{"id":262,"date":"2007-03-12T21:49:48","date_gmt":"2007-03-13T04:49:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.afterhell.com\/news\/?p=262"},"modified":"2017-09-13T21:06:15","modified_gmt":"2017-09-14T04:06:15","slug":"a-descent-into-the-maelstrom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.afterhell.com\/news\/?p=262","title":{"rendered":"A Descent into the Maelstrom"},"content":{"rendered":"

Been a while since I posted.\u00c2\u00a0 Afterhell<\/a> is keeping me busy.<\/p>\n

For those I haven’t kept in the loop, I decided to make the big plunge and get a MacBook to do my own sound editing.\u00c2\u00a0 I try not to talk about it much.\u00c2\u00a0 I don’t want the grief that comes with the user interface wars. I don’t want to hear about how great it is that I’m “leaving the Dark Side” or “making the big switch.”\u00c2\u00a0 If I wanted to hear that kind of crap, I’d hang out with neocons.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, for the last week or so, one thought has been haunting me, for want of a better word.\u00c2\u00a0 Nothing critical, nothing earth-shattering or cosmically important.\u00c2\u00a0 Just a memory.<\/p>\n

An episode of the new Battlestar Galactica <\/a>series brought it back for me.\u00c2\u00a0 It’s been a few weeks, so I figured it’s fairly safe to mention it now.<\/p>\n

At one point, Starbuck flashbacks on the day she told her mother that she’d become an officer.\u00c2\u00a0 Proud, quiet moment.\u00c2\u00a0 She’s the first in her family to do it.\u00c2\u00a0 She was in the top five of her class (or something to that effect.)<\/p>\n

Then her mother says, “Why weren’t you number one?”\u00c2\u00a0 Starbuck’s face just collapses.\u00c2\u00a0 Crushed.\u00c2\u00a0 Confused.<\/p>\n

My father once did the same thing to me.<\/p>\n

Hard to believe.\u00c2\u00a0 After all these years, I’m still going down in flames.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Been a while since I posted.\u00c2\u00a0 Afterhell is keeping me busy. For those I haven’t kept in the loop, I decided to make the big plunge and get a MacBook to do my own sound editing.\u00c2\u00a0 I try not to talk about it much.\u00c2\u00a0 I don’t want the grief that comes with the user interface […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,6,27,7],"tags":[76,35,75],"class_list":["post-262","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-livejournal-postings","category-offtopic","category-personal","category-production-notes","tag-battlestar-galactica","tag-livejournal","tag-macbook"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.afterhell.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.afterhell.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.afterhell.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.afterhell.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.afterhell.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=262"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.afterhell.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":263,"href":"http:\/\/www.afterhell.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262\/revisions\/263"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.afterhell.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=262"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.afterhell.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=262"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.afterhell.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=262"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}