kathleen_dailey

1. The New Yorker has an interesting article on Susan Bay Nimoy's restoration of an art deco theatre in LA named for her late husband. Elsewhere, Zachary Quinto appears in a short promo for the theatre.

2. I keep misreading the AO3 tag "canon compliant" as "canon complaint," and I think, Oh, yes, my thoughts exactly, but then cognition self-corrects and I'm back where I started. (And the actual "canon complaint" [sic] tags that I click on turn out to be typos.)

3. Malapropisms seem to spread as widely and rapidly as viruses. Maybe it's just my fandom, but I'm seeing, for example, "singular" used when "single" is meant, "partake" used when "participate" is meant, and "palate," "palette," and "pallet" used wrongly and/or interchangeably. I know that usage changes and language evolves, but it's pretty annoying to have to endure the process as it happens.

4. As one of the commenters says, "Odds Are," a Lower Decks vid by starlady, is "pure chaos and friendship and greatness." Highly recommended to those who haven't yet seen it, and to those who already have.

Post-GEnie but pre-LJ, DW, etc., lots of fannish communication took place on mailing lists and Usenet. When ASCEM and ASC were thriving, I was reluctant to post there because I felt that the boards were too public--that is, that too many people I didn't know were lurking there, and for whatever unexamined reason, that made me pretty uncomfortable. I was happiest when communicating on private e-mail groups where membership was by invitation only. That was then.

Now, finally, I'm making a real effort to post to DW occasionally. But Facebook, G+, etc.--nope, never in this universe.  (As for RL LinkedIn--meh. It's useful if you're a freelancer or hoping to advance your career, but I'm at a point where I want way, WAY less business communication, not more.)

Several people have asked about my "no locked entries, ever" policy. What would be the point? I know that if a message is anywhere on the internet, it's potentially public. When I have something private to say to you, I'll say it privately--maybe by e-mail, maybe even in ink, but probably only in words. 

I've been in fandom for a long time. Although it wasn't impossible to connect Kathleen Dailey with the person who lived a non-intersecting life in Mundania, it would have taken some work. But now I'm trying a little harder to keep the two realms separate, and the sudden flutter of interest in G+ has me wondering about how long that will be possible for anyone.