What's to see and what people show you need

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1. From the file of Things I Didn't Expect to Dream: being in a longstanding, casual relationship with Tom Hiddleston. Not Loki, the human actor. Sharp-faced, curly russet hair. We had a running joke about the number seven. We got together whenever he was in town for a play. I didn't think about it as being weird in any way until I woke up and tried to remember the last contemporary figure I'd dreamed about who wasn't part of my family life or a filmmaker.

2. Finding out this afternoon from The New Yorker that Kitty Genovese was a lesbian—happily in a relationship with a woman when she died—felt like a serious women men don't see moment.

3. This is the most impressive fossil trilobite I've ever seen. greygirlbeast, I thought of you.

4. handful_ofdust Tumblr'd some golems I like.

5. strange_selkie Tumblr'd something I have difficulty disagreeing with.

Yesterday involved lots of packing and moving boxes and the very upsetting breakage (despite careful wrapping in as much Kleenex and foam as the box would hold) of a glass object I've had since I was twelve, which I discovered right before bed; it kind of kiboshed my plans to read The Valley of Song for an hour and fall asleep. Plans for tonight: seeing Ben Wheatley's A Field in England (2013) at the Brattle with rushthatspeaks, derspatchel, nineweaving, and hopefully gaudior. I am looking forward; I've wanted to see this movie since last summer. I have genuinely no idea what it's going to be like.

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[martianmooncrab.livejournal.com]

3. This is the most impressive fossil trilobite I've ever seen

we should all look that good when we are dead..

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we should all look that good when we are dead..

And be so interesting to science!

[moon-custafer.livejournal.com]

Andrew, who loves trilobites, showed me that picture (after I directed him to the article via Dr. Sam Ohu Gon III, who did the infographic. (Dr. Gon lives in Hawaii, which is too new for trilobites; they're sort of a side interest for him.)

I think that trilobite was using mustache wax, myself.

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I think that trilobite was using mustache wax, myself.

"I've come to collect the rent!"

"I can't pay the rent! It's the Paleozoic and we're all living on the seabed anyway!"

". . . Oh, all right, then. Carry on."

[handful-ofdust.livejournal.com]

Ooh, A Field in England! Can't wait for the reaction.;)

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Can't wait for the reaction.

I'll see if I can write something tonight when we get back. I can't promise, but I'll try.

Done. I'm going to collapse now.

[selidor]

The trilobite song is the best.
"Where did they come from and where did they go? I've spent three years and I still do not know."

I think we need Dance Your PhD to be joined by Sing Your PhD.

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"Where did they come from and where did they go? I've spent three years and I still do not know."

". . . partly to avoid any difficult questions at the end."

I think we need Dance Your PhD to be joined by Sing Your PhD.

I support this proposal.

[ashlyme.livejournal.com]

The trilobite is very Jacek Yerka. I read Selkie's Iliad out to M; he appreciated it, as I thought he might.

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The trilobite is very Jacek Yerka.

Yes!

I read Selkie's Iliad out to M; he appreciated it, as I thought he might.

There are ways in which I think that joke is completely selling the Iliad short and there are ways in which, nope, that's pretty much it, really.

[schreibergasse.livejournal.com]

That is an impressive - and impressively weird - trilobite. The author of the trilobite article, though, is an idiot.

re: #5: a few thoughts from earlier today:
1) < sporff >
2) Would Achilleus/Patroklos be Patrochilleus? Or is it just "The Old Ship"?
3) ...Which got me thinking, Did anyone in the Assyrian period ship Enkidu/Gilgamesh?

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The author of the trilobite article, though, is an idiot.

I like the guy with the trilobite song!

2) Would Achilleus/Patroklos be Patrochilleus? Or is it just "The Old Ship"?

Am totally calling them that now.

Did anyone in the Assyrian period ship Enkidu/Gilgamesh?

I feel like the answer must be yes, in the same way of Achilles/Patroklos, but I don't have any texts off the top of my head to prove it. Let me get back to you with research.