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Innsmouth Free Press released their Multi-Ethnic Issue today (Lovecraftian stories set outside typical milieus, with non-typical casts), and my story, "Red Goat, Black Goat" is included.  Hence the Uxia icon!  The story's a variation of the old "babysitter horror" trope, except in Indonesia, where things are a little different.

So you know, have a read if you are so inclined. 

(Look, my name's on the cover along with people who are way more famous and awesome than I!)

PDF of whole issue (pretty, shiny!)
Just my story, online

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OK, well, glad we got that cleared up.

Yeah, I figured as much - I just wanted to make sure that was clear. Now you have a better idea what I meant? Huh. Ok. That's probably true, that some writing gets closer than others - in trying to think through examples, however,

Nope, different wedding then. Unless Joey Morrison is marrying the family friend of Halley's, which I suppose is possible. My readings are long but not all that logically demanding, tbh. Like the book we're reading now, Overthrow (the infuriating one) is pretty much just a chronicling of the US overthrowing foreign governments, and the thesis is basically "the US is like the world's biggest asshole, the end." Then there was Clash of Civilizations, which... is provocative. But for tomorrow we're reading Edward Said's response to Clash of Civilizations, which is just lolzy ("Huntington tried to give his argument a little more subtlety and many, many more footnotes; all he did, however, was confuse himself and demonstrate what a clumsy writer and inelegant thinker he was."). IDK man there are people in my class who have never heard of realism as a foreign policy model and thought Huntington didn't give enough credit to "the history of fighting between Islam and the West" when that is like his entire point, and it's just like :(

Errgh... how many things can your grandma make you do? Is this Vegas grandma? I'm sort of drunk, so that's where I'm at right now.

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in trying to think through examples, however,

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lol @ the people in your class. (and yeah, Said is snarky) people in my class are...who knows. there's "Killing innocent people is morally acceptable" guy in my ethics class. But actually i like my ethics class, because as far as i'm concerned, in ethics, what matters is the backgrounds of the people talking more than their intellectual ability. and at least for NE, it's a pretty diverse class, in terms of race, politics, religion, age, disability, and gender. probably socioeconomic class too, although i doubt anyone there is really wealthy.

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lol, yes, that's exactly what happens when I try to think through examples. I fall off the comma cliff. I don't know what I would have concluded when I wrote that... but thinking now, I have trouble thinking of writers that I feel get really close to "truth." I'm almost tempted to say Heller in Catch-22, and McCarthy in The Crossing... but it's hard to say. I guess I'm not sure what the truth looks like. Is it like child pornography, you know, I can't define it but I know it when I see it? You'd probably disagree with that.

I actually like the people in my poli sci class too. There was a disturbing side-comment today about Japanese civilians deserving to be atomic-bombed... but it's actually a fairly participatory, earnest class. So does that mean what's useful in understanding ethics is where participants in the discussion are coming from in terms of background?