"Were you here when I when I was flotsam (full sail)?"

[greygirlbeast]

Oh my fucking dog, I am sick of the motherfucking weather in motherfucking Rhode Island. Were you in the northeast yesterday, and did you get rained upon? Probably. But we were threatened all day with thunderstorms of near apocalyptic proportions and received nary a drop of rain. Not one. Oh, I watched doppler as the great swatch of green raced

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[ethereal_lad]

You're welcome (vis a vas the Song to the Siren link). Fraser's version is so unearthly, and I loved how you layered that piece into TDG.

[greygirlbeast]

Fraser's version is so unearthly, and I loved how you layered that piece into TDG.

Thank you. That was actually added during the page-proof stage of editing.

[ashlyme]

I really need to know this more than I do. Sorry about the bottle-caps.

I'm maybe one of a dozen folk over here who has no interest in the Olympics. Lead-lined room time.

Re: "Song to the Siren"

[papersteven]

I absolutely love this song. I have ever since Lost Highway back in '97. I can never decide if I prefer Buckley's folky original live performance with the oyster bit (this is on Morning Glory: The Tim Buckley Anthology, if anyone didn't know. There is also an early recording/demo that was released on Works in Progress and on The Dream Belongs To Me that also contains the oyster line), the lush studio version on Starsailor, or This Mortal Coil's gorgeous cover.

I'm very surprised that the lyrics used in The Drowning Girl: A Memoir were something of an afterthought, if I'm reading the above comment correctly. Those lyrics are so important to the story, and they fit so well with your own words, that it never occurred to me that they weren't planned and there from the start. Very interesting! I definitely wouldn't mind if, in Centipede Press's forthcoming edition, you were to include a short essay or interview detailing the more behind the scenes kind of stuff that went into writing the novel. Just a thought.

Thanks for reading all of

[elmocho]

I have all my classical CDs in the huge CD towers from Ikea. One night, during the blasted Arizona monsoon season where sleep was hard to come by, I heard a similar such noise and woke to investigate. My cat immediately came to me and started to rub against my legs, guiltily.

Two of four tall towers had fallen, scattering the contents all over my office, shattering a case here and there, but breaking no CDs. When I tried to right one, it fell again and bruised the bejeezus out of my leg.

Good luck in the sorting. I now take consolation that I had an alphabetical system to work with.

[greygirlbeast]

Two of four tall towers had fallen, scattering the contents all over my office, shattering a case here and there, but breaking no CDs. When I tried to right one, it fell again and bruised the bejeezus out of my leg.

And yet, and still, we seem about to acquire a second one of the things. Cats, I mean.

[elmocho]

"Cats?"
"No thank you."
"No, I mean are you here for cats?"
"No. What are you here for?"
"Cats."

[luciferfell]

Any news on the Confessions of a five chambered heart front? Can not wait to get my copy..

[greygirlbeast]

Any news on the Confessions of a five chambered heart front?

July 31st, 2012.

[activistgirl]

#1. I am sorry about the bottle caps, but I was laughing hysterically when I read that! I do feel your pain, on the cat front, at least.

#2. I had to look up "tourons." At first I thought you meant Naegleria fowleri, cause those scare the shit out of me when it comes to water (though I think you swim in salt water, so...). I learned another new word because of you! Danke!

[greygirlbeast]

Bottle caps: Truly wasn't funny. Even though I am very capable of laughing at my crazy.

And I'm always glad to teach new words.

[activistgirl]

At our place we call it the "We can't have nice (read: fragile) things" effect. I have one furball eating on an aloe plant next to me as I type.

[martianmooncrab]

I'll just buy new jars.

dont suppose you might consider containers other than those made out of glass? or coating them in bubble wrap?

Nothing like a cat making a statement, and then figuring out that the list of suspects is as short as they are.

[greygirlbeast]

dont suppose you might consider containers other than those made out of glass? or coating them in bubble wrap?

Wish I could. But I can't.

[martianmooncrab]

yeah, kinda figured that would be it, I have the same thing with pennies, they have to go in a glass jar or a glass container.

And yes, I have broken the penny jars by accident too.