When are the tents coming down?

[sovay]

The trouble is that I am dead flat exhausted and therefore nothing interesting is happening on this journal, because nothing interesting is happening in my brain. I am tired of work. I am finding the news difficult to deal with. spatch came home from Davis Square with fancy ravioli from Dave's and a sherry mushroom sauce to cook them in. Valerie Taylor's The Girls in 3-B (1959) reminds me of a Dorothy Arzner movie except that in addition to the clear and critical examination of heteronormativity, the novel contains an explicitly lesbian couple who get a happy ending as a pleasant antidote to all the crushing boy-meets-girl maneuvering. It is not Tyrone Power's fault, but when I discover that he starred in a movie called Captain from Castile (1947), speaking as a person who has seen My Favorite Year (1982) more times than I can count, I'm afraid my first reaction is "Captain from crap!"

Comments

[yhlee]

*support support*

I have a book for you I've been meaning to mail you since Lithuania (bought in the Lithuanian airport, and by a Lithuanian woman author, translated into English, with a sublime triptych of three short stories). I swear I'll try to get it out soon. I've just been super flaky.

[sovay]

I have a book for you I've been meaning to mail you since Lithuania (bought in the Lithuanian airport, and by a Lithuanian woman author, translated into English, with a sublime triptych of three short stories).

Thank you. That sounds wonderful.

I swear I'll try to get it out soon. I've just been super flaky.

Please don't worry about being flaky. I have had a friend's hat hanging dry-cleaned in my closet for the last seven months and still haven't managed to mail it back to them. There is no stone-throwing here.

[yhlee]

Brief report on the book just to whet your appetite. :)

[sovay]

Brief report on the book just to whet your appetite.

It sounds great!

[ladymondegreen]

There is never any stone throwing (I eye the many months delayed care package I ought to send, to say nothing of the two finished baby afghans that need mailing and one more to sew together).

Though some stone soup might not be a bad plan.

[sovay]

Though some stone soup might not be a bad plan.

I made stone soup as a child, after reading one version or another in a picture book. It came out really well. It is grey and cold and the sun is setting early here; it would not be the worst thing to make again.

Thanks.