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

[sovay]

Most of yesterday was eaten by taxes, but I still managed to salvage a rather nice evening with ratatosk out of it (with occasional sightings of 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.

Comments

[ladymondegreen.livejournal.com]

I believe this link will take you to an MP3 of Double Double.

Why do I think this? Because I just used the YouTube to MP3 converter to create it. Let me know if it has too much time on the front or the back of the MP3 and I can probably edit it here.

ETA: Or I could close my tag and not have it bleed over all the rest of the words. Whoops!

[asakiyume.livejournal.com]

I like those pictures of human Mordecai. I haven't been following the series (due to terminal inability to take on long projects...), but I've enjoyed the art when you or handful_ofdust has linked. But I have a fondness for humans, and as a human, he's quite good looking!

Congrats on the honors for your poems, too!

[strange-selkie.livejournal.com]

Oh, he's going by Mordecai now, then? No wonder.
*wipes spit of astonishment off monitor*

[handful-ofdust.livejournal.com]

"Adorable? What is wrong with you people? WHAT IS HAPPENING?!"

[nineweaving.livejournal.com]

That HPL piece is neurasthenicslly adorable.

Congrats on the poetry.

Nine

[ap-aelfwine.livejournal.com]

Congratulations on the Honourable Mentions!

I do like what she's done with human-style Mordecai. Thanks for sharing.

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

This takes charming into new, non-Euclidean realms of utter... something. Thanks for sharing!

[teenybuffalo.livejournal.com]

The thing about the HPL piece is that... well, I wanted to like it, because there's not enough Lovecraftian humor. But it falls flat for me because it tries to use HPL as a character. Lovecraft the individual was a witty letter-writer, and, unlike in his stories, he used lots of humor and self-reflexive irony. (I wish there were some decent examples available online--if there were, I would put a pushy link here.)

They're confusing him with his characters. It's as though they used Tolkien as a character and had him speak in pseudo-Biblical backward Silmarillion syntax and say "Behold!" a lot and begin all his sentences with "And". Or had Conan Doyle say "Elementary" and shoot up cocaine.

/HPL fangirl ahoy

/hisletterswerehisbestworkofliterature

/okayI'llstopnow

(I do like the last exchange, though, I'll admit.)

[awhyzip.livejournal.com]

Ok, thanks to you I have now read the full archives of Lackadaisy Cats (http://www.lackadaisycats.com/). It's gorgeous... and intriguing.