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sovay ([personal profile] sovay) wrote2012-10-30 03:19 pm

After the storm will come a sleep like oceans deep

So I don't actually think I want to talk about the ways in which yesterday worsened after my last post, but I am going to point out that once the storm proper started and the internet went down for twelve hours, when it came back up I found:

My poem "Anthemoessa on the Main Line" has been accepted by Moral Relativism Magazine. It's another one sparked by a line from [livejournal.com profile] ashlyme's bio, in this case "He haunts second-hand bookshops and canals, and has yet to meet a rusalka." The magazine is still reading for its fifth issue; the theme is "Loyalty and Lies." I was unable to read their guidelines without thinking immediately of Tacroy: "He lied for me for a whole day . . . And he was believed."

The accompanist from Sunday's concert came through with the offer of a paying gig. It will be in December and I will post further details as I know them. In the meantime, I am totally taking suggestions on Yiddish repertoire.

I was asked whether I've ever consulted as a fiction editor for a fee. To which the answer is pretty much: no, I just beta-read things my friends send me; but I am now wondering if that is something I could do.

B. sent me half a dozen pictures from Antalya and Termessos, including the half-statue of Herakles—now whole—that was just returned from the MFA last year.

So maybe I need more storms.

[identity profile] handful-ofdust.livejournal.com 2012-10-30 08:35 pm (UTC)(link)
Sorry for the worse, but whoo-hah for the good! And yes, I think you should consult. I've always found the things you have to say really useful; to get paid for that would be amazing.

Re Yiddish songs, "Di Sapozkelekh" comes to mind, and "Shnirele, Perele".

[identity profile] handful-ofdust.livejournal.com 2012-10-31 04:21 am (UTC)(link)
"Oy Dortn, Dortn" would be perfect.

[identity profile] handful-ofdust.livejournal.com 2012-10-31 04:31 am (UTC)(link)
P.S.: Perhaps because I was re-reading The Secret Books of Paradys the other day, apropos of nothing much, I spent a foolish amount of time roughing out Captain Rusk's version of the "Trap-Weed" back-story. And then I thought: Oh yeah, and after that, I'll go back even further and do Captain Parry's version of his own origin story. Like back when he was a marsh-witch's kid, studied divinity and then ended up having to join the Navy... 'Cause why not, right?

[identity profile] handful-ofdust.livejournal.com 2012-10-31 04:35 am (UTC)(link)
Well, first things first.;)

[identity profile] handful-ofdust.livejournal.com 2012-10-31 04:38 am (UTC)(link)
Did I tell you I volunteered to write a Peter Cushing appreciation column for ChiZine.com? I thought it would make good post-Hallowe'en material. I'd be covering Van Helsing vs. the bad Herr Baron-Doktor, with a sidebar into Captain Clegg/Reverend Blyss.

[identity profile] handful-ofdust.livejournal.com 2012-10-31 12:03 pm (UTC)(link)
I'd read the fuck out of that. It really is a polymorphously perverse cornucopia of a movie.