Merdre, merdre

[sovay]

1. My essay "It's Not, Quite Frankly, a Wholesome Situation"—in which I boggle happily at one of my favorite movies, The 5,000 Fingers of Dr. T (1953)—has been accepted by Weird Fiction Review. There is a distressing chance this will be my first nonfiction publication. I've presented papers, but they never saw print. This journal doesn't count.

2. My poem "Reiselied" has been accepted by Not One of Us. I wrote it for asakiyume in September: she once saw a guy selling poetry by the train station.

3. Michael Moorcock on Alastair Brotchie on Alfred Jarry. I may try to get hold of a copy; I know nothing of Jarry himself. I am endeared by this sentence: "In 1896, after publishing several books in small, independent editions, Jarry was at last able to get Ubu staged by Aurélien Lugné-Poë at the Théâtre de l'Oeuvre, originally created to promote symbolist works (except nobody was altogether sure what these were)."

4. I can't figure out how to comment on DeviantArt without opening an otherwise pointless account—OpenID appears to be unknown to them—but some person I don't know draws a really quite good Waldo Butters. Apparently this is the year I start behaving like a fan.

5. I got it from rushthatspeaks.

A hundred and eight messages suddenly dumped into my inbox this morning, which I am hoping means that I've finally caught up on the missing e-mail from the last five days. If you have written to me in some fashion that reasonably expects a response and still haven't heard from me by the end of the day, ping me again. I still have no idea what's been going on, but with any luck (hah) it's sorting itself out.

Comments

[rose-lemberg.livejournal.com]

Congrats on "Reiselied"! :) So happy it found a good home.

[steepholm.livejournal.com]

There is a distressing chance this will be my first nonfiction publication.

And so it begins...

Congratulations on your new career!

[asakiyume.livejournal.com]

4. Why not go to his blogspot page and leave him a comment there, referencing the pic in question (which is excellent, I agree--or as excellent as I can say it is without knowing the character)

http://captain-brushpen.blogspot.com/

Also, no. 2: yay!!

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So happy it found a good home.

Thank you! Me, too.

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Congratulations on your new career!

Dude, if I could make a career out of blithering about art I like, I'd take it!

[ladymondegreen.livejournal.com]

Regarding The 5,000 Fingers of Dr. T:

akawil and I once managed to watch 5,000 Fingers back to back with Changeling and realized they had almost the same plot and structure. This broke our brains.

Sharing is good, right?

*ducks*

[strange-selkie.livejournal.com]

THE BALL.

Sorry, I read that fic at work and had to go and get keyboard wipes.

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Why not go to his blogspot page and leave him a comment there, referencing the pic in question (which is excellent, I agree--or as excellent as I can say it is without knowing the character)

I just did! It occurred to me immediately after I put up this post . . .

(edit: Her, it looks like.)

I found this sketch also, which isn't bad—it's a self-admitted late-night doodle, but it has the right blend of apprehensive mad science. But the others look like people I went to school with.

Also, no. 2: yay!!

Thank you! It is partly your fault.

[asakiyume.livejournal.com]

That is an excellent sketch--so much personality!

[rose-lemberg.livejournal.com]

Please! People should constantly pay you for blithering about art.

[margavriel.livejournal.com]

You know I impersonated Abelard for several months in 2008-9?

[snowy-owlet.livejournal.com]

1,2: Rock on, lady!

3: OH! I directed scenes from Ubu Roi for school, and my "interesting design" was filled with every 19-year-old-kid-studying-drama cliche you can imagine but we all had so much fun. So much fun that 23 years later it still makes me smile to think of it. Probably the best rehearsal of them all was the one in which we all sat around and tried to think of the most egregious pronunciations possible for each word in the Pater Noster.

[ap-aelfwine.livejournal.com]

Congratulations on the acceptances! I'm particularly delighted to see one of your reviews getting a wider audience, and I'm hoping this will be the first of many.

There is a distressing chance this will be my first nonfiction publication.

It's funny, actually--nonfiction is about the only thing I ever have published.

3.

Interesting piece. Thanks for sharing. I remember reading a review of a staging of Ubu Roi at some point in high school; it stayed in my mind chiefly because a friend liked a band called something like Père Ubu.

4.

Nice work there. Thanks for sharing it. The lack of OpenID or the like is a frustrating aspect of DA. I have an account there, although I hardly use it; commenting is probably the main reason why I keep it.

5.

Best RPF ever!

I wish I'd thought about the fact you might like that fic, cos another friend linked me to it nearly a week ago. Glad rushthatspeaks found it and passed it on to you.

I hope your mail problems are indeed sorted.

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You know I impersonated Abelard for several months in 2008-9?

No . . . In what capacity?

[rushthatspeaks.livejournal.com]

I really need to read some Jarry. I mostly know of him because of the punk band, which is probably wrongheaded of me.

[gwynnega]

Congratulations on the acceptances. I hope this will start a trend of nonfiction publications by you!

[gwynnega]

I totally agree!

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Sharing is good, right?

Thank you. Thank you very much.

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Sorry, I read that fic at work and had to go and get keyboard wipes.

I'm sorry. I may have failed to provide adequate warnings, although rushthatspeaks did include all those caplocks.

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1,2: Rock on, lady!

Thank you!

Probably the best rehearsal of them all was the one in which we all sat around and tried to think of the most egregious pronunciations possible for each word in the Pater Noster.

That's pretty awesome. I'd have gone to see that production.

[sovay]

Congratulations on the acceptances! I'm particularly delighted to see one of your reviews getting a wider audience, and I'm hoping this will be the first of many.

Thank you! I'd enjoy it.

I remember reading a review of a staging of Ubu Roi at some point in high school; it stayed in my mind chiefly because a friend liked a band called something like Père Ubu.

That would be this band. They're great.

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That is an excellent sketch--so much personality!

He's a very personable character!

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I mostly know of him because of the punk band, which is probably wrongheaded of me.

I read a translation of Ubu Roi in college, but since it didn't cause the top of my head to blow off, either it wasn't a very faithful version or the original play is one of those things that need to be seen to have an effect. I remember Michael Swanwick describing a production at Boskone a few years ago, but I don't remember if he was just in the audience or involved.

I also love the band. These things happen.

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I hope this will start a trend of nonfiction publications by you!

Thank you! It would be fun.

[margavriel.livejournal.com]

Let's see: I had an imaginary girlfriend named Heloïse, for whom I created a Gmail account, and I would use her account to talk with friends about hanging out in the nunnery. And when I wasn't using her account, but my regular account, I would talk to people about my life as an instructor in 12th-century Paris, and about Heloïse, and Fulbert, and the like, as if these were actually going on in my life.

[margavriel.livejournal.com]

I miss Heloïse, actually. Maybe it's time to re-start that game.

[ashlyme.livejournal.com]

Hey, well done! Kudos to you.

I have finished A Mayse-Bikhl at last. Superb. I may ping you with a PM about it. Postscripts from the Red Sea may count as one of The Sexiest Poems Ever (I hope that comes across as a compliment).

Thank you for this book; and also for encouraging words (much appreciated this morning).

- Ash

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Hey, well done! Kudos to you.

Thank you. I am counting it as tentative support that this upcoming year might not suck.

Postscripts from the Red Sea may count as one of The Sexiest Poems Ever (I hope that comes across as a compliment).

No, I'm honored! I do take that as a compliment. Thank you.

If you wish to post further, I'd love to hear what you think.

Thank you for this book; and also for encouraging words (much appreciated this morning).

You're very welcome. I hope to be able to reciprocate with some of your work.

[sovay]

People should constantly pay you for blithering about art.

If you have any suggestions . . .

[nineweaving.livejournal.com]

1. Bliss! I've so been wanting to see your criticism in print--and your Dr. T rave is brilliant.

2. Yay!

5. The which? I think Heloise lives in my building.

Nine

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Bliss! I've so been wanting to see your criticism in print--and your Dr. T rave is brilliant.

Thank you! I'd love to turn it into a regular gig, although I don't know what the chances are. Are most of my favorite movies actually that weird?

Yay!

Makes me happy!

The which? I think Heloise lives in my building.

Just so long as you don't come home to Abelard and Bernard.