistance.
kabal42 let me know about ![[insanejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/ij-userinfo.gif)
omarandjohnny, who is raising funds for his masectomy. He has a cafepress store here or you can donate at his gofundme site.
foxxydancr linked to news of the Gemaldegalerie in Berlin moving its Old Masters collection into storage in order to exhibit the Pietzsch Modern-contemporary collection in its place. You can read more here and find a petition to prevent it here. I strongly suggest reading the article before deciding -- it's difficult to weigh Old Masters against genuinely wonderful Modernists like the Pietzsch collection has, but the issue runs deeper than classical versus modern, concerning the likelihood of a new building to house the classical collection ever actually being built.
xturtle linked to Green T Productions, a local Minneapolis theatre company that is kickstarting its production of The Hobbit, "to create a Middle Earth unlike any you've seen before with shades of Japanese Noh, Butoh and Kabuki, and Spanish Flamenco styles." They only have nine days to go and they're a little behind, so every bit helps.
madripoor_rose linked to a kickstarter for the awesome band Enter The Haggis, who are raising funds to record, release, and distribute an album independently.
dreamwaffles linked to a fundraiser for some folks to produce an album of christmas music made entirely from remixed whale song. I have to admit I'm not sure why they need nine grand for this, but it's a pretty funny concept anyhow.
Pets Need Help:
subluxate linked to a post by foxfury, who is looking for a temporary foster situation for her cat, who is being abused by her roommates.
jane_drew linked to the Pet Postcard project, where for every postcard you send to the project, they donate food for shelter dogs and cats. She also linked to LifeWithCats, which is raising money to help Scooter, a special-needs kitten. There's a donation link at the bottom of the article.
moyakite linked me to an infographic about animal abuse being perpetrated in Oregon. I want to warn that this smells very much like a hoax, and I can't find any actual news stories on it. But animals are frequently abused in one way or another and it doesn't hurt to offer the information that a) it is actually against TOS to post free animals on Craigslist and b) certainly if you see people shooting at domestic pets you should report them.
Just For Fun:
jonaht linked to a Tumblr For Writers that cracked my shit up.
This has done the rounds this week but just in case you haven't seen it, McSweeney's has an article on The "Snake Fight" Portion of Your Thesis Defense. Grad students take note!
And this has been Radio Free Monday! Thank you for your time. You can always post items for my attention in comments here (or on any post) or email me at copperbadge at gmail dot com. If you're not sure how to proceed, here is a little more about what I do and how you can help (or ask for help!). Remember, brevity is the soul of RFM.
ONWARDS.
Ways To Give:
cluegirl let me know that there's an initiative under way to help stop the spread of hantavirus on the Pine Ridge reservation in South Dakota. You can read more about Native American Aid here and donate to help provide medical supplies and other services here.meganphntmgrl is looking for financial help but more importantly temporary housing for two months in NYC, in order to interview for jobs in the area. She's had a hell of a year and could really use the assistance. kabal42 let me know about omarandjohnny, who is raising funds for his masectomy. He has a cafepress store here or you can donate at his gofundme site. foxxydancr linked to news of the Gemaldegalerie in Berlin moving its Old Masters collection into storage in order to exhibit the Pietzsch Modern-contemporary collection in its place. You can read more here and find a petition to prevent it here. I strongly suggest reading the article before deciding -- it's difficult to weigh Old Masters against genuinely wonderful Modernists like the Pietzsch collection has, but the issue runs deeper than classical versus modern, concerning the likelihood of a new building to house the classical collection ever actually being built. xturtle linked to Green T Productions, a local Minneapolis theatre company that is kickstarting its production of The Hobbit, "to create a Middle Earth unlike any you've seen before with shades of Japanese Noh, Butoh and Kabuki, and Spanish Flamenco styles." They only have nine days to go and they're a little behind, so every bit helps. madripoor_rose linked to a kickstarter for the awesome band Enter The Haggis, who are raising funds to record, release, and distribute an album independently.dreamwaffles linked to a fundraiser for some folks to produce an album of christmas music made entirely from remixed whale song. I have to admit I'm not sure why they need nine grand for this, but it's a pretty funny concept anyhow. Pets Need Help:
subluxate linked to a post by foxfury, who is looking for a temporary foster situation for her cat, who is being abused by her roommates. jane_drew linked to the Pet Postcard project, where for every postcard you send to the project, they donate food for shelter dogs and cats. She also linked to LifeWithCats, which is raising money to help Scooter, a special-needs kitten. There's a donation link at the bottom of the article. moyakite linked me to an infographic about animal abuse being perpetrated in Oregon. I want to warn that this smells very much like a hoax, and I can't find any actual news stories on it. But animals are frequently abused in one way or another and it doesn't hurt to offer the information that a) it is actually against TOS to post free animals on Craigslist and b) certainly if you see people shooting at domestic pets you should report them. Just For Fun:
jonaht linked to a Tumblr For Writers that cracked my shit up.This has done the rounds this week but just in case you haven't seen it, McSweeney's has an article on The "Snake Fight" Portion of Your Thesis Defense. Grad students take note!
And this has been Radio Free Monday! Thank you for your time. You can always post items for my attention in comments here (or on any post) or email me at copperbadge at gmail dot com. If you're not sure how to proceed, here is a little more about what I do and how you can help (or ask for help!). Remember, brevity is the soul of RFM.
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Date: 2012-07-09 07:47 pm (UTC)I'm a former member of the Harry Potter fandom who, like so many of us, fell out of the fandom when the last book was finished. I recently got the itch to start rereading some of my old favorites, and noticed that some stories that had touched me deeply are starting to disappear from the web. It was fairly startling to realize that the only reason The Shoebox Project still exists is because a fan had made pdfs of them at some point and has since created a website for them.
With that example in mind, I decided that, while I'm thinking about going back and rereading old fics, I should start keeping my own archive. I've since reread Stealing Harry and made a pdf with the whole story together in one file. That way if, heaven forbid, something were to happen to you or your archive, SOMEBODY has a copy of what I think is a phenomenal piece of fiction.
I've hosted it on my google docs at https://docs.google.com/open?id=0B1PmIeTX_Qv8Skg5X3A0RzdvUzQ (hopefully I got the permissions right and other people can see it), and I figured I should post it here to make sure you didn't mind someone saving it. Also, if you have any requests/suggestions for fonts and formatting, I'd love to hear them. I created it using the default LaTeX fonts, so there are probably better options.
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Date: 2012-07-09 07:50 pm (UTC)I don't mind you hosting a copy, but would you mind adding my email address and/or the URL sam_storyteller.dreamwidth.org to the cover page? That way people know how to find me and my fic :)
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Date: 2012-07-09 08:09 pm (UTC)And well, I suppose that's what I get for not asking, but I was going to reread it anyway, and it's good for me to figure out how to reformat things in TeX. Do you happen to have a typeset copy of Cartographer's Craft? That was the next fic on my list of Things To Preserve For The Ages, and it could save me a bit of time.
I probably sound a little silly for doing this, but I ran across someone posting on reddit asking around for a fic that had disappeared, and not even the cruel claws of the Wayback Machine could pull it from the past. Watching fic websites disappear from the web feels a little bit like watching a library burning, and I'm trying to save what little I can, if only for myself.
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Date: 2012-07-09 08:12 pm (UTC)I don't think it's silly to want to archive fic, BUT not everyone is as lenient as I am about where their stories go. If you're archiving something that either is available now or you plan to make available to the public when it's done, you definitely want to ask the author first. They may not want you hosting it as long as they have the original already hosted somewhere. :)
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Date: 2012-07-12 01:37 pm (UTC)Trifle Competition!
http://girliejones.livejournal.com/1753464.html
http://www.twelfthplanetpress.com/news/a-trifle-competition
In anticipation of A Trifle Dead, the debut novel from new crime imprint Deadlines, we seek delicious, inspiring trifle recipes to publish in the book.
We are looking for recipes that match any or all of the following themes: Shot Glass Trifle, Death by Trifle, and Tasmanian Trifle.
Up to 3 winning recipe/s will appear in the novel, with all credit and attribution to the creator/s.
The winner(s) will receive an early contributor copy of A Trifle Dead, a stack of postcards featuring your winning recipe, and your choice of 2 Twelfth Planet Press books (either backlist or forthcoming titles).
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Date: 2012-07-12 01:38 pm (UTC)(Tasmanian Trifle, that's...oddly specific.)
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Date: 2012-07-13 03:04 pm (UTC)*shrugs*
I'd go with Lamingtons soaked in leatherwood or ceder honey and use apple jelly (apple juice, apple pulp, gelatine), ooo! and put King Island cream in the custard. Brillo - instant Tasmanian Trifle.
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Date: 2012-07-13 01:12 am (UTC)Ways to give:
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Date: 2012-07-15 02:37 pm (UTC)From the kickstarter: "A Place to Stand is the authorized story of Jimmy Santiago Baca’s transformation from a functionally illiterate convict to an award-winning poet, novelist and screenwriter." Of note is that the book that is the foundation of the film was banned by the Tucson School Board (with maybe five others by this same author as well as many other really good books).
In short: banned books, poetry, and support to those celebrating a writer who devotes his life to helping others overcome hardship. "The themes of [Baca's] work include American Southwest barrios, addiction, injustice, education, community, love and beyond. He has conducted hundreds of writing workshops in prisons, community centers, libraries, and universities throughout the country."
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/aplacetostand/a-place-to-stand-finishing-production?ref=live
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Date: 2012-07-20 05:51 pm (UTC)I hope this is the right place to post something I hope you will run on RFM. I am a "Big Sister" to a wonderful 14-year-old girl from South Central whose family of a mom and six kids has survived abuse and extreme poverty and has come out hardworking and kind and determined to make their life better. We have been raising money to help them move out of South Central and into a better life. It has been amazingly inspirational to watch their progress. Here is the whole story:
SMCOP outreach at St. Michael and All Angels Episcopal Church in Studio City, CA has been sponsoring a family for the past 20 months.
They came to us because three of the children in the family were being treated for PTSD/trauma survival at Children’s Hospital LA. Their case worker noted that the kids all needed new shoes and maybe some groceries. That was the beginning of our relationship with this wonderful family. As time has worn on we have fallen in love with this special mom and her family. In the past few months it became clear that where they were living in South Central is not just cramped, filthy (a one-bedroom with no heat or hot water for 7 people!), inconvenient and not conducive to finding meaningful employment for the mom. It now appears this living situation is actually very dangerous to this entire family… too many gangs and too much crime.
Anyway, we resolved to find them a new place to live and thus give these kids who have been through so much a place to thrive and also increase mom's employment opportunities. We accomplished this- moving them on June 1 into a very nice apartment in Van Nuys. This mom was brought here from Mexico when she was 14 (meaning she can now take advantage of Pres. Obama’s new proposal for the Dreamers!). At 14 she was put straight to work (even though she begged to go to school) and within a year she had been pawned off to an older, very abusive man and was having kids and living in terror. When she made her escape from him, she lived in a car for six months… all the while getting her older kids to school each and every day, while watching two toddlers and a newborn and cleaning houses. I tell her all the time she is my hero.
The new rent is $1250. She can make $700 of this rent until she gets her housecleaning business up to speed. So, SMCOP* resolved to augment $7200 over the next year, plus a deposit, plus a few incidentals. So, we are looking to come up with about $9000 total. A year from now she will take over the entire rent. Thus far we have raised $4500 so we are halfway to our goal. These kids are on their way- enrolled in better schools, visiting parks and engage in sports and the arts. This family has survived so much; let’s give them that final leg-up to a truly better life. The daughter who is ten grabbed my hand the day they moved in and said, “I cannot believe this is my home!”
Believe it! This miracle is happening and we hope you will be a part of it!
And here is the link to the funding page: http://www.gofundme.com/ky8h8
Sam, I hope you will post this on RFM - thanks SO much!!!
Angela Barton
ABarton62@yahoo.com
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Date: 2012-07-20 06:32 pm (UTC)thanks again!
Angela
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