I can imagine worse songs than any of Tom Lehrer's to have stuck in one's head.
I hope you've had some good rest and that the antibiotics have done their job.
I'm not sure how I missed "The Love Song of Admiral Piet". Streets of Fire sounds interesting; I'm glad you had a wonderful time, and your review shows it.
The restaurant sounds lovely. I wish they had a branch where I could visit it.
Thanks for the excellent news about the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the back catalogue. I only found the time to download one book of African ivory carvings, but I expect to be making frequent use of this. You're right about saying goodbye to time, of course.
I agree that Facebook and the rest aren't a substitute for LJ. I'll be staying here as well, for similar reasons to your own. Even aside from the fact that I'm on FB under my real name and am friends with relatives, which means that I pretty much can't admit to writing anything I write that's not nonfiction.
FB is handy for keeping up with folk, especially folk with whom I play tunes or whose concerts I'd want to be at. Most everybody in Irish music is there, and there's a sizeable Irish language userbase, so I find it useful. It's also a nice way for certain friends to share their vast collections of cute animal photographs, and seems to be the only way some few friends of mine can ever manage to communicate that's not face-to-face. But you're right about the lack of space to write. I couldn't give that up, either.
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I hope you've had some good rest and that the antibiotics have done their job.
I'm not sure how I missed "The Love Song of Admiral Piet". Streets of Fire sounds interesting; I'm glad you had a wonderful time, and your review shows it.
The restaurant sounds lovely. I wish they had a branch where I could visit it.
Thanks for the excellent news about the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the back catalogue. I only found the time to download one book of African ivory carvings, but I expect to be making frequent use of this. You're right about saying goodbye to time, of course.
I agree that Facebook and the rest aren't a substitute for LJ. I'll be staying here as well, for similar reasons to your own. Even aside from the fact that I'm on FB under my real name and am friends with relatives, which means that I pretty much can't admit to writing anything I write that's not nonfiction.
FB is handy for keeping up with folk, especially folk with whom I play tunes or whose concerts I'd want to be at. Most everybody in Irish music is there, and there's a sizeable Irish language userbase, so I find it useful. It's also a nice way for certain friends to share their vast collections of cute animal photographs, and seems to be the only way some few friends of mine can ever manage to communicate that's not face-to-face. But you're right about the lack of space to write. I couldn't give that up, either.