Just like heaven Word is the Glancy Motel located on Route 66 originally opened in 1950 under a different name next to the iconic Pop Hicks restaurant which burned down in 1999. The motel has been all but abandoned in recent years and was condemned by the city in 2019. Clinton OK #roadsidepeek #glancy #motel #clinton #oklahoma #route66 #worldinmyeyes https://www.instagram.com/p/CotR2vKreQN/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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A trip west on Oklahoma Route 66 turns into a weekend of reflection and appreciation.

Route 66 has completely overtaken my life. That’s not a complaint; it’s just a fact. Ever since the Executive Director of the Oklahoma Route 66 Association stepped down last fall I’ve been pulling double-duty. Most of the time it’s fine; sometimes it’s overwhelming. But it’s all getting done and things are continuing to move forward. This past weekend, we had our quarterly meeting in Canute, a…

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Comet Morehouse (aka 1908c) photographed by A. Estelle Glancy from Mount Hamilton using the Willard lens on the Crocker Telescope, November 14, 1908

Michael Glancy Glasswork

You speak the path on which you walk. Your words make the trail. -Diane Glancy

DEX and DAINA do not have strictly canon heights. However, nostraightanswer and AkiGlancy, their respective voice providers, did give some heights for the characters to the artist, EmissarySteel, to incorporate in the final designs if necessary; these heights are 6'0 for DEX (the same height as nostraightanswer) and 5'9 for DAINA (without heels).

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clifford chase and gabrielle glancy, from invisible threads, from Sister & Brother: Lesbians and Gay Men Write About Their Lives Together, 1994

Today's song is Waves of Change by EmpathP featuring the Vocaloid Maika

Happy anniversary, Maika!

It is commonplace today to think about the coexistence of slavery and freedom as somehow contradictory. How could, say, Thomas Jefferson make grand pronouncements about freedom and unalienable rights while simultaneously being a slave owner? But the sociologist Orlando Patterson, in his book Slavery and Social Death, argues that “there is nothing notably peculiar about the institution of slavery.” It has existed from time immemorial across human cultures and around the globe. It isn’t the peculiar institution so much as it is the embarrassing one. Part of the embarrassment lies in its symbiotic relationship to freedom. “Before slavery people simply could not have conceived of the thing we call freedom,” writes Patterson. “Men and women in premodern, nonslaveholding societies did not, could not, value the removal of restraint as an ideal.” In the Roman Empire, the ideal of freedom in both worldly and spiritual forms developed alongside human bondage.

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The reluctance that writers, translators, scholars and believers have long shown in addressing Augustine’s relationship to slavery could be the result of multiple impulses. It could be the desire of some to protect Augustine’s halo. It could be because Augustine partisans have a track record of ignoring Black thinkers. Or it could be because squaring up to this legacy would mean rewriting the popular origin stories of Christianity and Western freedom. The scandal of slaves in Augustine ends up being just the tip of something more disturbing. To admit the problem of slavery in Augustine would entail acknowledging that he was only drawing on Paul, who liked to call himself a slave of Christ, and on Jesus himself, whose parables in the Gospels are full not of “servants,” as many translations have it, but of slaves who get violently disciplined. It would mean realizing that Augustine’s trope of being God’s runaway slave is not a far cry from the New Testament’s language, which uses the slave auction as a central image for the Gospel when it states, “you are not your own, for you were bought with a price.” To paraphrase Toni Morrison, it would mean coming to terms with the fact that enslaved people in ancient Rome—with their worldly chains left intact—became the surrogate selves par excellence for Christians to meditate on heavenly freedom.

If the enslaved people on Jefferson’s Monticello plantation have long been sidelined as nuisances to tales of this country’s greatness, then so have the enslaved people who toiled under the watchful eyes of Christians in Augustine’s Hippo Regius. The concept of freedom inscribed in secular declaration and sacred verse was inconceivable without them, but that doesn’t matter for some contemporary observers. In their view, discussing slavery becomes an interruption, an unnecessary detour from loftier doctrines or worse: anathema. Those in our day who downplay the centrality of slavery to America’s founders and their ideals are only imitating the script that’s been used to narrate church history.

30 Covers, 30 Days 2022: Day 12

If no one will change the world, you might as well do it yourself! For day twelve of 30 Covers 30 Days, we have Science Fiction novel Nobody Dies Forever by Stephen T. Brophy! This cover was designed by returning designer, Courtney Glancy.

Nobody Dies Forever

A ragtag group of misfit Gen-Xers who’ve been in each other’s orbits since high school once vowed to change the world for the better. Now facing down the enemies of dashed dreams and diminishing time, they’re going to make a last ditch effort by pulling off the greatest heist in human history: kidnapping the ten wealthiest people on Earth. The ransom? Fix the damn planet!

About the Author

Stephen T. Brophy is a Texas-bred, bottle-fed product of Generation X, expatriated to the Republic of Apocalifornia in the '90s. Knew he wanted to write books and scripts and song lyrics and fodder for fun and entertainment since he tried to do his own illustrated adaptation of “Jaws” in a purple composition notebook in 2nd grade. Plying the storyteller trade, occasionally even for money, since somewhere around the turn of the millennium. Showbiz fringe-dweller, extroverted introvert and people lover with a zeppelin-full of social angst and a lone wolf swagger that is 100% bluster and bullshit. Glad to be here.

About the Designer

Courtney is an award-winning creative director based in Charm City. She works across all facets of design and strategy, with a particular love for brand, digital spaces, and design thinking. An industry veteran of nearly two decades, there are few challenges she hasn't tackled — but she's always looking for the next one. She has worked with clients of all types and sizes, from small local nonprofits to large international NGOs. Courtney also served as Programming Director for AIGA Baltimore for three years, during which time she led the conception and creation of the chapter's annual Design Week. She frequently can be found peering through the viewfinder of a vintage film camera, cooking up something delicious in the kitchen, or doting on her three darling cat-kids.

Wood Engraving Wednesday

WILLIAM MYERS

October is drawing to a close and we are reminded of our recently added 2020 calendar from the Wood Engravers’ Network (WEN), a donation of WEN member and Wisconsin resident Tony Drehfal. The October calendar was printed by Minnesota engraver and letterpress printer William (Bill) Myers, one of the founding members of WEN, which we showcase here along with his engravings for the 1994 Minnesota Center for Book Arts (MCBA) printing of Diane Glancy’s prose work The West Pole printed by Inge Bruggeman in an edition of 200 copies signed by the author. Myers is a retired Professor of Philosophy at Saint Catherine University in Saint Paul, proprietor of Piano Press, a winner of a Jerome Foundation Fellowship, and he served on the MCBA Board of Directors, including as its chair.

The Wood Engravers Network is the American counterpart to the venerable British Society of Wood Engravers, and was initiated in 1994 by Ann Arbor wood engraver and letterpress printer Jim Horton. Also shown here is the cover for the 2020 WEN calendar with an original wood engraving by Italian engraver Fiorella Mori.

We think Glancy’s The West Pole is particularly relevant for this time of year because it begins, “It snowed this year on Halloween. . . .”

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Scotland Secondary School Teachers with STEM & IET

Last Thursday there was a discussion in the Scottish Parliament that is entitled of Secondary School Teachers (Action on Numbers). The MSP that began the session is Jamie Green who is a member of the Scottish Conservatives. He opened the discussion with the question “To ask the Scottish Government what action it is taking to increase the number of new secondary school teachers.” The Scottish…

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Glancy Sherman Mansion Harvest Festival coming in October

The first Glancy Harvest Festival will be held there on Saturday, Oct. 21, from 3 p.m. until dark, featuring food, a live band, prizes, bouncy houses, fireworks, games, watching the Tennessee vs. Alabama game, and more. John Anthony Smith owns the Glancy Sherman Mansion at 4275 Valley View Highway in Sequatchie. This fall, he will open the grounds to the public. The mansion itself will not be…

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BOOK REVIEWS II: Cherry Fields series (Gia Spillane)

Girls love horses. It's a truth echoed across pretty much every type of media. Boys may fantasize and admire cowboys galloping across the Wild West and shooting any trespasser, cattle-stealer or non-white person they come across; girls are passionate about the horses themselves. And thus, media must be created specifically about horses and the near-symbiotic bond they share with tweenage girls living in the country.

I had a lot of horse books growing up, on account of being born with a uterus, and despite what you may think most of these books were absolutely great. Dilly Derby, Maisie and the Whistle, Globetrotters, etc. But they mostly focused on the same rock-solid realism-induced stories with relatable protagonists and a reliable setting. Gia Spillane's Cherry Fields and its following sequels blew that out of the water by adding serious fantasy ideals to your horse girl kids novel.

As I said, the connections in these stories between horses and the riders are deep and unbreakable, and the relationship between Cherry Fields and our lead Wren F. Winrow (funky off alliteration points there) is no different, apart from the fact that Cherry Fields herself can fly and uses sparkly lasers to increase her speed. It's nice, in modern fantasy novels where half of the conflict is our lead trying to keep any hair out of place a deadly secret and under wraps, to read Cherry Fields where the secret was non-existent and half of the conflict arises in Wren trying to keep her friends and classmates off Cherry's back.

There's also something else iconic about the series, and that of course is Maude. You wouldn't think that a small girl with thick glasses who is literally described as having "an air of ink, paper, and the smell that arises when a dog has risen out of the river" would be able to both infuriate you and strike the fear of God into you, but she does. With style. Maude was a lot of young queer girls' first crushes for a reason - and a very weird, scary yet completely understandable reason it is. Maude, as great as Wren and co. were, was the only kid who actually showed more than a minute amount of spine, and we all loved her for it.

Cherry Fields as a series was overall an absolute TRIP and makes one wonder as an older and more mature reader: just how much of the plot was constructed with Spillane on edibles? No joke, books four onward get absolutely surreal (Glade's death absolutely traumatised me, no joke), and ends with an absolutely mind-bending finale which left 13-year-old me staring into space and babbling incoherently under my breath.

So, in general, the Cherry Fields series gets an 8.5/10, and my final words are "why the fuck is Wren x Cherry such a popular ship on the Underside Collection?"