Dept. of Memes
Apr. 18th, 2026 08:53 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
kaffy_rMusic Meme, Day 26
A song that helps you fall asleep at night:
I've been away from my journal, and the music meme for a while, and part of that was because I was initially stymied by this. I don't use music to help me go to sleep, although there are times I think about how nice it would be to fall asleep to the sounds of one of my favorite ambient stations. I can't do that, not without keeping Bob awake, or wearing my earbuds until they're completely drained.
But back when Andy was quite young, Bob had a job as a doorman down in one of the ritzier condominium buildings in Chicago's Near North neighborhood; not quite the Gold Coast, but as close as makes no difference. He had a night shift, which meant that I went to sleep alone, which was lonely. After I got Andy to bed, and once I was tired, I would put the Discman that Bob got for me, and I'd put the second CD of Kitaro's* two CD album "Silk Road" on. I'd put the headphones on, and I would listen to the album until my eyes were just about ready to close. I would reluctantly take off the headphones, and fall asleep.
I particularly liked two of the pieces: "Eternal Spring" and "Silver Moon." I'm sharing both of them with you now.
Before I forget, here's a link that will help you catch up with my earlier meme posts, should you be interested.
*I discovered Kitaro through an NPR radio show that our local public radio station played either really late at night, or far too early in the morning. At the time, Bob and I were both young and arrogant about the music we liked, and we made fun of a lot of the ambient pieces this show played, but when the host played some pieces from the Silk Road album, I really liked it, and Bob got me the CDs for Christmas or my birthday. He also later got me some more of Kitaro's work. I haven't listened to Kitaro in a while, but in hunting these pieces down I think I may have rekindled my interest in him.
A song that helps you fall asleep at night:
I've been away from my journal, and the music meme for a while, and part of that was because I was initially stymied by this. I don't use music to help me go to sleep, although there are times I think about how nice it would be to fall asleep to the sounds of one of my favorite ambient stations. I can't do that, not without keeping Bob awake, or wearing my earbuds until they're completely drained.
But back when Andy was quite young, Bob had a job as a doorman down in one of the ritzier condominium buildings in Chicago's Near North neighborhood; not quite the Gold Coast, but as close as makes no difference. He had a night shift, which meant that I went to sleep alone, which was lonely. After I got Andy to bed, and once I was tired, I would put the Discman that Bob got for me, and I'd put the second CD of Kitaro's* two CD album "Silk Road" on. I'd put the headphones on, and I would listen to the album until my eyes were just about ready to close. I would reluctantly take off the headphones, and fall asleep.
I particularly liked two of the pieces: "Eternal Spring" and "Silver Moon." I'm sharing both of them with you now.
Before I forget, here's a link that will help you catch up with my earlier meme posts, should you be interested.
*I discovered Kitaro through an NPR radio show that our local public radio station played either really late at night, or far too early in the morning. At the time, Bob and I were both young and arrogant about the music we liked, and we made fun of a lot of the ambient pieces this show played, but when the host played some pieces from the Silk Road album, I really liked it, and Bob got me the CDs for Christmas or my birthday. He also later got me some more of Kitaro's work. I haven't listened to Kitaro in a while, but in hunting these pieces down I think I may have rekindled my interest in him.
Extension 104 - At the movies
Apr. 18th, 2026 02:30 pmtinny posting in ![[community profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/community.png){kind=small}
icontalkingOh noes, I misremembered my own deadline. I thought it was this Saturday, not last. Because someone else also wanted to enter, I'm going to extend the deadline by another week!
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Attention Pitt Fans! Interview with Noah Wyle
Apr. 17th, 2026 08:45 amjo posting in tv_talkNoah Wyle gave a really interesting (and long!) interview to GQ. The original is paywalled so I've provided an archived link.
WARNING: It contains spoilers for the season 2 finale, so if you've not watched it yet, or are only part-way through season 2 or whatever, proceed at your own risk.
This one section really caught my attention (does not contain spoilers):
I hadn't even noticed that there's no music! And it is true that The Pitt is one of the shows that I pay full attention to while watching -- never occurred to me that the absence of music might be partly behind that.
WARNING: It contains spoilers for the season 2 finale, so if you've not watched it yet, or are only part-way through season 2 or whatever, proceed at your own risk.
This one section really caught my attention (does not contain spoilers):
“It’s a couple of things that work beautifully in concert. First: no music. Audiences are so sophisticated, but what they’re not accustomed to is being told how to feel,” Wyle says. “You take all that out and it forces a level of engagement where you’re now looking for clues within the frame of the screen, which forces you to look up from your phone. And I think that is extremely engaging, especially to young viewers who aren’t accustomed to being asked to participate in a nonpassive way in the viewing experience."
I hadn't even noticed that there's no music! And it is true that The Pitt is one of the shows that I pay full attention to while watching -- never occurred to me that the absence of music might be partly behind that.
Challenge 202 - Voting
Apr. 16th, 2026 10:59 pmluminousdaze posting in iconthatThere were over seventy spectacular icons entered! Thank you very much to all fifteen participants!
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Anyone is welcome to vote.
Please choose your top favorite SIX (6) icons for the main placements and one each for the categories Best Color (Coloring), Best Image Crop & Best Composition.
Please don't vote for your own icons or ask others to vote for your icons.
Please try to vote for the best quality icons, not only for the fandoms or creators.
Important:
Please vote for a different icon for each of the categories (Color, Crop, Composition).
There is a checkbox & text answer combo poll, to change your votes, click the poll link.
Voting will be open for one week.
Thank you for voting!
If Imgur content is not available in your region, please try using Rimgo to view the icons. Sorry, I cannot make a screenshot of the icon table because there is a dim light on one side of my screen that may effect it.
Follow Friday 4-17-26
Apr. 17th, 2026 12:27 amysabetwordsmith posting in followfridayGot any Follow Friday-related posts to share this week? Comment here with the link(s).
Here's the plan: every Friday, let's recommend some people and/or communities to follow on Dreamwidth. That's it. No complicated rules, no "pass this on to 7.328 friends or your cat will die".
The Friday Five for 17 April 2026
Apr. 16th, 2026 05:46 pmanais_pf posting in thefridayfiveThese questions were written by ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
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1. What did you do on Monday?
2. What did you do on Tuesday?
3. What did you do on Wednesday?
4. What did you do on Thursday?
5. What are you going to do today?
Copy and paste to your own journal, then reply to this post with a link to your answers. If your journal is private or friends-only, you can post your full answers in the comments below.
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ideealisme.1. What did you do on Monday?
2. What did you do on Tuesday?
3. What did you do on Wednesday?
4. What did you do on Thursday?
5. What are you going to do today?
Copy and paste to your own journal, then reply to this post with a link to your answers. If your journal is private or friends-only, you can post your full answers in the comments below.
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Margo's Got Money Troubles Trailer
Apr. 15th, 2026 04:49 pmfeurioo posting in tv_talkCollege dropout and aspiring writer, Margo (Elle Fanning), is the daughter of an ex-Hooter’s waitress (Michelle Pfeiffer) and ex-pro wrestler (Nick Offerman). After an affair with her junior college English professor leaves her pregnant, Margo turns to OnlyFans to support herself. Reconnecting with her estranged father, who shares wisdom gleaned from his wrestling, Margo achieves remarkable success. This David E. Kelley series also stars Marcia Gay Harden, Greg Kinnear, Michael Angarano, Rico Nasty, and Lindsey Normington.
Now on Apple TV.
Now on Apple TV.
45 Multi-fandom icons
Apr. 14th, 2026 06:48 pmthesleepingbeauty posting in fandom_icons
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TV Tuesday: Gathering Ideas
Apr. 14th, 2026 09:41 amyourlibrarian posting in tv_talk
The
3weeks4dreamwidth event is gearing up again, running from April 25 to May 15. Organizers are collecting ideas for events that can be held at different communities. You can see last year's kickoff post for more information.Have any of you participated before? How do you think
tv_talk might contribute to celebrating Dreamwidth’s 17th year?Dept. of World Affairs
Apr. 13th, 2026 10:14 pmkaffy_rGlimmers of Hope
The overwhelming defeat of Viktor Orbán in Hungary feels like a ray of light in the darkness of current political reality. For Hungarians, it's an earthquake that signals the potential return of representative democracy. It's a shift for the rest of Europe, too. And over here, it's a most satisfying rebuke for our own less intelligent and more unstable version of Orbán. (It's also the latest kick in the goolies for Couchfuck McGee*; where he goes, defeat follows. Readers, I am enjoying this particular morsel of schadenfreude pie)
There's no denying that the winners in Hungary are center-right, which could eventually be problematic, at least from my point of view. And people should remember that Orbán rose to power as a pro-democracy, anti-Russian firebrand, only to turn into what he ended up being - a corrupt authoritarian in league with a would-be resurgent Russian Empire. Democracies take hard work, and they should never be based on unthinking approval of heroes, or those who would like to be heroes.
In a bit of a reminder of that here, as well as less a glimmer of hope than a reminder that there are still vast differences between the two major American political parities, we've watched a Democratic congressman, Eric Swalwell, brought low by accusations of sexual coercion and outright assault, and his own party's own insistence that he exit the California gubernatorial race and then his House seat, while GOP House members remained silent about even worse sexual accusations of one of their own, Texas House Rep. Tony Gonzales. It's a reminder to me that whatever the Democratic Party's mountain of faults, it still stands heads and shoulders above the other party.
On the whole, I'll take glimmers of hope whenever and wherever I can find them.
* Yes, it's crude; yes it's using a ridiculous Internet meme to defame the sitting U.S. vice-president. I regret nothing.
The overwhelming defeat of Viktor Orbán in Hungary feels like a ray of light in the darkness of current political reality. For Hungarians, it's an earthquake that signals the potential return of representative democracy. It's a shift for the rest of Europe, too. And over here, it's a most satisfying rebuke for our own less intelligent and more unstable version of Orbán. (It's also the latest kick in the goolies for Couchfuck McGee*; where he goes, defeat follows. Readers, I am enjoying this particular morsel of schadenfreude pie)
There's no denying that the winners in Hungary are center-right, which could eventually be problematic, at least from my point of view. And people should remember that Orbán rose to power as a pro-democracy, anti-Russian firebrand, only to turn into what he ended up being - a corrupt authoritarian in league with a would-be resurgent Russian Empire. Democracies take hard work, and they should never be based on unthinking approval of heroes, or those who would like to be heroes.
In a bit of a reminder of that here, as well as less a glimmer of hope than a reminder that there are still vast differences between the two major American political parities, we've watched a Democratic congressman, Eric Swalwell, brought low by accusations of sexual coercion and outright assault, and his own party's own insistence that he exit the California gubernatorial race and then his House seat, while GOP House members remained silent about even worse sexual accusations of one of their own, Texas House Rep. Tony Gonzales. It's a reminder to me that whatever the Democratic Party's mountain of faults, it still stands heads and shoulders above the other party.
On the whole, I'll take glimmers of hope whenever and wherever I can find them.
* Yes, it's crude; yes it's using a ridiculous Internet meme to defame the sitting U.S. vice-president. I regret nothing.
challenge closed ⌛
Apr. 13th, 2026 12:09 pmluminousdaze posting in iconthatChallenge 202 is now closed. I will post the voting soon. I'll post a new challenge in a little bit, when it is time for MerMay.😊
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axisandallies ]The case of the missing notifications
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dw_maintenanceI keep forgetting to post about this: we've been troubleshooting the "missing notifications" problem for the past few days. (Well, I say "we", really I mean Mark and Robby; I'm just the amanuensis.) It's been one of those annoying loops of "find a logical explanation for what could be causing the problem, fix that thing, observe that the problem gets better for some people but doesn't go away completely, go back to step one and start again", sigh.
Mark is hauling out the heavy debugging ordinance to try to find the root cause. Once he's done building all the extra logging tools he needs, he'll comment to this entry. After he does, if you find a comment that should have gone to your inbox and sent an email notification but didn't, leave him a link to the comment that should have sent the notification, as long as the comment itself was made after Mark says he's collecting them. (I'd wait and post this after he gets the debug code in but I need to go to sleep and he's not sure how long it will take!)
We're sorry about the hassle! Irregular/sporadic issues like this are really hard to troubleshoot because it's impossible to know if they're fixed or if they're just not happening while you're looking. With luck, this will give us enough information to figure out the root cause for real this time.
Moonscrolling.
Apr. 11th, 2026 06:31 pmgoodbyebird+ They landed safely huzzah! Science!!
+ Graveyard Keeper is free on Steam for a short while.
+ Mexico’s monarch butterfly population jumps 64%, offering hope for at-risk species.
+ Scientists watch sperm whales work as a team to assist a birth.
+ Forest growth in the EU outpaces harvesting.
+ Elusive nightjar birds making remarkable comeback, conservationists say.
+ Discovered the on board kiosk stocked my favorite potato chips this trip \o/
+ Graveyard Keeper is free on Steam for a short while.
+ Mexico’s monarch butterfly population jumps 64%, offering hope for at-risk species.
+ Scientists watch sperm whales work as a team to assist a birth.
+ Forest growth in the EU outpaces harvesting.
+ Elusive nightjar birds making remarkable comeback, conservationists say.
+ Discovered the on board kiosk stocked my favorite potato chips this trip \o/