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Spoiler: the volcano wins
1. My poem "The Antiquities of Herculaneum" has been accepted by Not One of Us. It was inspired by reading a blistering review of a disastrous movie and thinking the people who died in the 79 CE eruption of Vesuvius really deserved a break.
2. I still don't want to see Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides (2011), but this is some pretty great mermaid concept art.
3. An Alphabet of Embers is fully funded and rocketing toward its second stretch goal! A little less than $1200 more and you can sell all the rhyming mermaid poetry your heart desires to a special April Fool's Day issue of Stone Telling. In the meantime, the anthology is now open to submissions and guidelines are here.
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rose_lemberg drew me a marvelous pair of aquatic critters as a reward for backing the Kickstarter within a lucky window of time. I will link to them tomorrow when they are publicly available. They are spiny and wonderful!
5. The Kickstarter for Uncanny: A Magazine of Science Fiction and Fantasy just went live this afternoon and they are already nearly half funded! I've had a poem solicited for the project and I am in very fine company—I really want to read their work. Throw money at this endeavor! Space unicorns for everyone!
Tonightderspatchel and I attended the second open rehearsal of usernamenumber and company's The Complete Works of William Shakespeare, Abridged. (I don't know anyone else's LJ-handle. Collectively they are the RSC Shakespeare Company. The "R" stands for "RSC.") They are performing it in August at Loncon 3. I won't be there, but I strongly recommend that anyone attending make the time in their schedule to see this show. There's blank verse, amazing wigs, toy boats, sportscasting, vomit . . . You know. Culture.
2. I still don't want to see Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides (2011), but this is some pretty great mermaid concept art.
3. An Alphabet of Embers is fully funded and rocketing toward its second stretch goal! A little less than $1200 more and you can sell all the rhyming mermaid poetry your heart desires to a special April Fool's Day issue of Stone Telling. In the meantime, the anthology is now open to submissions and guidelines are here.
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rose_lemberg drew me a marvelous pair of aquatic critters as a reward for backing the Kickstarter within a lucky window of time. I will link to them tomorrow when they are publicly available. They are spiny and wonderful!5. The Kickstarter for Uncanny: A Magazine of Science Fiction and Fantasy just went live this afternoon and they are already nearly half funded! I've had a poem solicited for the project and I am in very fine company—I really want to read their work. Throw money at this endeavor! Space unicorns for everyone!
Tonight
derspatchel and I attended the second open rehearsal of usernamenumber and company's The Complete Works of William Shakespeare, Abridged. (I don't know anyone else's LJ-handle. Collectively they are the RSC Shakespeare Company. The "R" stands for "RSC.") They are performing it in August at Loncon 3. I won't be there, but I strongly recommend that anyone attending make the time in their schedule to see this show. There's blank verse, amazing wigs, toy boats, sportscasting, vomit . . . You know. Culture.
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Thank you! I don't really want to make a habit of learning more about terrible movies than I have to, but I feel peculiarly vindicated that I turned the experience into a poem.
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Oh, and did you know about this? (Have you blogged about seeing a performance elsewhere? If so, forgive my poor, poor, memory.) If not, it seems like something you and
Great BarringtonPittsfield* to see--it's gotten good reviews.*Now why does something called "Barrington Stage" go and locate in Pittsfield?
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(OK, also I checked on IMDb and no one was credited as Pliny the Elder, and I wasn’t up for a Pompeii movie that left out the badass asthmatic.)
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Oh, dear.
(OK, also I checked on IMDb and no one was credited as Pliny the Elder, and I wasn’t up for a Pompeii movie that left out the badass asthmatic.)
Seriously! And not even Bulwer-Lytton to blame for it.
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No, you didn't tell me! Oh, your eyes. Was it at least dreadful enough to be funny?
The poem on the other hand--awesome. I'm glad to know it found a home.
Thank you!
(Have you blogged about seeing a performance elsewhere? If so, forgive my poor, poor, memory.)
I saw a production at the Central Square Theater in 2011 (and then disagreed with the Boston Globe about it afterward). I was trying to encourage the Porpentine Players to stage the play—they were already talking about Michael Frayn's Copenhagen next season—but that was before they got the bad news about the Factory Theatre. I'm honestly not sure what their plans are from here.
Now why does something called "Barrington Stage" go and locate in Pittsfield?
I know how to get to Pittsfield by public transit only in 1919!
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A+ this review.
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I like having good things to announce!
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The conceptual mermaids are wonderful. There's one*
that put me in mind of a Portugese man-o'-war: gorgeous! I like the critters Rose drew for you, too.
* There's blank verse, amazing wigs, toy boats, sportscasting, vomit . . . You know. Culture.*
This made me laugh. Thank you.
ETA: *She might be worth some doggerel! More scared by rhymes than stings, and I have no idea what that says about me.
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Most excellent!
There's one that put me in mind of a Portugese man-o'-war: gorgeous!
With the ribboning ultraviolet tentacles, yes. You should totally write about her.
More scared by rhymes than stings, and I have no idea what that says about me.
Maybe you can work it into the poem. It's a good line.
This made me laugh. Thank you.
You're welcome! Are you planning to attend Loncon? I know it's not exactly down the street from you, but at least you're in the right country.
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