Glitter always shimmers in the limelight

[sovay]

The moon looks like a Constable watercolor in black and olive and cratered parchment. I have seen the latest pictures of Earth. I can't turn off the part of my brain that brings around you may leave here for four days in space, but I worried so much about that launch.

This morning was marked by the municipal pruning of trees on our street. When the racket moved far enough around the block to become merely obnoxious, I went back to listening to byways of Flanders and Swann. In the afternoon Hestia saw a cardinal in the yew and almost went through the glass.

I recognize that midlife m/m amid the mussel beds of North Wales is the single most stereotypical choice I could make out of this year's lineup for Wicked Queer, but I am still seriously considering On the Sea (2025). It would be a sure bet if I didn't have to think about parking at the MFA.

I would like the next week to involve much less talking to doctors. None would be an ideal.

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[asakiyume]

There was a VERY loud and proud cardinal at the top of our apple tree yesterday evening, when I was outside. I was impressed.

What a great-looking selection of films! I found myself intrigued by the write-up and trailer for arguably the least queer but possibly most ghost oriented. The woman playing the ghost projects persuasive no-longer-humanness. I'm a bit squicked out by the cutesy but also explicitly servile-ness of a vacuum cleaner as the object of possession, and I wonder if overall the movie is critical enough of the systems it brings up in its scenario. Anyway, even just having those questions to think about made it interesting to me.

Here's to none doctors because none are necessary.

[sovay]

There was a VERY loud and proud cardinal at the top of our apple tree yesterday evening, when I was outside. I was impressed.

This one fluttered tantalizingly through the color contrast of the conifer. I always think of them as winter birds—I wonder if their breeding season has started. All of a sudden they seem to be flamboyant.

What a great-looking selection of films!

It is! I had completely glitched that the festival was happening until I saw some of its titles on the Somerville's schedule. I can't remember if previous years have been so international, but I love how much this one is.

I found myself intrigued by the write-up and trailer for arguably the least queer but possibly most ghost oriented. The woman playing the ghost projects persuasive no-longer-humanness.

I can see why that interests you! I agree that anything called A Useful Ghost should—and given its acclaim, one would really imagine does—interrogate its definition. Other stuff that particularly caught my attention included Blood Lines (2025), By Hook or By Crook (2001) which has technically been on my radar since 2007, Uchronia (2026), the shorts collection Kings Come Get Your Flowers, Erupjca (2025) which was reviewed last year in The New Yorker, and Drunken Noodles (2025). If more of the films were playing at the Somerville, I would probably just camp out for them. The Brattle is harder for me to get to.

Here's to none doctors because none are necessary.

Thank you! Much appreciated. The week ended with a COVID scare which was unnecessary. (None of us have COVID.)

[nineweaving]

... midlife m/m amid the mussel beds of North Wales ...

Good heavens. Did you script this?

Hope you get to see some of these.

Nine

[sovay]

Good heavens. Did you script this?

It would probably have some supernatural component if I had! The presence of the Menai Strait is still incredible.

Hope you get to see some of these.

Thank you! March was not a conducive month to almost anything.