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greygirlbeast

One Afternoon in Connecticut

Oct 05, 2009 11:54

I had every intention of spending all day yesterday in this chair, at this desk, writing. But, that's not what happened. Spooky noted that I'd not left the house since last Tuesday, September 29. I'm getting bad like that again, and I don't want to get bad like that again. So...I forced myself to get dressed (and it really was an act of some ( Read more... )

outside, days off, shakespeare, the sea, moa, cemeteries, the ammonite violin, birds, lovecraft, the red tree

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txtriffidranch October 5 2009, 17:17:08 UTC

Speaking of Readercon, that reminds me: I can't remember if you told me in the past whether you prefer or disdain spicy foods. I'm asking because if I'm able to get out there, I may have a surprise for you.

greygirlbeast October 5 2009, 17:22:37 UTC

txtriffidranch October 5 2009, 17:54:46 UTC

Good to know. If I'm able to get out there, and it's all going to be dependent upon what happens over the next six months, I'm hoping to bring a jar or two of goth salsa. It all depends upon whether or not I can get a particular soft-neck garlic that's only grown in Louisiana these days.

greygirlbeast October 5 2009, 17:55:53 UTC

I'm hoping to bring a jar or two of goth salsa.

Goth salsa? Dare I even ask?

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handful_ofdust October 5 2009, 17:22:54 UTC

Thank you so much for liking "Marya Nox". I always worry about dialogue-only pieces, though I find myself increasingly drawn to write them. And let me take this opportunity to tell you, as I've been putting off for far too long (due to both busyness and shyness), how much I absolutely loved The Red Tree. It was everything I'd hoped for and more, and easily my favorite of yours so far (though if the next novel really does center around Perrault, that may eventually become my favorite, instead. It's just possible;)).

greygirlbeast October 5 2009, 17:25:03 UTC

Thank you so much for liking "Marya Nox".

You are most welcome. It really is a gorgeous and haunting piece. I thought about it all night.

brienze October 5 2009, 18:06:05 UTC

I was just going through my Dad's old slides from the early 1970s to send for restoration as a Christmas present. There are a good many pictures of me, in various colored parkas from year to year, at Stonington and Groton Long Point. I wish I could remember those visits - we moved South when I was 9 - but I do remember going from there to Providence, where we ate at a Chinese restaurant that brought Italian bread to the table, because it was an Italian neighborhood and their patrons, my grandmother included, expected bread before the meal.

Thanks for the pictures and memories! If I could afford it, I'd love to go back someday. For one thing, I guess my parents didn't think the cemetery was an appropriate place to take a little girl, so I missed it entirely.

greygirlbeast October 5 2009, 18:08:46 UTC

I wish I could have known New England in the early '70s, before tourism and gentrification took such an awful toll.
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ardiril October 5 2009, 19:50:12 UTC

OT: Lovecraft: Fear of the Unknown, featuring a 50 second spot of our own beloved Ms Kiernan (yeah, the clip on YouTube), becomes available on Netflix October 13. From the couple reviews I've read, the documentary is at least good for one viewing, featuring Ramsey Campbell, Neil Gaiman, Peter Straub and others.

greygirlbeast October 5 2009, 19:58:44 UTC

ardiril October 5 2009, 20:15:25 UTC

Sorry, Google didn't give me much to go on. I'm looking forward to seeing it.

greygirlbeast October 5 2009, 20:38:49 UTC

I'm really hope it does well on DVD. Frank's a great guy, and I loved doing the interview.

sovay October 5 2009, 20:00:27 UTC

Bacon has been a very important influence, and I read a lot of biography, and find odd parallels (or maybe they're not odd at all), and these things inevitably bleed together.

We still need to see Love Is the Devil.

Oh, and, on Etsy, I've found the perfect mask to wear for the dramatic reading of "A Midsummer Night's Dream" (I'm to play Oberon) at next year's ReaderCon 21.

Dude! Photographs?

That looks like a lovely day at Stonington.

greygirlbeast October 5 2009, 20:37:40 UTC

We still need to see Love Is the Devil.

Agreed.

Dude! Photographs?

I'll put a link to it in tomorrow's entry. It's very leafy, and I'm also going to rig together a head-piece with antlers. I must be a rutting Oberon, after all.

sovay October 5 2009, 22:27:36 UTC

It's very leafy, and I'm also going to rig together a head-piece with antlers.

Nice . . .

I must be a rutting Oberon, after all.

Oh, yes. "Do not forget, in German, they call him Erl-king."