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RWP: Memorial for Velma deSelby-Bowen

Signal boosting:

Note that I am quoting someone below, thus the blockquote.

We are planning a memorial gathering for Velma on Saturday, November 8, at 1:30 p.m., at Washington Hall in Seattle. Everyone is welcome.

There’s no formal officiant. Instead, this is an opportunity for her family and friends to get up and share our memories of Velma. We’re still working on the details of the planning. If you know you’ll want to get up and speak, please tell Vicki, by email at vr@panix.com. Or if you just want to be with people, please let Vicki know you’re likely to attend so we can get a head-count for food and drink.

Washington Hall is in the Central District, at 153 14th Ave Seattle, WA 98122. We will be in the Lodge Room. The space is wheelchair-accessible and easily accessible by mass transit; there is also a parking lot. We have the room from 1:00 p.m. until 5:00 p.m., including set-up and clean-up time; if you want to come early and help with set-up, please let Vicki know.

RSVPs to Vicki at vr@panix.com please; I’m trying to reduce the burden on Scraps.

Please pass the word to people who you think should know about this.

Rediscovery: Fire Logic by Laurie J. Marks

One of the benefits of having other people pick what I read is having my attention directed at books I would have otherwise overlooked.

Fire Logic by Laurie J. Marks

For future reference

What are the noteworthy election-related SF novels?

Virgin Galactic pilot actions studied in spaceship crash

Hart said Siebold, now hospitalized with a shoulder injury, did not exit through the cockpit's escape hatch. "We know it wasn't through there, so how did this pilot get out?" he said.

Thinking of a stats-based review of a nordic noir a week Wednesday

I have a specific series in mind but thinking of it made me wonder who the significant female writers of Nordic Noir are and also has anyone given certain tendencies of NN the satirical send-up or at least feminist side-eye they appear to warrant?

(I had no idea Lisbeth Salander was inspired by Pippi Longstocking)

Found in a book

Apparently I last read this book summer of 1995.

#kwlt

This is kind of cool

Our new easyGO real-time map allows you to get up to the minute information about bus routes around Waterloo Region.