new name!

[some_stars]

This will also be a test of how all this is affecting the crossposter. I'm fairly confused on that point.

So, the new name doesn't have any deep significance, I've just been dying to rename my journal(s) for many, many years now and finally came up with something. It's from this poem, which I stumbled across in a gigantic anthology of world poetry from Gilgamesh to the present. It's a Hebrew poem from the 12th century by Abraham ibn Ezra, and it made me snort with delight:

On the day I was born,
The unalterable stars altered.
If I decided to sell lamps,
It wouldn't get dark till the day I died.

Some stars. Whatever I do,
I'm a failure before I begin.
If I suddenly decided to sell shrouds,
People would suddenly stop dying.

--Abraham ibn Ezra, tr. Robert Mezey

Possibly the hilarity is less evident if you don't mentally read it in the voice of every fifty-something Jewish relative or family friend from New York (or sometimes Florida) that you have ever met. Because that's exactly what it sounds like, and it's NINE HUNDRED YEARS OLD. We haven't changed a bit!

So, it amuses me, it's not too super pretentious or stupid or fandom-specific, and it was available. And anything would be better than the previous option.

Comments

[sohotrightnow]

Ahahaha, I love it. Excellent choice.

[some_stars]

Thank you! I thought so.

[azurelunatic]

Looks like it's crossposting all excellently! You set up the option to redirect when you renamed on LJ; did you change the crossposting settings at all, or is it working under the old username?

[some_stars]

I changed the settings to crosspost to some_stars instead of lcsbanana. And now it works fine!

[azurelunatic]

(I'm on a documentation run because I have a little more spare time right now.)

Did you get any error messages when you were trying to crosspost to the old username, or did it just not work?

[some_stars]

Upon looking, I see that I got an "account not found" message. I didn't notice that at the time though, since I figured I could guess the problem without looking for error messages. *g*

[azurelunatic]

*files documentation bug* Wheee!

[azurelunatic]

Woo FAQ updated! http://www.dreamwidth.org/support/faqbrowse?faqid=168

denise is having a bug-stomping weekend.

[hradzka]

I have always been fond of this poem. There's a twentieth-century translation/paraphrasing remix in the 20th century paraphrase in the TREASURY OF JEWISH FOLKLORE:

If I sold shrouds, no one would die.
If I sold lamps, then in the sky
the sun, for spite,
would shine by night.

I've remembered that for years, but never knew who wrote the original. Thanks.

[some_stars]

It seems like that one is more widely known, apparently. I just fell in love with this as soon as I saw it because of that "Some stars..." I can hear the cadences and the unspoken "oy" so clearly.

[vass]

Oh! I've heard that one before! In a different, rhyming, translation: "If I sold lamps, / The stars in spite / Would shine at night."

Quick question: what do I call you now? LC? S_S? Something else?

[some_stars]

LC is still fine! That one is probably going to stick with me forever.

[brownbetty]

…okay, but who did you used to be?

(No, actually, I managed to figure it out eventually, but still, this is very disorienting for me!)

[some_stars]

I should probably have made this post with the default icon, shouldn't I? sorry. *g*

[pearwaldorf]

Everybody needs a change. I love it. <3