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Random Saturday
Jan. 15th, 2011 06:06 pm1. Written for JAF, who showed me a rather blood-and-guts skaldic verse a friend of his wrote about him.
Lashing scarlet blade
Showers the trampled snow with
Blossoms of ruin.
This dewdrop life is a fight,
Each day a small victory.
2. Stencil was cut for the secret project (if I refer to it as such, I don't have to f-lock this post), paint was applied for Part 1. Discovered I didn't have any green for Part 2, necessitating a trip to a craft store. Hope to finish Secret Project tomorrow.
3. Weather was too nice to stay inside, so I ended up combining the craft store run with a visit to Borders, which is looking sad, picked over and kinda lame these days. Nonetheless, I discovered that Carrolly Erickson has made the leap from writing Tudor biographies (a number of which I recall reading some years ago) to historical fiction, so I acquired The Tsarina's Daughter, as well as a copy of Iain Pears' Stone's Fall, which looked interesting.
4. So, I was looking at things for the Arizona trip and recalling that Sedona, while located in outstandingly gorgeous country, was, to my recollection possibly more weird and irritating that Berkeley and at least Berkeley has Moe's Books and Stone Mountain and Daughter to redeem itself with. (A stroll through Yelp.com reinforces my recollection of a proliferation of Really Bad Art and overpriced food.) There's an air museum near Williams, AZ, that might be a pleasant diversion, seeing as I have to go through Wiliams to get to the Grand Canyon anyway. And I recall that the Museum of Northern Arizona in Flagstaff was terrific.
5. No bites on Rising Sun. Disappointing, but with the economy as it is, not terribly surprising.
Lashing scarlet blade
Showers the trampled snow with
Blossoms of ruin.
This dewdrop life is a fight,
Each day a small victory.
2. Stencil was cut for the secret project (if I refer to it as such, I don't have to f-lock this post), paint was applied for Part 1. Discovered I didn't have any green for Part 2, necessitating a trip to a craft store. Hope to finish Secret Project tomorrow.
3. Weather was too nice to stay inside, so I ended up combining the craft store run with a visit to Borders, which is looking sad, picked over and kinda lame these days. Nonetheless, I discovered that Carrolly Erickson has made the leap from writing Tudor biographies (a number of which I recall reading some years ago) to historical fiction, so I acquired The Tsarina's Daughter, as well as a copy of Iain Pears' Stone's Fall, which looked interesting.
4. So, I was looking at things for the Arizona trip and recalling that Sedona, while located in outstandingly gorgeous country, was, to my recollection possibly more weird and irritating that Berkeley and at least Berkeley has Moe's Books and Stone Mountain and Daughter to redeem itself with. (A stroll through Yelp.com reinforces my recollection of a proliferation of Really Bad Art and overpriced food.) There's an air museum near Williams, AZ, that might be a pleasant diversion, seeing as I have to go through Wiliams to get to the Grand Canyon anyway. And I recall that the Museum of Northern Arizona in Flagstaff was terrific.
5. No bites on Rising Sun. Disappointing, but with the economy as it is, not terribly surprising.
