LiveJournal Revival

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Aren't you fed-up with garbage, full-of-shit sites where nobody actually communicates, such as Facebook, Instagram, TikTok and Twitter? Do you wish your old friends who've migrated to those sites would return to LiveJournal? The the_lj_revival community has been set up with that aim in mind, and you are invited to join it. If you are already on LiveJournal and still have a Facebook profile, and would like to see more people returning to LJ or setting up accounts here, we invite you to post a link to this community on your Facebook Timeline. If you would like to find out who is still using LiveJournal and make contact with those who are already here, you are invited to copy and paste the 'about me' questions on the profile page and post them with your answers to the community.
  • Current Location
    Edinburgh

Ursula special event signing in Portland!

Hi all -- I'm new to LJ, but having fun exploring.  Big fan of Ursula's work, and trying to let people know that she will be coming to opening night of Ride The Red Mare at The Winningstad Theatre in Portland, Oregon on December 16th at 7:30.  This is a fantastic puppetry adaption of her book A Ride On The Red Mare's Back (sadly out of print at the moment - come on, Scholastic, get it back in print!)  Anyway, she'll be doing a short Q & A from the stage after the show, then a private signing for ticket holders afterwards in the lobby area.  Check out www.tojt.org if you are in the area and want tickets.  Should be a pretty awesome show, especially with the author in the audience!  Oh, and they will have specially made CDs available of her reading the book with Third Angle Ensemble playing the music they created for the show.
  • Current Location
    Portland, OR
starry wisdom
  • huinare

Left Hand of Darkness on LJ?

Hey all, I could've sworn I found an LJ comm devoted entirely to The Left Hand of Darkness, but it seems I was mistaken as I can't find anything of the sort now. Am I wrong? Is there such a thing?

I much cherish that book, which effected me profoundly both times I read it (a decade ago, and then a few months ago). If there are any other LHoD fans out there, please feel free to add me. I'm hoping to set this LJ up as basically my fandom LJ, since few of my RL friends "get" the things I'm into. =)
nasreengeekb

The Diary of the Rose on the BBC


Hi,

       yesterday BBC Radio 7 started broadcasting The Diary of the Rose in 30 minutes episodes.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episo…

The Diary of the Rose - Episode 1
 

Ursula K Le Guin's powerful tale about a psychiatrist's political awakening - set in the near future. Read by Laurel Lefkow.

Ursula K Le Guin's powerful tale about a psychiatrist's political awakening - set in the near future. Read by Laurel Lefkow.

  • Broadcast on BBC Radio 7, 12:30AM Wed, 16 Feb 2011
  • Available until 1:02AM Wed, 23 Feb 2011
  • First broadcast BBC Radio 7, 6:30PM Sun, 18 Oct 2009
  • Categories
  • Duration 30 minutes
  Hope you get the time to listen,
  Still under Willow & Tara's spell,
  Ray.
 

  • Current Location
    Blairgowrie Library
nasreengeekb

Interview with Ursula K. Le Guin on BBC World Service

Hi,

this weekend an interview with Ursula K. Le Guin was broadcast on the BBC's World Service.

here's the link,

Ray Harley, Blairgowrie, Scotland.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episo…

The Interview - Ursula Le Guin

Author Ursula Le Guin gives Owen Bennett Jones a lesson in science fiction and talks about how her work has been influenced by anthropology and Taoism.

Author Ursula Le Guin gives Owen Bennett Jones a lesson in science fiction and talks about how her work has been influenced by anthropology and Taoism.

She also tells the story of Ishi, a Native American who escaped the massacre of his tribe.
  • Current Location
    Blairgowrie Library
earthsea
  • hhw

80th birthday Oct 21

reposting from wiscon:
Email from Vonda N. McIntyre:

Hi everybody,

Ursula K. Le Guin's 80th birthday is on 21 October 2009 and I'm going to post a Happy Birthday Ursula message on my website and my blogs that day, and I think I have some other folks talked into doing the same.

I just thought it might be fun if a lot of websites and blogs wished her Happy Birthday. (It's also the 40th anniversary of Left Hand of Darkness.) Her website is www.ursulakleguin.com (the actual content begins on http://www.ursulakleguin.com/UKL_i… )
isolate

Fanlore

I've created a short article for the Earthsea fandom on the Fanlore wiki, a project for recording fannish history. If anyone were able to expand it that would be useful. In particular, I know nothing about the pre-internet fandom, nor about fan art/graphics. There's also no article there for Le Guin, which more widely read fans than I might wish to rectify.