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sovay ([personal profile] sovay) wrote2009-02-01 01:46 am

And should you glimpse my wandering form out on the borderline

Happy birthday, ungodchild!

My poem "Migration" is now online at Lone Star Stories. It was written in 2006 as an exercise in mainstream poetry, which failed, but I'm not complaining about the results.

Two nights ago was a DVD sale at Barnes & Noble. Guess who now owns Criterion's 1938 Pygmalion? I should probably write something more eloquent about this film than sorry, Rex Harrison.

Today was my grandfather's birthday observed; my aunt Naomi is in from San Francisco, and my brother and his fiancée crashed earlier this evening. To anyone who has ever wondered if it's possible to make a lemon meringue shortcake, the answer is yes, but it has an incredibly short lifespan.

This cold should buzz off, please. I have things I need to do.

[identity profile] ap-aelfwine.livejournal.com 2009-02-01 07:01 am (UTC)(link)
Happy birthday to the ungodchild!

Congratulations on the online publication, and the new DVD.

Lemon meringue shortcake sounds interesting--I'm trying to envision it, and failing slightly, which in the morning will no doubt seem ridiculous.

I hope the cold takes your advice and leaves soon.

[identity profile] ap-aelfwine.livejournal.com 2009-02-01 07:18 pm (UTC)(link)
Thank you!

Most welcome!

Substratum of shortbread, mantle of lemon curd, meringue on top. Barring the eternal stirring of the lemon curd (which never thickens as quickly as it's supposed to, possibly because we don't use cornstarch), it took surprisingly little time to prepare.

Sounds lovely. I'm assuming it has a short lifespan because folk devour it on sight?

[identity profile] ap-aelfwine.livejournal.com 2009-02-01 07:26 pm (UTC)(link)
Yep. It is our natural prey.

Then you're a very lucky group of predators indeed.

PS

[identity profile] ap-aelfwine.livejournal.com 2009-02-01 07:29 pm (UTC)(link)
My mother asks if you've tried adding raspberries.