Comments | greygirlbeast: Howard Hughes dithers and frets.

greygirlbeast

Howard Hughes dithers and frets.

Mar 25, 2006 10:55

If you discount e-mail and other internet communications, I've not spoken to any sentient creature except Spooky and Sophie (I'll count a cat as sentient, but I'm not so sure about a hamster, so I'm not counting Chi) since we went with Byron to see V for Vendetta. That's what....seven days? A whole week? And it's not the least bit unusual. It's ( Read more... )

angela carter, sirenia, dolls, dancy, lovecraft, dr. who

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forgottenbelief March 25 2006, 16:00:30 UTC

I have the opposite problem - my need for nearly constant human company, whether online or in person, disturbs me. I've been trying to wean myself off of people. I know I'm more... centered, I guess, when I take the time to pay attention to myself in the company of no one else. I wish personality traits were more like trading cards... "I'll trade you two social points for one solitude point!"

And the neurotic animal placements sound like a premise to a short story...

sort of OT... girfan March 25 2006, 16:01:42 UTC

http://ciclops.org/view_event.php?id=52&flash=1

I thought these were amazing!

I'm going to have a few things to send to you. Where would I find the latest address to post stuff to you/

Re: sort of OT... greygirlbeast March 25 2006, 16:06:10 UTC

Thanks for the link! :-)

I'm going to have a few things to send to you. Where would I find the latest address to post stuff to you

The mailing addy is:
Caitlín R. Kiernan
P.O. Box 5381
Atlanta, GA 31107 USA

sovay March 25 2006, 21:36:56 UTC

Later, I read Angela Carter's "The Lady in the House of Love" to Spooky (which I rate as both one of the best vampire stories ever written and possibly the best retelling of "Sleeping Beauty").

That was the first Angela Carter I ever read.

greygirlbeast March 25 2006, 22:04:19 UTC

That was the first Angela Carter I ever read.

I'm not sure which of her stories I read first. Most likely it was "The Company of Wolves."

sovay March 25 2006, 23:13:47 UTC

I remember "The Lady of the House of Love" because it was reprinted in Terri Windling's Elsewhere III, which I originally picked up from a used book store because of the P.C. Hodgell short story ("Bones") it contained. In my first or second week of college, I was browsing in the library's fiction stacks and ran into Angela Carter; I took home The Bloody Chamber and fell in love.

Most likely it was "The Company of Wolves."

I was once in a myth and folklore class that included that story and the film Freeway. It was pretty cool.

styggian March 25 2006, 22:38:25 UTC

Do you mean the first Who episode or the one where they went 5 billion years into the future?
I adored that immensely.
I was actually sitting there saying out loud, "Now THIS is fucking sci fi".
I found this book in a used bookstore a couple days after that that is all stories that take place in the year 3000 and I don't know if I would have bought it if I hadn't watched that and hadn't been particularly thinking about such things.
I think I agree with you about Farscape, except with me, I am still experiencing it for the first time.
I just saw the episode where Dargo tried to kill himself over Chianna and his son tis past wednesday.
Tell me I have a lot more to watch before it is over.

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styggian March 26 2006, 02:20:45 UTC

If you could hear me right now, I am actually breathing a sigh of relief.
I saw PW in a store the other day and didn't know what it was.
I just figured that they took the last couple episodes and put them together.

greygirlbeast March 26 2006, 02:03:26 UTC

the one where they went 5 billion years into the future?

That's the one.

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greygirlbeast March 26 2006, 02:04:12 UTC

Can I post your story about the ceramic animals in [info]glamourbombs?

Sure.