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dsgood - October 19th, 2009
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[Link] | Thursday October 8, 2009 "The Mopan Maya who settled San Antonio, a hilltop village west of San Pedro Columbia, fled military service and taxes in San Luis, about 30 miles to the west in Guatemala, at the end of the nineteenth century. At first, the crops they planted in forest clearings did poorly, and disease and sickness afflicted the migrants. Analyzing the situation clearly, the Indians marched back to San Luis, raided the church, and carried off the statues of their saints to their new village. Thereafter the people and crops prospered, though the authorities of San Luis pressed unsuccessfully for years for the return of the religious figures." Paul Glassman, _Belize Guide_, Passport Press, Champlain NY, 1989.
***Mostly over whatever I'd been sick with.
Went to ACA meeting.
***From Twitter: Poynter See how journalists are using Kickstarter, a crowdfunding site, to do side projects like documentaries and books. http://bit.ly/RYjHi
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Monday October 12, 2009 Columbus Day.
***Aah! The background I've been developing for future-set fiction jelled today, after I added one element: In this future, I would be able to become a grandmother. By the time I'm in my late 90s, there would be 1) sex change surgery so much advanced over today's that a male-to-female transgender person would be able to bear children and 2) life extension medicine which could keep me alive long enough to raise at least one child to an age where that child could become a parent. (Note that I don't want to get a sex change, or raise children.)
Strictly speaking, this background isn't a future history. The chronology is fuzzy, and will probably remain so.
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Tuesday October 13, 2009 At Roosevelt Library, I discovered a rather specialized subgenre: Afro-American lesbian romance.
If I recall correctly, there weren't any subgenres in romance at least as late as the 1970s.
***"And speaking of bad for you, let's not forget pork desserts, like the pistachio-bacon ice cream served by my neighborhood ice creamery Humphry Slocombe. Which is right around the corner from the nearby hipster donut shop, Dynamo, whose most popular item is the Maple Glazed Bacon Apple donut, shown on the right."
http://languageoffood.blogspot.com/2009/10/dessert.html
***Thinking out a future version of human history:
Approximately 200,000 BC Earth's first world empire established. Ruled by the White Goddess (whose names include Durga and Ayn) and her consort Yaweh.
20th Century AD First empire overthrown during the Great War. Second empire, the League of Nations or United Nations, established.
Current Location: Minneapolis, Minnesota
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