The gods will lounge around until this show is through

An evening well spent with gaudior, rushthatspeaks, lignota, eredien, weirdquark, and others yet who are not on Livejournal. Sushi. Books. Cats. Comics. Cool, cool, cool people.

"I was so mad today. I didn't get to murder Coyote because I was still stoned from eating Jesus in Tokyo."
—Thrud

All in all, a good time.

An lj-cut to mushrooms

Last week was my mother's birthday; tonight, being the one night in the month when my brother and I were actually in the same house, was her birthday dinner. So the most interesting thing I did today was dissect a large portobello and some oyster mushrooms for an appetizer, but for some reason this made me happy. These were beautiful fungi. From the way they clustered upward, their stems flattened and convergent, I decided that oyster mushrooms must grow on the sides of trees; their caps were softly grey, sleek as mice above and translucently fluted beneath, and their stems densely white and tensile. I found them so extraordinarily lovely, I took photographs.

(Cut for fungiporn.)
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