Partez pêcher les étoiles, mais ne vous réveillez pas

[sovay]

Autolycus was quite right about bedtime: I slept almost ten hours last night and woke with Hestia beside me. I know I had nightmares, but at least I can't remember the details. Minus the time I left the house to mail some bills and see if a DVD I ordered three weeks ago had come in at the library (no; they have no idea what happened to it; this is the same movie that went missing from the other library that believed it had a copy; I am tremendously amused at the same time as I don't want to have to buy the damn thing to see it!), Autolycus has spent most of the afternoon and evening on my lap. I feel less like constantly keeling over sideways than yesterday, but not actually, you know, well. I should make dinner at some point before I run out of energy. Have some more things off the internet.

1. Aside from its immediate relevance to current politics, I am enjoying everything about Alex Wellerstein's Restricted Data: The Nuclear Secrecy Blog. Its Oppenheimer tag alone is a glorious time sink. I wish I'd known about it when I was writing "The Trinitite Golem." Oh, well. I had books.

2. John Crowley reviews what sounds like a terrific biography of Norman Bel Geddes: "Inside Every Utopia Is a Dystopia." Not actually a depressing book review.

3. I keep running across museum exhibits that (a) closed years ago (b) I couldn't have gotten to anyway. This one (courtesy of handful_ofdust) was the photography of Faye Schulman. All links worth exploring.

[edit] spatch just sent me a link to an entire site full of mostly British actors naked with fish. It's magnificent. Some of the pictures are beautiful; some are ridiculous; there's an ecological rationale; I don't understand how it took me until now to find out this was a thing. I don't know if Miriam Margolyes with a John Dory is your thing, but WHY NOT.

Comments

[sami]

Miriam Margolyes and !concept is my thing, I adore her anyway, but that picture is amazing and I'm not even sure what I love about it most. Is it the way the fish seems to be giving me side-eye? Is it her expression? Is it the hair? Is it all of the things?

[sovay]

Is it all of the things?

I think it is all of the things combining into an indissolubly transcendent whole, but the hair is a major factor in my personal enjoyment. Also the eyebrows. And the way her rings match her fish.

[sami]

It does all work together so flawlessly, and few people ever remember to match their accessories to their fish.

[selidor]

Fish accessorizing FTW. This is Art, darhling.

[umadoshi]

Good job, kitties!

Ohmygosh, those actors-with-fish photos! *_*

[sovay]

Good job, kitties!

I can't sit down without attracting an Autolycus. He purrs and then he sacks out and then I feel like a terrible person for wanting to stand up and get myself a glass of water or make dinner. He is an inconvenient cat and I love him greatly.

Ohmygosh, those actors-with-fish photos!

spatch saw Mark Rylance and his smoothhound shark first. The portrait of Julie Christie confirms my belief that she was a natural-born Thetis who just happened to suffer the misfortune of being cast in Troy (2004). I'm strangely charmed by Alex Jennings and his tactfully placed seabream. Gillian Anderson might kill you with that conger eel. And I do not believe I have ever before seen Trevor Laird, but he looks extremely good in a sailfish.

[umadoshi]

Snuggly lapcats are so marvelous. *^^*

GILLIAN ANDERSON. *swoons*

[muccamukk]

Ugh. Never link to that nuclear history blog. I always lose like four hours whenever someone does. Dammit.

:P

[sovay]

Ugh. Never link to that nuclear history blog. I always lose like four hours whenever someone does. Dammit.

. . . je ne regrette rien.

[rydra_wong]

I had seen some of the fish portraits before, but not the website, and defnitely not the Miriam Margolyes one, so thank you so much, you have ineffably enhanced my morning.

[sovay]

I had seen some of the fish portraits before, but not the website, and defnitely not the Miriam Margolyes one, so thank you so much, you have ineffably enhanced my morning.

You are very welcome. I feel that any sea-mythos that does not contain Miriam Margolyes is not a pantheon I want to know.

[poliphilo]

The fish thing is- well- I'm struggling to find an adjective that will do it justice.

[sovay]

The fish thing is- well- I'm struggling to find an adjective that will do it justice.

True art can be difficult to convey in words.

[chomiji]

The echo of the fish in her hair, or the hair in her fish ... I just realized that I have no fishy icons, which is sad, considering that I used to keep quite an aquarium set-up with my dad (of blessed memory).

[sovay]

The echo of the fish in her hair, or the hair in her fish ...

Yes! Of all the people in these photos, she looks so oceanic herself.

I just realized that I have no fishy icons, which is sad, considering that I used to keep quite an aquarium set-up with my dad (of blessed memory).

I support you making a fishy icon.

[moon_custafer]

That is much better than Germany's Carponizer carp-and-models calendar: https://www.amazon.com/Carponizer-carp-fishing-calendar-2017/dp/3981747224

[sovay]

That is much better than Germany's Carponizer carp-and-models calendar

I mean, they look like perfectly nice models and perfectly reasonable carp, but none of them is Judi Dench and a European lobster.

[choco_frosh]

What the hell is Gillian Anderson holding/wearing?

[sovay]

What the hell is Gillian Anderson holding/wearing?

A conger eel!

"'Well, there was Mystery,' the Mock Turtle replied, counting off the subjects on his flappers, '—Mystery, ancient and modern, with Seaography: then Drawling—the Drawling-master was an old conger-eel, that used to come once a week: He taught us Drawling, Stretching, and Fainting in Coils.'"

[gwynnega]

The fish portraits are delightful and amazing.

[sovay]

The fish portraits are delightful and amazing.

The project's been running for years. I'm so happy.

[dhampyresa]

FISHES!

[sovay]

FISHES!

Enjoy!