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And all the angels and all the wizards black and white
My cousin Tristen has been visiting with his grandparents since Sunday, so yesterday we made a particular field trip: I took him to the New England Aquarium, which he had never seen and I hadn't visited since college at least. I am delighted to report that little has changed except for the better; I miss the blacklit wall of sharks, but there's an exhibit now of weedy and leafy sea dragons, the electric eel has a much nicer environment than it did when I watched it stun its prey, and the three-story ocean tank was exactly as I remember it, morays and nurse sharks and green sea turtle and all.1 The seals were silver as tetradrachms and sleek in the water. There are not too many screens. I fed Tristen shrimp at Legal Sea Foods and then we both came home and collapsed, which was sort of the state I remained in for the rest of the day. Watched In the Beginning (1998) with Eric and the rest of the Babylon 5 people. Wished Nickelodeon had released a soundtrack album for Avatar: The Last Airbender. I had better be able to start making up sleep for Readercon soon.
Yesterday's mail, however, brought me contributor's copies of Sybil's Garage #7, in which my poem "Candle for the Tetragrammaton" appears alongside work by Amelia Shackleford, Tom Crosshill, Sam Ferree, Hal Duncan, Amal El-Mohtar, Anil Menon, and Alex Dally McFarlane, just to name some of my favorites. The after-hours reading at Readercon was too crowded for me to get into,1 but the contents don't suffer from being read off the page; the issue has been beautifully put together, and for the first time it's bound like a journal instead of a half-legal 'zine. If you want to pick up a copy, it's right there on Amazon. Its closing epigraph is the same proverb that titled my poem: נר ה' נשמת אדם. The human spirit is the candle of God.
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wind05 and Sabitha and their friend. I could carry my Brandeis umbrella and ensure it doesn't rain.
1. I'm glad the Aquarium keeps a timeline; I just wish it were more specific than architecture and temporary exhibits. I didn't remember the giant green anemones at all.
2. I'm being entirely literal. I think it was held inmattkressel's room on the last night of the con. Standing room only. I stuck it out for the duration of Crosshill's "Thinking Woman's Crop of Fools" and then decided—I know it's passé—I liked being able to breathe. I had already heard tithenai perform "Schehirrazade" at the Rhysling Awards.
Yesterday's mail, however, brought me contributor's copies of Sybil's Garage #7, in which my poem "Candle for the Tetragrammaton" appears alongside work by Amelia Shackleford, Tom Crosshill, Sam Ferree, Hal Duncan, Amal El-Mohtar, Anil Menon, and Alex Dally McFarlane, just to name some of my favorites. The after-hours reading at Readercon was too crowded for me to get into,1 but the contents don't suffer from being read off the page; the issue has been beautifully put together, and for the first time it's bound like a journal instead of a half-legal 'zine. If you want to pick up a copy, it's right there on Amazon. Its closing epigraph is the same proverb that titled my poem: נר ה' נשמת אדם. The human spirit is the candle of God.
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wind05 and Sabitha and their friend. I could carry my Brandeis umbrella and ensure it doesn't rain.1. I'm glad the Aquarium keeps a timeline; I just wish it were more specific than architecture and temporary exhibits. I didn't remember the giant green anemones at all.
2. I'm being entirely literal. I think it was held in
mattkressel's room on the last night of the con. Standing room only. I stuck it out for the duration of Crosshill's "Thinking Woman's Crop of Fools" and then decided—I know it's passé—I liked being able to breathe. I had already heard tithenai perform "Schehirrazade" at the Rhysling Awards.
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Enjoy, whenever that happens to be! I was very pleased to be in its company.