KGB 2/20 photos

are up. There's a real nice one of me (taken by Datlow, art directed by Bear) here. The necklace, by the lovely elisem, is titled "Defense of the Realm." I borrowed it for the evening. I also doused myself beforehand with Blenheim Bouquet beforehand, so that after a fairly riotous dinner I could invite curious LJ readers to sniff my chest. Which they did. Tea smoked duck can make a woman do terrible things.

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There is much rejoicing on Riverside Drive! There is a snowstorm, and a gaggle of brightly-dressed 2-yr-olds are cavorting on the verge by the park. They are the only color in our suddenly black-and-white world of trees and snow. And Delia's story is on the Nebula ballot! We might have to go to Austin after all.

There Will Be....

elisem made a necklace/crown based on our wallpaper. We discussed it.

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We watched There Will Be Blood last night. I enjoyed it - but then it didn't push any of my buttons - I tend to like art about violence, on occasion, and views into alien worlds of all kinds. It gave Delia a horrendous emotional hangover, though. It was fascinating to both of us, the way nobody ever said anything much. So Not Our Kind.

Which causes me to establish the following rule: Violence is permissable only when accompanied by entertaining dialogue.* There is probably some kind of ratio that a more mathematically-inclined person could work out.

We may try for Sweeny Todd this weekend. Then I'll know whether violence is also allowed to include singing. (* "You break it, You sing for it"?)

Too much caffeine (and too little sleep*)? Moi?

Now must run out to get Provisions, between time snow has stopped falling (and doormen on every block have shoveled it) and time promised icy sleet begins.

*Official Houseguest couldn't help knocking over bedside table in the middle of the night. She was being abducted by villains in a truck or something. But it was a bit distracting.