Or why the ghost's alive in this cave
The evening got off to a rocky start when I discovered QAnon propaganda in our mailbox on our way out the door to pick up dinner; it was printed like a political mailer, claimed to be the first-person testimony of a victim of the "Cabal," checked most of the traditional dogwhistles and ![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
spatch tore it to pieces as soon as I handed it to him. Duplicate materials were lying in the front yards of other houses on our street, suggesting that someone had come through and flyered the neighborhood with blood libel and millenarianism. I wish them nothing nice.
The better news is that dinner was waiting at the Smoke Shop in Assembly Square, so we walked there via the stretch of the Mystic I had last visited in snow. The water was still glass-blue in the late light. The willows on the far side of the water were yellowing with spring. No one was climbing the tree I had seen tracked around after the storm; no longer trapped in snow, its low-curved branch turned out to sway at the slightest touch like a porch swing or a cradle in a folk song. Naturally I climbed it, while it jounced slowly underneath me and I said things like, "Didn't people die this way in A Separate Peace?" It was not even my own height off the ground. It was good for settling onto.
Still masked, as there were passersby. I am told it gave a good effect to my eyes.
I look like I am tree-whispering. Fortunately, it decided to trust me.
In fact, it was extremely comfortable.
The photographer came in for a close-up just before I leapt down.
Walking through Assembly Square itself was my first exposure to a mall environment in almost two years; I looked at our reflections passing the windows of designer clothing and decided that if I was intended to feel like a second-rate reject from human society, I still thought I looked better than the mannequins. We agreed on a feeling of alienation. We quoted Gonzo and, when we spotted an outlet for Brooks Brothers, Sky Masterson. It remains such a weird space, like a downtown that turns to backlot within blocks. Its bricks sport pre-distressed ghost signs. We got home safely with our barbecue and discovered that none of the sauces we had asked for had made it into the bag, but there were still collards and cornbread and brisket and burnt ends and butter cake we had not ordered and the sunset was flaming out beautifully as we negotiated our path through brownfields and construction, scrolls and streamers of nineteenth-century light. Nothing is becoming any less exhausting. I am still glad that we got outside.
I just saw that Jordan has died. I never saw her outside of photographs and the films of Derek Jarman, but her constructivist makeup was iconic. I am going to have to rewatch Jubilee (1977), which I have not seen since the first time withrushthatspeaks, although I bought the DVD as talismanically as anything else of Jarman's I ran across and later the published script. "But when your desires become reality, you don't need fantasy any longer, or art."
spatch tore it to pieces as soon as I handed it to him. Duplicate materials were lying in the front yards of other houses on our street, suggesting that someone had come through and flyered the neighborhood with blood libel and millenarianism. I wish them nothing nice.The better news is that dinner was waiting at the Smoke Shop in Assembly Square, so we walked there via the stretch of the Mystic I had last visited in snow. The water was still glass-blue in the late light. The willows on the far side of the water were yellowing with spring. No one was climbing the tree I had seen tracked around after the storm; no longer trapped in snow, its low-curved branch turned out to sway at the slightest touch like a porch swing or a cradle in a folk song. Naturally I climbed it, while it jounced slowly underneath me and I said things like, "Didn't people die this way in A Separate Peace?" It was not even my own height off the ground. It was good for settling onto.
Still masked, as there were passersby. I am told it gave a good effect to my eyes.
I look like I am tree-whispering. Fortunately, it decided to trust me.
In fact, it was extremely comfortable.
The photographer came in for a close-up just before I leapt down.
Walking through Assembly Square itself was my first exposure to a mall environment in almost two years; I looked at our reflections passing the windows of designer clothing and decided that if I was intended to feel like a second-rate reject from human society, I still thought I looked better than the mannequins. We agreed on a feeling of alienation. We quoted Gonzo and, when we spotted an outlet for Brooks Brothers, Sky Masterson. It remains such a weird space, like a downtown that turns to backlot within blocks. Its bricks sport pre-distressed ghost signs. We got home safely with our barbecue and discovered that none of the sauces we had asked for had made it into the bag, but there were still collards and cornbread and brisket and burnt ends and butter cake we had not ordered and the sunset was flaming out beautifully as we negotiated our path through brownfields and construction, scrolls and streamers of nineteenth-century light. Nothing is becoming any less exhausting. I am still glad that we got outside.
I just saw that Jordan has died. I never saw her outside of photographs and the films of Derek Jarman, but her constructivist makeup was iconic. I am going to have to rewatch Jubilee (1977), which I have not seen since the first time with
rushthatspeaks, although I bought the DVD as talismanically as anything else of Jarman's I ran across and later the published script. "But when your desires become reality, you don't need fantasy any longer, or art."
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Thank you!
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Those are lovely photos. The dinner sounds amazing, even without the sauces.
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I was extremely upset. I'm still not thrilled. I don't know what to do if it happens again: I suspect it's not illegal, but it still doesn't make me feel safe.
Those are lovely photos. The dinner sounds amazing, even without the sauces.
Thank you. The dinner was worth it. We have so much butter cake.
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Thank you! The weather is becoming amenable to beautiful walks, which I appreciate.
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Thank you! (It was gross.) *hugs*
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The photos are great as ever, and I'm glad you got to go out for a bit.
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It is unnecessary that this conspiracy theory should even exist, much less that it should show up in my mailbox!
The photos are great as ever, and I'm glad you got to go out for a bit.
Thank you! Today has been more on the order of errands and work, but maybe later this week, more sunlight.
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I saw that in the obituaries! I am glad she had the kind of life that she wanted. I am just sorry she is no longer in the world.
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And the mask and hat do indeed show-off your eyes.
And bollocks to Q-Anon.
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It's one of only about half a dozen or so in the entire UK.
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Was it planted there for a particular reason, or just because it was attractive?
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There was a cork tree at the Arboretum in my childhood that met a similar end. (I did enjoy climbing on it before then.)
And the mask and hat do indeed show-off your eyes.
Thank you!
And bollocks to Q-Anon.
Amen.
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So for the powerful (at any scale at which you may wish to calculate power), reality is the medium of their art?
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The character who voices that quotation—Amyl Nitrate, credited as the "historian of the void"—might well agree; she idolizes a notorious murderer for turning her desires into the reality of her crimes. But the film is arguing about art and authenticity and the punk movement itself, so we are not necessarily expected to take it at her word.
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You can perhaps take comfort in knowing that somebody wasted money and time on printing and distributing that propaganda.
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They are. I used to spend as much of my summers as possible in either trees or water.
You can perhaps take comfort in knowing that somebody wasted money and time on printing and distributing that propaganda.
Thank you. That is useful to think about.
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Never! That's a wonderful illustration. I'll see if I can find the book.
You look like you could do that too.
Thank you.
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Those are awesome photos!
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Thank you!
*hugs*