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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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.

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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.