| Interview for a radio show. |
[Apr. 24th, 2009|07:05 am] |
ATTN: London slash writers in a movie fandom (which technically includes Harry Potter):
![[info]](http://www.insanejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) alex_beecroft says:
"I've just had an email from Laura Baumbach asking if I know of any movie-fandom slash writers who live in London. She has been contacted by a radio station in London, which wants to interview one."
http://alex-beecroft.livejournal.com/76329.html
femmequixotic? You're at the hub of the Harry Potter fandom. Know any Londoners? |
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| Step 1: decide to innovate. Step 2: innovative idea is?? Step 3: Profit! |
[Apr. 24th, 2009|09:41 am] |
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The economic meltdown becomes more real when it effects your job.
What I secretly and shamefully enjoyed -- shaking a fist at Bush and glad, glad, glad his legacy's in the garbage disposal -- has now hit home. My university's budget is going to be cut by 30% due to falling state revenues. My entire tutoring department has been eliminated.
I've been able to not-think about it, but I just composed a desperate-sounding email to the other tutoring departments to try to find work for the summer and next year.
Funny how you can't quite keep that quaver out of your voice, even on paper.
( The trouble is, the housing boom only disguised the results of job slipping overseas. )
US capitalism has us trapped in an eroding economic position.
Clinton, Bush, Obama ... all repeated that we need "innovation."
I read this as no one knows what to do.
What can we do?
Options:
1 - Switch to socialism. Stop laughing, it's on the table.
2 - Move overseas to where the jobs have gone.
3 - Re-train into US jobs that are hard to ship overseas; medical, teaching.
4 - Arm the unions.
5 - Revolution.
6 - Start innovative new industry. Stop laughing, it's on the table.
7 - Convince whole country to go Amish.
8 - Other-? |
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