He opened up the floodgates and the bulls came out

[sovay]

Being informed that my committee bio for the Readercon souvenir book could be as vague as "[So-and-so] is way too busy doing X, Y, and Z to write a proper bio," I wrote mine in the form of a Roman curse tablet.

I am back in Boston, in case that is not evident. I got up at another eye-bleeding hour of the morning on Monday in order to make my return train, and was very kindly allowed to swap my reservation for an earlier ticket after it only took me an hour to get to Union Station. Three days in D.C. with strange_selkie and darthrami were some of the best time I have spent anywhere in the last year, and not only because they took me to museums and fed me amazing fish and chips and talked until after midnight. I may post when I am not engaged in carpentry, then leaving to see The Public Enemy (1931) at the Brattle Theatre. I have never seen James Cagney in a tough-guy role; I know him only from Yankee Doodle Dandy (1942) and twenty wonderful minutes out of A Midsummer Night's Dream (1935). I am aware this is kind of backwards. They are showing White Heat (1949) on Sunday, which I plan to see as well.

I should get back to deconstructing the kitchen.

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[teenybuffalo.livejournal.com]

I'll look forward to hearing what you thought of the movie. Come to that, I watched him in Roaring Twenties the other night. He was pretty good, too. Most of the time he was very short, except that when he went near the leading ladies he was suddenly much taller than they were. Almost as though he was standing on a stack of books...

Good Lord, he was in Midsummer Night's Dream?

[sovay]

Come to that, I watched him in Roaring Twenties the other night.

They're showing that next week; I think the theater is taking the upcoming Johnny Depp/Christian Bale Public Enemies as an excuse for a classic gangster filmfest. I'm planning to see it, too. Sometime last year, I saw maybe ten minutes out of the middle very late at night.

Good Lord, he was in Midsummer Night's Dream?

I caught the last twenty minutes on TCM and months later was still raving about him to the unsuspecting internet. I still haven't seen the rest of the film!