Laugh and toll so merrily to see the waves go by

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1. Of course it finally snows on Leap Day. It's sticking, too.

2. strange_selkie has invented a Wittgenstein drink. It's a very pleasant pineapple.

3. She has also been sending me Horrible Histories. There is nothing to do about this song by Dick Turpin but applaud.

4. I don't think I ever linked to the Pulp Magazines Project, which I discovered last week. They just put up their first installment of Amazing Stories. (Look! There's Street & Smith!)

5. I know the only Ibsen I've ever really liked is the 1973 film of A Doll's House with Anna Massey and Denholm Elliott stealing all their scenes as the secondary couple, but if you call a play The Lady from the Sea and describe it "rather like a mix of Hans Christian Andersen's The Little Mermaid and Wagner's The Flying Dutchman," look, I'm going to be interested. (See also the painting by Edvard Munch.) Of course, borderline insanity and amphibious depths have nothing to say to me.

(Did I mention next week's release party for Caitlín R. Kiernan's The Drowning Girl: A Memoir? You see.)

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[desperance.livejournal.com]

Heh. The genius behind the Horrible History books is my old mate Terry Deary; it's been fun watching him rise to eminence. Terry and David Almond: between them they kind of straddle the world of children's publishing.

[asakiyume.livejournal.com]

Your friend wrote the Horrible Histories?!

LJ is just full of cool people. Wait till I tell my husband.

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The genius behind the Horrible History books is my old mate Terry Deary; it's been fun watching him rise to eminence.

I'm sure he doesn't need the reinforcement, but tell him from me he's brilliant.

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[asakiyume.livejournal.com]

Dick Turpin's song was awesome for bringing us back to reality :-)

My kids have bunches of those Horrible Histories! We got them in England.

And that painting is gorgeous.

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[strange-selkie.livejournal.com]

I can't watch Dick Turpin and his glam video without thinking of you!

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[asakiyume.livejournal.com]

:D

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My kids have bunches of those Horrible Histories! We got them in England.

Lucky. I'm just sort of pirating them off the internet.

And that painting is gorgeous.

I'd have it in my house.

[cucumberseed.livejournal.com]

I would like to make chicory infused simple syrup. That sounds like a fun project.

[strange-selkie.livejournal.com]

I've done it with chicory coffee, no worries; the plain chicory root I'm not sure about the color.

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I've done it with chicory coffee, no worries; the plain chicory root I'm not sure about the color.

rushthatspeaks is interested; I think so is derspatchel. How do you make simple syrup with chicory? I've only done it with things like star fruit.

[strange-selkie.livejournal.com]

You do a single infusion of chicory (I suppose you could do a double if you want to lose feeling in your tongue) and use that as the water for the simple syrup.

[coraline]

<3

also, "this way lies basingstoke" (which i failed to comment on the first time) also made me laugh.

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also, "this way lies basingstoke" (which i failed to comment on the first time) also made me laugh.

Thank you!

[ethelmay.livejournal.com]

In more weird Wittgenstein news: I Googled Wittgenstein and the name of my old philosophy teacher, and Google dropped in my lap an account of a softball game on which they* were on opposing teams. Wittgenstein, alas, struck out. Other team members included Bronte (which one? oh, which one?) and Toulouse.

*okay, okay, actually people with the same surnames.

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okay, okay, actually people with the same surnames.

Seriously? That's some softball team.

Wittgenstein, alas, struck out.

There is no joy in Cambridge!

[ap-aelfwine.livejournal.com]

1. Of course it finally snows on Leap Day. It's sticking, too.

It's done that here as well. I'm fairly unhappy with it; my favourite once-a-month house session was tonight, and there was sufficient talk about the roads being all over ice that I didn't feel I could safely drive out.

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I'm not much for cocktails, but that does look appealing. I take it chicory syrup is safe for you? That's good.

There is nothing to do about this song by Dick Turpin but applaud.

*applauds*
Thanks for sharing!

4. I don't think I ever linked to the Pulp Magazines Project, which I discovered last week.

I'm glad of this project. Thanks.

(See also the painting by Edvard Munch.)

I'd not seen that painting before. It's lovely. Thank you.

(Did I mention next week's release party for Caitlín R. Kiernan's The Drowning Girl: A Memoir? You see.)

Excellent. I hope you'll be able to be there.

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I'm fairly unhappy with it; my favourite once-a-month house session was tonight, and there was sufficient talk about the roads being all over ice that I didn't feel I could safely drive out.

I'm sorry. I enjoyed the snow, before it turned to freezing slush and rain and I had to walk to the bus in it.

I'm not much for cocktails, but that does look appealing. I take it chicory syrup is safe for you? That's good.

It's a common coffee substitute without caffeine. It may taste like it could kill me, but it can't.

Excellent. I hope you'll be able to be there.

Oh, yeah. If I have to go down on the train by myself, I'll be there. I am just also hoping to inveigle people who have cars.

[ap-aelfwine.livejournal.com]

I'm sorry. I enjoyed the snow, before it turned to freezing slush and rain and I had to walk to the bus in it.

Thank you. I'm glad that you enjoyed the snow, although I'm sorry for your having to walk through the slushy rain/rainy slush.

It's a common coffee substitute without caffeine. It may taste like it could kill me, but it can't.

I'm glad of that. I'm very aware of chicory as a coffee substitute/stretcher, but somehow it hadn't hit me that it was caffeine-free. I suppose because my earliest experience of it was as the secondary ingredient of Orleanian-style coffee, which is generally brutal,* even with the evaporated milk.**

I am just also hoping to inveigle people who have cars.

Good luck and happy inveigling!

*Having a level of viciousness somewhere slightly below Scandinavian-style coffee. To be fair, the brutality of café Louisianais isn't specifically caffeine-based, being more a matter of bitterness and acidity, IIRC.
**It's not quite the dairy equivalent of lutefisk, but still, I must say that the Vietnamese were very wise when they adopted sweetened condensed milk instead.