![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
But if his head don't turn up soon, then all his hats are mine
Man. I really haven't been doing anything lately. Looking back over the last week, I seem to have seen the same movie twice* and posted a lot of quotation. Well, and a recipe for corn chowder. So what are people owed? What have I promised and not delivered? Within certain limits of reason, please: anyone who asks me to get with child a mandrake root is out on their ear.
If all goes well, my brother and I will spend this weekend watching vintage Ferraris race. If the weather fails us, we'll rent Le Mans (1971) and sigh wistfully. There are supposed to be storms. We're hoping not.
The widening of the world in Throne of Jade really impressed me: particularly in that the treatment of dragons in China is not as simple as steadfast England meets luxurious Orient, or Laurence's perception that Temeraire is being tempted away from him, but that the Aerial Corps—the entire British attitude toward dragons—may in reality need serious social reform. I assume this will be further developed in Black Powder War? And the line-crossing ceremony made me smile.
Photographs from Readercon are now available, courtesy of![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
godlyperspectiv. I have been captured on film. Cut for a sad lack of photogenesis.
No, I don't mean that I fail at bioluminescence—and I'm not wearing a small coronet; that's a light fixture on the wall behind me, amusingly coincident—I mean that for God's sake I could at least stand up straight. I need to treat formal readings more like singing or storytelling. I'm being unncessarily hampered by the printed word on the page; my brain doesn't automatically code it as performance. Damn.time_shark, on the other hand, looks great.
Lastly, if you haven't already subscribed togreygirlbeast's Sirenia Digest, well, what are you waiting for? This month's issue will contain not only "The Depth Oracle," for all of you who need more drowned men in your lives, but "The Cryomancer's Daughter (Murder Ballad No. 3)," which is simply one of her best stories, recent or otherwise. That is not hyperbole. Don't miss it.
Now back to the wide world of Theokritos . . .
*In all fairness, I had a fantastic time.gaudior and rushthatspeaks are now not only the Best Cousins Ever, but at the top of my list of People With Whom I'd Most Like To Be Trapped In A Subway Station; and I'd probably go for a third viewing, if I had any pocket money at all. I can't remember the last time I saw a movie twice in theaters. Attack of the Clones does not count.
If all goes well, my brother and I will spend this weekend watching vintage Ferraris race. If the weather fails us, we'll rent Le Mans (1971) and sigh wistfully. There are supposed to be storms. We're hoping not.
The widening of the world in Throne of Jade really impressed me: particularly in that the treatment of dragons in China is not as simple as steadfast England meets luxurious Orient, or Laurence's perception that Temeraire is being tempted away from him, but that the Aerial Corps—the entire British attitude toward dragons—may in reality need serious social reform. I assume this will be further developed in Black Powder War? And the line-crossing ceremony made me smile.
Photographs from Readercon are now available, courtesy of
godlyperspectiv. I have been captured on film. Cut for a sad lack of photogenesis.No, I don't mean that I fail at bioluminescence—and I'm not wearing a small coronet; that's a light fixture on the wall behind me, amusingly coincident—I mean that for God's sake I could at least stand up straight. I need to treat formal readings more like singing or storytelling. I'm being unncessarily hampered by the printed word on the page; my brain doesn't automatically code it as performance. Damn.
time_shark, on the other hand, looks great.Lastly, if you haven't already subscribed to
greygirlbeast's Sirenia Digest, well, what are you waiting for? This month's issue will contain not only "The Depth Oracle," for all of you who need more drowned men in your lives, but "The Cryomancer's Daughter (Murder Ballad No. 3)," which is simply one of her best stories, recent or otherwise. That is not hyperbole. Don't miss it.Now back to the wide world of Theokritos . . .
*In all fairness, I had a fantastic time.
gaudior and rushthatspeaks are now not only the Best Cousins Ever, but at the top of my list of People With Whom I'd Most Like To Be Trapped In A Subway Station; and I'd probably go for a third viewing, if I had any pocket money at all. I can't remember the last time I saw a movie twice in theaters. Attack of the Clones does not count.
no subject
no subject
So an acre of land between th'sea foam and th'sea sand is out then, eh?
no subject
Also, Attack of the Clones? More than once? Oh dear.
Of course I think I saw Phantom Menace 7 times. In theatre I mean. Now most of those times were free, and I was just trying to break my record, but that really doesn't excuse things.
no subject
And I am deeply, bitterly envious of your Ferraris (but not mean enough to hope they get stormed off; go, have a great time, report back. And ask someone who knows: why didn't they just call the Testa Rossa the Testosterone, and have done?)
no subject
no subject
no subject
no subject
I went initially with
no subject
"Really? That's kinda hot..."
no subject
no subject
no subject
no subject
That sounds very nineteenth-century. Thank you.
go, have a great time, report back.
There will be photographs. And possibly video, although I have no idea how I'd post that; my brother is the one who can make his camera do everything from nighttime exposure to julienne fries.
no subject
That sounds very nineteenth-century.[...]
I recall that for some reason---this shows up in George Eliot (Middlemarch?) but not only there (Alcott?)---the unfettered artist in the nineteenth century was depicted as lying on hearth-rugs. Maybe they all had back trouble.
no subject
I just received the 41st email alert of the past 50 hours from the National Hurricane Center about tropical storm Beryl. I wonder what it's like with these folks when there's an actual hurricane.
Nice pic: a crown, a halo, and a Corpse Cooler t-shirt. Almost heaven.
no subject
Oh, what a beauty. Green is good. Roadsters are best. (And hey, here's one (http://www.mfashop.com/566419.html) for $4.95! Plus tax.)
I complain a lot that modern sports cars all look like fish. I want one that looks like a car. With chrome.
Of course, my friends and loved ones point out that I want to drive the car, not work on it continuously...
no subject
And the story was damned good.
Nine
no subject
Thank you. I've been told I should record the music.
no subject
Nine
no subject
"I could believe in athanasia . . ."
no subject
Hee. Thanks.
Of course, my friends and loved ones point out that I want to drive the car, not work on it continuously...
What you need is a package that includes the mechanic.
no subject
Maybe, but you will teach me to hear the mermaids singing, won't you? Oh, wait, that's in the last paragraph of the post...
no subject
Besides, I don't think you'd have any trouble.
no subject
no subject
It also reminds me strongly of this, with Saint Joachim puttering around at pruning with a halo floating over his head. Though I just realized that the depiction of the dove sort of makes it look like Mary is being stalked by the Holy Spirit.
no subject
Hee. I'm flattered.
Though I just realized that the depiction of the dove sort of makes it look like Mary is being stalked by the Holy Spirit.
Yes. It is staring rather ominously through the glass. If Saint Joachim had any sense, he'd turn around and ring for the police.
no subject
no subject
no subject
no subject