mysteries

[calimac]

1. Where the ice pooling up in the bottom of our freezer is coming from.

2. Why Sam Alito believes that business executives are reduced to second-class citizens if they aren't allowed to impose their religious views on their employees' health care.

3. Why I keep forgetting to take my "must take with food" pills at lunch, and have to have a second small lunch just for them.

4. Why all of a sudden Marion Zimmer Bradley is now a villain when her second husband's unfortunate sexual proclivities, and her willingness to live with that, has been public knowledge for fifty years.

5. How our drive to San Diego is going to go.  (It will go well, I hope.)

6. What makes Americans suddenly so interested in soccer, after decades of neglect.  (My theory is that this has been in the works ever since Brandi Chastain removed her shirt.)

7. Why all the Gilbert and Sullivan societies are now so interested in staging The Grand Duke.

8. How long it's going to take me to clean up all the errors and omissions in the draft version of the latest annual Tolkien bibliography.  (Back to the sweatbox.)

Comments

[nancylebov.livejournal.com]

4. Because Bradley's daughter recently said that Bradley was physically, sexually, and emotionally abusive to her.

[kalimac.livejournal.com]

No. That came afterwards, in the middle of the piling on.

[dsmoen.livejournal.com]

The timeline, so far as I know, is posted here:

http://deirdre.net/the-importance-of-books-and-the-mzb-timeline/

tl;dr version: it was my snarky June 3rd response to Tor's article of the same day (for her birthday) that seemed to launch the whole thing.

Moira's response came about after I wrote her based on a commenter's pushing on my wording on the June 3rd piece.

So yeah -- a MONTH.

Still -- I got ~2250 hits in 24h on the 6/3 piece and 28,000 in 24h on the 6/10 piece with Moira's revelations. Over the past three weeks, that single post has received about 100k hits.

[negothick.livejournal.com]

100K!? The power of the Interwebz. My first reaction was similar to that of our host kalimac but there are 30+ years of Mists of Avalon fans to whom the whole thing was news.

[nancylebov.livejournal.com]

For what it's worth, Bradley's defense of her husband at his trial was news to me.