Help this blackbird, there's a stone around my leg

[ashlyme]

Hello Dreamwidth. High time I checked back in. I've ducked out of going to a friend's wedding tonight due to social anxiety wobbles (I don't know anybody there too well so I don't want to risk a bad time; had too much of nights out lately where I looked forward to it and ended up locked in myself and miserable), but I had a good night out  with John H the other night. Lots of talk about Henry James and walks around Harborne and the Black Country.

Started work on my "death by water" story, which has the placeholder title And Cold As Copper. Although I like The Going Water And The Gone too. It's a companion to the story Ashes in the Water, at least in theme, and features a Brum-minted cartwheel penny in place of the ferryman's obol.

I hope the skies clear enough tonight to watch the Perseids. I hope even more that the pissing contest between two arseholes with bad hair doesn't burn the world. I spent too much of the eighties afraid of nuclear war; I don't want that fear again.

Update on the feline volunteer in my charity shop a couple weeks back: the assistant manager took him into a local vet. He wasn't collared (the cat, I mean!) but he was microchipped. Turns out he'd wandered over from Tamworth - which is twenty, thirty miles away from Solihull? I can only think that he hitched a lift with someone. He was slim but not the gauntness I might have expected if he'd wandered on foot all the way.

Have any of you seen seen Greenaway's Prospero's Books? A friend lent me a copy (it is stupidly expensive to buy over here) and I've not watched it since the the mid-nineties. Saving it for seeing cybermule next week.

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[sovay]

It's a companion to the story Ashes in the Water, at least in theme, and features a Brum-minted cartwheel penny in place of the ferryman's obol.

Yaaay!

I like "The Going Water and the Gone."

I hope even more that the pissing contest between two arseholes with bad hair doesn't burn the world.

From your lips to the ears of whoever can put choke chains on the two of them, since I don't expect their own intellects to do it. The trouble with nukes is you can't even hope for 45 to get incinerated personally as you might with incendiaries: the damage isn't that containable. It's very unfair.

Turns out he'd wandered over from Tamworth - which is twenty, thirty miles away from Solihull? I can only think that he hitched a lift with someone.

I hope he was reunited with his people. That's a long way even for a cat to hitch-hike.

Have any of you seen seen Greenaway's Prospero's Books?

Yes, once on video when rushthatspeaks showed it to me, once in a theater last fall, double-featured with Jarman's Tempest. I find it very beautiful. Karl Johnson is still my favorite Ariel, though.

[ashlyme]

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*Yaaay! I like "The Going Water and the Gone."*

It's yours! I think I've missed the boat on that submission deadline now (boom-tish) but I'll press on.

*I hope he was reunited with his people.*

He was. I hope the next time he wanders he finds another friendly place.

*I find it very beautiful.*

I still do! I covet that library...

[cybermule]

Thank you baby <3

[ashlyme]

Thank *you*. You've been a rock these last few days. <3

[cybermule]

Love you *hugs*

[ashlyme]

I love you. *hugs* Roll on Thursday. <3

[thisbluespirit]

It's a companion to the story Ashes in the Water, at least in theme, and features a Brum-minted cartwheel penny in place of the ferryman's obol.

Cool! It immediately makes me think it sounds very Sapphire and Steel-ish, too.

[ashlyme]

Hopefully there's a bit of that in there. My formative model of a good ghost story. :-)