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[katallison]

Today's reflection: after a lengthy holiday run of cookies, chocolate, eggnog, beef tenderloin, potato gratin, more cookies, chips & dip, red wine, pate, fondue, coconut-chocolate bars -- after all this, I tell you what, a nice plain little bowl of cottage cheese is the food of the freakin' gods.

Apart from Christmas day itself, I've spent a quiet and solitary long weekend. Christmas day featured a deeply depressing visit to my dad in the nursing home [approx. 500 words of depressingness edited out], and then a very nice dinner with Mr. P., who made with the cool presents. These included an armload of old hardback editions of Nero Wolfe mysteries [approx. 500 words of how this former interest of mine has re-emerged a a fandom-of-sorts for me, in part due to _aerye_, pulled for further consideration and expansion], and a particularly excellent find, a DVD of the New York Dolls reunion concert at the Royal Festival Hall earlier this year [more blithering on this excised as unlikely to be of interest to anyone else except maybe cesperanza].

I've been dipping randomly into the ds_seekritsanta stories, and a few Yuletide pieces, but really I haven't been on the computer much, and am pretty much behind on LJ and everything else. Tomorrow I'm back to work, but I have another long weekend coming up, and a whole bunch of writing on which to get moving. We'll see if that actually comes to pass, however.

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[cesperanza.livejournal.com]

Hey, I want the full version! Is Sam Yaffa playing on that Dolls DVD? (Sammy was a member of Hanoi Rocks and is a friend of ours.) (Actually, I just went and looked it up on amazon and it seems not. Hilariously, amazon offered to bundle it with The Dead Boys at CBGBs, which we DID buy for Chistmas and which I recommend highly. Do, however, forward through the scene where Stiv Bators blows his nose in a piece of boloney and then eats the boloney. Curtis and I--anal, both--were screaming and falling off the sofa!

[katallison.livejournal.com]

I'd say it's well worth getting, though the sound quality isn't good. The new guys they've got on guitar and drums are very good, IMO, and the special addendum section memorializing Arthur Kane made me sniffle. Hard to believe David Johansen and Sylvain are the only ones left.

(And--er--thank you so much for sharing that image with me, Ces. *Just* what I need on a nice bleary stumbling-back-to-work morning. *g*)

[batdina.livejournal.com]

there's a DVD of the New York Dolls' Concert? we grabbed the cd a couple of weeks back with the eagerness of the middle aged punks we are.

off to find a dvd ...

[katallison.livejournal.com]

You can get it at Amazon. Well worth it, I'd say.

[rhi]

Kat, there's a Nero Wolfe fic at Yuletide (Closeted) that's hilariously funny and I don't even know the fandom. Yet. The blasted thing had me reserving books at the library....

Archie's POV -- hope you enjoy it half as much as I did.

[katallison.livejournal.com]

I'd seen that one, noted the Archie/Saul pairing, and hesitated, because I have a really hard time seeing that. But on your rec, I'll give it a try! Thanks.

[milkshake-b.livejournal.com]

Which was my general reaction when I first got assigned the story. Not really a, "That doesn't work at all," so much as a, "Wait, what?" In retrospect I'm grateful, because I could have landed something with Wolfe himself, whom I prefer to think of as asexual, or perhaps reproducing much like one of his orchids. After rereading a small ton of the books, Archie/Saul didn't seem too terribly implausible, though--I could sort of see where the requester was coming from, at any rate, and Yuletide is all about giving someone else something they want, even if you're going, "But why?"

[theodosia.livejournal.com]

There might be more people on your Flist that would appreciate hearing more about the Dolls than you suspect....

[sinensiss.livejournal.com]

New York Dolls! there is a rather amusing interview with David Johansen in which he talks about that reunion concert (among other things) here, if you haven't already encountered it.

[katallison.livejournal.com]

Hadn't seen that -- thanks for the link!

[harriet-spy.livejournal.com]

approx. 500 words of how this former interest of mine has re-emerged a a fandom-of-sorts for me, in part due to _aerye_, pulled for further consideration and expansion],

Hopefully to be posted soon?

I've loved those books since I was a wee child, and I'm...uncertain about how I want to integrate that into fannishness. If I do.

[katallison.livejournal.com]

Trust me, I had some hesitation myself. If you want to give it a try, what I'd recommend is going to Parhelion's site. She's an excellent writer, with fine grasp of the voices and style, and has clearly done her research on both the books themselves the social history/context of the times. (She puts me in mind a bit of Sylvia Volk, if that conveys anything.)

She's sorted her stories so that all the PG-rated ones come first, which worked well for me, because I was all "I SO am not ready to read slash with these characters" but she -- uh, sort of eased me into it. *g* "A Christmas Carol," the first on the page, is a good place to start; "Descent" is a wonderful story; "Flowers and Trees" is a good plotty story that does very well with Lily Rowan. Really, there's not a clinker in the lot.

[namastenancy.livejournal.com]

"a nice plain little bowl of cottage cheese is the food of the freakin' gods. "

Ain't it the truth? Actually, my food of the gods is home made chicken soup with tons of vegs and sourdough french bread. And lots of raw vegs - but then, California being such a great place for produce we never have any lack. I know what you mean about the depressing visits to aging parents; my mother is visiting my sister this Chrismas and I've had to do much long distance hand holding to get my sister through the visit from the Bitch otherwise known as Mom.
I've told my brother and sister that if I get like that, they can drive me to the Golden Gate Bridge and help me jump. Old age is def not for sissies.

All the great ds stores have made me even more curious about the show but it's not broadcast. Waaaa!!!

Stay warm!

namaste SF Nancy

[katallison.livejournal.com]

Nancy! I have tapes! Send me your address, and they shall be en route to you for your birthday! (Well, they won't get there in time, but soon.)

And totally with you on the old age thing. I just read your previous entry re: impending birthday, and want to reply, if I can steal some time from work today.

[taverymate.livejournal.com]

Congrats on the Nero Wolfe books, with a sigh of envy that they're hardback. (Though I do like seeing the various evolution in the paperback covers over the years.)

I didn't think that was anything that would make me actively encourage you to postpone completing a dS story - but even the faintest glimmer of a possibility of a Nero Wolfe story will do it. I'd love to see more writers working with the Nero Wolfe canon, especially those who could capture the complexity and depth of the connection between Nero & Archie.

[qe2.livejournal.com]

LOVE the Nero Wolfe books. My mother's father, whom we visited every summer for years to give my cranky writing-hating father time to churn out publish-or-perish product, was addicted to them and owned every one in mass market, and I read them all over the course of about a visit and a half. I haven't the faintest idea what happened to his collection when he died - I inherited one and a half books somehow, but that's it, oddly - but between your mentioning them and _aerye_'s carrying one with her to our coffee date (I had a Dorothy Sayers :-)), I'm getting ever more interested in finding out.

I'm extremely reluctant to wade into Wolfeian slashy waters, however. (Although not as reluctant as I am to wade into the waters of slashy WINNIE THE POOH OMGWTF.)