Sidley Park Hermit

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In your own space, celebrate a personal win from the past year: it can be a list of fanworks you're especially proud of, a gift of your time to the community, a quality or skill you cultivated in yourself, something you generally feel went well.

I can think of a few things I'm pleased with from 2021 here on the interwebs:

— July: Finished Moby-Dick. As in, finished the year-long Moby-Dick read-aloud detailed at the link. (Not that I did it solo. I planned to at first, but I had an old theater friend start splitting the reading duties with me partway through and I doubt I'd have been able to finish the project alone even if it is my favorite book, which it is.) Still doing stuff at Sub-Etha Radio now — in the waning days of last year we started a brand new unhinged 19th-century behemoth, The Moonstone, which promises to be a wild ride; and another server member who's a wonderfully engaging reader has just started Going Postal. (Paging hamsterwoman and any other Pratchett lovers...) 

— also June, I think: Created and ran an MCU-ship-related discord server where people were and are chill and polite to each other. I know, right?? The server's pretty quiet nowadays with the between-seasons hiatus, but hmu if you want the link. It's focused on Loki/Mobius, also open to general discussion of the characters and of the Loki D+ show.

Remember in May of last year (that's a rhetorical question, obviously none of us remember anything that happened in May of last year) when I started a Discord server just for read-aloud events to help stave off the terror of pandemic loneliness? Well, we've read, among other things, Much Ado; the full original Hitchhiker's radio scripts; The Importance of Being Earnest; The Rivals; The Alchemist; short stories by Poe, Shirley Jackson, Conan Doyle, and Louis Sachar; the War of the Worlds radio play for a Halloween special; and last night we finished the read-through of Moby Dick that I started in June of last year when I felt like it would be a good idea for me, like spiritually, to get a long-term project going (I was right!).

Our weekly schedule at present is a duo of summer spooktaculars: Murder and mayhem on Tuesdays as the listeners become the detectives on The Magnificent Mystery Show, hosted by @TeddyCatBell; and small-town New England gothic on Thursdays with Shirley Jackson's final novel We Have Always Lived in the Castle, narrated by @Artibartfast (Artie). Both air at 4:30 PM Pacific / 7:30 PM Eastern US time in the voice channel.

Monday June 22: 

— 5 PM Pacific/8 PM Eastern: Short stories and kids’ books night

Tuesday June 23: 

— 5 PM Pacific/8 PM Eastern: Pride & Prejudice hour (off this week)

— 6:30 PM Pacific/9:30 PM Eastern: The Hitch-Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy 1978 radio scripts

Wednesday June 24:

— 6 PM Pacific/9 PM Eastern: Percy Jackson hour (ongoing)

Sunday June 28:

— 11 AM Pacific/2 PM Eastern: Moby-Dick hour (ongoing)

If you would like to listen or participate, just message me for a link to the discord. Cheers!

Hello, friends! I recently started a Discord server just for read-aloud events, after a fun couple of evenings in the Reddie server where we read through Macbeth in our staving-off-the-quarantine-loneliness voice channel, and I realized I hadn't shared it here yet.

Tonight (May 4) at 5 PM Pacific/8 PM Eastern we'll have our first weekly event, an evening of short stories and children's books. Readers and listeners both welcome. I'll be kicking it off at 5 with "In Which Eeyore Has A Birthday and Gets Two Presents." :)

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