When you spoke of the seven wonders and you reached in your coat for your telescope

[sovay]

This was not a bad week. There was the wiped-flat exhaustion from Readercon that I failed to notice until Tuesday or so, but there was also my brother's birthday and Legend of Korra with gaudior and The Blues Brothers (1980) with derspatchel at midnight, which I may now consider the ideal time to start watching that movie. I have been listening to Anaïs Mitchell's Young Man in America (2012), which is a kind of epic cycle of American myth; it's not so much that it pulls back from the archetypal scope of Hadestown (2010) as it is a different way of focusing the same body of music and stories, the stretching shadow of the Depression. Yesterday, however, was a bad day. I got a poem out of it, but it was still a very bad day.

Today, the mail arrived. I am looking at:

1. A certificate for my poem "Tapping the Vine" placing second in the 2011 Dwarf Stars Award.

2. Copies of Gil Adamson's The Outlander (2007) and M.R. James' Casting the Runes and Other Ghost Stories, sent me by handful_ofdust.

3. The Alan Turing T-shirt ajodasso sent me a link to on Tuesday and which I ordered promptly, because I know a necessary item of clothing when I see it.

Okay, universe, I'm sure there's a point in here somewhere.

Have some panoramic views of Mars.

Comments

[three-magpies.livejournal.com]

Best wishes for a better day and thank you for a sharing of Mars.

I was going to tell a story about Turing, but the words are coming slant-wise.. Another day, then.

[sovay]

Best wishes for a better day and thank you for a sharing of Mars.

You're welcome. Mars is too cool not to share.

I was going to tell a story about Turing, but the words are coming slant-wise.. Another day, then.

I can wait. I like stories about Turing. Or it might turn out this one wants to be told slant.

[three-magpies.livejournal.com]

If it comes out at all! Stories and I are a bit murky as of late.

There is a line having to do with indeterminate birds and freshly engineered soil. This I know.

[sovay]

There is a line having to do with indeterminate birds and freshly engineered soil. This I know.

I will wait for that.