That is not it, at all

[sovay]

1. A postcard arrived for me from Venice and Paris, from hylomorphist. It requests that I write the sender a short story based on Max Ernst's La Toilette de la mariée (1940):



We'll see how that goes, then.

2. Successfully dredged from the depths of Google search strings, cucumberseed has posted his brilliant crossover of Star Wars and T.S. Eliot, "The Lovesong of Admiral Piett." I would request this for Strange Horizons if I didn't think the estate of George Lucas would decapitate me.

3. Dora Goss took a photo of the Naked City reading at Porter Square Books on Thursday in which gaudior, rushthatspeaks, and I are all visible in the audience. We have those expressions because a man in the first row has just asked a Teutonically complicated question about semiotics and message that had absolutely nothing to do with any of the stories, much less with cities. It was kind of awesome.

I should write about both Julian Schnabel's Basquiat (1996) and Richard Hughes' In Hazard (1938), but I think Rush and I are going to collapse on the futon and watch something first.

Comments

[cucumberseed.livejournal.com]

If anyone can do that picture in story, it is you.

[sovay]

If anyone can do that picture in story, it is you.

Thank you. I hope your faith is justified.

[greygirlbeast.livejournal.com]

The postcard...wow. Write the story, and if you want, I'll use it in Sirenia.

[sovay]

Write the story, and if you want, I'll use it in Sirenia.

If I can make a real story out of it, I would love that.

I worry that I will not be able to, of course, but I will try.

[gwynnega]

That is an amazing image. I'll be curious what you do with it!

[strange-selkie.livejournal.com]

....Well, you could. It's like the Arnolfini Marriage on succubi.

[sovay]

It's like the Arnolfini Marriage on succubi.

You could write that. It doesn't strike me as quite right, but that's what these kinds of images are for?

[nineweaving.livejournal.com]

A painted sovay!

Nine

[sovay]

A painted sovay!

Well, no. I have rather less plumage.

[asakiyume.livejournal.com]

1. It reminds me of some ceramics that peppergrass linked to on FB. (You need to scroll down to get to the relevant ones...)

2. Awesome poem

3. You guys all have expressions of surprised delight.

[sovay]

It reminds me of some ceramics that peppergrass linked to on FB.

. . . At least one of those hurt my brain. Here, have this video.

You guys all have expressions of surprised delight.

It was the best non sequitur I'd heard in some time.

[asakiyume.livejournal.com]

THAT VIDEO.

I thought of cucumberseed's story birch skin, and in the beginning part, of handful_ofdust's books.

Both the song and the animation--wow.

[helivoy.livejournal.com]

I have found that Ernst work utterly repellent for rather obvious reasons. If you can turn it into a silk purse, that will be quite the achievement.

[mrbelm.livejournal.com]

People did not like that man, Max Ernst.

He was so irrational, Max Ernst.

[sovay]

Garden Airplane-Trap! Garden Airplane-Trap!

[ap-aelfwine.livejournal.com]

We have those expressions because a man in the first row has just asked a Teutonically complicated question about semiotics and message that had absolutely nothing to do with any of the stories, much less with cities. It was kind of awesome.

I like this image. Thank you.

I'm curious to see what you get from the painting.