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Live me golden, tell me dark

I got home from seeing Pixar's Coco (2017) at the Capitol with

spatch to discover that my poems "די ירושה" and "Shadow-Song" have been accepted by Uncanny Magazine. The title of the former means "The Inheritance" in Yiddish; I wrote it on Erev Rosh Hashanah. The latter is a ghost poem for Elisabeth Hauptmann; I wrote it on a train to New York. I hope to write about Coco because I loved it, with its music and families and its underworld as deep as a cenote and vivid as marigolds, but right now I am just pleased with this much better ending for a day that began with waking from nightmares to migraine.

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Congratulations!

Thank you!

Well, not negative exactly, but along the lines of 'eh, it's fine'. So I'd considered not bothering, but now I am once again intrigued!

I think it is much more than fine. These reviews (by Latino critics) much more closely match what I saw last night.

I'll try to write about it soon!

Edited 2017-11-30 20:06 (UTC)

Congrats!

My impression is that critics and audiences liked Coco, but many were annoyed by the Frozen short that preceded it, especially because it wasn't all that short.

Well I liked the Olaf story--corny but fun, and a fine contrast to the much greater work (musically and visually) of Coco.
I thought of you, Sovay, especially in the cenote!

Well I liked the Olaf story--corny but fun, and a fine contrast to the much greater work (musically and visually) of Coco.

That's fair. It did not work at all for me.

I thought of you, Sovay, especially in the cenote!

Thank you!

I liked the Olaf story also, but we clearly are in the minority. The 20 minute length is suspiciously like the length of a 30 minute TV show without the commercials, so I presume that is its future.

Congrats!

Thank you!

My impression is that critics and audiences liked Coco, but many were annoyed by the Frozen short that preceded it, especially because it wasn't all that short.

I bounced off the Frozen short to the point where I pulled my hat down over my eyes and Andy Capped my way through it. It would have done much better as the television holiday special it was originally planned as—in front of Coco, it's really shown up by its feature and it's tedious.