I see the mountain and that is all I see

1. My poem "Spirit Photography" is now online at Through the Gate. It is their inaugural issue; the table of contents is full of poets whose work I love and a few I look forward to learning more about. The inspiration is exactly what it says down at the bottom of the page.

2. My poems "Graffiti" and "Taking the Auspices" have been nominated for the 2012 Dwarf Stars Award. It's rose_lemberg and mitchell_hart's fault for publishing them in the first place.

3. I spent most of last night with a weird half-migraine, but earlier in the afternoon derspatchel met me after my dentist's appointment and we went to the Ether Dome and the Russell Museum of Medical History and Innovation, although we did not go up to the roof garden; we stopped with the portraits of people we'd never heard of, as the guard at the door glossed them to us. We walked to Pho Pasteur afterward for dinner. There was, later, a glass of rum for the pirate cat.

4. J.K. Rowling has said something terrible on the internet: "The thing about fantasy—there are certain things you just don't do in fantasy. You don't have sex near unicorns. It's an ironclad rule. It's tacky."

I have no doubt the internet is already filling with unicorn-proximate porn, but if anyone on this friendlist wishes to add to the literature, I can only approve.

(She says also, "The person who is leading the quest—it seems that they have to have this weird purity about them," with which I passionately disagree. I've spent most of my reading life being bored with Galahads. More questing fuck-ups, please.)

5. I still have too much of this weird half-migraine, but I slept until two o'clock and I am seeing rushthatspeaks and Apocalypse Now (1979) before candlelighting.

Come back out of the dark and be written well.