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The skipper's in the wardroom drinking gin
The internet is killingly slow for reasons relating to RCN having apparently melted down around one o'clock this afternoon (customer support lines included), so instead of anything that requires extended interaction, here is a photograph of my niece. Technically she is wearing a fluffy scarf belonging to my mother.
I think somebody needs to see Ponyo (2008) stat.
I think somebody needs to see Ponyo (2008) stat.
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My mother showed me a video tonight in which she is waving her tail slowly back and forth and it looks like a living tail. The way she flexes her feet makes a curling fin. I wish I knew if she was too young for Splash (1984)—or just the scene where Madison's tail unfurls in the bathtub. I must have been about her age when I saw it for the first time, but I saw a lot of weird things young.
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I guess I had better start getting used to the English dub.
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(It is, at least, decent. Not quite as good as the Totoro dub, but acceptable.)
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This made me think of you https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/06/arts/music/kurt-weill-song-of-the-white-cheese-discovered.html
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She is a wonderful niece. I try not to cover the internet with pictures of her, because she might not appreciate them when she's older, but I feel a good mermaid costume can only be flattering.
This made me think of you
Thank you! That's incredibly cool!
Always trust Lotte Lenya's memory.
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'Chopin’s Heart, Pickled in a Jar, Offers Clues to His Death'
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It vindicates the doctor who wrote his original death certificate!
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I had actually seen that on the Guardian, but not the rediscovered Weill song!
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—The above was Autolycus planting his butt on the keyboard. I think he says hi.
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....I knew they had cut out Chopin's heart but not that it was in a PILLAR, omg wtf.
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This is reminding me of the Tumblr posts which are public service announcements that Mary Shelley learned to spell from headstones, had sex for the first time on her mother's grave, and kept her dead husband's heart after his cremation tl;dr you will never be as Goth as Mary Shelley.
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NONE MORE GOTH.
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You're not the only one on my flist having 'net problems - I hope it gets sorted soon.
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It even looks scale-like! I am impressed by my niece's instincts.
Thank you! It had mostly resolved by last night and by today the internet was functioning at more or less normal speed. I have no idea what happened, except it seems to have been nationwide. Honestly I assume some kind of denial-of-service attack, but maybe it was just a really inopportune downed tree.
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I am very fond of her. I need her to start reading so that I can give her various mer-suitable books!
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It is probably just as well that my mother can't e-mail me the video from her phone, because there might be a widespread case of dead of cute.
Clearly all scarves are much improved by becoming mermaid tails.
I can get behind this philosophy!
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I don't disagree!
My father made me a mermaid tail for Halloween when I was in third grade. It was a stiff, jade-green fabric with a shimmering moiré look; I wore it with pearls and (for the only time in my life) water-soluble streaks of deep-green dye in my hair. My mother informs me that Charlotte has found the tail and loves it so much that she has started taking it to bed with her, like a comfort animal or a selkie skin. This makes me happy. I only wish it could really give her the sea.
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I feel very lucky in my niece.
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Nine
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I will have to get her some antique maps.