He sets the whole world askew

chriscrick has recently e-mailed me some photographs from graduation, so if I can get those hosted, there will soon be a post full of lj-cuts. hans_the_bold and his diploma both look great.

Mike Allen has accepted "The Marriage of Iphis and Ianthe" for the next issue of Mythic, which really makes me happy. It's one of my favorite poems in months, if not overall. To have it tangible and real in print and ink will be wonderful—and I still blame the best cousins ever. There is also a favorable review of Fantasy Magazine #1 in the latest issue of Emerald City, with particular attention to Catherynne M. Valente's "Bones Like Black Sugar," Jeffrey Ford's "In the House of Four Seasons," Vera Nazarian's "Sun, In Its Copper Season," and my own "The Sense of Spirals." All of which is cool. And Gwenda Bond has announced the table of contents for Say . . . what's the combination? and it looks phenomenal. I can't wait for copies to arrive: I want to read the magazine!

I will not, unfortunately, be at Wiscon this year. I'd been planning on it (since last year), but my health got in the way. I'm hoping to see people at Readercon instead.

Lastly, I sort of hope I'm the only person whom V for Vendetta has ever inspired to see The Crying Game (1992), because that's just kind of sad. That said, I loved the film. It's not really shot or scripted like a film noir, but in its emphasis on past and personal secrets and the idea that, however sideways or tarnished, there may be such a thing as redemption, it did remind me of one. Jaye Davidson is phenomenal; Stephen Rea is fast becoming one of my culture heroes. The only downside: I've now got "Stand By Your Man" stuck in my head. Somebody get me the Dresden Dolls.