Well, that was disturbing. I dreamed--just now, a few minutes ago I woke up and am still close enough to this dream to reach back and touch the feelings of dread that it gave me--that I was at a huge gathering of people in a country club or convention center or huge private home. I could not tell which. If it was a public function building it was ( Read more... )

I woke up with this poem stuck in my head. * Take this kiss upon the brow! And, in parting from you now, Thus much let me avow-- You are not wrong, who deem That my days have been a dream; Yet if hope has flown away In a night, or in a day, In a vision, or in none, Is it therefore the less gone? All that we see or seem ( Read more... )

Methoughts I saw a thousand fearful wracks,
A thousand men that fishes gnawed upon...--Clarence, in Richard III

The other night I had an intense dream.  I know, I know, there's nothing more sarcastic-quotes "fascinating" than other people's dreams.  But this one was upsetting even for me.  I was swimming in the Quabbin Reservoir or one of the ( Read more... )

(Post started Friday night, finished today:)

I should get to bed as it's my first full day on the new job tomorrow.  However, I went out to a movie to take the edge off my nerves (and distract me from a slight but irritating cold).  The movie was Hanna.

It's a lot of fun if you're me.  It's about a little girl whose father raises her alone in ( Read more... )

I'm a working stiff.
--Terry Pratchett on the zombie labor movement, Worldcon 2004

I like zombie stories.  When I say that, though, people tend to assume I mean Night of the Living Dead and all the zombie apocalypse genre.  I do like Shaun of the Dead, don't get me wrong, and I'm as fond of survival horror as the next fan.  There's been a lot of it ( Read more... )

Happy October, everybody!

I can't promise I'll post something every single day, but I want to recognize the season with various book and movie reviews and recs I've been meaning to do for a long time.  Here's a poem to start off.

THE HOST OF THE AIR

O'Driscoll drove with a song
The wild duck and the drake
From the tall and the tufted reeds
Of the drear ( Read more... )

I haven't been getting enough sleep lately.  It's just my own bad planning.  Consequently, I've been waking up with dreamsickness the last couple of mornings.  It's the feeling that I haven't had enough dreaming/nightmare time during the course of the six hours I spent in bed, and the dreams will consequently follow me around for half an hour or so ( Read more... )