And just between you, me, and the sponsors, lady, I wouldn't pour any of it over the side

[sovay]

Traditionally 1954 is the year I associate with things like Alan Swann and The King Kaiser Comedy Cavalcade as far as live, on-air entertainment is concerned, but I'll make an exception now for The Frank Cyrano Byfar Hour and its associated programming, by which you may understand that I really enjoyed The Big Broadcast of 1954. So did my parents, who I didn't even have to drag. I am so used to the show existing within its own convincing timestream, I didn't realize the rolling coast-to-coast Legend of Sleepy Hollow was real until I got home—look: Ada, Oklahoma?—but I quite liked their essentially faithful adaptation, narrated with the correct grim relish by Tom Champion; I heard three songs by Jaggery before I left, so I bought their latest CD. (Their keyboardist and lead singer is the sister of someone my brother went to high school with. Especially since the band didn't even form in Boston: was not expecting that.) It is not actually the fault of the Post-Meridian Radio Players that I now have Allan Sherman's "Rat Fink" stuck in my head.

Oh, yeah, and it's snowing.

Comments

[ap-aelfwine.livejournal.com]

Delighted you had a good time!

I hope all goes well with the snow. We only had sleet down here.

[sovay]

I hope all goes well with the snow. We only had sleet down here.

Well, to be honest, I think at this precise moment it's turned to rain.

[ap-aelfwine.livejournal.com]

Well, to be honest, I think at this precise moment it's turned to rain.

There's always something unappealling about that sort of rain, at least to me. Any road, I'm glad you're safely home.

[sovay]

Any road, I'm glad you're safely home.

There is snow on the ground this morning. It stuck.

[ap-aelfwine.livejournal.com]

There is snow on the ground this morning. It stuck.

I hope it's not been annoying snow, at least. We're predicted to have some tomorrow--there's talk of a full noreaster, with power going out and suchlike unpleasantness.

I'm hoping not, but I made sure the generator and snowblower were working and both gasoline cans were full, just in case.

[margavriel.livejournal.com]

Snowing in October? Is that common in Boston?

[schreibergasse.livejournal.com]

Not generally, I believe. Even further north/inland, while you frequently get a brief flurry or so in October, it's rare for it actually stick to the ground, let alone last the night.

[sovay]

Snowing in October? Is that common in Boston?

It's not oh-God-the-apocalypse uncommon, but it's not usual. The bit where you wake up and it's still here is definitely strange.

[strange-selkie.livejournal.com]

I am paying for my sins against Kit Marlowe with a fairly vengeant stomach virus, I want you to know. Oooooh urgh.

[schreibergasse.livejournal.com]

ouch...

[sovay]

Oooooh urgh.

That's what happens when you drink and smoke like the sixteenth century . . .

*hugs with extreme caution*

[ap-aelfwine.livejournal.com]

I'm sorry to hear. I would have hoped Kit Marlowe would have a better sense of humour about these things.

[strange-selkie.livejournal.com]

Well, it was lesbian Kit Marlowe, to be fair.

[sovay]

Well, it was lesbian Kit Marlowe, to be fair.

Especially lesbian Kit Marlowe!

[strange-selkie.livejournal.com]

Maybe she's hacked off that I haven't quoted Marlowe yet, or that all the action of the short story/first chapter will be taking place in one room.

[ap-aelfwine.livejournal.com]

I think I agree with sovay.

Any road, I hope you're feeling better soonest. And I'd not mind reading about lesbian Kit Marlowe, so I'm off to have a look and see if it's unlocked.

[strange-selkie.livejournal.com]

Oh, it is! Tell all your friends! Nothing counteracts gastroenteritis like feedback. *beams* I don't know if it feels like being a self-contained short story (there would be more than is presently there) or a bit of a novel...

[sovay]

I don't know if it feels like being a self-contained short story (there would be more than is presently there) or a bit of a novel...

Either way, there should be more.

[strange-selkie.livejournal.com]

Yes, yes, you're one thing, but I wrote it on a lark and you know how it blah, blah, blahcakes. I'm going to go roll up in a deathball now.

[sen-no-ongaku.livejournal.com]

I'm glad you enjoyed the show! Jaggery has a great sound, and they were lots of fun to write for.

(Though this situation never got any better.)

See you soon?

[sovay]

(Though this situation never got any better.)

(Blah. I'm sorry.)

See you soon?

I'd like that!

[schreibergasse.livejournal.com]

There too!?!

[sovay]

There too!?!

The leaves of the bushes outside my window are all stuck with frozen snow; it's lying in faintly fallen-in stripes on the yard. The combination with the still mid-autumn light makes it look like a painting from the Little Ice Age. I got nothing.