And in the tropical air, the scent rose like a spirit

[sovay]

Today I ate rambutans, made up a blueberry cake, roasted Cornish hens with figs, thyme, and lemon, and helped bake vegan brownies. Walked along Mass. Ave. and bought herbal chai. Did some research in a dead language. There were all sorts of other things wrong with today, but the food and the turning cold of the air were not any of them.

If you are not already aware of the Delirium Fruit Swap, you should be. And you should be sending poems. The project looks to be awesome; and with any luck, it will generate more hats.

Last Drink Bird Head. I won't be at World Fantasy, but I have a flash in the anthology. More to the point, so do many truly excellent authors—Caitlín R. Kiernan, Liz Williams, Michael Swanwick, Tanith Lee, Gene Wolfe, Sarah Monette . . . Rikki Ducornet went to college with my mother. (Her senior project—a line-drawn deck of Tarot cards—was one of the four things that my mother regrets never being able to own.) That may be even more surreal than the title of the book.

Happy birthday, hans_the_bold!

Comments

[asakiyume.livejournal.com]

That anthology looks superb in every respect! (Not least the cover art and interior illustration)

Cornish hens with figs, thyme, and lemon sounds lovely. I would like someone to cook me figs!

[sovay]

That anthology looks superb in every respect! (Not least the cover art and interior illustration)

I am really, really looking forward to my contributor's copy. And it's for charity! Literacy! Buy one!

I would like someone to cook me figs!

I can copy out the recipe for you; I got it from Gourmet.

[asakiyume.livejournal.com]

I would love to have the recipe, and my family would thank you. So yes, please, when you get a chance.

As for buying the anthology, I would very much like to, both for pleasure and for the good cause... but my resources are much curtailed these days, so I have to plan carefully and slot a purchase in at the right time...