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#Swancon14KidsWillUnderstand #JohnVarley

I haven't read #JohnVarley yet, but I'm guessing he's not very happy with the adaptations of his work. #Millennium #OverdrawnAtTheMemoryBank 🤣

Another hard to find resale shop find. The Gaea Trilogy was some trippy ass world building.
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#JohnVarley

John Varley, Cottage at Bolton, Yorks. #museumarchive #johnvarley http://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/varley-cottage-at-bolton-yorks-t09316

John Varley, A House among Trees, 1805 #tatemuseum #johnvarley http://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/varley-a-house-among-trees-t09318

John Varley, A Seated Child #tatemuseum #johnvarley http://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/varley-a-seated-child-t08710

@albinokid #WilliamGibson #JohnVarley #CoreyJWhite #MichaelCrichton #NeilGaiman #MaryRobinetteKowal

Introduction:

#guitar teacher since 1986. #musician

Lots of #bands you've never heard of, but some of my #guitar students you may have.

My #recording #daw of choice is #reaper #reaperdaw , that I've used since it's inception.

I have many #guitars and #amplifier s, the top of my quiver being a custom #Suhr and an early 70s 50 watt Marshall JMP.

My musical preferences varies from #pinkfloyd #allanholdsworth #Coltrane #Bach #70sRock #easylistening #ELO #Soundgarden #kingsx #Queen
#Carpenters #JimiHendrix #VanHalen #Vangelis #Albinone #Vivaldi #Debussy #STP #cocteautwins #Beatles #PaulMcCartney #PeterFrampton #JeffBeck #LedZeppelin #Rush #BillFrisell #BrianBladeFellowship #JeffBuckley #FionaApple #kdlang #BradMehldau #Bacharach #ThePolice #manyothers

The best sounding #surfsound is at #MyrtleBeach S. C..

I have been a big #Formula1 fan since the early 90s. Pro #LewisHamilton ftw, or #ChecoPerez, #LandoNorris, #McLaren. I drive a stick 2014 #Subaru #BRZ #FRS aka the best daily driver created.

Post-political, old-school left biased. I will not accede to any political party unless the platform is to ban lobbying and PACs; nothing ever changes until that happens. I am as jaded as it gets in politics, and you should be, too.

Staunchly pro #vaccination #vaccines #masks . I took preventative anti- #covid measures early January 2020. "This" could have been prevented, and is worse because of political pressure confirmation bias. #longcovid is real, and it's.... aggravating that 19th century anti-science propaganda flourishes in the 21st century.

Non-Kennedy #StarWars #StarTrek #BattlestarGalactica #2001:aSpaceOdyssey old school hard #scifi #LarryNiven #ArthurCClarke #Simak #FrankHerbert #Pournelle #Saberhagan #Asimov #FrederickPohl #HarlanEllison #Aldiss #StanislawLem #DamonKnight #DouglasAdams #JohnVarley #BenBova #PoulAnderson et al.

.... and Mastodon's character limit is this long? Hmmm.

#Photography I like to make intentionally blurry photos with #pinhole lenses, less blurry with my favorite luxury item my #Canon 70-200 F/2.8IS ii.

I reside in #NorthAugusta #SouthCarolina , which borders #Augusta #Georgia on the #SavannahRiver.

My wife is a #nuclear scientist at the #DepartmentofEnergy #DOE #SavannahRiverSite , I give #guitarlessons online via #Facetime , #Skype or #Zoom since the #pandemic (and have since closed my brick and mortar office of > 12 years). We have a super smart movie-dog cute #Goberian , but #GermanSheperds are wonderful.

Time to restring guitars, hope this works and doesn't inadvertently violate some arcane rule...?

“You've met Hildebrandt, Hildegarde, and Hildething: (…) tireless crusader for pronoun reform. There's really only one more thing worth knowing about him/her/it.” 😞
Um, no.
I’m still a fan of “ey” in stead of singular they.
There. I just did more crusading for pronoun reform than Varley and his novel character.
#ospalhReads #SteelBeach #JohnVarley

“I saw him (I'm going to say him, because all the soldiers were male and there was something in the way he moved) (…)”

Hmm. This is from 1991, and the “generic” masculine he’s using, not just in this lampshade-hanging scene, is a bit annoying.

Just use singular “they” the next time, m’kay‽
#ospalhReads #SteelBeach #JohnVarley #genericMasculine

“You can't ride a [tirannosaurus] like a horse; the back is too steep.”
Great 🙄 , zeerust about dinosaurs.
This is from “Steel Beach”, from JohnVarley.
The “living tripod” was known to be wrong for some decades when this was written.
#OspalhReads #SteelBeach #JohnVarley

Reconstruction of a tirannosaurus with the body held horizontally and the tail used for balance, not direct support.

For you Mastodonners who love scifi, funky colors, weird body stuff, and cuh-ray-zee monster/animal/alien designs, try this short animated film SCAVENGERS:
https://vimeo.com/179779722
...I'm still not sure what happened. Some of the bits remind of John Varley's GAIA series, where you can harvest things from a bizarro-world animal without hurting it.
#Scavengers #indiefilm #animation #johnvarley #bodyhorror #maybekinda #shortfilm #animatedshorts

#JohnVarley

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