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I dreamed last night of Alan Turing and Christopher Morcom. (I was helping throw them a party. There was a cake. It was dark chocolate and bright green, from which I conclude one of them had a taste for crème de menthe. Happy Pi Day?)
I woke to an improbable piece of mail that cheered me immensely.
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captainbutler had never seen Singin' in the Rain (1951). I got to watch someone see Donald O'Connor run up (and fall through) a wall for the first time.
greygirlbeast was at Pandemonium Books & Games, reading Chapter One of The Drowning Girl (2012). I don't know if there was really spectacular Indian food afterward, but there was discussion of Rift.
I had aguadito de pollo from Machu Picchu withderspatchel, the chicken-and-cilantro soup which the menu mentions is also known as levanta muerto, raise the dead. It actually kind of does what it says on the tin.
(I wound up explaining Gussie Fink-Nottle toratatosk, but I don't think that was related.)
My poems "The Color of the Ghost" and "A Find at Þingvellir," otherwise known as the Wittgenstein poem and the poem about Mjölnir, have been accepted by Archaeopteryx: The Newman Journal of Ideas.
I gather from all of this that I am not Caesar, but I rather enjoyed the Ides of March.
I woke to an improbable piece of mail that cheered me immensely.
captainbutler had never seen Singin' in the Rain (1951). I got to watch someone see Donald O'Connor run up (and fall through) a wall for the first time.greygirlbeast was at Pandemonium Books & Games, reading Chapter One of The Drowning Girl (2012). I don't know if there was really spectacular Indian food afterward, but there was discussion of Rift.I had aguadito de pollo from Machu Picchu with
derspatchel, the chicken-and-cilantro soup which the menu mentions is also known as levanta muerto, raise the dead. It actually kind of does what it says on the tin.(I wound up explaining Gussie Fink-Nottle to
ratatosk, but I don't think that was related.)My poems "The Color of the Ghost" and "A Find at Þingvellir," otherwise known as the Wittgenstein poem and the poem about Mjölnir, have been accepted by Archaeopteryx: The Newman Journal of Ideas.
I gather from all of this that I am not Caesar, but I rather enjoyed the Ides of March.
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Nine
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Made me happy!
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Congratulations!
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Thank you!
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That sounds like a good dream (and a fine cake).
It cheers me to know you like BSP too. One of my favourite bands. I don't know that song at all, though; is it from the "Man of Arran" soundtrack?
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Thank you! Now I just need to write more!
That sounds like a good dream (and a fine cake).
I took it as a good omen.
One of my favourite bands. I don't know that song at all, though; is it from the "Man of Arran" soundtrack?
Yes, although it's the only track I have from it. It's actually a cover of a song written for The Twilight Zone by Jeff Alexander (whose name I noticed in the credits for Singin' in the Rain; he did the vocal arrangements), from the episode of the same name. It sounds extraordinarily like a folk tune of the 1960's in its original arrangement. I should probably just cave and acquire the rest of the album by legal means.
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I laughed, because I had just seen a recipe (http://eggton.com/2012/03/13/how-to-annoy-the-zoo-and-your-elected-officials-before-breakfast/) for bright-green mint cake. I can't decide whether I think it sounds good.
In the Hagiography of Poets, you might be Our Lady of Perpetual Acceptances. *grin*
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I laughed, because I had just seen a recipe for bright-green mint cake. I can't decide whether I think it sounds good.
I'd probably just make a chocolate pistachio cake from scratch (because I really like pistachio and I've done it before), but it certainly looks entertaining.
In the Hagiography of Poets, you might be Our Lady of Perpetual Acceptances.
Hah! Thank you.
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And if I could bear cilantro, yay soup!
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I'm very happy about it.
And if I could bear cilantro, yay soup!
It also has peas and potato and carrots and rice and . . .
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I must try this sometime. Wow.
The rest sounds wonderful too, but soup that raises the dead...
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Come to Boston; we'll go for dinner!
(Also, yeah. If one of your characters doesn't make a soup like that, I don't know what the world's coming to.)
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(Sounds like a prompt. Actually, sounds like almost enough to get the next snowball rolling for a story I've been trying out.)
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w00t.
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This bodes very poorly for our ever going anywhere on a boat.
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Masefield has me beat there, I'm afraid
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I'm just saying, if you come back from Canada with amnesia . . .
(Icon approval.)
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Oh, fantastic! I don't think I've ever yet introduced someone to this film. I really must try sometime.
My poems "The Color of the Ghost" and "A Find at Þingvellir," otherwise known as the Wittgenstein poem and the poem about Mjölnir, have been accepted by Archaeopteryx: The Newman Journal of Ideas.
Wonderful! Congratulations! And a new journal for me to look into.
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I can't remember the first time I saw Singin' in the Rain, so I think of it as one of the movies that everyone watches in childhood (tries to imitate Donald O'Connor, goes around saying, "Yes, yes, yes! No, no, no!" and "And I ceeen't steen 'im!" until firmly discouraged, doesn't get the joke about Calvin Coolidge for years), but the only number he recognized was "Good Morning." It was actually kind of wonderful. I got to watch discovery.
Wonderful! Congratulations! And a new journal for me to look into.
Thank you! I'll post a link to the website as soon as it's up.
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(I wound up explaining Gussie Fink-Nottle to ratatosk, but I don't think that was related.)
All of that sounds awesome.
My poems "The Color of the Ghost" and "A Find at Þingvellir," otherwise known as the Wittgenstein poem and the poem about Mjölnir, have been accepted by Archaeopteryx: The Newman Journal of Ideas.
As is that.
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It was.
As is that.
Thank you. I am especially glad of the first.
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I woke to an improbable piece of mail that cheered me immensely.
I'm hoping it was a thank you note from Alan Turing and Christopher Morcom, but somehow I doubt that. Any road, I'm glad it cheered you.
Congratulations on the acceptances!
I gather from all of this that I am not Caesar, but I rather enjoyed the Ides of March.
I'm delighted that you enjoyed the Ides.
I'm very happy that you're not Caesar. I'd miss you, and I'd really rather hate to have to spend years of my life fighting Roman senators to avenge you.
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Well, it had to do with the 1930's. Sort of counts.
Congratulations on the acceptances!
Thank you!
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Indeed it does. I reckon that was as close to sending one as Mssrs. Turing and Morcom could get.
Thank you!
You're welcome!
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I like that.
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Also, yay for acceptances. These two sound very interesting. Where's the journal based?
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You have a very good point.
Where's the journal based?
It's edited by Bryan Dietrich, so I am guessing Newman University in Wichita.
Thank you!