Take my shoes off and throw them in the lake

[sovay]

After an increasingly enervated week, I slept ten hours and had a much more successful day. I walked into Porter Square to collect the paperback I had ordered of Ramsey Campbell's Fellstones (2022), walked into Arlington to rendezvous with my parents and brought groceries home, had a nice conversation by phone with rushthatspeaks and cooked a steak with spatch who just finished showing me Robert Mitchum's superb mountain Gothic Thunder Road (1958). We watched a bunch of Festivids, of which I was especially fond of "Take Me Out" (The Assassination Bureau), "Beverly Hills" (Columbo), and "Wannabe" and "Tom Paine's Bones" (The Talk of the Town). I still have a colossal and distracting headache and am having trouble with how much art I am not making, but all of the aforementioned was objectively good. Have a picture from this afternoon of Hestia and Autolycus enjoying Bird Theater.

Comments

[cmcmck]

'The Shee' do a great version of 'Tom Paine's Bones'

https://youtu.be/OGd5rqYbt5o

[sovay]

'The Shee' do a great version of 'Tom Paine's Bones'

Thanks! I'd never heard the song and loved it.

[thisbluespirit]

Bird theatre, clearly the best! Apart from festivids, obv. XD

[dewline]

For Hestia and Autolycus, absolutely!

[sovay]

For Hestia and Autolycus, absolutely!

Autolycus watched the vids with us!

[sovay]

Bird theatre, clearly the best!

Fun for the entire household!

[minoanmiss]

Hooray, nto lest for the sleep!

[sovay]

Hooray, nto lest for the sleep!

Thank you!

[asakiyume]

A chance of angle make it look like Autolycus and Hestia are engaging in some amazing balancing--who is it who's standing on whose ear?? Remarkable.

[sovay]

A chance of angle make it look like Autolycus and Hestia are engaging in some amazing balancing--who is it who's standing on whose ear?? Remarkable.

We do sometimes refer to them as the Flying Foxes.

[gwynnega]

Bird Theater looks riveting.

[sovay]

Bird Theater looks riveting.

There was chirping outside and chattering within!

[ashlyme]

How did you find FELLSTONES? I've just finished it. Superb.

[sovay]

How did you find FELLSTONES? I've just finished it. Superb.

I loved it. I had an equivocal relationship with the first couple of Campbell's novels I tried (which is why I have read more of his short fiction), but this one hit right from the start and didn't swerve, except where it was supposed to, which as a solution to the music of the spheres I also loved.

[ada_hoffmann]

I'm so glad you finally got some sleep!!

[sovay]

I'm so glad you finally got some sleep!!

Thank you!