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sovay ([personal profile] sovay) wrote2025-05-20 03:11 am

I can't read your mind and I can't write your name

How I am doing at the moment is extremely not great. [personal profile] spatch took a picture of me craning into frame like a cat. I took a picture of a blinkie my father made for me.



The dekatron currently running was manufactured about fifty or sixty years ago in the Soviet Union. I loved this shot because I caught the flare of neon transferring from one cathode to the next.



Trusting one of my husbands telling me that I look like a person, whatever I feel like.

I was unironically charmed to discover The Wonderful World of Tupperware (1965). The hard sell can get a little hard to take, but the technical details are as good as all those short films from the Children's Television Workshop about the manufacture of peanut butter or saxophones.

The rediscovered 1983 Thomas the Tank Engine pilot which I had seen linked around my friendlist turns out to have been more like a screen test for the model work, which honestly makes it even neater to watch. I wrote a letter once to the Island of Sodor. It did occur to me years after the fact that my parents answered it.

If Richard Brody would just edit the collected film criticism of Virginia Tracy and Andre Sennwald, I would buy the books like two shots and consider it a service to art.
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[personal profile] ashlyme 2025-05-21 02:53 pm (UTC)(link)
It's good to see your face. *Hugs* The dekatron is pretty cool.

Tupperware had some good jazz. I think that's the first Thomas the Tank Engine I've ever seen! I grew up on Ivor the Engine.
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[personal profile] ashlyme 2025-05-21 08:58 pm (UTC)(link)
*Analog, my beloved.*

Testify! I'd love to see a row of these on top of a retro synth.

*I've never seen Ivor!*

You're in for a treat if you watch it! There's much to love about it: bassoon theme, Idris the Dragon, and a train in the local choir, among them.

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[personal profile] ashlyme 2025-05-21 09:31 pm (UTC)(link)
*IDRIS THE DRAGON.*

He is very cute, and I'm trying not to imagine a Pern crossover.