It was not long before we began doing experiments together in Chemistry

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Readercon continues apace. So does the rest of my life, which is why I am reading slush.

1. I mean to post this a week ago, but it's been that kind of week: The Moment of Change has been very well reviewed at Weird Fiction Review. I am pleased to be name-checked, but even more pleased with the review as a whole. Rose Lemberg should edit more anthologies.

2. A friend of a college friend of mine has a son in this show: Pink Milk: A Magic Tragedy. I suspect I'd disagree with some of its directions of "loosely based" (Alan did like to watch Christopher play the piano, but they bonded over astronomy, chemistry and maths), but I like the fact of more Turing art out there. I like this image. Anyone in New York City, want to give me a review?

3. All right, I've been convinced to see Hitchcock's The Lodger (1927). I don't suppose I can get it on DVD in this country?

The trackpad on this machine is still broken. I suspect it is back to the Apple store today. Again. Knock it off, computer. You are not a metaphor.

Comments

[ap-aelfwine.livejournal.com]

I hope the slush-reading goes well as it can go, as well as the rest.

That review is excellent. Congratulations!

2.

"Loosely based" can be frustrating indeed, but I hope you'll get a chance to see this one someday all the same.

3.

I'd no idea Hitchcock had begun directing in the silent era, which I suppose was a bit silly of me.

I've no notion WRT the DVD, but it looks as if it's to be found on Youtube. It looks as if there are other videos of it on Youtube, and as if it's on Archive.org as well.

I'm sorry for your computer troubles, and hope you can get them sorted without too much further fuss.

Knock it off, computer. You are not a metaphor.

I know the feeling. It's very frustrating when things in one's life decide to act as metaphors.

[moon-custafer.livejournal.com]

Heh. Always reminds me of the Onion's take on the Titanic:
'WORLD'S BIGGEST METAPHOR SUNK BY ICEBERG.'

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'WORLD'S BIGGEST METAPHOR SUNK BY ICEBERG.'

I think that's my favorite headline of theirs, although "Hitler Neutralizes Polish Menace" runs it a close second.

(To be strictly honest, it runs it a close second in the slight paraphrase in which the headline was first relayed to me: "Germany Squashes Polish Menace." It's just a funnier verb.)

[ap-aelfwine.livejournal.com]

'WORLD'S BIGGEST METAPHOR SUNK BY ICEBERG.'

Somehow I'd missed that one. I like it very much. Thank you!

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I hope the slush-reading goes well as it can go, as well as the rest.

I got six poems I'm very happy with. Rinse, repeat for the next month.

That review is excellent. Congratulations!

Thank you. Seriously, buy a copy, say nice things to rose_lemberg. I hope she's here to stay.

I'm sorry for your computer troubles, and hope you can get them sorted without too much further fuss.

I have a new trackpad! I didn't have to wait two to four days for it! I'm a lot less thwarted by the limitations of technology than I was this afternoon!

[ap-aelfwine.livejournal.com]

I got six poems I'm very happy with.

Glad to hear it!

Thank you. Seriously, buy a copy...

You're welcome. I reckon I'll do that soon. I wish there were more bookshops available to me that would stock books like that--somehow it's easier to get round to getting them, that way.

I have a new trackpad! I didn't have to wait two to four days for it! I'm a lot less thwarted by the limitations of technology than I was this afternoon!

Excellent! I'm delighted by your state of significant less-thwartedness!

Amazing. This is actually helping to cheer me up after the double-whammy of hearing a friend encouraging a mutual friend to pursue someone (underlining, in my mind, the fact that nobody ever says anything like that to me) and seeing on Facebook that somebody I disliked rather a lot in high school (who has since apparently turned into a vaguely decent human being, but still, it's hard to forget some things) and his wife are expecting a second child. Thank you.