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[siannan]

Geh, my stomach is jumping around ever since I had this wishy-washy milkshake at dinnertime. No Renegade Craft Fair for me, boohoo.

We did manage to buy a whole mess of delicious books today. I got DeLint's Medicine Road which I've been meaning to pick up. I enjoyed Seven Wild Sisters and this is about Laurel and Bess from that one. Bonus: Drawings by Charles Vess! Woop!

Magazines, too. There was some rag on sale that Somerset Studios/Stampington put out, a one-shot featuring artist's working spaces, but when I saw it on the racks it had a huge-ass pic of none other than Marie Osmond (and her terrifying teeth) on the cover and I really don't want to support her mass-produced "collectible" art. I am just not into bizarro baby dolls from the Franklin Mint and the like. It's weird because I can't think of any Somerset publication that has had a photo like that on the cover--and they've had Angela Cartwright on one of the mastheads at some point, I think. Then again, Ms. Cartwright has actual talent.

I wanna be like J. and sleep anywhere, sitting up, with the lights on. How the hell does he do that?

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[cathain.livejournal.com]

I have on a backup hard drive a slew of e-mails from 15 years ago that was an ongoing conversation between myself and Charles DeLint. They are also printed out in hard copy for safe keeping. At the time the 'net was still in it's infancy and writers were some of the first people to embrace it whole heartedly. I don't even remember how I got ahold of his e-mail addy but I remember e-mailing him and asking him if he had a snail address I could send a CD to of an Irish band I knew at the time. (DeLint and his wife play, or used to play, bodhran and fiddle in an Irish band in Ottawa.) This opened up a very fascinating conversation we had about differences/similarities between the Tuatha DeDannan and the Manitou and how many cultures have "ghost people". He had used the Manitou in previous works and I wondered, with all of the Irish influences he had in his work, why he hadn't made an obvious connection between the two. He did eventually make that leap, I like to think in part because of our conversation.

[auntiesiannan.livejournal.com]

That is awesome. :) I like to think you nudged him towards that connection as well.

That is a much cooler story than I could tell. The closest I have come to it is uh...members of my family are the inspirations for various second-tier characters on The Simpsons. :P Long story.

[cathain.livejournal.com]

Heehee! Why does this not surprise me? :D