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We have an A-bomb and a whole series of it, and what more do you want, mermaids?
So I read "The Trinitite Golem" at the Brooklyn Commons Café as part of the launch party for Clockwork Phoenix 5, now available wherever clockwork phoenixes are sold.
It went wonderfully. I had a wonderful time. I got asked afterward if I was a physicist. Rob Cameron, Shveta Thakrar, Barbara Krasnoff, A.C. Wise, and C.S.E. Cooney and Carlos Hernandez read from their stories and were fantastic. I hope all the recordings came out cleanly. There was apple cake. It turns out that the famous lefty radio station WBAI is now broadcast out of the same building as the Commons, which neither my husband nor I (nor my parents, who used to wake up every morning to Phil Ochs' "Outside of a Small Circle of Friends") knew before we spoke to Jim Freund. There was a lot of hugging. People were signing copies for each other like they were yearbooks. I am still operating on about three hours of sleep, which I plan to remedy almost immediately.
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derspatchel bought a bottle of Coney Island Brewing Company Mermaid Pilsner in order to be able to present me with the picture of a tattooed siren. I think it is a good trophy.
I am so glad I did this after all.
It went wonderfully. I had a wonderful time. I got asked afterward if I was a physicist. Rob Cameron, Shveta Thakrar, Barbara Krasnoff, A.C. Wise, and C.S.E. Cooney and Carlos Hernandez read from their stories and were fantastic. I hope all the recordings came out cleanly. There was apple cake. It turns out that the famous lefty radio station WBAI is now broadcast out of the same building as the Commons, which neither my husband nor I (nor my parents, who used to wake up every morning to Phil Ochs' "Outside of a Small Circle of Friends") knew before we spoke to Jim Freund. There was a lot of hugging. People were signing copies for each other like they were yearbooks. I am still operating on about three hours of sleep, which I plan to remedy almost immediately.
derspatchel bought a bottle of Coney Island Brewing Company Mermaid Pilsner in order to be able to present me with the picture of a tattooed siren. I think it is a good trophy.I am so glad I did this after all.
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Thank you!
I hope I get to one day see you read your work!
I would love that. It would also mean we were in enough of the same place that I could hear you read yours!
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Thank you!
And that mermaid label pleases me more than it probably should.
I don't know, I think it's a reasonable reaction! In the apartment two previous,
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Thank you! I was really, really happy with how it went.
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Thank you!
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(I apologize for getting up in the middle of it, but I needed to go poke Jim and get him to get the person running the sound board to make you more audible with less feedback-ringing. With Rob and me and Ellen K. sitting all in a row, I thought the concentrated psychic force of our urge to go into the booth and fix the mix would be sufficient, but apparently not.)
I am so glad you did this too. It was great to see you. By the next time I see you the baby will have more of an immune system and there can be hugging!
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Pleased to hear that there was a recording. I did know about WBAI, but that's largely because I was at a similar reading in the same venue in December.
Hooray for successful trips, and mermaid themed beverages. It sounds like a very successful launch.
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Thank you! I was—and am—really happy with it.
(I apologize for getting up in the middle of it, but I needed to go poke Jim and get him to get the person running the sound board to make you more audible with less feedback-ringing. With Rob and me and Ellen K. sitting all in a row, I thought the concentrated psychic force of our urge to go into the booth and fix the mix would be sufficient, but apparently not.)
I could hear the feedback noise from the stage (and the overcranked gain from the audience); I figured the best thing I could do was keep reading. My father got a recording and is working on stripping out the noise, after which I will try listening to it myself.
I am so glad you did this too. It was great to see you. By the next time I see you the baby will have more of an immune system and there can be hugging!
I like this plan! Till then—
*hugs*
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I am very glad you kept reading. It was mesmerizing.
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And what a great mermaid. I like her a lot.
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According to comments at File 770, we had the largest turnout after Susanna Clarke. Which I think is not too shabby at all.
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And what a great mermaid. I like her a lot.
An artist whose name I cannot remember at present had an entire page of paintings of tattooed mermaids when I was in college. I believe his theory was that sailors shared the art with mermaids, who then adapted it to their own aesthetics. I want to say David somebody. [resorted to Google] David Delamare! A very suitable name for a sea-painter. This looks like one of the paintings I was thinking of; I believe this was the other. This was part of the same series.
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And wow, De la mare--what a name, eh? I like his theory of mermaid tattoos very much indeed (and I'm amused that his version of mermaids has the tail begin below the buttocks--if that holds for the front of a mermaid, too, it does make sexytimes much easier...) And both "The Illustrated Mermaid" and "The Tattooed Mermaid" are gorgeous.
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Thank you.
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I have to get it back from
Thank you.
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All the way down.