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1. I get to see one of my cousins who is neither ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
gaudior nor rushthatspeaks tonight. She's interviewing at colleges in the Boston area; it has been hinted to me that I may be expected to serve as an unofficial guide to Brandeis, though I have no idea how useful she'll find me, being eight years out of date at best. I am amused that our dinner plans are for Yenching in Harvard Square.
2. I have my preliminary Readercon schedule, although I'm waiting for it to be finalized before I post it. I'm not unhappy with what I've seen so far, though.
3. Having run out of Princess Jellyfish (2010) until such time as there is some kind of second season or I give up and track down the manga, Viking Zen and I have started watching Spice and Wolf (2008). Four episodes in, it is the best show about gods and economics I've ever seen. I hadn't expected to recognize one ofrax's icons suddenly.
4. Mission of Burma is recording a new album. I haven't been able to make any of their recent shows, but this makes me very happy. Also, a bowtie on Clint Conley is a terrifying thing.
5. I think someone ran this experiment just for the sake of the headline.
6. Because five things make a post, but death is the extra at any table: Peter Falk. I grew up on him as Columbo, of course, but what I'd watch for his memory is Der Himmel über Berlin (1987), rumpled and fallen, sketching, shaking hands with empty air; the small miracles of coffee and cigarettes. You need to figure that out for yourself. That's the fun of it.
gaudior nor rushthatspeaks tonight. She's interviewing at colleges in the Boston area; it has been hinted to me that I may be expected to serve as an unofficial guide to Brandeis, though I have no idea how useful she'll find me, being eight years out of date at best. I am amused that our dinner plans are for Yenching in Harvard Square.2. I have my preliminary Readercon schedule, although I'm waiting for it to be finalized before I post it. I'm not unhappy with what I've seen so far, though.
3. Having run out of Princess Jellyfish (2010) until such time as there is some kind of second season or I give up and track down the manga, Viking Zen and I have started watching Spice and Wolf (2008). Four episodes in, it is the best show about gods and economics I've ever seen. I hadn't expected to recognize one of
rax's icons suddenly.4. Mission of Burma is recording a new album. I haven't been able to make any of their recent shows, but this makes me very happy. Also, a bowtie on Clint Conley is a terrifying thing.
5. I think someone ran this experiment just for the sake of the headline.
6. Because five things make a post, but death is the extra at any table: Peter Falk. I grew up on him as Columbo, of course, but what I'd watch for his memory is Der Himmel über Berlin (1987), rumpled and fallen, sketching, shaking hands with empty air; the small miracles of coffee and cigarettes. You need to figure that out for yourself. That's the fun of it.
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so, how does one Yench?
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In rather the same way as one Kiples, I believe.
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I hope there are no panel conflicts that would prevent you being me. It's quite important. See prior references to my artistic genius. *rolls over for skritches* Not that you're on the committee, or anything vital like that.
How many cousins have you? Are they all similarly brilliant and odd?
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I don't know all of my cousins. Tristen and his mother Maggie are the only close ones I have on my mother's side, and technically they're step-cousins; this is irrelevant for all practical purposes, but neither of my mother's siblings ever reproduced. Second cousins, my grandmother was an only child. Third cousins, then you get various descendants of the other three Goldberg sisters and so
I have a gazillion cousins on my father's side—the whole six brothers thing—and I don't know most of them, either.
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"In nature’s sex wars, males campaign for more offspring—the proverbial seed-spreading—while females play hard-to-get because they bear most of the burden of reproduction and parenthood."
How to make gobbledygook out of both garden-variety observations and scientific experiments. I could write half a page without pausing to exhale about the errors and assumptions in that article.
I enjoyed Falk in Der Himmel über Berlin. And be wary of the Yenching, last time I was there I got a raging case of food poisoning. Take your cousin to the Chang Sho instead. Terrific food, and closer to Arlington.
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Projecting a little?
And be wary of the Yenching, last time I was there I got a raging case of food poisoning.
I am sorry to hear it; I have never had anything but a delicious, occasionally slightly-overstuffed-with-Shanghai-rice-cakes experience with them.
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I had been eating happily at the Yenching since 1973 myself, although I did notice the food getting greasier. That poisoning was really nasty, though.
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July 14—17 at the Marriott in Burlington, more than it was before pre-registration closed. I could try asking if I could slip you under the door, as it were.
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Also, the title could technically have been awesomer: "Sex with Sea Monkeys from the future".
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I never remember that he's the grandfather in The Princess Bride; I don't know why.
"As you wish."
I have the soundtrack DVD, so I'll listen to that instead.
Nice.
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I hope you have a good time with your cousin, and that all goes well for her.
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I'm glad you're not unhappy. I'd love to go to Readercon sometime, if it weren't always during Catskills Irish Arts Week.
Viking Zen and I have started watching Spice and Wolf (2008). Four episodes in, it is the best show about gods and economics I've ever seen.
One of these days, I'm going to have to watch that one, I think. It sounds interesting, and, if I'm correct, has a cute-looking wolfgirl.
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One does wonder, yes.
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May he rest in peace. I love the way you've sketched out this character he played in so few words.
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Unless it disintegrates utterly by the end of the season, it's both a very intelligent show and does immortal and nonhuman very well.
May he rest in peace. I love the way you've sketched out this character he played in so few words.
Thank you. I liked him.
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I've put up either a still or a production photo, so you can see him for yourself.
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I hope it doesn't disintegrate.
Thank you. I liked him.
You're welcome. And that is a nice shot.
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I saw her last night, but she looks great and thinks you're awesome! (Also, Yenching misses you.)