The attention just encourages her

I have discovered the miracle that is downloading music from iTunes. Mostly this means live versions of Dresden Dolls songs, but I am sure it will soon extend into all sorts of debauchery. But at 99¢ a song, they look so affordable . . .

I am returned from D.C. There was much Indian food. There was much Turkish food. There was much discussion of Greek elegy. It was good. I have two new books by Greg Nagy, Plato's Rhapsody and Homer's Music: The Poetics of the Panathenaic Festival in Classical Athens and Homer's Text and Language, as well as Elizabeth E. Wein's The Sunbird. And the regional had an inexplicable hour-long layover at Penn Station in New York City, so we spent something like six hours on the train, and as a result my brain's a little like oatmeal at the moment. On the bright side:

My poem "The Laying-Out" (Mythic Delirium #11) is now online, with appropriately creepy illustration; there is also a review up at MultiVerse, for those who like some commentary with their poetry. Hermeneutics, anyone?

And Postcards from the Province of Hyphens is now available from amazon.com!

I'm going to read some Aksumite Arthuriana and pass out. This has been a good weekend.

To avoid any possible embarrassment or blame

Me: I really like "Don't Put Another Drachma In The Jukebox" . . . Thanks!
Kraada: no problem . . . i find random shit . . . when i find random shit of classical origins it will always wend its way towards you eventually :-)
Me: Awww.
Kraada: besides, this was flash fiction + classics
that's like a bright neon sign that says "SONYA!!!!"

I can't really argue with that . . .

In other music-related news, my iTunes debauchery continues. (Cut for . . . all right, this probably is suitable for children under thirteen, but can I just claim it's not? Thanks.)
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