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02: What Is Filk, Plus Bonus Song Lyrics

I thought I'd have my first, non-introductory, post be something kind of fun. There are a lot of legacy bits and pieces of fandom that aren't being carried into modern fandom. This isn't usually due to a lack of interest. It is usually due to a lack of exposure. Filk is one of those niche items. When I went to a convention full of nerds and performed filk in their talent show; my co-performer and I had to educate the audience on what filk was before we sang. What is filk? According to the Fanlore site, “Filk is a musical culture, genre, and community tied to science fiction/fantasy fandom. The genre has been active since the early 1950s, and played primarily since the mid-1970s.” Filk can be any style of music and about any geek oriented topic, including cats. Most filkers I know define filk as anything sung in a filk circle. A filk circle is like a drum circle with more guitars and fewer drums. The hippie ratio at some conventions might be similar. Some filk uses th...
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11: No Shit, There I Was - Political Edition

I've been told by a lot of people that I have a lot of "no shit there I was" stories. Not all of my encounters with politicians, famous people, or weird situations were accidental. I sought out a few of them and here are a few of those stories. I mean, I did intentionally show up and throw rotten fruit at President George H. W. Bush when I was in high school. ActUp was having an AIDS protest at an event he was having local to me and asked folks to show. So, I did. This was before the world of Patriot Acts and extreme paranoia. Hell, there wasn't even a legal structure for dealing with domestic terrorism. That didn't happen until the Oklahoma City bombing. We were considered rude, but within our legal rights. Our rotten fruit wasn't considered a security threat, just a hygiene issue. I don't think I hit him, but I'm pretty sure that a few Secret Service guys had a hell of a dry cleaning bill. Also in high school, I'd made personal enemies with a...
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I used to work in customer service positions that put me in contact with the public. These jobs ranged from fast food to being a barista to managing retail to an international hotel company's call center escalations. Here are a few of my eye rollers from the call center. ========== Internal assist call... (Guest is from Africa. Agent is from the Caribbean... mutually unintelligible accents. Guest is booked into an all-inclusive resort.) Agent: This guest keeps asking me why her reservation doesn't show the males included. Me: As in secondary names? Agent: I don't know. She just keeps repeating her question about all males being included in her rate. Me: Uh... this is an all-inclusive hotel. I think she's saying meals, as in food; not males, as in boys. None of our hotels include boys for the guest's enjoyment as part of the rate.  Commentary: Not even our Amsterdam hotels offer more than directions to the brothels. ========== ...
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