The rain will surely win the race

[sovay]

1. I slept about four hours last night. Most of them were taken up with dreaming of children's books in a nonexistent library. I chalk this up to my recent Bellairs binge and a desire to seek out Frances Hardinge, who I believe has slightly more objective reality than the authors I dreamed about. The night before last, asleep for a rare twelve hours in the wake of the pre-Code marathon, I dreamed I was behind deadline on a Lovecraftian script treatment. I woke up and thought, "handful_ofdust . . . ?"

2. Yesterday's primary social engagement: meeting my new Strange Horizons co-editors, ajodasso and rinue, for cake and conversation at the Danish Pastry House. We talked about poetry. We also talked about the folklore of tomatoes and our feelings toward root vegetables of the UK. This thing where we all live within driving or public transit distance of one another is fascinating. We have plans.

3. Vonda McIntyre's The Moon and the Sun (1997) is finally being filmed. I repeat: PETER DINKLAGE PLEASE THANK YOU. (And hey, after Game of Thrones, maybe someone with a bankroll will even agree with me.)

It is pouring rain, steadily and undramatically; I do not foresee doing very much with the next twelve hours besides working and trying to recharge. I would like to be writing, but it's one of those days when I feel like someone erased the inside of my head. Have a Roman shipwreck. I like the shipwright's lost brush, the sailor who dropped his name into the sea. I'd missed the olive stone in Silchester.

Comments

[asakiyume.livejournal.com]

(I know you meant the previous entry, which I am going to read next break, but SHIPWRECK)

why are shipwrecks so beautiful?

[desperance.livejournal.com]

our feelings toward root vegetables of the UK

What are your feelings towards root vegetables of the UK? (This is, obviously, relevant to my interests.)

[handful-ofdust.livejournal.com]

Which Lovecraft, or could you tell? I've always wanted to do a version of The Thing on the Doorstep that'd restore Asenath Waite to her central position as the Ligeia of Lovecraftia. (Also, is her husband Edward Pickman Derby supposed to be related to Richard Pickman?)

[strange-selkie.livejournal.com]

I told you to watch where you put your snack. Now all these years later you go and stymie a bunch of archaeologists.

[ron-drummond.livejournal.com]

I'm delighted to hear the news about a film version of The Moon and the Sun; thank you for the links. What a terrific novel! What a potentially great film! I had the honor of reading the screenplay version and a draft of the novel-in-progress and commenting on it. Later, Vonda thanked me in the book's acknowledgments -- I've been thanked in many books for editorial assistance, but that was the first time anyone ever thanked me for providing musical help! Which was more thrilling than I can begin to say.

Tomato Folklore

[ashlyme.livejournal.com]

I have to ask about this...

By the way, have you eaten parsnip crisps? They're lovely.

[marlowe1.livejournal.com]

rinue is an editor at Strange Horizons? Cool.

Well if anything it should mean a review of King David and the Spiders from Mars since you are both in it.

[ap-aelfwine.livejournal.com]

1.

Interesting dreams, as always. Do you remember any of the authors' names from the library you dreamt of?

2.

Sounds lovely, all of it. You're lucky to have that Danish Pastry House nearby--kringler and crêpes are both lacking where I live.

3. Vonda McIntyre's The Moon and the Sun (1997) is finally being filmed.

I hope they do right by it.

I hope you've been able to recharge, at least a bit.

I would like to be writing, but it's one of those days when I feel like someone erased the inside of my head.

I know the feeling. I hope matters will improve before too long.

Have a Roman shipwreck. I like the shipwright's lost brush, the sailor who dropped his name into the sea. I'd missed the olive stone in Silchester.

Thank you for both of these.

It's nothing like as compelling, but here's a shipwreck near where my parents came up. I'm hoping it might still be visible in October when I'm there for my uncle's wedding.

[houseboatonstyx.livejournal.com]

OT, but this perhaps might interest you. By Vachel LIndsay.
http://www.fullbooks.com/The-Art-Of-The-Moving-Picture.html