Well, I'm not dancing here tonight

[sovay]

This has been a good week for contributor's copies: Mythic Delirium #15 ("Atthis in Boston," "Carne Vale") arrived over the weekend, and Electric Velocipede #11 ("Bar Golem") yesterday. These in company of Theodora Goss, Constance Cooper, Erzebet YellowBoy, Matt Cheney, Jeffrey Ford, Catherynne M. Valente, Liz Williams, and others always worth reading. Go thou forth and subscribe! Your dreams will thank you afterward.

According to the spam I received this afternoon alone, the friends I've lost touch with ("hi, it's . . .") are Frieda Holloway, Nelda Miner, Grimes Alfred, Ryan Maldonado, Lorna Avila, Gabriel Hickey, Kory Fleming, Mai Cramer, Jordan Kerns, and Branden Stringer. I think I liked it better when they were named things like Flushing Q. Remonstrance.*

The Prestige not only held up well on second viewing—I went on Saturday with gaudior, rushthatspeaks, and the boy, who was in town: we had great discussion (and Tibetan curry) afterward—there were certain aspects I could appreciate only this time around, and I may be even more impressed with the film now than I was last week. Also, did I mention that Andy Serkis has a wonderful face? As the inventor's assistant, with a top hat and his sleeves rolled up, he looks like a slightly disreputable faun: I want to see him in more roles where he's visible as himself.

It is cold, and raw, and foggily dark. I am going to make hot chocolate.

*As I typed this, another e-mail arrived: from Leto Cleveland. That's not bad. Even if all she wanted was to sell me stock options.

Comments

[strange-selkie.livejournal.com]

What's Tibetan curry like? I'm curious. Heavy on the yak butter?

[sovay]

Heavy on the yak butter?

I can't pinpoint the difference in spices—this particular restaurant didn't seem to serve yak—but it did taste different than Indian curry, and I would gladly go back to investigate. (Particularly because this restaurant makes some kind of steamed dumplings with spinach and potato that are like vegetable crack. I blame rushthatspeaks for ordering them: like I don't have enough addictions already.) Do you know anything about Tibetan cooking?

[nineweaving.livejournal.com]

Where's this restaurant?

Nine

[sovay]

Davis Square. I think its name is Martsa; it also serves hot cider, which does not taste exactly like the hot cider of the British Isles or the United States, and is delicious.

[strange-selkie.livejournal.com]

Yes, that it's more similar to the cooking on the Mongolian steppes than to middle China, and that they use yak products in lots of things, and that they don't saute a lot, because yak butter, though high in healthy fats, has too low a smoke point. So they stew things and are probably pristine masters of the one-pot dish.

They also put yak butter in their tea.

[sovay]

They also put yak butter in their tea.

The restaurant did serve Tibetan-style tea, which apparently includes butter and salt. I almost gave it a try, except I was more curious about Tibetan-style cider. Next time, I will order the drinkable yak.

[strange-selkie.livejournal.com]

The cider is probably also some percentage liquid yak.

When are you visiting, you underfed specimen?

[sovay]

When are you visiting, you underfed specimen?

As soon as my life stops trying to explode!

[strange-selkie.livejournal.com]

*notes duly in calendar between getting those four large horses groomed for those nice equestrians, and picking up fish flakes for Cthulhu's homecoming party*

[mlle-rouge.livejournal.com]

I actually collect the best spam names. My favourites for the moment are Antigonus Probert and Libitina Loving.

[sovay]

My favourites for the moment are Antigonus Probert and Libitina Loving.

Those are very nice. My favorite has always been Cadfael Aronowitz, who I think deserves his own story.

[ap-aelfwine.livejournal.com]

My favorite has always been Cadfael Aronowitz, who I think deserves his own story.

He does. ;-)

I've often thought that spammer names were starting to sound like H. Beam Piper names, but that's _brilliant_. I almost wish I could shake the hand of whomever came up with it.

[sovay]

I almost wish I could shake the hand of whomever came up with it.

fleurdelis28 received spam once from Tevye McGilvery, whom we agreed must hang out with Mr. Aronowitz. And possibly one of them used to date Shprintzl Seltzer, who once spammed nineweaving. The names really are so much less interesting nowadays.