Bloglet, the gentleman's mock turtle soup -- Moss made it sweeter than myrrh ash and dhoup
I have a silver nuthatch
It bounces on my knee
It won't go to the tailor's shop
Because it isn't free
My nugatory consequence
Is patchy -- scant, at best
But we will live in decadence
And suck the briar's breast.
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05:49:27 AM,Monday 8 December 2003
Springes to catch woodcocks.
And set limed twigs for crabs.
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03:20:52 AM,Monday 8 December 2003
Whoah. George Sand wrote a version of the Nutcracker. That's kinda trippy.
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09:57:21 PM,Sunday 7 December 2003
Wow, awesome. Ok, you know those salivary glands in your cheeks? Um... I hope the rest of you have them, 'cause otherwise I'm some kind of hideous mutant. Right under your cheekbones -- you put your tongue up there, and push, and they give forth. So, I just had a nice four-hour walk 'round town, and it's wintery and all, and I discover while idly playing around with a carob-covered almond in my mouth that my cheek-glands have been refrigerated all this while! I do the regular gleeking thing under my tongue, and it's all body-temperature, warm, y'know, and then I do the cheek thing, and it's all icy frigid. I have hot and cold running spit! Yeehaw!
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09:50:24 AM,Sunday 7 December 2003
Baffling.
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10:50:22 AM,Saturday 6 December 2003
But I do suffer fools glady. Isn't that the whole point?
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12:37:58 AM,Saturday 6 December 2003
Soon? Waaaah! I don't wanna wait that long!
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10:24:58 PM,Friday 5 December 2003
Hey hey, now this is some good stuff! Just what I was looking for: classical mp3s on demand. The catch is, it's not quite done yet; they talk about downloading -- on a pay-per-track basis, I'm guessing -- but they haven't set it up so as you can actually do it yet. So all you got so far is minute-long streaming samples (which, I must admit, are both quick to load and crystal clear on my dialup connection) and some teases about "playlists" and things. But it looks good so far. I liked the first 50 seconds of their "Let the Fifes and the Clarions" from Purcell's Fairy Queen, anyway, and was thrilled to find Ewa Podles doing Dido's Lament, though I was less impressed with their "Scherza infida", and crushed to find that they only had two tracks from La Clemenza. Maybe there's just a hardcore Purcell fan in the booth? Dunno. But I noticed some other cool rare stuff along the way: Tallis's famous "Spem in Alium", Handel's Acis and Galatea, a crazy-ass Schoenberg thing for string quartet and orchestra... promising. Definitely promising. And plenty of detailed program notes and performer information, which is what I miss with pop-focused file sharers that only dabble in classical.
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10:48:57 AM,Friday 5 December 2003
I am sooooo renting this when I get back from vacation. Reading the actual book was tops, no question, but there's something about audiobooks that... oooh... eeeeh. Sighhh.
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09:38:34 PM,Thursday 4 December 2003
"She was beautifully dressed, her figure was a marvel of slim elegance, and her face was undeniably handsome. What made her strange was that she seemed to have stepped out of a past age. She wore a finely-designed version of male dress, her jacket was, in appearance, a man's -- a tight-waisted blue frock-coat -- and her tapering green velvet trousers descended toward elegant patent-leather boots. She wore a very high, soft collar, bound with a flowing cravat, and on her hands were a number of big, masculine rings. Her thick, straight brown hair was parted in the middle and hung to her shoulders, framing a long, distinguished, deeply melancholy face. 'She's got herself up as Franz Liszt before he put on his Abbe's cassock,' thought Darcourt. 'Did she get her clothes from a theatrical costumer? But odd as she is, she's dead right for what she is. Who is she modeled on? George Sand? No, she's much too elegant.'"
{sighhhhh} Why do I have to keep F.I.L.W. fictional characters? Not fair. Not fair. And I don't even have a picture; for some reason, this book hasn't spawned even a fraction of the number of drooling fansites it really warrants (though some guy did name his goldfish after her and Schnak). Nevertheless, I am against my will I.L.W.: Doctor Gunilla Dahl-Soot. And, subsidiarily, with Moira, for turning me on to this awesomely studly bit o' litrachaw (which I would have enjoyed tremendously even without the butch-ass operadykes, but which, naturally, has leapt to the top of my short list of favorite butch-ass operadyke novels and shows every indication of staying there for some time). And, as always, with teh Intarweb, for allowing me to locate and download it as a remarkably well-performed 16-hour unabridged audiobook for $14 at two in the morning. Mmmmm... life is good.
Oh! Following up on my previous post, I was just going to present a tragic ode on the loss of my watch, when my mom found it under my swim bag this morning, so there goes that idea. There aren't too many words that rhyme with "watch", anyway, so maybe it's just as well. (Though, if I haven't mentioned, I'm extremely impressed with what you lot did on "porridge". Anne wins, because I really like borage, and didn't know its name before, but the rest of you get a shiny foil star apiece.)
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11:19:11 AM,Thursday 4 December 2003
I think there should be a rule that all personal diaristic bloggage, particularly the type that merely recounts the events of the day, should be written in verse, and that prose should be reserved for high-minded essays on external and generally profitable topics, she said, like a hypocritical loon.
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12:18:38 AM,Thursday 4 December 2003
-culty smother...
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11:15:01 PM,Wednesday 3 December 2003
godiamsuchaloser.
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08:02:51 PM,Wednesday 3 December 2003
"Princess Peach's sweet voice will soon be the bread that makes the sandwich of Cackletta's desires! And this battle shall be the delicious mustard on that bread! The mustard of your doom! I HAVE FURY!"
Reignited ardor for my GBA SP.
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08:00:50 PM,Tuesday 2 December 2003
Another glorious serendipity! I was looking for a nice free font to print my novel up in, and stumbled upon something called Gentium. Not only is it free and very pretty, but a big part of my novel takes place in Ghent, so it's just bloody perfect! Woo!
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01:42:10 AM,Tuesday 2 December 2003
OH! Ok, that had been really bothering me, and I'm much, much happier now. Susan Graham has an album of Gluck and Mozart songs called Il Tenero Momento, and it just bugged the hell out of me that I thought she hadn't put "Il Tenero Momento" (from Mozart's Lucio Silla) on it. I mean... fwah? But now it just came up on random shuffle and I realized that the ten minute track called "Dunque sperar poss'io" was really the recitative, and turns into the actual "Il Tenero Momento" halfway through. Like, phew. It's a great aria. I think I like Cecila's version of it just a tiny bit better, though. It's more... giddy. Graham is a little reserved, sometimes. But this definitely sets my mind at ease. I forgive you everything, Susan. Keep on keepin' on.
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09:03:08 PM,Sunday 30 November 2003
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08:37:41 PM,Sunday 30 November 2003
Rockband names (rehashed):
The Cryptic Tonsils The Passive Periphrastics
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10:32:08 AM,Sunday 30 November 2003
Fifty thousand two hundred and sixty-eight words!
I WON! I WON!!!!!!
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09:15:54 AM,Sunday 30 November 2003
Super Mario Brothers 3 beaten in 11 minutes. 17.5 megabyte WMV file. It will blow your tiny little mind.
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07:52:32 AM,Sunday 30 November 2003
