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Can I trade in the dark for a new state of mind?
The plumbers came this morning at the crack of legality and after spending several hours filling the apartment with metallic whining sounds which left us wondering if they were cutting through pipe, determined that whatever the nature of the problem with the plumbing, it cannot be fixed through our ceiling and will in fact need to be fixed from the second-floor bathroom of the upstairs apartment. They have replaced the insulation and sheetrock of the bathroom ceiling and we are waiting to hear if the plasterer can come this afternoon. We are no longer sure why our ceiling was torn out in the first place, causing such disruption that it effectively ate all of last week.
I have had two doctor's appointments so far this week and have three to go, including another this afternoon. So far one has been neutral to reassuring and the other has been demoralizing to rage-making. I guess the rest of the week is flip a coin.
Have some links.
1. On the refugees of Pompeii and Herculaneum and the lives they built after the eruption of 79. I had not realized the regional names were distinctive enough that families could be accurately tracked by them. The fostering by one refugee family of a child who was likely the sole survivor of his own family is the kind of thing that folds up two thousand years.
2. Julia Rios has posted in further detail about All in Among the Briars: An Anthology of Mythic Wonder (2024), including the table of contents and the introduction. The fundraiser for Jessica and Jeremy Wick is still ongoing. Grief shouldn't cost more than it already does.
3. Boston-area people in need of more queer space screwball in your lives, tomorrow evening Brookline Booksmith is hosting the launch party for Rebecca Fraimow's Lady Eve's Last Con (2024) with the author in person. The long weekend of Noir City Boston at the Brattle does not overlap the event, but kind of metaphysically should.
I have had two doctor's appointments so far this week and have three to go, including another this afternoon. So far one has been neutral to reassuring and the other has been demoralizing to rage-making. I guess the rest of the week is flip a coin.
Have some links.
1. On the refugees of Pompeii and Herculaneum and the lives they built after the eruption of 79. I had not realized the regional names were distinctive enough that families could be accurately tracked by them. The fostering by one refugee family of a child who was likely the sole survivor of his own family is the kind of thing that folds up two thousand years.
2. Julia Rios has posted in further detail about All in Among the Briars: An Anthology of Mythic Wonder (2024), including the table of contents and the introduction. The fundraiser for Jessica and Jeremy Wick is still ongoing. Grief shouldn't cost more than it already does.
3. Boston-area people in need of more queer space screwball in your lives, tomorrow evening Brookline Booksmith is hosting the launch party for Rebecca Fraimow's Lady Eve's Last Con (2024) with the author in person. The long weekend of Noir City Boston at the Brattle does not overlap the event, but kind of metaphysically should.
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Thank you! The plumbing situation has been a lot more complicated and a lot stupider than we were expecting.
And Noir City sounds great, what an excellent choice of movies! I especially liked seeing both Christensen and Fregonese there.
I thought of you!
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Why are they always like that?! X( Best of luck!
<3 I hope you can go, I'd love to know what you think about them!
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Thank you! It is a terrible weekend for me to try to see movies because my niece is in town and I will be oriented toward her for the duration, but the good news is that TCM just ran No abras nunca esa puerta for their latest Noir Alley if I don't get the chance at it at Noir City Boston. (The Fregonese I just feel taunted by.)
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TCM has that one, too! They ran as a double feature! My problem this month is sleeping enough to (a) write about (b) all the movies I want to watch.
I might also mentioned that "Black Tuesday" is, in my opinion, Fregonese at his best.
You have! It's how the movie got on my radar beyond the general sense of Edward G. Robinson.
"Apenas un delincuente" is also great, I always like movies where the city is a main character!
Agreed. Thanks to movies, I have ended up with knowledge of cities from decades before I was born, even that I've never been to. It's good.