They're made of what I was before I had to break it down
I am under actual doctor's orders to take time for myself, so that's my plan for the rest of this weekend: it's my first chance in weeks. The weather seems to be seesawing on whether it's going to snow tomorrow or just fall back on freezing rain, but I am still thinking that I will walk to a used book store. Monday, I intend to tour Boston's bridges. Have some links in the meantime.
1. I have been informed by![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
selkie that I am plentifully available on Kindle. I don't have an e-reader, so I never think to look. I recommend everything I'm in. If you buy my (about to be no longer most recent) collection, I even get royalties.
2. I am not at all surprised to hear that Heurtebise, Death's chauffeur, had been in Cocteau's head for years before he found his way into Orphée (1950). He was my favorite character from the first time I saw that film. I am older now than his actor, whose face has always been more beautiful to me than either his mistress' or the poet's. I suspect him of getting into both of these poems.
3. I am not surprised to hear about the rediscovery of Coleridge's coffin, either, and I'm glad the Guardian didn't think anyone would be.
4. I forgot to mention that Sarah Monette's "The Testimony of Dragon's Teeth" in the latest issue of Uncanny Magazine is a new Kyle Murchison Booth story. He is one of my favorite fictional characters currently being written and I look forward to the day there are enough stories not already collected in The Bone Key (2007/2011) to make a new volume.
5. Kathryn Millard's Experiment 20 (2018) makes a neat chaser to Michael Almereyda's Experimenter: The Stanley Milgram Story (2015): a 14-minute recreation of the experiences of three female participants in Stanley Milgram's experiment on obedience to authority figures, their reactions and eventually resistance to the experimenter's instructions recorded in 1962 as part of the late, disproportionately small inclusion of women in the experiment. The dialogue is history; the interpretation is noir-lit black box theater. The women are identified only by their professions, their places of birth, and their case numbers—2006, 2019, and 2036—but they are distinct people, reluctant or jumpy or resolute, cautiously pushing back, unease flashing over to anger. One even resists the debrief afterward, refusing to rate herself on a scale of nerves and tension: "I got mad more than nervous . . . I got good and mad. I can write down 'Good and mad'!" The experimenter too is nameless, a disarmingly awkward young man taking notes in his shirtsleeves, his insistence as apologetic as if he himself has been tasked with carrying out some unpleasant but unavoidable orders. (The actor reminded me of Anthony Perkins, which is not a pejorative by me, but I suspect suggests what the director thought of Stanley Milgram. Sasha is thanked in the credits, however.) I am not sure the film is doing much more than highlighting the underrepresented presence of women in the obedience experiment and reminding the audience that not all participants blindly flipped the switches and pressed the red button until they believed the man on the other side of the glass had been shocked into silence, but for that alone it's valuable. My bias here is that I once wrote Milgram a ghost poem. I do not think Experiment 20 is a disservice.
P.S. Hans Conried was born a hundred and one years ago today. What a weird thing to be able to say. In his honor, please enjoy my favorite partly hypnotized threesome song: "Get Together Weather" from The 5,000 Fingers of Dr. T (1953).
P.P.S. And that reminds me that I fully intended to write something for Leslie Howard's hundred-and-twenty-fifth birthday, but that was last Tuesday: nope. Here he is in one of my favorite modes, the skeptical note-taker, trying to figure out how to be human from the outside in. He got it right most of the time.
P.P.P.S. I can't leave my computer; there is a cat asleep on my lap.
1. I have been informed by
selkie that I am plentifully available on Kindle. I don't have an e-reader, so I never think to look. I recommend everything I'm in. If you buy my (about to be no longer most recent) collection, I even get royalties. 2. I am not at all surprised to hear that Heurtebise, Death's chauffeur, had been in Cocteau's head for years before he found his way into Orphée (1950). He was my favorite character from the first time I saw that film. I am older now than his actor, whose face has always been more beautiful to me than either his mistress' or the poet's. I suspect him of getting into both of these poems.
3. I am not surprised to hear about the rediscovery of Coleridge's coffin, either, and I'm glad the Guardian didn't think anyone would be.
4. I forgot to mention that Sarah Monette's "The Testimony of Dragon's Teeth" in the latest issue of Uncanny Magazine is a new Kyle Murchison Booth story. He is one of my favorite fictional characters currently being written and I look forward to the day there are enough stories not already collected in The Bone Key (2007/2011) to make a new volume.
5. Kathryn Millard's Experiment 20 (2018) makes a neat chaser to Michael Almereyda's Experimenter: The Stanley Milgram Story (2015): a 14-minute recreation of the experiences of three female participants in Stanley Milgram's experiment on obedience to authority figures, their reactions and eventually resistance to the experimenter's instructions recorded in 1962 as part of the late, disproportionately small inclusion of women in the experiment. The dialogue is history; the interpretation is noir-lit black box theater. The women are identified only by their professions, their places of birth, and their case numbers—2006, 2019, and 2036—but they are distinct people, reluctant or jumpy or resolute, cautiously pushing back, unease flashing over to anger. One even resists the debrief afterward, refusing to rate herself on a scale of nerves and tension: "I got mad more than nervous . . . I got good and mad. I can write down 'Good and mad'!" The experimenter too is nameless, a disarmingly awkward young man taking notes in his shirtsleeves, his insistence as apologetic as if he himself has been tasked with carrying out some unpleasant but unavoidable orders. (The actor reminded me of Anthony Perkins, which is not a pejorative by me, but I suspect suggests what the director thought of Stanley Milgram. Sasha is thanked in the credits, however.) I am not sure the film is doing much more than highlighting the underrepresented presence of women in the obedience experiment and reminding the audience that not all participants blindly flipped the switches and pressed the red button until they believed the man on the other side of the glass had been shocked into silence, but for that alone it's valuable. My bias here is that I once wrote Milgram a ghost poem. I do not think Experiment 20 is a disservice.
P.S. Hans Conried was born a hundred and one years ago today. What a weird thing to be able to say. In his honor, please enjoy my favorite partly hypnotized threesome song: "Get Together Weather" from The 5,000 Fingers of Dr. T (1953).
P.P.S. And that reminds me that I fully intended to write something for Leslie Howard's hundred-and-twenty-fifth birthday, but that was last Tuesday: nope. Here he is in one of my favorite modes, the skeptical note-taker, trying to figure out how to be human from the outside in. He got it right most of the time.
P.P.P.S. I can't leave my computer; there is a cat asleep on my lap.
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Did you ever get to read Unnatural Creatures? I think rush reviewed it....
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I did!
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MY COPY IS TRAGICALLY IN A BOX.
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Do you do Kindle? You don't do you? I mean, my copy is Somewhere In This Apartment, On A Shelf Probably, Behind a Double and Triple Stack of Books, but at least I know where it is on Kindle. /o\
https://www.amazon.com/Bone-Key-Sarah-Monette-ebook/dp/B005ZJJ7VY/ref=sr_1_1_twi_kin_2?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1523772027&sr=1-1&keywords=bone+key+monette
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I do not Kindle, hence point one of this linkspam! I appreciate the effort, though. Maybe tomorrow I can find a used copy of the second edition, which I believe I do not actually own.
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//facepalm
fucking reading comprehension, how does it work
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Complicatedly. That's how I got a stupid typo in my most recent poem. It's all right.
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I like this doctor.
Nine
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I like him, too. I find this form of self-care significantly more difficult than remembering to take medications. That is probably part of the point of doing it.
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"[The coffins] lay not where most thought, in the far corner of the crypt, but almost directly below the inscription 'Beneath this stone lies the body of Samuel Taylor Coleridge' on the prominent memorial slab in the nave. 'So that was a bit of a clue really,' said Clode."
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I'm glad that doctor is looking out for you.
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It's being conducted by the Boston Society of Civil Engineers as part of the Cambridge Science Festival, which means it may be annual. So that you get the chance, I will hope so.
I'm glad that doctor is looking out for you.
Thank you.
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... but he may not get himself there. Regardless, I hope you and Rush have an excellent time. I'm sure you will! Report if you see any mer-beings, please.
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Absolutely!
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Thank you. I am trying!
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Agreed! If doctor's orders lead to the acquisition of any especially good books, I will certainly report back.
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Tell the lovely people what they've wonLink directly to the collection that gets you royalties!This has been an extension of my 'Earn You At Least 1P* in Royalties 2k18' campaign.
*Local delivery price 1 pizza your choice size and toppings incl tip
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Fixed! I am not currently in the best mental shape for self-promotion! I'm working on it!
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But it's a thing now. It became a thing around 2010 if I understand aright.
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This is an EXCELLENT plan. Vehement approval from this corner!
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Thank you!
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I am glad you approve.
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You're very welcome!