No, not those, those are my time-travel trousers

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1. My poem "Taking the Auspices" is now online at inkscrawl. The rest of the issue is impressive, too—selkies, Catullus, cities in translation.

2. I still don't know that I'm going to see Tomas Alfredson's Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy (2011), but I will take any excuse to read an interview with John Hurt, especially when he talks about weedkilling and Facebook: "I think people should be protected from being made to feel that they want to know what somebody famous had for breakfast."

3. Counteract Orson Scott Card; help rachelmanija list queer main characters in genre YA. Also, write Hamlet slash.

4. Courtesy of someone I met, appropriately, on Sunday at Tea: chap-hop.

5. lesser_celery and I are starting Millennium (1996–99) tonight.

Comments

[handful-ofdust.livejournal.com]

I absolutely love that poem. It's everything I like wrapped up in a decaying heart-shaped package.

And yay for Milennium! Fair warning: As with every serialized narrative, it take a few ep.s to find its feet, but I think you'll nevertheless be able to enjoy aspects of it right from the get-go. I often think it plays a lot better removed from its fin-de-siecle context; what seemed like haphazard commentary on current events takes on a certain historical flavour, allowing us to be vaguely nostalgic rather than been-there-seen-that about certain now-classic tropes. But one way or the other, Frank Black's a fine, mournful protagonist trapped in a world of horrifying symbolism--your kind of guy.;))

[handful-ofdust.livejournal.com]

Oh yeah: Season One also has an Internet-based episode in which technology has since advanced so far as to make the original premise seem ridiculously primitive. But that's one of the ways in which the series hearkens back to stuff like Twin Peaks--it's hovering on the edge of today's interstitial weirdness without having quite gotten there under its own steam. And any serial killer show episode that repeatedly quotes Gilbert and Sullivan is fine with me.

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And any serial killer show episode that repeatedly quotes Gilbert and Sullivan is fine with me.

So far we've had Yeats and Auden; I'll take it.

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I absolutely love that poem. It's everything I like wrapped up in a decaying heart-shaped package.

Thank you!

I don't know why my brain suddenly came out of remission in August, but I'd like it to stick around for September, please. (I realize this metaphor sounds as though I'll die of it. Right now, I'll take that chance.)

I often think it plays a lot better removed from its fin-de-siecle context; what seemed like haphazard commentary on current events takes on a certain historical flavour, allowing us to be vaguely nostalgic rather than been-there-seen-that about certain now-classic tropes.

I love when art becomes accidentally documentary, especially when it was aiming for a different kind of topicality entirely.

Frank Black's a fine, mournful protagonist trapped in a world of horrifying symbolism--your kind of guy.

At least I have good taste when I'm obvious!

[straussmonster.livejournal.com]

I never watched the show consistently, but the Scientology parody episode is worth the price of admission all by itself. Man, I can't believe they got that made.

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but the Scientology parody episode is worth the price of admission all by itself. Man, I can't believe they got that made.

Dude. I look forward.