sovay | Just trying not to be washed overboard

I'm still not entirely sure I'm over Readercon. My head has been full of fragments for days. I am not writing anything substantive; it makes me feel fidgety and pointless. I met

rushthatspeaks this afternoon at the Diesel; they showed me the cheeriest and most cracktastic path through Hatoful Boyfriend, which if I tell you is a pigeon dating game will not really explain anything. It was amazing. I'm still not sleeping. I don't expect any longer to become so tired, I simply fall over into a restorative sleep for hours, but it would be nice.

1. Courtesy of

derspatchel: Don't Walk on Fish. "Hey, scatterbrain, don't cripple your friends!" is an endlessly applicable suggestion.

2. The Library of America is reprinting nine classic science fiction novels of the 1950's. I grew up with seven of these in the house, I think—mostly in the original editions. One of them I didn't read and Rush informs me I really need to. There are some terrific essays in here. Will someone just dramatize Leiber's The Big Time (1957) already?

3. Tom Lehrer on The Frost Report (1966) explains the decimal system.

4. The Guardian profiles M. John Harrison. I haven't seen a copy of Empty Space (2012), but it should be on shelves by now. I still need to read Nova Swing (2006).

5. I will dig through the boxes of my books in the garage and re-read Margaret Mahy's The Tricksters (1986). I wish I had known Sally Ride had a partner of twenty-seven years before she was a widow.

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I thought we had talked about this. You honestly are my literary executrix. It's in the wills. There wasn't a place to put "Make sure my child gets a year of Latin and some decent weirdness," even in the codicils part, but it's all been sorted. As the discussion around Ms. Ride proves, when you are queer, you must have your papers in extremely good order.

I vote that we get TW and TR into the Littlest Celebrity Deathmatch and sneak you away while they cancel each other out. Failing that, I got bullets enough for both the buggers. (Selkie, poison the salad as Plan C.)

You honestly are my literary executrix. It's in the wills.

I don't think I knew it was legal. It had better not be relevant any time soon, but I'll do my best.

Damn, sorry to hear you're not yet recovered. Here's to you being unknackered soon.

I think my favourite poster is "Look out for buffers", but the designers really seem to have had it in for bricklayers.

Sadly, I'd not even heard of Mahy before her death. Both The Tricksters and Haunting sound very good. I felt like banging my head against a wall reading about the treatment of Ride's partner.

TW has a great weakness for the Fanny Craddock salad oeuvre. You can get a lot of strychnine into your average sliver of candied angelica.

*Do I need to read Nova Swing in order to understand it?*

Hum. I'd say read that first, as supporting characters from Nova Swing are very important in Empty Space. I don't hate NS by any means, but I just felt ... whelmed, after Light. A lot of people compare NS to Roadside Picnic, which I've not read.

Here's to you being unknackered soon.

Thanks. I have theater planned this weekend—the Post-Meridian Radio Players' Summer Radio Mystery Theatre and Apollinaire in the Park's Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead—and

rushthatspeaks and I are trying for Beasts of the Southern Wild (2012) on Thursday, which may or may not help me sleep, but should be good for my brain anyway.

I think my favourite poster is "Look out for buffers", but the designers really seem to have had it in for bricklayers.

I am also impressed by the guy with his head caught between two boxcars. What was he even doing?

Sadly, I'd not even heard of Mahy before her death.

Looking over her Wikipedia page, I realized just how few of her books I'd read—she was incredibly prolific. A visit to the library is definitely in order.

I felt like banging my head against a wall reading about the treatment of Ride's partner.

I didn't know until

steepholm told me. So much for the families of heroes.

I believe you and he are talking about the same picture, assuming my Russian has not gone to pot....

I'd say read that first, as supporting characters from Nova Swing are very important in Empty Space.

Check. I thought they might be.

A lot of people compare NS to Roadside Picnic, which I've not read.

Me neither. It's the basis for Tarkovsky's Stalker (1979), which I have been told to see. I should just find both.

I believe you and he are talking about the same picture, assuming my Russian has not gone to pot....

We are talking about the same picture. I just thought "I also am impressed . . ." sounded too much like John Norman.

Empty Space looks good. I can't find anything on a US release date, though.

...John Norman. Shudder.

Moorcock once proposed creating a sword and sorcery character called Naomi the Castrator and sending her round to Norman's house.

I'm trying to find out Little Ligotti's diet, but he doesn't want to tell me.

I am reading that entry now. I missed it as well.

I don't like this mental space; it feels like one I'll never get out of. I have evidence otherwise, but I spent a lot of time here.

*nods*

*also hugs*

Moorcock once proposed creating a sword and sorcery character called Naomi the Castrator and sending her round to Norman's house.

If I have not already told you to read

hans_the_bold's Gay, Bejeweled, Nazi Bikers of Gor, it is the best parody of that lamentable oeuvre that exists and incidentally a brilliant deconstruction of the sexual politics. The author tends to blame me for its existence, which is entirely unfair. He started writing it on its own. I just told him to keep going. The damage done to his brain by the research required for a mercilessly accurate sendup of Norman's style may never be repaired.

I can't find anything on a US release date, though.

Amazon thinks it exists? I don't know if that means anything?

Amazon says a lot of things.

I am reading that entry now. I missed it as well.

You don't have to! I just thought I'd go to bed early that night!

*also hugs*

Okay; accepted. And if desired, returned.

I enjoy reading your reviews, though.

Most of the time, I feel I have nothing that seems salient or intelligent to say about them.

(I don't have any recollection of reading anything you have written out of a sense of social obligation - I am terrible at it and assume that if I do the writer will somehow *know*)

I could use a hug this afternoon, too. I swallowed a great deal of pride today and got myself evaluated for cognitive therapy. It was not an easy step to make.

Tripes a la mode du Caen, very very fresh. And some nice rare beef heart.

Heh. No chance of me eating that by mistake.

Where are you, Thomas?

I'm sorry for the lack of sleep and fidgetyness and feeling of pointlessness. Tiny W, is there any bribe I could offer you to leave her alone for a while?

A pigeon dating game? Even in Japan, that's got to be unusual.

I hope you can sleep soon.

"Hey, scatterbrain, don't cripple your friends!" is an endlessly applicable suggestion.

Indeed it is. In the unlikely event I ever run a dig again, I might have to put some of these up.

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Excellent. Some classics there, some of which I need to read as well. Should/may I ask which one you did not read?

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Interesting. Bookmarking for reading later, I am.

I wish I had known Sally Ride had a partner of twenty-seven years before she was a widow.

I as well.

Sally Ride went to my high school--and when I was a student there, she gave a speech to the school. It must've been before her first flight. That photo at the top of the obit is just how I remember her.

Having watched that interview, my money's totally on TR. If being daft doesn't work, he can always run Tiny W over with his tiny motorcycle.

I've got to watch that!

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