Where's Ellen?
Feb. 20th, 2005 01:53 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ellenkushnerWell, today Ellen is curled up on the sofa sucking down gingerale and soda crackers and reading Margery Allingham . . . but she will be better soon, she will, she will! and then on Friday she's going to TULSA, OKLAHOMA to do a wonderful community concert Saturday, and then a reading/signing at Borders on Sunday. This concert is a bi-annual (is that every 2 years? I can never remember) event which I always love doing. 2 yrs ago, the Saturday was so balmy we were walking around with our jackets unbuttoned, and then we woke up Sunday to something like a foot of snow, and more on the way. A few hardy souls (self and Delia included) made their way to to the Borders for the signing, but it was a slog for all. Wish me absence of storms this year!
On March 2 I'm honored to be hosting a gala for an organization that works against domestic violence in Cambridge, Mass. And on Sunday, April 3, Mary, Michael & Josef (no kidding!) and I are performing ESTHER: THE FEAST OF MASKS under the auspices of a truly impressive coalition of interfaith congregations in Southwest Boston.
Details on all this & more at
http://www.sff.net/people/KushnerSherman/kushner/upcoming.html
Meanwhile, revisions on THE BONE CHANDELIER continue apace. I had been planning to do a running progress report in the journal, but there hasn't been time. For now I will simply tell you that we're back to calling our 2 obscure Eastern European countries Meszria and Zamorna (10 points per reference!). They are ancient rivals. Zamorna is now taking money from the Austrians, and it's only a matter of time before they get sucked into the Austro-Hungarian empire, the modern world with its guns and steel. Meszria is holding out. It is ruled by a Duke whose Duchess mysteriously disappeared some years ago, and is presumed dead. Their daughter, Petra, is being courted by the Prince of Zamorna (or rather, his ambassador); she's much too young to marry, and would rather be off practicing her swordplay or climbing over the palace wall to the Bad side of town, where a former cabaret artist named Gracie now keeps a tavern called The Lady's Arms....
On March 2 I'm honored to be hosting a gala for an organization that works against domestic violence in Cambridge, Mass. And on Sunday, April 3, Mary, Michael & Josef (no kidding!) and I are performing ESTHER: THE FEAST OF MASKS under the auspices of a truly impressive coalition of interfaith congregations in Southwest Boston.
Details on all this & more at
http://www.sff.net/people/KushnerSherman/kushner/upcoming.html
Meanwhile, revisions on THE BONE CHANDELIER continue apace. I had been planning to do a running progress report in the journal, but there hasn't been time. For now I will simply tell you that we're back to calling our 2 obscure Eastern European countries Meszria and Zamorna (10 points per reference!). They are ancient rivals. Zamorna is now taking money from the Austrians, and it's only a matter of time before they get sucked into the Austro-Hungarian empire, the modern world with its guns and steel. Meszria is holding out. It is ruled by a Duke whose Duchess mysteriously disappeared some years ago, and is presumed dead. Their daughter, Petra, is being courted by the Prince of Zamorna (or rather, his ambassador); she's much too young to marry, and would rather be off practicing her swordplay or climbing over the palace wall to the Bad side of town, where a former cabaret artist named Gracie now keeps a tavern called The Lady's Arms....
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Date: 2005-02-20 05:43 pm (UTC)Doesn't "Zamorna" turn up in Brontë juvenilalia?
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Date: 2005-02-22 07:07 pm (UTC)Yes, that would be Oklahoma in February.
MKK--grew up not far from Tulsa
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Date: 2005-02-28 07:53 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-02-28 01:28 pm (UTC)(
http://elswhere.blogspot.com/
is her "Travels in Booland," y'all! She posts much more frequently - and is a lot more entertaining - than I.)
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Date: 2005-02-28 01:46 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-02-28 02:36 pm (UTC)I love coincidence.
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Date: 2005-02-28 06:39 pm (UTC)Oh, be delighted! How could you possibly have known?
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Date: 2005-03-02 03:58 pm (UTC)--elswhere
[elswhere.blogspot.com
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Date: 2005-02-28 12:32 pm (UTC)Happy You-Know-What Day!
(Okay, I'll go away now.)
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Date: 2005-02-28 01:21 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-02-28 01:32 pm (UTC)Lovely gruesome concept that Chandelier
Date: 2005-03-03 08:55 pm (UTC)What is passion but desire
Blind ambition yet sees higher
Than the naked eye
Hi EK.... I read the first draft and loved the whole unruly mess. Can't wait to see how it evolves. Was very disappointed to miss the reading! Sending love from PDX, OR. Hi to Delia. Lars goes to Toulouse end of April with his 5th grade class... without us!
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Date: 2005-04-05 05:57 pm (UTC)