Things I Thought About Today That Were Not Vertigo/PT Related

[mrissa]

(not an exhaustive list)

1. Backstrom, honey, you are just not allowed to trip the other players like that. I'm glad you fellas won. Hurrah. But whipping your stick around the corner of the goal: no, dear. No. Very smooth, very wrong.

2. Joan Baez has aged beautifully. Holy crap, we should all hope to age as well as Joan Baez.

3. There is sort of a squirmy happy feeling I get on rereading the first book of a favorite series. Even if the book itself is not a favorite within the series, there's the memory of, "Oh, right, this is how it all begins, this is what I first started to love about this series, and these are the bits I couldn't fully appreciate then," that comes creeping in.

4. This is some consolation for not having Murder Must Advertise, which is what I thought I wanted. This approach of trying to get all the Lord Peter books for less than $1 each, used, has not gone well lately. It was fine when I didn't care how soon I had them. Now the bloom is off the rose that is the thrill of the hunt (I'm sorry, I couldn't think of another metaphor to mix in there, so you'll have to make do with two), and I want the remaining ones and wish I'd spent $1.50 or even $2 on them when I was steady and in a bookstore and they were there in front of me. Let this be a lesson to you.

5. It apparently is possible for me to come up with YA SF novel ideas that don't involve spaceships or virtual reality, those being perfectly respectable SF things that are rather overused in YAs, in my opinion. Down side: did I need another novel idea sketched out? Not so much. But here we are.

6. You know all those "[your interest here] is love" graphics that were going around lj awhile back? Pete Seeger really is love. Really. Our PBS affiliate played an hour and a half biography of him this evening, and it was just exactly the thing. Just exactly. He got me all choked up at least three times and bouncy with delight a great deal more than that. Also: Pete's belief in the long run means the long run, not the slightly-less-short-than-short run, not "the long run" meaning "day after tomorrow, Sunday at the latest." This is extremely useful to me at the moment.

But I wasn't going to talk about that part, so I won't.

Comments

[apis-mellifera.livejournal.com]

I have a spare copy of Murder Must Advertise if you'd like me to send it to you. It's a touch water damaged, but otherwise readable.

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

Oh, thanks, but I'm not sure I can wait that long.

[apis-mellifera.livejournal.com]

I know that feeling quite well, yes indeed.

[zwol.livejournal.com]

It seems appropriate to remind you that you don't have to decide what novel to write next right now. (I mean, after the one you are currently writing.)

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

Heh. I did decide, though. Weeks ago.

I may have decided wrongly, but I did decide.

[zwol.livejournal.com]

Um. I meant, you don't have to decide about the one after the one you decided to write some weeks ago.

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

See, but I'm not writing that one yet. I'm still $#%$&@# revising the previous one.

[zwol.livejournal.com]

Oh.

Good luck?

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

Thank you.

[carbonel]

While I was changing DVDs, I noticed Pete Seeger on the live TV that I hadn't actually been watching, and was able to hit the "Record" button on the DVR. Because it was already on the right channel, it captured the hour of the show that was already in the buffer, plus the half-hour to come. I'll watch it when I need something I know I'll enjoy.

Also, I have all the Peter Wimsey novels, if you want to borrow them. (I can deliver.)

[jenett]

I was going to offer the same thing, on the Wimsey (with the note that my Nine Tailors is falling to pieces: the whole set was my father's, and they're mostly pushing the half-century mark except for Busman's Honeymoon, which I rebought)

But I would happily lend.

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

Thanks, but as I said to carbonel, I think we'll take care of it in-house.

[aedifica]

I was going to offer a loan too--I've gotten the impression that you live somewhere near me (I'm in Burnsville). Glad you'll be getting a copy one way or another!

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

Yes, we're in Eagan.

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

Oh, thanks, but I think we'll be taking care of it here. (Next time we see each other, I would like The Last Colony back, though.)

[carbonel]

Yes, I've been looking for an opportunity to get it back to you.

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

Well, Minicon if nothing else.

[kizmet-42.livejournal.com]

Number three, with Judith Merkle Riley's first book A Vision of Light. I remember the exact moment. I still get the same sort of bump when I reread it.

I don't understand people who don't reread books.

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

I haven't heard of that author; what sort of book is it?

[kizmet-42.livejournal.com]

Historical romance set in medieval England (and in the sequel, France) about a midwife who has the gift of healing.

God has a speaking part in the novels.

http://www.amazon.com/Vision-Light-Margaret-Ashbury-Trilogy/dp/0307237877/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1204235695&sr=8-1

[retrobabble.livejournal.com]

Backstrom, honey, you are just not allowed to trip the other players like that...no, dear. No. Very smooth, very wrong.

I so want to go to a hockey game with you. Or at least listen to the commentary.

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

There is sometimes yelling in Finnish. Not very often, though.

[shewhomust.livejournal.com]

And the moral of #4 is that the books we regret are the ones we didn't buy; but, with the incentive of Barter Books, I have weeded out my duplicate (and triplicate) Wimseys, I'm afraid, so can't help there.

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

I think that keeping duplicates can also produce regret in some circumstances, when you run out of room for non-duplicates sooner because of it.

[dichroic.livejournal.com]

Re #2: I recently got to visit my friend L, whom I hadn't seen in a couple of years. She's in her early fifties; it shows in her neck but not particularly elsewhere. Still, she's had an exhausting few years (a bunch of small kids) and she definitely looks older, and what immediately impressed me was how *good* it looks on her. I do like having examples, whether in real life or celebrity, who can make you look forward to what the future is likely to bring.

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

I wouldn't say that it's that Joan Baez doesn't show her age. She does. She looks awesome at her actual age.

[dichroic.livejournal.com]

That's close to what I meant to say. My friend does not look her full age, but that's not why she looks good. The age markers she does show look good on her. You can see that further aging will continue to look good, in a fine-drawn El Greco sort of way.

My grandmother and Katherine Hepburn, on the other hand, both looked better at 70 than at 50, though I think unflattering hair and eyeglass styles then in fashion had something to do with that for both of them.

[porphyrin.livejournal.com]

Do you know Abiyoyo?

HE DISAPPEARED.

--your godson, age 3

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

Godson + Pete = 2*AWESOME

I really need a new Robin-and-me icon. I will have to see if Robin's Uncle dd_b feels photographic at any upcoming gatherings.

[zalena.livejournal.com]

Pete Seeger is love.

I know we've already talked about this, but I concur.

[columbina.livejournal.com]

I don't hope to age as well as Joan Baez. I hope to age as well as Blythe Danner. (I suspect it's already too late for that, but what the hell.)

[tewok.livejournal.com]

A few years ago, I played at a festival for which Pete Seeger was the headliner. Man, what a guy -- very gracious and unassuming to everyone. He wanted to know the bus schedule that would get him from the train station to the festival ground because he didn't want to put anyone to the trouble of coming to pick him up. He invited all the other performers up on stage to sing with him on one of his final songs. I've had some great performing experiences, but that one I'll never forget.

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

I am not even a little bit surprised.

[janetmk.livejournal.com]

The PBS program on Seeger was excellent.

I have a wonderful memory of attending an informal concert by Pete at my university circa 1965. A glorious man.

[gwynnega]

Pete's belief in the long run means the long run, not the slightly-less-short-than-short run, not "the long run" meaning "day after tomorrow, Sunday at the latest." This is extremely useful to me at the moment.

And to me too. So thanks for mentioning it!