I listened to your audiobook of View from the Cheap Seats and loved your review of Flood. I listened to it and ... lo and behold ... loved it to pieces. No I'm in the process of listening to all of the They Might Be Giants albums I can get my hands on.
I have extensive notes from Peter Pan Goes Wrong yesterday night, but here’s one of my favorites.
Jonathan Sayer said Dennis thinks he needs to wait in line with everyone else to get into the show. So every night he goes and waits in line to get into the theater. He said that production has told him that he doesn’t need to do it but he does it every night anyways. He also said that sometimes it genuinely takes him a long time to get into the theater
I am reading a collection of Neil Gaiman speeches/essays/intros and just came across a wild theory.
At first I was No Way! But then, I did remember that weirdo scene where Quincy shot the window out “because he saw a big bat” and I was like….unless….?
I would love anyone who has read it more recently to sway me either way on this wild conspiracy theory.
09.12.2023 - I ventured out for the first time in almost a month (well, I have been to the GP and hospital but I don't think that counts!) and met a friend to discuss our buddy read of Hobb's Fitz and the Fool trilogy over lunch. Neither of us are enjoying it very much and I've made a few realisations reading this trilogy but I'll save those thoughts for when we've finished Assassin's Fate.
Unfortunately, I'm now feeling rough. So, I'm back in bed for an early night with my rapidly growing currently reading pile. My copy of Neil Gaiman's The View from the Cheap Seats arrived while I was out for lunch and I've accidentally started it... but I'm enjoying it immensely and I don't really mind! It's complementing my other reads, so it's slotted into the stack quite nicely.
Currently reading: The View from the Cheap Seats by Neil Gaiman; Tehanu by Ursula K. Le Guin; The Ladies of Grace Adieu by Susanna Clarke
god i cannot wait to use my cane again i always leave it behind when traveling where i think it will really get in the way but i regret it every single time. i think my cane is just necessary at this point
it's about the fact that if stede had told ed he needed to find mary and set things right, he would've gone along. I know he would've. but in no world would stede be in a place to believe that ed would go. that someone would support him. so of course he goes off on his own, scared, in shock, delirious, exhausted, traumatized. of course he's on autopilot, trying desperately to go back to when things made a little bit of sense. if he was cognizant enough to include ed in his line of thinking, or course ed would be amenable, quickly reshaping their future to include a quick stop in barbados because it's what stede needed in that moment. of course he would. but they're both so fucking hurt and scared and have such low self esteem that badminton's speech and death, and subsequently stede's absence at the dock, were the nail in the coffin for them both. just.. the way that, logically, they could've come together, they could've communicated, they could have worked it out, but it makes absolutely perfect sense that they didn't. that they couldn't. yknow what I mean?
my favorite taylor swift release day tradition, people taking lyrics out of context/lyrics where she’s being purposefully lighthearted and fun to “prove” she’s a bad writer, continues apace 🙃