We learned about feelings in our mortal history class

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And tonight I brought derspatchel to Viking Zen's for Movie Night and they showed me Xanadu (1980). Fortunately there were caipirinhas, although I still have this memory of catatonically hugging the bottle of cachaça during the Don Bluth-designed sequence nobody warned me about. But there was also Gene Kelly, who was a lovely, lovely man even on rollerskates and dripping with cowboy fringe: I watched his dance-duet with the memory of his muse and I was just smiling. It might have been his last screen role, but I don't think he was capable of being without grace. And the big-band prog-rock fusion number was genuinely quite good. There are tentative plans next week to watch Big Night (1996), but only if (Alison's) Rob makes his family lasagna.

And then I came home and found the mail had brought me contributor's copies of Rose Lemberg's Here, We Cross: A Collection of Queer & Genderfluid Poetry from Stone Telling 1–7, in which my poems "Persephone in Hel" and "The Clock House" are reprinted. The table of contents includes some of my favorite poets working in the field. I am very pleased to be in their company.

And this is the world's greatest commercial.

I am going to bed before I write anything about muses.

Comments

[domparisien.livejournal.com]

I don't think I've ever craved prunes. Now though? Not really, no, even with Bradbury. Ugh, prunes... Still, that's an awesome commercial.

And I can't wait to receive my copy of Here, We Cross.

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Still, that's an awesome commercial.

I don't usually say that about advertising!

And I can't wait to receive my copy of Here, We Cross.

I'm glad you're in it. I think the first thing I ever said about "In His Eighty-Second Year" was, "That's fantastic."

[domparisien.livejournal.com]

I agree about advertising.

And I'm very glad to be in the book along with so many great poets. I looked it up, you actually used "astonishing" which had me bouncing around (and you were the first to comment on the poem, so obviously I was damn happy).

By the way, I think "The Clock House" is actually my favourite piece from you.

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I looked it up, you actually used "astonishing" which had me bouncing around (and you were the first to comment on the poem, so obviously I was damn happy).

"Fantastic" was in e-mail to rose_lemberg.

By the way, I think "The Clock House" is actually my favourite piece from you.

Thank you.