{"id":1261,"date":"2010-04-12T09:44:25","date_gmt":"2010-04-12T17:44:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rifters.com\/crawl\/?p=1261"},"modified":"2010-04-13T04:32:08","modified_gmt":"2010-04-13T12:32:08","slug":"keep-the-creatures-safe-from-harm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rifters.com\/crawl\/?p=1261","title":{"rendered":"Keep the Creatures Safe from Harm"},"content":{"rendered":"

Busy, postingless weekend. Ad Astra gobbled up most of it, although even there I didn\u2019t get to as much stuff as I’d have liked (there was in particular a room party in 020 that I wanted to check out). An audience member at the self-promotion panel emphasized that biographical, dear-diary-type blog postings are lame, because most of our lives just aren’t that interesting \u2014 which makes this post here either meta or a case in point.<\/p>\n

Sometime during the weekend the bloggingheads.tv<\/a> piece went live, as a number of you have already discovered; I’ve only just seen it myself this morning. Feelings are mixed. At times I looked almost cuddlesome. Other times I looked like John Merrick with terminal hepatitis. Once or twice I looked like an Easter Island statue. I flailed sometimes; I really wasn’t as clear as I should have been on the whole intelligence\/consciousness thing, and even as I was answering Analee’s sf-is-really-about-today<\/em> point I remember thinking Jesus, I hope they edit this exchange out. I’m being completely inarticulate.<\/em> (I was, too.\u00a0 And they didn’t, sadly.) And I was bemused\/slightly saddened to note that the very first commenter characterized me as an antigovernment extremist (which is all well and good, except the poster obviously regarded that as a bad<\/em> thing), and that less than halfway through the comment thread the remarks had devolved to people calling each other dickheads.<\/p>\n

All told, though, it could have been a lot<\/em> worse. I’d do it again. Maybe with some cheat notes and prepared sound bites next time.<\/p>\n

Finished off the weekend with an intimate concert at Hugh’s Room, confirming once again that Oyster Band has got to be one of the tightest bar bands on the planet: the sound was clean enough to eat off of, and even the new tunes were old friends. The night ended on an ominously serendipitous note; the playout of “Put out the Lights”, with its gentle evocation of late-night comfort and nesting amongst the safety of one’s friends and loved ones, got squashed beneath the doppler scream of a police siren speeding past just outside. Everyone laughed at such perfectly ironic timing.<\/p>\n

Almost everyone.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Busy, postingless weekend. Ad Astra gobbled up most of it, although even there I didn\u2019t get to as much stuff as I’d have liked (there was in particular a room party in 020 that I wanted to check out). An audience member at the self-promotion panel emphasized that biographical, dear-diary-type blog postings are lame, because […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1261","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-public-interface"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rifters.com\/crawl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1261","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rifters.com\/crawl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rifters.com\/crawl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rifters.com\/crawl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rifters.com\/crawl\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1261"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.rifters.com\/crawl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1261\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1267,"href":"https:\/\/www.rifters.com\/crawl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1261\/revisions\/1267"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rifters.com\/crawl\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1261"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rifters.com\/crawl\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1261"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rifters.com\/crawl\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}