The way your hair goes wavy when you wake up

[sovay]

All elements of the day pertaining to doctors or insurance were awful, including the hour of the morning at which I was awoken by a phone call canceling an appointment I had been waiting nearly a month for, even after I offered to pay out of pocket, which you would think a doctor's office would go for.

In the evening, however, spatch and I walked into Porter Square and not only was he delighted with the paperback of Matthew Kennedy's Joan Blondell: A Life Between Takes (2007/2014) with which I presented him as soon as I had collected it from the bookstore, the sight of it inspired one of his coworkers at the Somerville to whip out their phone and order their own copy on the spot, which I recognize is not Bigolas Dickolas Wolfwood levels of influence, but it still makes me happy. The bookstore clerk also spoke effusively of the biography's subject and especially recommended Desk Set (1957). Rock on, Joan Blondell.

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[asakiyume]

The Bigolas Dickolas Wolfood story is such internet goodness. I brought it up to the ninja girl, and even though she's not in SFF writing circles, she had heard about it because she's in anime circles. Very fun. I'm glad you had a similar effect in person. Matthew Kennedy will be grateful, even if he didn't rocket to No. 3 on Amazon.

[sovay]

The Bigolas Dickolas Wolfood story is such internet goodness. I brought it up to the ninja girl, and even though she's not in SFF writing circles, she had heard about it because she's in anime circles.

Nice! I heard about it from spatch, who heard about it from Twitter.

I'm glad you had a similar effect in person. Matthew Kennedy will be grateful, even if he didn't rocket to No. 3 on Amazon.

I was so happy to discover that someone had written a biography of Joan Blondell and then from its partial glimpse on Google Books that it looked really good. Joan Blondell deserves biographies!