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!

[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.

[gwynnega]

Congratulations on the poetry acceptance!

I'm very fond of that version of Dracula.

[asakiyume.livejournal.com]

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

[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...)

[schreibergasse.livejournal.com]

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

\O/

[prezzey.livejournal.com]

ToC-mates again!! FOR GREAT JUSTICE