And you watch us as we face the falling snow

[sovay]

(Have some free disassociation.)

I taught my last Latin class of the semester yesterday. There are review sessions next week, and I am showing them all Monty Python's Life of Brian (which a distressing percentage of the class has not yet seen), but that's it for lessons. Surprisingly enough, I enjoyed teaching. And next semester I get the Odyssey and films, so that's something to look forward to.

I also discovered, while in Strawberries last night, that the Dresden Dolls have a DVD out: The Dresden Dolls in Paradise. This, I want. I particularly like the cover image, which suggests that Casablanca and Cabaret have produced a love child, and it makes its money as a living statue in Harvard Square.

I should have mentioned before this that my contributor's copies of Fantasy Magazine #1 and Wicked Hollow #9 arrived in the mail, and I have been enjoying them greatly. From the latter, I particularly liked Simon Strantzas' "The Autumnal City," Mike Allen's "Music Lesions (A Duet)," E.R. Carlin's "The Gathering of Ruins," and CW Sabatelli's Rhysling-worthy "The Holes Left Behind." The former is a veritable cornucopia of weirdness, but if I had to pick a handful, I'd recommend Tim Pratt's "The Tyrant in Love," Catherynne M. Valente's "Bones like Black Sugar," Sarah Brandywine Johnson's "Hanging the Glass," Jeff VanderMeer's "Shriek: An Afterword," Megan Messinger's "Tear Her Standard Down," Holly Phillips' "Summer Ice," and Simon Logan's outstanding "Closer to the Lung." Good stuff, all.

Happy post-birthday to nineweaving!

And now, housecleaning. I have a friend coming from MIT this weekend, and my floor is a tumbledown maze of Greek and Latin. Why must shelf space be finite?

Comments

[time-shark.livejournal.com]

Danks for the kudos! :)

[sovay]

Hey, I call 'em like I see 'em . . . : )

[nineweaving.livejournal.com]

Thanks for the good wishes.

...a tumbledown maze of Greek and Latin...

Sounds like the past in the Anglo-Saxon imagination.

There will always be books on the floor.

Nine

[fleurdelis28.livejournal.com]

I particularly like the cover image, which suggests that Casablanca and Cabaret have produced a love child, and it makes its money as a living statue in Harvard Square.

That needs its own story, I think. Possibly one with infinite shelf space.

[sovay]

Is there a shelf-space elemental?

[fleurdelis28.livejournal.com]

The Emu of Shelf Space? Probably not, but you never know.

[sovay]

Somehow I don't think of an emu as a creature that normally occupies shelves. It would have to involve some awkward folding.

[fleurdelis28.livejournal.com]

Actually, it would probably be more likely to be a property of some other elemental, like the hamster has infinite (or at least unreasonably high-capacity) pockets.

[debka-notion.livejournal.com]

I thought you might enjoy knowing that BORG just bought copies of your books for the library.

[sovay]

Wow. Thank you. I do enjoy knowing that!

[schreibergasse.livejournal.com]

Congrads on teaching success, and opportunities to show people Monty Python.

Why must shelf space be finite?
A question that I often ask myself. Though with me, it´s usually a question of "Why didn´t I put these books back on the shelf?" (Answer: because I´ll want to refer to them/get back to reading them soon), or of "Why must space FOR shelves be finite?"

[sovay]

Thank you! I figure, there's never a bad opportunity for Monty Python . . .