I know I've only brought you grief

[sovay]

I lost most of Friday to a migraine. Saturday I did not have a migraine and attended rehearsal, which was lovely, but then came home in the evening and collapsed with shrimp curry soup courtesy of choco_frosh. Today I appear to have a migraine again, or at least an escalation of headache to the point of nausea and the desire not to move from my bed or even turn my head and open my eyes, which is not for any number of reasons a viable option. I am not happy. I have written again to the ENT. I quietly ate some corned beef for the day.

1. Philip Hoare on boilersuits. rushthatspeaks and I agree that Derek Jarman would approve of the banner images. The article quite properly refers to him as "St. Derek."

2. Adam Gopnik on Diderot. I had never previously given him much thought, but this profile-review succeeds unequivocally in making me want to have a conversation with the philosopher or at least read his novel with the talking genitalia.

3. I started reading this story because of the title and finished it because of the prose: Quintan Ana Wikswo's "The Fisherman Bombardier of Naval Station Norfolk: A Performance in Four Generations, Three Races, and Too Many Genders to Name."

4. Courtesy of moon_custafer: Art Deco and Streamline Moderne radios. I visit a couple of those at the MFA.

5. I keep forgetting that "The Good Ship Calabar" is the same tune as "The Handsome Cabin Boy." This is probably because I don't actually like "The Handsome Cabin Boy" very much.

I watched a couple of movies last night, but I am not writing about anything because my concentration is shot from pain, and I hate that perhaps even more than I hate being in pain. I spend a lot of my life in pain. I have to get something out of it anyway.

Comments

[sovay]

I'm getting a stupid tech loop on reading what the article has to say about Diderot, about whom I already know quite a bit--I wanted to see this slant.

I'm sorry about the tech loop. I assume you have tried different browsers and all the usual.

[sartorias]

I'm too tech-stupid to deal with different browsers (and all that entails, what with having to reenter my fifteen billion passwords) so I hunted through my stack of New Yorkers, and found it. It kind of slips over the surface of what Diderot was like, but it's a good intro,.

[sovay]

so I hunted through my stack of New Yorkers, and found it.

I read it in print myself, but that's harder to share with the internet.

It kind of slips over the surface of what Diderot was like, but it's a good intro,.

I'm glad.

[ethelmay]

I got kind of mad at that article. There was a lot of "He loved women and women loved him," and I immediately went "O RLY show me these women" and checked for actual evidence of what women said. So his wife was very unhappy with him (had street brawls with his mistresses), he writes to a lover to scold her for not having orgasms (the author of the article reads this letter very differently than I do), and he beats on the Tsarevna's thighs so that she has to put a table in between her and him so as not to get bruises at every conversation. I admit I might not be being fair, but Gopnik tends to get my back up.

[sovay]

I admit I might not be being fair, but Gopnik tends to get my back up.

I agree with you that I don't find thigh-pinching endearing any more than Catherine did. I did take the letter to his lover as encouraging rather than pushy. Fortunately, my wanting to have a conversation with a historical figure is not contingent on my wanting to sleep with them.

[ethelmay]

I think it was that Gopnik kept being so aggressive in defending behavior that didn't sound so great that I assumed the worst all around.

Also of course I meant tsarina, not tsarevna.