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suzisteffen, 17 days ago to random

Wow, our 10-game package seats are ... kinda high up, lol. #SeattleStorm #WNBA looks like Nneka Ogwumike is starting, and so is CC. Pretty amazing! Sold out arena. But not a ton of people here yet, which is weird since the game starts in 29 minutes. #IndianaFever #CaitlinClark #AliyahBoston #JewelLoyd #NnekaOgumwike

suzisteffen, 1 month ago to music

The Eugene Symphony is having a family concert today. They’re advertising it with “Wigglers and dancers welcome,” and I LOVE IT. I’m going to a chamber music concert which will 100 percent NOT welcome wiggling or dancing, but as an adult who sat, wiggled, and probably made noise through a lot of music as a kid - and got in trouble for it - I appreciate my local #orchestra. #music #children #Oregon

suzisteffen, 1 month ago to NWSL

Thank you FotMob for reminding me that #NWSL is on Prime tonight! I should be packing for a trip, but, like, soccer! #WoSo

(Also! We're hitting up the Bay FC-Seattle Reign game on Sunday in San Jose!!)

suzisteffen, 1 month ago to random

Sometimes, there are things you want to say online but they need to become essays instead. Relatedly, I wish the bodies of the people who harm other people would be the body that kept the score instead. You know?

suzisteffen, 2 months ago to random

OK, so people interested in my #MasterRecycling experience - I also got certified as a “Community #Plastics Collector” last week. In our county in Oregon, that means we collect #2 HDPE lids, bottles smaller than a tennis ball, & tubs (& a few other things); #4 LDPE, mostly lids; and #5 PP lids, tubs, etc. (it’s mostly lids and dairy). Those go to Oregon’s Denton Plastics in Portland. They have to be absolutely dry and ABSOLUTELY free of food contamination or mold. (YIKES.) (1/ ? )

suzisteffen, 2 months ago to random

This LAist list of quintessential California movies is such a good way to deal with the day after so much NCAAWBB, #oscars2024, & the switch to daylight saving time. Yesterday was A Lot. I didn't even get to see soccer! Anyway!!! Good list!!! https://laist.com/brief/news/arts-and-entertainment/california-films-cheerocracy-up-in-smoke-lady-bird-troop-beverly

suzisteffen, 2 months ago to random

daaaamn, Jimmy Kimmel #Oscars2024

suzisteffen, 2 months ago to random

This is bad, Academy. #Oscars2024

suzisteffen, 2 months ago to random

The fact that this song is from the Flamin’ Cheetos movie is just a little too funny, especially with these amazing production values. Bahahahha! #Oscars2024

suzisteffen, 2 months ago to random

“This is the first Oscar in Ukranian history. I am probably the first director on this stage to say I wish I’d never made this film. I wish to exchange this for Russia never attacking Ukraine, never occupying our cities, not kiling tens of thousands of my fellow Ukranians.” #Oscars2024

suzisteffen, 2 months ago to random

Cord Jefferson: “There are so many people out there who want the opportunity that I was given. I understand that this is a risk-averse industry, but a $200 million movie is also a risk. … Try making 10 $20 million movies!” #oscars2024

suzisteffen, 2 months ago to random

This is a very, very long union commercial, and I'm here for it. #Oscars2024

suzisteffen, 2 months ago to random

You are not going to make me watch Poor Things, assholes who should have voted for Barbie instead. #Oscars2024

suzisteffen, 4 months ago to random

I just received two copies of the Sam Kerr Aussie Esquire via a friend, and I ... wow. To live to see this day. #lesbianVisibility

suzisteffen, 4 months ago to random

Just finished Nick Fuller Googins's The Great Transition, in my quest to read @tithenai and @charliejane's top 10 #SFF books of 2023.

I don't think I've ever cried so much in anger, grief, and hope while reading a book of science fiction. My goodness. His debut!! Incredible. https://chireviewofbooks.com/2023/08/22/a-hopeful-climate-change-novel-an-interview-with-nick-fuller-googins/

(the top 10 book lists:
nyt https://www.nytimes.com/2023/12/04/books/review/best-science-fiction-fantasy-2023.html?unlocked_article_code=1.Qk0.mbi-.DAjV9NShELny&smid=url-share
wapo: https://wapo.st/47Lnyi4 So far I've read 14 total. Great lists! Books I might not have picked for myself - particularly the fantasy.)

suzisteffen, 4 months ago to random

I cannot stop reading about the Hugos and I just ... cannot at all ... figure anything out. What the entire f*ck, beginning to end?

https://wandering.shop/deck/@CamestrosFelapton/111803403218478407

suzisteffen, 4 months ago to random

I think that NPR thinks this headline is clever, but what it says to me is, "We have LITERALLY NO IDEA what life is like if it's not on a coast." Yes, I live on one of the coasts, but I'm from the Midwest, and just fuck this headline and this entire way of thinking. "of all places" are you kidding me?? ARE YOU KIDDING ME?!?! Sigh. https://www.npr.org/2024/01/21/1225888886/one-of-the-worlds-greatest-instrument-collections-is-in-south-dakota-of-all-plac

suzisteffen, 4 months ago to random

Newest news site game addiction is New Yorker's "Name Drop," where you're supposed to guess a person through six clues - the sooner you guess, the more "points" (for??) you get. I dead-ass knew two: "In 2021, I became co-owner of the North Carolina Courage of the National Women's Soccer League," and "adrienne maree brown and Toshi Reagon host a podcast about me, and Reagon and her mother, Sweet Honey in the Rock's Berenice Johnson Reagon, composed an opera using two of my books."

suzisteffen, 4 months ago to bookstodon

Just finished Nick Harkaway's superb, melancholy, violent private detective SF #mystery, Titanium Noir, which was on @tithenai's NYT best 10 #SFF books of 2023. Would absolutely recommend!
https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/710281/titanium-noir-by-nick-harkaway/

(Here's the NYT list in a gift link: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/12/04/books/review/best-science-fiction-fantasy-2023.html?unlocked_article_code=1.HU0.niZz.VkCnqKQ-rrUP&smid=url-share_ )

#AmReading @bookstodon

suzisteffen, 4 months ago to random

Hey, friends, one of my former students, a great dude, so kind and thoughtful, with a 7-month-old kid, is entering palliative care.

If you have any ability to help his family out, please give what you can.

https://gofund.me/adfa5325

suzisteffen, 4 months ago to random

So, Eugene. #AmericanFiction doesn't open here until next Thursday and I'm debating just getting a ticket now. Hmmmm. (Also, if you watched Rustin and saw Jeffrey Wright as Adam Clayton Powell, as I did, it's going to be so interesting to see him in AF.) (I hope!) I have loved Cord Jefferson's work on just about everything for YEARS, so I'm excited to see his first big movie. (I hope first of many!)

suzisteffen, 5 months ago to random

Apropos of what I said, here are @charliejane's top 10 #SFF books of 2023, gift article from the Washington Post - https://wapo.st/48hn3x2

and here are @tithenai's top 10 SFF of 2023, gift article from the NYT - https://www.nytimes.com/2023/12/04/books/review/best-science-fiction-fantasy-2023.html?unlocked_article_code=1.HU0.niZz.VkCnqKQ-rrUP&smid=url-share

There's only one overlap! My Libby is FULL of books from these lists. Well, my holds list is full, anyway. (One of my libraries in the Midwest is the most likely to have genre books - Eugene is ... ahem ... snottier.) (& Queens lines are LONG) #AmReading

suzisteffen, 5 months ago to books

Second up in the Great #Hanukkah #KindleBookGiveaway is Emma Donoghue's novel The Pull of the Stars, in which the author "once again finds the light in the darkness in this new classic of hope and survival against all odds."

I have five cached K*ndle copies for U.S. readers:

❌https://www.amazon.com/kindle/redeem/?t=GSUTTLKCPJJSDKM

https://www.amazon.com/kindle/redeem/?t=GS3WU5HQQWB8K6U

❌https://www.amazon.com/kindle/redeem/?t=GSA2P6AUNUM8RRJ

https://www.amazon.com/kindle/redeem/?t=GS7NTFF3RNJFJW8

https://www.amazon.com/kindle/redeem/?t=GSPLEA98X99NVY2

#Reading #AmReading #Books #lesbian #LGBTQIA2S

suzisteffen, 5 months ago to random

THEEEE most bonkers art story I've ever read, and I love it to death: Mel Chin and his CalArts grad students created a collective in the mid-1990s to smuggle subversive art onto the set of "Melrose Place." AND IT WORKED. https://slate.com/culture/2023/12/melrose-place-abortion-art-gala-committee-mel-chin.html

suzisteffen, 6 months ago to random

You really must read @charliejane's newsletter, if only for the cat doodles. I mean, I read it for everything, but, like, THE CAT DOODLES!!!

https://buttondown.email/charliejane/archive/a-productivity-hack-thats-been-helping-me-lately/

(Super bonus: A newsletter NOT on a site that pays literal N*zis for content! Wow.)