It will damage you

[sovay]

It is wetly snowing. derspatchel tells me it started around ten-thirty this morning and freaked the cats out. By now they are blasé and much more interested in the white pumpkin in its rustling paper bag or in general mischief. Last night Autolycus figured out how to take the top of a milk bottle.

Yesterday:

My flash "Anonymity" was positively reviewed at Apex Magazine. I'm still happy about this.

M.F. Dulock was selling loukaniko, so I bought some. I plan to make it for dinner tonight.

Rob and I double-featured the evening with el Día de los Muertos at Harvard's Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnography (corn-husk tamales, brightly colored paper cut-out skulls fluttering whenever someone opened the door; at the altar open to visitors, I left a memorial card for Luis Yglesias, Rob for Cousin Billy) and the closing night of the Post-Meridian Radio Players' Tomes of Terror: Nevermore. plumtreeblossom's Prohibition-era "The Cask of Amontillado" was the perfect chill to end the night on.

This month J.P. Licks has more than four non-dairy flavors. I got a malt vanilla coconut-milk milkshake. It was delicious.

Hestia is upstairs in the bedroom where it's warmest; I can't blame her. Autolycus is sleeping directly under the thermostat, which means on top of a shelf of my classics books—Cyprus, Carthage, classical Greek religion, the folder of notes for the translation of Ištar's Descent to the Underworld I never published. [edit: He just jumped off the bookshelves and planted himself on my lap. I am warmer than J.G. Pedley's New Light on Ancient Carthage (1980).] Rob is working on a project. I used Daylight Savings' extra hour to write a poem. I really hope this is a pattern. My birthday month was much harder than I wanted it to be.

Comments

[skygiants]

The Cask of Amontillado was so delightful! The Foley for the bricks especially was spot on. I'd not actually read the short story before, but now all I want to do is sit down with a book of Poe.

[moon-custafer.livejournal.com]

Prohibition-era "The Cask of Amontillado"

That is *brilliant.* Why have I never seen/heard that idea done before?

[schreibergasse.livejournal.com]

Autolycus is sleeping directly under the thermostat, which means on top of a shelf of my classics books

Wasn't he supposed to Not be Up There?

...the folder of notes for the translation of Ištar's Descent to the Underworld I never published.

!!!!
I did not know about that...

[ashlyme.livejournal.com]

I really like "Anonymity"! "Fox-glim" made me smile.

[asakiyume.livejournal.com]

Here it's been terrific winds, but no wet snow. Ever since that Halloween snowstorm, the thought of snow around this time of year sends me into panic. I'm with Hestia--find the Warmest Spot and stay there.

November is generally a bleak month, but it has the possibility of all the warmth of a good hearth (hello Hestia!), and steaming drinks. I hope it's a healthier and all-around better month for you than October was.

(And that's an excellent review indeed!)