steampunk yarn & travel plans

[ellenkushner]

From Adrienne Martini's blog, Martinimade: There is now Steampunk yarn. And yarn based on Sweeney Todd.

It's enough to make me wish I could knit.

HOLY CRAP!!! Their "Urban Poetry" line has a yarn called . . . Riverside!!! Right adjacent to Urban Decay . . . You don't suppose--? Could it be--??
(And are you all too young to remember the routine:

- My mother made me a homosexual!
- Gee...If I gave her the yarn, would she make me one, too?

Well, would she?)

Sorry I haven't caught up with all your fabulous Japanese comments & translations, which I loved exceedingly - I've been trying to use my writing time to, well, write. This story is really kicking my butt - I'll write up another Process Report when I'm a little further in. It's altogether different from the last one I told about. F**cking Riverside. Fitting it into a short story is like trying to fit an elephant into panty hose.

Also, I'm planning our trip to Paris in Oct/Nov because we're going to Utopiales in Nantes - if anyone has a lead on a 2-bedroom flat to sublet in Paris for us + another couple, probably Oct. 24- Nov. 5, please let me know. And also Amsterdam, which we're going to try to visit Oct. 21-24 - hoping to do another event at American Book Center, if they can fit us in. . . . We used to love Hotel Seven Bridges, but they appear to have tarted it up considerable (yes, that is our old room! the big one right there on the front page under "Our rooms"!), and the Euro is kicking my butt even worse than Riverside.

Oh, and my bestest friend is coming to NYC to get married next week, and everyone's staying in my apt and I'm organizing everything from cake to theater tix for the in-laws. I'm, like, all Mother of the Bride. Yeeech.

I haven't read my FList in a million years and have no idea what anyone's up to. Sorry. If you're sick, I hope you get better. And if you're happy, I'm happy for you. (And if you're writing up an effortless storm . . . I hate you.)

Comments

[matociquala.livejournal.com]

Kate Clinton. *g* And her penis jokes.

Man, she was *funny.*

[colonelrowe.livejournal.com]

I don't know that routine, but in Michael Chabon's novel WONDER BOYS, Tripp's editor (the character played by Robert Downey Jr. in the excellent film) is talking about his mother, who was a famous crafts magazine editor. He says something like, "She could make you anything. She made me a queer."

Paris in autumn, oh, I ache...

[ellen-kushner.livejournal.com]

Hey, man, we found one place with 3 bedrooms - wanna come?

[yaoi-in-exile.livejournal.com]

http://pics.livejournal.com/yaoi_in_exile/pic/00022kfb/

*snuggles* *tea* You are the best writer in the world, and anything you put on paper is solid literary gold. So as a great lady once told me, Keep On Doin'!

:3

[stephan-laurent.livejournal.com]

I used to live in Amsterdam, right on a canal (Prinsengracht), not far from where the hotel you mention is situated. Yes, the Euro has been kicking butts lately, but I have to say from the pictures of that hotel... book, baby, book! That's about as authentic and tasteful as you'll find any place in A'dam.

Riverside short story: An Elephant in Panty Hose?

[ellen-kushner.livejournal.com]

I am laughing so hard the salt tear blinds my e'e and I can't even see your fabulous drawing. OK. I'm looking away now.... (blows nose. wipes eyes)

Bless you, dear one - you and your kind heart and multiple talents.

HEY, EVERYBODY - LOOK AT THIS!!

(http://pics.livejournal.com/ellen_kushner/pic/0000ckcr/)

[anteye-hero.livejournal.com]

If you want, when I move to New York I can teach you to knit!

[casacorona.livejournal.com]

Yay for you being Mother of the Bride! Make her eat cake. And kiss them both for me.

[ellen-kushner.livejournal.com]

I will! There will be photos, of course. But if you have Skype, you can Virtually join the party...

[ellen-kushner.livejournal.com]

You bet!

[ellen-kushner.livejournal.com]

Awww....OK! We do love it there. Though this, too, is pretty tempting:

http://www.houseboathotel.nl/accommodation_amsterdam/houseboat_b033

[stephan-laurent.livejournal.com]

OOooh... NICE!
(sigh) I love Amsterdam...
Wherever you stay, you'll have a great time. Enjoy your trip.

[otherdeb.livejournal.com]

I will note that I do teach knitting, and when you are back in NY would love to get together with you to teach you. I can do Manhattan in the late afternoons these days.

[mantichore.livejournal.com]

Plus, the kick-butt days of the euro seem to be fading, right now. I took the opportunity to binge on a few pricey books (Eddison and some Tartarus collections), but, in the current mess, it appears the dollar is recovering some of the green on its faded cheeks.

[handworn.livejournal.com]

It's easy to get an elephant into pantyhose, or at least fishnet stockings.

Use an actual fishnet.

Where did your last (and will your new) Riverside story appear?

[ellen-kushner.livejournal.com]

I scan the exchange rates hourly, calculating hotel rooms..... Glad you got some bargains first!

[ellen-kushner.livejournal.com]

Thanks! It'll be a long time before I can sit still long enough, but it's a nice thought.

[mantichore.livejournal.com]

So am I. To think I had never had the glorious pleasure of reading The Worm Ouroboros before. I can't thank enough the weak dollar!

[ellen-kushner.livejournal.com]

Re. Elephant: check out yaoi-in-exile's cartoon on this page!

I sold the story I was working on this winter to F&SF, but Gordon apparently has it planned for much later this year.....

The new story will appear nowhere at all if I can't make it work - I'm trying to hit a deadline for an anthology about urban fantasy. If I miss the deadline, I'll send it to some magazine or other.

[ellen-kushner.livejournal.com]

Enquire in Koshtra Belorn.

[handworn.livejournal.com]

* snort *

That cartoon is really quite Thurberesque.

[mantichore.livejournal.com]

Yes, a martlet whispered this piece of advice to me.

I had just read Leiber's story on Fafhrd and the Mouser climbing the Stardock, when I read Juss' ascent of Koshtra Belorn and Koshtra Pivrarcha. Shock and wonder. I even forgive the lamentable fate of the manticore. But the jaw-dropping moment was Lord Gro. I can't think of a more enthralling character.