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

[sovay]

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

[sovay]

Congratulations!

Thank you!

Someone like OSC, who claims to value older traditions of education, ought to reflect on the fact that the grandparents and great-grandparents of many contemporary Americans, products of the culture he idealises, were well able to read the Bible in the Rheims-Douay or King James translations, despite speaking an English not greatly removed from our own. For God's sake, my mother's grandparents knew reams of Shakespeare off by heart; they weren't native English speakers, and neither of them had a college degree.

You know you're awesome, right? I'm not being facetious.

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Thank you!

You're welcome!

You know you're awesome, right? I'm not being facetious.

Thank you. I'm honoured. (Also, I have to confess, blushing slightly.)