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Mar. 23rd, 2026 03:22 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
kathleen_dailey- One task completed--the 2025 tax documents are with the accountant, and I can forget about them for a little while. Every year I dread the whole process of assembling and identifying all the forms (many of which arrive past the mandated deadlines), and every year I experience an out-of-proportion sense of relief when the package is picked up by the courier and lands on a desk other than mine. I really wish the CRA would just mail me a bill and a due date for payment, as (I'm told) the tax authorities do in some other OECD countries.
- I was scrolling through The Secret History of Chicago Music on the Chicago Reader site, and I came across a memorial article about the Chicago artist, musician, and countercultural luminary Cynthia Albritton (Cynthia Plaster Caster). Readers who aren't Chicago natives, or who aren't old enough to remember the Plaster Casters (Cynthia had a group of assistants who kept her subjects in fit condition to be cast) may be interested in knowing that this art form was received, IIRC, without overmuch fuss by its viewers. I can't imagine how it would be received today (or if anyone would even be inspired to undertake it) in these humourless and judgmental times.
- "... but Paramount Confirms Commitment to Star Trek." Yeah, sure. Maybe commitment to something named "Star Trek," though I doubt even that. The article says, "it became a political topic, primarily due to the diversity of the cast." It is to laugh. A true SF fan would point out the obvious to the know-nothings who object to the show's so-called diversity: the cast is made up entirely of Earth-born human actors, and thus is the furthest thing from diverse.
- I was scrolling through The Secret History of Chicago Music on the Chicago Reader site, and I came across a memorial article about the Chicago artist, musician, and countercultural luminary Cynthia Albritton (Cynthia Plaster Caster). Readers who aren't Chicago natives, or who aren't old enough to remember the Plaster Casters (Cynthia had a group of assistants who kept her subjects in fit condition to be cast) may be interested in knowing that this art form was received, IIRC, without overmuch fuss by its viewers. I can't imagine how it would be received today (or if anyone would even be inspired to undertake it) in these humourless and judgmental times.
- "... but Paramount Confirms Commitment to Star Trek." Yeah, sure. Maybe commitment to something named "Star Trek," though I doubt even that. The article says, "it became a political topic, primarily due to the diversity of the cast." It is to laugh. A true SF fan would point out the obvious to the know-nothings who object to the show's so-called diversity: the cast is made up entirely of Earth-born human actors, and thus is the furthest thing from diverse.
