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sovay ([personal profile] sovay) wrote2012-04-18 12:31 pm

And in the morning I'll be waiting for your neverending wave

Most of yesterday was eaten by taxes, but I still managed to salvage a rather nice evening with [livejournal.com profile] ratatosk out of it (with occasional sightings of [livejournal.com profile] derspatchel) once we got out of J.P. Licks and the twee-pop banshee music. Seriously, I have no idea. I couldn't even identify a genre outside of Unless That's Supposed to Be ASDIC . . . I did sleep seven hours, though. Have some links.

1. Ellen Datlow has posted her list of Honorable Mentions for Best Horror of the Year, Volume 4. My poems "Incubation" (Not One of Us #45) and "Persephone in Hel" (Stone Telling #3) are among them. Also a lot of other awesome things.

2. Mammal Club, "Double Double." It's a Christopher Morcom song. From 2010. I knew there had to be one somewhere.

My memory's infected
Each warm swirl of affection
I can now calculate
From the heat of your gaze
And the blue of your eyes
To the cool of your palm
And the pain in my heart

Oh, Christopher
Un-die and silence my whirring mind
Because the chaos you caused
Is what I'm trying to explain


I can't find a recording of it anywhere that isn't the video, but I'd buy one in a heartbeat if I could.

3. She's right that he came out a little cartoonier than some of her previous sketches, but I am still quite pleased that Tracy J. Butler finally drew a page of human-style Mordecai. At the desk with his glasses off, he really does look like someone I knew in college. I love him as a schoolboy, shadowed by cat-shape. And when he's demanding the universe be reasonable—is a little symmetry too much to ask?—oh, he'd hate to know it, but he's adorable.

4. Tickets are now available for the Post-Meridian Radio Players' Spring Sci-Fi Spectacular. That's an an episode of Rob Noyes' Red Shift: Interplanetary Do-Gooder ("Havoc Over Holowood!") and the radio adaptation of The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951) originally put on by Lux Radio Theater in 1954. I just haven't figured out which night (or afternoon) I'm going.

5. I am, in fact, charmed by this: H.P. Lovecraft, agony aunt. "Meet me by the cenotaph at midnight, and bring a banjo."

Going by Adam Gopnik, I am totally behind the times on nostalgia. See, er, this post.

[identity profile] ladymondegreen.livejournal.com 2012-04-19 02:18 pm (UTC)(link)
Having an active corpse seems to be an occasional odd side effect of having lived an active or contentious life. See particularly Santa Evita by Tomas Eloy Martinez, about the adventures of the very well embalmed Eva Peron and her three wax doubles, for nearly forty years after her death.

It's no wonder that Shakespeare put a curse on anyone who moved his bones. I think he might have had an inkling of the kind of mischief that could have been done. After all, he hung out with people who moved entire theaters overnight.