"And all of the houses they built in the seventies finally fall."

[greygirlbeast]

Cold out there. Cold and sunny. I think spring's decided to skip this year.

Here I sit, with my sour stomach and shakey hands and ringing ears, and the day ahead of me. And there's really not a lot to say about yesterday.

I spent the entire day looking for a story for Sirenia Digest #64, and I think I found something called "Random Thoughts Before a Fatal Crash." Today I have to begin making a story from the idea, stone and mortar and what have you.

It could be an awfully prophetic title. I didn't see that yesterday.

I think I might have drawn the cover for the Crimson Alphabet chapbook yesterday.

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Today marks the 100th anniversary of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire. In 1998, I wrote about the fire in The Dreaming #28, "Dreams the Burning Dream." This afternoon, Spooky and I will be ringing a bell at 4:45 p.m. EST, the exact time the first alarm bells were sounded a century ago. I'm a little disheartened that there's no official observance being held in Rhode Island, despite its history of textile mills, etc.

But it's not as if the dead hear bells the living ring. It's not as if the dead hear anything at all.

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Huge thanks to Geoffrey who seems to have secured permission for me to quote Radiohead's "There, There (The Bony King of Nowhere)" in The Drowning Girl: A Memoir. I'm still waiting to hear from R.E.M.'s management.*

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Some unexpectedly good rp in SL last night. I really don't do SL anymore. And, for that matter, I think SL all but destroyed any desire I ever had to rp anywhere. You can only be fucked over so many times before you simply cease to care. Anyway, thank you Blair, because last night was awesome.

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Thanks to all the people who donated to the the Kickstarter project yesterday. We have 12 hours to go, and the project is 207% funded. I'm amazed. I was worried we wouldn't meet our goal, much less meet it more than twice over.

Gonna go write now.

* Actually, I just did.

Comments

[readingthedark.livejournal.com]

indispensable

That was my take on it (and the look in Aunt Beast's eyes when she talked about how much she wanted to use it). The new issue of Writer's Digest has four lines from a Disney song (Cruella de Vil) in a one page short story and I bet they didn't even think twice or consider asking before they did it. (For multiple reasons.)

The gap between what's legitimate fair use and publishing houses' fear of lawyers is getting more restrictive all the time...

[greygirlbeast.livejournal.com]

The gap between what's legitimate fair use and publishing houses' fear of lawyers is getting more restrictive all the time...

This is all about lawyers finding ways to justify their salaries, and the pressure they exert on spineless editors.

[xjenavivex.livejournal.com]

Thank you!

[whiskeychick.livejournal.com]

I guess from my copyright training that if it takes less than 7 seconds to read out loud, it would be safe to reprint sans permission. However, that said, I'd walk the safer route and get permission. Course if Disney was the entity to ask permission, I'd find something else.

Good show for your assistance to get Radiohead to agree.

[greygirlbeast.livejournal.com]

As far as Penguin is concerned, "fair use" is nonexistent, especially where songs and poems are concerned. Copyright law isn't relevant.