Laugh and toll so merrily to see the waves go by

[sovay]

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.)

Comments

[strange-selkie.livejournal.com]

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

[sovay]

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.