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So she rose and she dressed and she pushed back the night
1. I woke up to an explosion of my name on Facebook notifications, which in this rare case heralded a pleasant surprise, because I had nearly forgotten until I saw ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
asakiyume's announcement that a delightfully macabre bit of messing around on cucumberseed's livejournal two Octobers ago had turned into Cinderella Jump Rope Rhymes, edited by Francesca Forrest and illustrated by Adam Oehlers. Contributors include Erik Amundsen, Samantha Henderson, Rose Lemberg, Julia Rios, and other fine writers; I can't wait to see if there are any rhymes I missed. Proceeds go half to charity and the rest to the support of Cabinet des Fées.
Apparently I'm on a streak of good things to wake up to. I would say that I should forget about pieces I've had accepted more often, but I'm sure that way lies some terrible crack-up of paperwork.
2. George Dyson will be at the Brattle Theatre next Tuesday to discuss his new book, Turing's Cathedral. I was already interested for the obvious reasons (and the fact that Dyson was a friend of my father's when I was in high school; some of it was just the windbreakers and living in the Pacific Northwest, but I associated him almost irresistibly with Stephen Falken), but this review is a strong encouragement. Anyone else going to be there?
3. I didn't see this card from 2D Goggles in time for Valentine's Day, but I approve of it nonetheless. Also, that is one sexy Brunel.
4. Courtesy of Dean Grodzins: the Round House in Somerville. How is it I've never walked by this place? Has it in fact been restored?
5. I am meetinglesser_celery for lunch at The Salty Pig. I should leave before the buses of Satan get any ideas.
Seriously, it's like someone flipped a switch in my brain. I am walking around feeling like Alastair Sim at the end of Scrooge (1951): "I don't deserve to be so happy! I can't help it!" I'm used to the toggle going the other way.
asakiyume's announcement that a delightfully macabre bit of messing around on cucumberseed's livejournal two Octobers ago had turned into Cinderella Jump Rope Rhymes, edited by Francesca Forrest and illustrated by Adam Oehlers. Contributors include Erik Amundsen, Samantha Henderson, Rose Lemberg, Julia Rios, and other fine writers; I can't wait to see if there are any rhymes I missed. Proceeds go half to charity and the rest to the support of Cabinet des Fées.Apparently I'm on a streak of good things to wake up to. I would say that I should forget about pieces I've had accepted more often, but I'm sure that way lies some terrible crack-up of paperwork.
2. George Dyson will be at the Brattle Theatre next Tuesday to discuss his new book, Turing's Cathedral. I was already interested for the obvious reasons (and the fact that Dyson was a friend of my father's when I was in high school; some of it was just the windbreakers and living in the Pacific Northwest, but I associated him almost irresistibly with Stephen Falken), but this review is a strong encouragement. Anyone else going to be there?
3. I didn't see this card from 2D Goggles in time for Valentine's Day, but I approve of it nonetheless. Also, that is one sexy Brunel.
4. Courtesy of Dean Grodzins: the Round House in Somerville. How is it I've never walked by this place? Has it in fact been restored?
5. I am meeting
lesser_celery for lunch at The Salty Pig. I should leave before the buses of Satan get any ideas.Seriously, it's like someone flipped a switch in my brain. I am walking around feeling like Alastair Sim at the end of Scrooge (1951): "I don't deserve to be so happy! I can't help it!" I'm used to the toggle going the other way.
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Also, kudos on the forgotten sale!
Also also, two different people, one from a news org, are interviewing us this week (one is from the U.S. Census.) If there are newspaper pictures of your godchild, I will of course send. I am just baffled because this has become the Bright Sunny Day of Being Queer. (As opposed to the more usual Bright Sunny Day of Wondering Whether My Boss is Non Compos Mentis.)
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You have now successfully earwormed me with your header twice in one day. Hooray for Dave Carter. Do you know that Tracy found the master tapes for a new Dave Carter album in her basement? It just came out at the beginning of the month.
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The Lovelace valentine is adorable! I like the Brunel one as well.
The Round House is wonderful. I hope it's being preserved. I've always had a fondness for octagon houses, and a round one is even more interesting.
I hope you've enjoyed your lunch and that the busses have been unaccustomedly un-Satanic.
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Next time you're in Boston, we'll eat treyf like you wouldn't believe.
Also, kudos on the forgotten sale!
Thank you! I have two rhymes in the book, I think.
Also also, two different people, one from a news org, are interviewing us this week (one is from the U.S. Census.) If there are newspaper pictures of your godchild, I will of course send.
Dude. What are they interviewing you about?
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Thank you! I won't complain if it continues.
And that book looks great...
If you get hold of a copy before I do, report!
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If you can find a copy, I can recommend Dyson's Project Orion: The True Story of the Atomic Spaceship (2002) without reservations.
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Thanks!
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I really feel I must make a pilgrimage to the Round House on Atherton Street. Casual perusal of maps online indicates I can walk with no difficulty from Porter Square.
You have now successfully earwormed me with your header twice in one day. Hooray for Dave Carter.
Hah. Thank you. "Lancelot" is one of my favorite songs of theirs.
Do you know that Tracy found the master tapes for a new Dave Carter album in her basement? It just came out at the beginning of the month.
Dude! I had no idea. Have you heard it yet?
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I don't think they exist in print form, but I'd buy them if they did.
I hope you've enjoyed your lunch and that the busses have been unaccustomedly un-Satanic.
The buses were well-behaved, so the subway acted up. These things happen.
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Yeah, well, Amazon has your name on the thing and you've been sending all the e-mails. I'm blaming you.
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We're interview-ready. (the census= we're a long-married couple with a baby and a collective four boobies. They're so fascinated by that. It's like we're a zoo exhibit.)
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. . . How many breasts do lesbian couples usually have?
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I don't even celebrate St. Valentine's Day, but if they existed in print form I would buy them as well.
The buses were well-behaved, so the subway acted up. These things happen.
So they do.
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Nine
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Thank you! Credit the people who put the book together!
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That's a damned fine cover.
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It's the gay part! They're surveying to see if they should allow same-gender married couples to add themselves to the household count on the census in an actually accurate fashion.
Also, how did you do the embeddy link code thing for the image for Cinderella Jump Rope Rhymes ? I want to link to it.
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I have! It was streaming live, I think on the Folk Alley site a few weeks before it came out, and it featured some of the tracks I got from a friend's bootleg almost ten years ago, so that was very exciting. That reminds me, do you know about American Noel?
Hah. Thank you. "Lancelot" is one of my favorite songs of theirs.
I am awfully fond of it too.
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Thank you. I'm doing what I can!
That's a damned fine cover.
Arthur Rackham would like it.
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I thought maybe I was missing something!
Also, how did you do the embeddy link code thing for the image for Cinderella Jump Rope Rhymes ? I want to link to it.
I'll have to e-mail you; I can't apparently embed it without activating it. I got the code from