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

[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.

had to use this icon

[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.

[cucumberseed.livejournal.com]

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

[coraline]

<3

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

[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.

[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.

2.

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.