I borrowed Dave Horowitz's Five Little Gefiltes from the library yesterday. It is totally, utterly silly.

And then I went to the store today and picked up a jar of horseradish and a jar of gefilte fish. :-)

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Via tudorpot:

Rule 1 - Post the rules
Rule 1b - Ignore the rules (I concur with the pot on this one)
Rule 2- Answer the questions the tagger set for you in their post and then make 11 new ones.
Rule 3- Tag 11 people and link them to your post.
Rule 4- Let them know you’ve tagged them! ( If you wanna play, go for it.


1) Do you comb or brush your hair? Brush. And today I painted the silver and bleached parts blue.

2) What are you most fussy/perfectionist about in your home? Taking out the garbage and recycling.

3) What's your dream vacation? Francophone city with good public transportation.

4) Have you discovered anything because of fandom? Lots, including BPAL and TV Tropes (aka Big Freaking Timehoover, Beware of) and Japanese romantic symbolism and what the heck aunty_marion is talking about when she tweets about Herman.

5) What's your favorite domestic thing to do? Sleep like a cat. (Cooking is a distant second.)

6) Do you remember the pairing that got you into fandom? At this point it's a jumble of Will/Bran (The Dark is Rising), Draco/Neville, and
Snape/Lupin.

7) What's the oddest compliment you've ever received? The ones where I suspect the speaker mistook me for someone else. (e.g., some other Asian chick who plays the piano)

8) What are your favorite non-fandom websites to visit? fluentself.com, www.habitblog.com, talkabouttennis.com

9) What's your favorite scent/perfume to wear - candle to burn? To wear: Guerlain's Mitsouko and L'Instant Magie, and BPAL's Danube and Nanny Ashtoreth. (Not coincidentally, these are scents that both partners and strangers have enthusiastically expressed appreciation of.) I generally go for lavender, gardenia, or citrus-based candles.


10) Coffee/tea - black, with milk, sugar? Black. Except for tea in Chinese restaurants, where I tend to add sugar out of sheer habit, and Greek/Turkish coffee, which I request with sugar out of sheer self-preservation.

11) Are you looking forward to summer? Lemme get through this week first. *glares at the pile-up*

And you, my friends?

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In Paris through 19 May: TeZukA, "a fusion of comic strip and contemporary dance" honoring the creator of Astro Boy.

http://intransit.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/05/11/in-paris-honoring-the-god-of-manga-in-dance/

ETA: also in Paris (through 21 May), a large (400 works!) Art Spiegelman show at Centre Pompidou. And in yesterday's NYT op-ed section, Spiegelman is among the contributors of illustrations paying tribute to Sendak.

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It's brit_columbia's birthday! and she has asked for FAKE ficlets. There are already some fun offerings from her other admirers at her journal.

As part of the celebration, I decided to see if there was any part of part 5 of "Not as Dumb" that was postable. This has not been beta'd, and I reserve the right to determine this doesn't belong in the story after all (in which case, Brit, you can think of this as an blue cheese tartlet illicitly snuck out of the bakery kitchen for you that then didn't end up on the official menu...).

Anyway, happy birthday, Brit! May there be less stress and more time to write/graze/chill in the year ahead!

---
( The next morning, when Ryo woke up... )

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[Via kass, snottygrrl, and others. And also my damn ears: I woke up at 3 a.m. in part because a couple of people next door were shouting at each other, which was not cool, but it happened to be good timing, since I was due for my next dose of bacteria-be-gone (said bacteria still making things teechy in my right ear, among other areas. Grumpy kitten iz grumpy).]

Anyway, here's what other people have been reading. (Thank you all - I remain very grateful. To borrow what they say on airplanes, you have so many choices about what (else) to read, so I am honored whenever you choose to spend your time with my words.)

1. "No Life Save When the Swords Clash" / Haru wo Daiteita / 7,885 words / 874 hits

2. "Not as Dumb" (and not yet complete, sigh) / FAKE / 19,638 words / 624 hits

3. "Hidden Intelligence" / Lord Peter Wimsey / drabble / 597 hits

4. "The Ties that Do Not Bind" / FAKE / 2,303 words / 472 hits

5. "The Second One Is Love" / RPF - tennis / 10,297 words / 455 hits

6. "The Cafeteria's Got Everything" / Dar Williams's "Alleluia" / 1,871 words / 434 hits

7. "Someone Who Understood" / Lord Peter Wimsey & Vorkosigan saga / drabble / 415 hits

8. "Everything Necessary to Procure" / RPF - 18th and 19th century politics / 332 words / 413 hits

9. "Running, They Never Run from It Away" / Lord Peter Wimsey & Vorkosigan saga / 181 words / 398 hits

10. "Holding One's Own" / Vorkosigan saga & The Dark is Rising / 359 words / 392 hits

http://archiveofourown.org/users/ribbons

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According to three-star Michelin chef Jiro Ono, one of the things he's learned in his long career is that octopus tastes better when it's massaged for 40-50 minutes rather than just 30.

(The BYM and went to Jiro Dreams of Sushi last night. Beautifully shot and scored -- lots of Philip Glass, as well as Bach and Mozart -- and much to ponder about career and vocation and perfectionism.)

In my own kitchen, I recently roasted tomatoes with coriander and black pepper (a suggestion from Arabella Boxer's The Spice Book). Om nom nom...

And in one of my other lives, there's an interview of me by Carol Berg, about the book. (It ncludes a manga shout-out, fwtw... :-D)

Check out the ranking of my book, as of midnight CDT:

From 2012 general

^_^

Thank you SO much for your support!

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[Subject line from Mary Jo Salter's "Alternating Currents," a long poem (12 pages) about Helen Keller, Alexander Graham Bell, Conan Doyle/Sherlock Holmes, and more, dedicated to the memory of Jeremy Brett; in A Kiss in Space, 1999]

okrablossom included a poem about Irene Adler in the poetry reading she, I, and Joanne Merriam conducted at the Nashville Public Library last Saturday.

Also at the other journal: assorted photos of flowers and various notes.

Other poetry-related goings-on:

Two new poems, "A Multiple of Sorrows" and "Good Morning," were published Monday at Houseboat (halfway down the page)

My sonnet "Leftovers" is one of six finalists in the current poetry contest at Goodreads. Voting is open until March 31. [ETA: the poll is open only to members of the Goodreads Poetry! group.]

jjhunter's hosting "How Are You?" In Haiku.

The epub (aka Nook-compatible) edition of the book was released this past weekend.

This entry has been brought to you by the Avoidance of Committee Work Department. (But the meeting's in less than two hours, so I'd better get back to it. Hang in there, me loves!)

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From Off Duty! (her recollections of serving as a Wren in England during WW II):
( all these balloons )

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