I park my heart in your driveway now

[sovay]

I had to refill a set of medications, so I decided to see how long it would take me to walk to Davis via Broadway instead of the buses or the chain of one-way streets I used last week.

It is beautifully sunny outside, the kind of mildly confusing spring weather where my corduroy jacket wouldn't have stood up to the wind chill, but after ten to twelve minutes of walking the leather jacket is not needed. I am fifteen minutes on foot to Eat at Jumbo's. (This weekend, calzones.) I bought a CD of Tanya Donelly's Lovesongs for Underdogs (1997) and Marion Meade's Bobbed Hair and Bathtub Gin: Writers Running Wild in the Twenties (2004) from The Book Shop, where the man behind the counter handed me a copy of the Somerville News so that I could get in touch with one of the columnists and said he would love if I organized a poetry reading because the store hasn't held one yet this year (so local and not-so-local poets, you know who you are, get in touch with me). The lemon donut at Lyndell's is not superior to Verna's at six in the morning of the 'Thon, but their raspberry is unequivocally the best jelly-filled I've ever had: usually this means a sort of indeterminate fruit-ness the color of the Blob, but theirs was just straight seedless raspberry jam. And deleting the time spent in the bookstore and the bakery, it takes me thirty minutes. A train went under the Broadway commuter rail bridge as I crossed it.

I have just had the kind of afternoon you have on vacation, except all I did was walk from my house to derspatchel's.

I like this.

Comments

[thistleingrey]

Hee, that's great.

[sovay]

Hee, that's great.

It was a good way to meet the neighborhood.

[cucumberseed.livejournal.com]

I hope things continue along this trajectory.

[ap-aelfwine.livejournal.com]

I'm glad to hear of this. May the trend continue.

[ashlyme.livejournal.com]

I love the way they describe their books as "gently used". I hope you have many more such afternoons.

[tim-pratt.livejournal.com]

Love Songs for Underdogs is one of my favorite albums. She's underappreciated.

[desperance.livejournal.com]

deleting the time spent in the bookstore and the bakery

As of course you should. Allah, we are told, does not deduct from the appointed span those hours spent in fishing; I'm fairly sure that bookshops and bakeries also apply there.

[asakiyume.livejournal.com]

So, so good.

[nineweaving.livejournal.com]

Spring in Somerville! This move is good.

Nine

[rinue.livejournal.com]

How wonderful! I would always rather walk if at all possible.

[gwynnega]

What a lovely afternoon.

[gaudior.livejournal.com]

Yay glad you are here glad you are glad yay!

[snowy-owlet.livejournal.com]

This post is like a nice exhale into a comfy chair.

[vanguardcdk.livejournal.com]

Walking over the bridge when the train is going by is one of my favorite bits about that walk. To the point I look hopefully both ways every time I'm on it. :)

[sovay]

To the point I look hopefully both ways every time I'm on it.

Dude! Where do you live?

[vanguardcdk.livejournal.com]

I'm on Bay State Ave. Not far at all from Rob's place. :)

[selidor]

The neighbourhood is welcoming you with sunshine and well-stocked bookshops. Perfection.

[sovay]

I hope things continue along this trajectory.

Thank you! It cannot be every day, but as a baseline, I wouldn't mind.

[sovay]

May the trend continue.

It did last year. I have hopes!

[sovay]

I hope you have many more such afternoons.

Thank you!

(Their science-fiction section was very good. I was surprised: usually they're graveyards for mass-market paperbacks. I recognized Ace doubles and authors I knew personally. I will have to loiter someday when I am flush.)

[sovay]

She's underappreciated.

I love Belly's Star (1993), but I had only two of her solo songs: "The Night You Saved My Life" and "Whiskey Tango." The first of these I adore, however, and it gets stuck in my head even when I haven't been listening to it, so when I saw a full album on their CD shelves, I pounced. What else of Donelly's do you especially recommend?

[sovay]

So, so good.

I like it.

[sovay]

Spring in Somerville!

What I had stuck in my head all yesterday was "Springtime in New York" by Jonathan Richman! And I love springtime in New York, springtime in New York, I do . . . This is true, but I have not spent a springtime there since 2005. I suppose it might not be an unrelated fact.

This move is good.

Yes.

[sovay]

Allah, we are told, does not deduct from the appointed span those hours spent in fishing; I'm fairly sure that bookshops and bakeries also apply there.

I am comforted by your wisdom.

I'd visit the bookstore anyway.

[sovay]

I would always rather walk if at all possible.

Same. Ten minutes on the bus is useful for late nights and bad weather, but half an hour on foot is completely fine by me.

[sovay]

What a lovely afternoon.

It was!

[sovay]

Yay glad you are here glad you are glad yay!

*hugs*

It makes me happy!

[sovay]

This post is like a nice exhale into a comfy chair.

Heh. Thank you! It was much brisker in person, but no less pleasant.

[sovay]

The neighbourhood is welcoming you with sunshine and well-stocked bookshops

I like living somewhere that seems to like me.

[tim-pratt.livejournal.com]

Her solo album Beautysleep is nice (that's the one "Night You Saved My Life" is from), and Belly's King has some good tracks on it too -- I like "Now They'll Sleep" and "Silverfish." Throwing Muses is hit or miss for me, but some of it I like. I confess I haven't checked out her last couple of solo albums. I should.

[sovay]

Throwing Muses is hit or miss for me, but some of it I like.

I have a lot of Throwing Muses, actually; I like them. I'll look for the rest of Beautysleep and King!

[genarti]

I love that walk! I have been known to walk from my house to Davis to spend the evening writing at Diesel, and to do it at least half purely as an excuse for the walk. Sometimes I cut down Cedar Street and go by the bike path instead, but then one misses the bookstop -- albeit in favor of trees and a stalks-and-stakes tangle of community garden. (Cutting down Willow would also be an option, but I haven't done so.)