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sovay ([personal profile] sovay) wrote2016-12-25 11:55 pm

All this world is but a play, be thou the joyful player

It is not true that everyone I know came for eggnog (and mostly stayed for dinner), but the combined powers of[livejournal.com profile] gaudior and [livejournal.com profile] rushthatspeaks and their two-month-old Fox, Gaudior's mother and stepfather, [livejournal.com profile] schreibergasse, [livejournal.com profile] sharhaun and his girlfriend who is almost certainly not on Livejournal, and David and C. made for a busy and lovely Christmas Day full of good conversation and friend groups I don't usually get to introduce to each other for extended periods of time and I held the small child and we got dinner on the table before everyone who needed to leave for work in the evening had to leave and there was further hanging-out afterward and after all the guests had gone home, I fell over sideways onto the couch under my jacket and slept for an hour and a half.

[livejournal.com profile] derspatchel got me two books I had not even suspected: Alan Cumming's You Gotta Get Bigger Dreams: My Life in Stories and Pictures (2016) and the out-of-print hardcover of Bob Burden's Flaming Carrot, Man of Mystery (2008) I had been coveting at Comicazi for more than a year. He seems to be liking the new biography of George Herriman I got him. We fed the cats their Christmas present—salmon—as soon we got home and hung the scratchboard drawing of a nautilus from my parents next to the glass-fronted cabinet. I still want snow, but I think I'm going to settle for watching some Frank Capra or Preston Sturges on TCM.

Merry Christmas, all.
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[identity profile] alexx-kay.livejournal.com 2016-12-27 10:56 am (UTC)(link)
Indeed it can. And the long-term fate of the fictions within it are so unpredictable. My bafflement at the existence of Mystery Men is similar to (part of) my reaction to Guardians of the Galaxy. If you had told me in the late 80s that there would some day be a big budget, successful movie with large roles for obscure Marvel C-listers like Star-Lord, Yondu, and Ronan, I would never have believed it.