learnedax | (no subject)

You could just digitally walk away...

I keep meaning to unsubscribe and save myself the aggravation. I just need to get over the feeling that I'll miss something important.

You could do what I do and assume that if something IS important, someone I know will send me a synopsis or pointer. I am confident that I've missed lots of important things on the EK list... I leave it as an exercise to the reader to list the most important three over the last four years. Let's use the idea of important as "it affects me, or knowing this I can improve the lives of others".

It does. Who did you want dusted now, me? :-)

I usually agree with you on EK, and at least you're not off in let's-make-a-ghetto-for-everyone-we-don't-like field.

I am liking that Goedjn guy more and more...

Online he's a dick. In person he's the sweetest man that ever drew breath. Go figure.

I wasn't actually being sarcastic. He's currently the only one wading through the flames that I 90% agree with.

Dare I ask what subjects are being discussed these days that engendered that feeling?

I have come to realize from copious examples just how much "I am not a prude" means "I am a prude".

But it's really the talk of dividing Pennsic into über-Enchanted Ground and a ghetto for everyone the posters secretly wished didn't exist that bothers me.

Oh, dear - they're talking about dancing, aren't they?

Not as of yet. There's a big flap over a woman who was wearing black leather! And fishnets! Think of the children!

Because, it's not the periodicity that bothers us (yes it is (no it isn't)), it's our modern sensibilities, and if my children saw some woman in such an obviously "alternative" outfit, well! I know that some people like to do Those Things, but we shouldn't ever have to see any evidence that they exist.

I see. Wow, these people should take up stamp-collecting or something.

Too late -- it seems they already have children...

Has anyone called her a repressive Nazi yet? Cause it's not a real flame war until Godwin weighs in...

It's pretty one-sided actually. A debate on how we should solve the problem of Those People, with not many out there to call them Nazis...

As far as I'm concerned, the lady in black leather and fishnets can come camp with us, where we will do our best to keep her from the innocent eyes of impressionable children.

Not as of yet. There's a big flap over a woman who was wearing black leather! And fishnets! Think of the children!

Sometimes I do, yes.

Nah -- the pennsicdance mailing list fell on *that* hand grenade, to spare other innocents from it...

If you think such an effort (to divide Pennsic) has a chance to succeed, perhaps it IS important. Concerning fashion... I am not (much of) a prude, and don't care if my children see people wearing fetish clothing (or even just walking around smeared with blue mud), but would prefer that it be fetish clothing (or blue mud patterns) styled from before 1600 if it's at Pennsic.

"über-Enchanted Ground"? Wozzat?

That would be a section of Pennsic which, like Enchanted Ground, would require everything and everybody within it to adhere to a higher standard of periodicity.

More than ever the EK list makes me wish I had a digital 2x4...

You mean a 10x100, don't you? Sorry, not very original, but somebody had to say it.

I've been EK-list free for, lessee...very nearly 10 years now, and have never regretted it. Well, once, but not enough to make me sign on.

You mean a 10x100, don't you?

It actually took me a moment to figure that out.

I just unsubscribed, and I doubt I will have any serious regrets.

of course you won't. if anythignimportant happens, i wil ltell you

I actually agreed with the "prudes" until everyone went, oh, INSANE.

Fortunately people are pretty good about using proper subject lines, so the amount of sca-east digest emails I can delete without feeling I've missed something after just briefly glancing at the list of subjects is all of them.

Actually *all* of them? If so, why are you still subscribed?

There have been multiple days in which it was all of them. Today, I am watching for hurricane posts. Tomorrow, who knows.

I just followed you back from sjo's post...nice to see another Scadian :P

though I'm in Ansteorra, and much of the mailings lately have been about Katrina and the Gulf War site being damaged... Nothing about Pennsic...

Cool. I only know a couple of Ansteorrans, but they're nice. I did get to fight alongside Jason for a while in this year's woods battle, which was a lot of fun.