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greygirlbeast

"There's one thing I want to say, so I'll be brave."

Feb 02, 2013 13:54

Once again, it's freezing here in Providence. Currently sunny and 30˚F.

Yesterday, I learned that I'd made the 2012 Locus Recommended Reading List four times over, in four different categories: Novel (The Drowning Girl: A Memoir), Collections (Confessions of a Five-Chambered Heart), Novelette ("Fake Plastic Trees"), and Short Story ("Goggles [c. ( Read more... )

locus, outside, the drowning girl, piercing, winter, "fake plastic trees, red delicious, science fiction, fay grimmer, "goggles (c. 1900)", 5chambered, the maltese falcon

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ashlyme February 2 2013, 18:06:23 UTC

I've got a lot of time for Joel Cairo. I need to rewatch that.

sovay February 2 2013, 19:18:59 UTC

I've got a lot of time for Joel Cairo.

I've got a lot of time for Peter Lorre, almost no matter who he's playing. If you've never seen a movie called Three Strangers (1946), track it down-totally cast against type, a part the studio wanted for David Niven. The director, Jean Negulesco, insisted on Lorre. I don't think he was a romantic lead before or ever again, except in the eyes of his audience.

moon_custafer February 3 2013, 04:06:47 UTC

As it happens, we watched it last night too -- It was one of the first things green_trilobite bought a new copy of when he got a blu-ray player. On blu-ray, I find that the woven texture's of the actors' clothes are almost hypnotic.

alumiere February 2 2013, 18:59:50 UTC

The Locus nods are wonderful and very well deserved. I'm glad you had a good (if cold) day out, and the second note made me snort my tea.

greygirlbeast February 2 2013, 19:05:48 UTC

and the second note made me snort my tea.

I was in fine form.

sovay February 2 2013, 19:15:48 UTC

Novel (The Drowning Girl: A Memoir), Collections (Confessions of a Five-Chambered Heart), Novelette ("Fake Plastic Trees"), and Short Story ("Goggles [c. 1910]). I am pleased.

Congratulations.

Rockstar Piercing - where I got a pair of ebony plugs to replace my steel grommets

Differently sized, or just a different look?

there are "old movies" that never get old.

Agreed.

greygirlbeast February 2 2013, 21:17:57 UTC

Differently sized, or just a different look?

Just a different look.

docbrite February 2 2013, 20:14:12 UTC

Two goddamn shelves of "Teen Supernatural Romance." I stood there cursing that crap while an employee watched on in horror. I kept expecting her to call the police over my rather loud string of profanities.

This is the kind of thing that makes me miss you unbearably.

martianmooncrab February 2 2013, 20:47:52 UTC

Two goddamn shelves of "Teen Supernatural Romance

true bookstore employees are used to patrons talking to the shelving..