Saturday, August 24, 2019

Not Your Father's 1980's

Friday night I went to what I thought was going to be a 80's and 90's dance.  I think I was the only one in the bar who was alive and cognizant during the 1980's and 1990's.  I had a mostly good time, although there were multiple moments when the DJ put on (presumably contemporary) Hip Hop (I think).  In my head I called it "Goth Hip-Hop" because a slow four-four beat underpinned deep voices rapping about something--possibly Making a Sacrifice to Angry, Chthonic Gods.  The volume and distortion prevented me from discerning the words, but everyone else was lip syncing along.  I found it difficult to dance to with anything but a truncated grape-vine or a fox-trot box step.  Occasionally, the DJ would throw in actual music from the 1980's or 90's, or the music would speed up to something dance-able.

On the writing front:  Friday was a marketing day.  I sent out four manuscripts to various markets and did some editing and writing.  Saturday, I received a 20-hour and a 25-hour rejection!  From markets that formerly took about four weeks to get back to me.   One of the rejections had a quick little note on it, so that was nice -- but it put a twist in my plan to have ten manuscripts in the e-mail by the end of the weekend.

More writing/editing today (Saturday).

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