Until it's red, all red as foxes

[sovay]

My poem "Foxstory" has been accepted by Through the Gate. It was directly inspired by Jenn Grunigen's Storyfox: A Database of Vulpine Science Fiction and Fantasy. I am very glad it has found a home.

I just saw that Louis Jourdan has died. Like most people who grew up on MGM musicals, I saw him first in Gigi (1958), but I will remember him as one of the best Draculas I have seen.

So has Alan Howard. I was in the wrong country to see much of him; I caught him only in odd episodes of television and the whispering of the One Ring. I knew of him mostly because of his uncle. I really need to see The Cook, the Thief, His Wife and Her Lover (1989).

It is snowing again. Or still. There was clear blue-skied sun earlier when I walked back and forth to my doctor's appointment. The sky is blind white now. I don't know if it's even a storm anymore. It might just be a condition.

Comments

[yhlee]

Yay foxpoem!

[sovay]

Yay foxpoem!

I think it will be my first published fox-work! I'm very happy about it.

[yhlee]

*fox high-paw*

[phi]

Congrats! I look forward to reading it!

I couldn't get my car out of a snow bank yesterday morning (utterly failed at parallel parking the night before and skidded badly; luckily I landed in a reasonable place to just leave the damn thing for the night). I ended up walking to my morning doctor appointment too, during the exact 40 minutes we had of clear blue skies. It was amazing. Vitamin D supplements are great and all, but nothing beats actual sunshine.

[sovay]

Congrats! I look forward to reading it!

Thank you!

Vitamin D supplements are great and all, but nothing beats actual sunshine.

Yes! I didn't realize how much I had been missing sunlight until I was out in it. I've had way too many grey skies and freezing dusks this month.

[gwynnega]

Congratulations on the poetry acceptance!

I'm very fond of that version of Dracula.

[sovay]

Congratulations on the poetry acceptance!

Thank you!

I'm very fond of that version of Dracula.

Peter Cushing will always be my definitive Van Helsing, but Jourdan probably is my favorite Dracula and Jack Shepherd definitely my favorite Renfield, so it's doing pretty well.

[asakiyume.livejournal.com]

Congratulations on the poem! I don't think I've seen it, so I eagerly await its publication.

[sovay]

Congratulations on the poem! I don't think I've seen it, so I eagerly await its publication.

Thank you! I will certainly announce when it comes out. It is, I think, my first published fox-work.

[desperance.livejournal.com]

Oh, curses. Alan Howard was one of my theatrical touchstones; I saw much of him at the RSC, both in Stratford and Newcastle. And then he kinda vanished, except for occasional TV roles - until m'friend Sean O'Brien wrote a verse play for a N'cle theatre, Keepers of the Flame, about the politics of the '30s and '80s - and Howard played the lead. Which meant that after the first night I got to hang out and party with the cast and the director. And got to talk to Howard exclusively for a blessed little while. (I also nearly got to act with him, because we did a read-through of an early draft for Sean and he would so have cast me if he could...)

[sovay]

Oh, curses. Alan Howard was one of my theatrical touchstones; I saw much of him at the RSC, both in Stratford and Newcastle.

I'm so sorry! I envy your having seen him; his theatrical CV looked wonderful. (He was in Christopher Logue's War Music and Kings! I would love to have seen those.) Who do you remember him as best?

(I also nearly got to act with him, because we did a read-through of an early draft for Sean and he would so have cast me if he could...)

I shall have to find a copy of this play. It is becoming apparent to me that not only do I want a time machine for theater, I want an alt-history option on it.

[desperance.livejournal.com]

I loved his Richard III: insinuating and persuasive and self-mocking all at once.

And, War Music! I did not know he was connected with that! Is this the moment to mention that I heard Christopher Logue read a chunk of it while it was still work-in-progress? (Admittedly many people did, because it was work-in-progress for a very long time, but still...)

[sovay]

I loved his Richard III: insinuating and persuasive and self-mocking all at once.

That sounds very good.

War Music! I did not know he was connected with that!

So his website says. Maybe there's a recording? (Please?)

Is this the moment to mention that I heard Christopher Logue read a chunk of it while it was still work-in-progress? (Admittedly many people did, because it was work-in-progress for a very long time, but still...)

Conversations with you share the quality of Derek Jarman's journals where, if an artist was working at the time, your life crossed through theirs.

[nineweaving.livejournal.com]

Ay me. Golden lad and girls. The little practice snippet of Howard's Richard III against Sinead Cusack's Lady Anne is tantalizing.

Nine

[desperance.livejournal.com]

Heh. It's a very small country, and Newcastle was something of an unexpected hub; most people doing anything interesting passed through, over the course of thirty years. And I was always there.

[sovay]

most people doing anything interesting passed through, over the course of thirty years. And I was always there.

It's a good thing! I never know who's going to turn up next.

It looks as though there are recordings of War Music and Kings: a remembrance of Howard mentions them. Fingers crossed.

[desperance.livejournal.com]

Oh, splendid; I did always love his voice.

[schreibergasse.livejournal.com]

Given the near-whiteout conditions here, right now, I'm going with condition.

[sovay]

Given the near-whiteout conditions here, right now, I'm going with condition.

I just don't want it to become chronic! Or terminal.

\O/

[prezzey.livejournal.com]

ToC-mates again!! FOR GREAT JUSTICE