2012-08-27

sovay: (Lord Peter Wimsey: passion)
So this afternoon I met [livejournal.com profile] rushthatspeaks and [livejournal.com profile] jinian at Rodney's in Central Square and then we met [livejournal.com profile] ajodasso and [livejournal.com profile] rinue at Toscanini's and then we shot B-roll for a science fiction film. I have never been part of even a microbudget film before. We dressed for the future out of our own clothes, some scarves and props. [livejournal.com profile] derspatchel pointed us toward MIT's Simmons Hall. Apparently the correct term is not extras, it's background, and if I turn up for two seconds as background in an offworld montage, I will consider this an afternoon entirely well spent. If I don't turn up for two seconds as background in an offworld montage, I will consider it an afternoon entirely well spent. It was like silent film. It was a lot of fun.

And then I stopped off at Blue Shirt Café in Davis Square and helped Rob sort pages. There was an exciting moment when I realized I'd left my four-dollar record of Songs by Tom Lehrer (1953) in Rush's car. It was retrieved and presented to its proper owner. I hung on to the play by Peter Ustinov. (The ninety-four-cent shelf at Rodney's is no slouch. I only left Christopher Fry's The Dark Is Light Enough (1954) because I couldn't remember if I already owned it.)

And then I got home to discover that my poem "In the Firebird Museum" is now online at Stone Telling, with a haunting illustration by Yuri Dojc. This is the one I wrote the same night as my poem currently in inkscrawl: I think it was meant at the time for [livejournal.com profile] rose_lemberg, but it found its way to her in the end. This magazine gets better with every issue.

(Discovered earlier, but deserving of post: Jeff VanderMeer writes about Beyond Binary and interviews [livejournal.com profile] britmandelo.)

Today, in short: pretty damn fine.
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