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ellenkushnerA friend who did my horoscope years ago recently reminded me that I have this little cluster thingy on there which seems to confirm that things really are likely to happen to me in clumps. Like last year, doing all that touring. And yesterday, I was presented with (and ate) not one but two cakes based on my work - at lunch & dinner - which I can assure you has never happened before even once.
Dinner was chez our neighbor, interstitial filmmaker/artist Lisa Stock; we talked about the new film she's working on, and she surprised me with a cake decorated like the Queen of Elfland on the Kinuko Craft cover of Thomas the Rhymer (apparently also available as a jigsaw puzzle - my god!). I'll post the Elf Queen cake if I can; meanwhile here are examples of some of Lisa's other amazing cakes (I dedicate Young Bess to![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
krismcd59, of course).
rikibeth and eternaleponine heeded my siren call and came to town to see Edward II before it closed, Riki bringing, as promised, her very own Little Iced Cakes. They were slightly squished, which made them exactly like the ones that Richard brings home to Alec from the Duchess Tremontaine's box at the theatre. (Since Alec has been kidnapped, he never gets to eat them, and they are never mentioned again in the text. We discussed this at lunch. At first I thought they disappeared under the bed and turned green; eternaleponine opined that the kitten got them; but I have decided that Richard probably ate them without even noticing, while he was in a state, trying to find out what happened.)
Among her other sterling virtues,rikibeth seems to have an almost perfect recall for Riverside trivia. I say almost, because she claims that nowhere in any text have I ever mentioned that Richard's mother used to cut up bats. I was sure that I had put that in somewhere! Sure as in, I can hear my own voice reading the line aloud, in Richard's pleasantly dry delivery: "She used to cut up bats." Maybe it was in a scene I deleted, or a story I never sold.
Another first waseternaleponine presenting me with two stuffed teddybears dressed as Richard & Alec! It's dead cunning, beautifully made with attention to detail: Alec's white shirt is even of finer white cotton than Richard's, and his scholar's robe is densely black. The world is a wonderful place, as Richard Thompson likes to remind us.
I hope they liked the show.rm has written her reviews both of the play and of the audience. It closes today, but I will be first in line to see what Red Bull Theater does next. Going to a (free!) reading of Dumas' thriller Tower of Evil on Monday night - I hope good classical theater also comes in clusters!
Dinner was chez our neighbor, interstitial filmmaker/artist Lisa Stock; we talked about the new film she's working on, and she surprised me with a cake decorated like the Queen of Elfland on the Kinuko Craft cover of Thomas the Rhymer (apparently also available as a jigsaw puzzle - my god!). I'll post the Elf Queen cake if I can; meanwhile here are examples of some of Lisa's other amazing cakes (I dedicate Young Bess to
krismcd59, of course).rikibeth and eternaleponine heeded my siren call and came to town to see Edward II before it closed, Riki bringing, as promised, her very own Little Iced Cakes. They were slightly squished, which made them exactly like the ones that Richard brings home to Alec from the Duchess Tremontaine's box at the theatre. (Since Alec has been kidnapped, he never gets to eat them, and they are never mentioned again in the text. We discussed this at lunch. At first I thought they disappeared under the bed and turned green; eternaleponine opined that the kitten got them; but I have decided that Richard probably ate them without even noticing, while he was in a state, trying to find out what happened.)Among her other sterling virtues,
rikibeth seems to have an almost perfect recall for Riverside trivia. I say almost, because she claims that nowhere in any text have I ever mentioned that Richard's mother used to cut up bats. I was sure that I had put that in somewhere! Sure as in, I can hear my own voice reading the line aloud, in Richard's pleasantly dry delivery: "She used to cut up bats." Maybe it was in a scene I deleted, or a story I never sold. Another first was
eternaleponine presenting me with two stuffed teddybears dressed as Richard & Alec! It's dead cunning, beautifully made with attention to detail: Alec's white shirt is even of finer white cotton than Richard's, and his scholar's robe is densely black. The world is a wonderful place, as Richard Thompson likes to remind us.I hope they liked the show.
rm has written her reviews both of the play and of the audience. It closes today, but I will be first in line to see what Red Bull Theater does next. Going to a (free!) reading of Dumas' thriller Tower of Evil on Monday night - I hope good classical theater also comes in clusters!![[identity profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/openid.png){kind=small}
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Date: 2008-01-28 12:46 am (UTC)sounds like a dream day. lucky ducks!
Ellen, come to minneapolis. Guthrie is doing Midsummer this spring......
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Date: 2008-01-28 03:33 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-01-28 05:08 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-01-28 06:15 pm (UTC)Also: Vandeleur, I think.
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Date: 2008-01-28 08:14 pm (UTC)l.i.c.
Date: 2008-01-28 08:17 pm (UTC)I see that eternalep. posted a photo of me & the Bears - do you think she'd mind if I linked to it?
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Date: 2008-01-28 08:21 pm (UTC)The only even potentially perishable component of the cakes is the little blob of buttercream lurking under the poured fondant -- and it's Italian buttercream, where the egg whites are cooked by the hot sugar syrup beaten into them, and butter can stay edible for some time at room temperature, so I'd say don't bother refrigerating them.