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In addition to today's reprint—
1. My regular e-mail appears to be reliably working again. I lost almost everything from the week it was down: no messages sent between June 6th and 9th have reached me and traffic from the weekend is demonstrably patchy. I've been e-mailing everyone I know in an attempt to find out what I missed. Unless I find out an acceptance slipped through the cracks, I think I am most annoyed about losing the LJ- and DW-notifications. I use them as a form of backup. Nevertheless, I have e-mail again! No thanks to RCN.
2. Snail mail this afternoon brought the discs of Too Late for Tears (1949) I had ordered from Flicker Alley/The Film Noir Foundation. It's beautifully packaged. Blu-Ray/DVD, nicely chosen production stills for the front and back covers, original promotional artwork wrapping around the inside of the box. The accompanying essay booklet is equally lavishly illustrated. I hope this experiment is enough of a success that they can afford to release more of their restorations and rarities on home media.![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
skygiants, I can show you this movie now!
3. Yoon Ha Lee's debut novel Ninefox Gambit (2016) is out today. My local independent bookstore did not have it in stock, so I've ordered a copy. It is such very good weird intricately dystopian, gorgeously written, complexly worldbuilt military science fantasy with a way higher ratio of protagonists I really like than normal. There should be a punchier term for that.
I did not sleep almost at all last night, but there has been lovely sunlight all day, there are roses twining the porch outside my window, and I am hoping to catch Stanley Kubrick's The Killing (1956) at the Brattle tonight. I'm doing what I can.
1. My regular e-mail appears to be reliably working again. I lost almost everything from the week it was down: no messages sent between June 6th and 9th have reached me and traffic from the weekend is demonstrably patchy. I've been e-mailing everyone I know in an attempt to find out what I missed. Unless I find out an acceptance slipped through the cracks, I think I am most annoyed about losing the LJ- and DW-notifications. I use them as a form of backup. Nevertheless, I have e-mail again! No thanks to RCN.
2. Snail mail this afternoon brought the discs of Too Late for Tears (1949) I had ordered from Flicker Alley/The Film Noir Foundation. It's beautifully packaged. Blu-Ray/DVD, nicely chosen production stills for the front and back covers, original promotional artwork wrapping around the inside of the box. The accompanying essay booklet is equally lavishly illustrated. I hope this experiment is enough of a success that they can afford to release more of their restorations and rarities on home media.
skygiants, I can show you this movie now!3. Yoon Ha Lee's debut novel Ninefox Gambit (2016) is out today. My local independent bookstore did not have it in stock, so I've ordered a copy. It is such very good weird intricately dystopian, gorgeously written, complexly worldbuilt military science fantasy with a way higher ratio of protagonists I really like than normal. There should be a punchier term for that.
I did not sleep almost at all last night, but there has been lovely sunlight all day, there are roses twining the porch outside my window, and I am hoping to catch Stanley Kubrick's The Killing (1956) at the Brattle tonight. I'm doing what I can.
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