"My cloaca itches."

[greygirlbeast]

Last night at about 1 a.m. Spooky looked out the window and announced that it was snowing. Now, considering that it's April, that we had high temps in the 80Fs last week, and that all the trees are green, I was skeptical. But when I got up and looked out the window I discovered that yes, it was snowing. We stood on the front porch a while and watched. Spooky took a couple of photos that entirely fail to do justice to such a bizarre sight. One of them is included below, just because. It snowed fairly hard for about fifteen minutes, I think. Today, it's freezing, but the sun is bright and the sky is blue. It's like we've jumped backwards into January...only now the grass and trees are green. It looks as though the cold will linger into next week. Freaky shit.



Anyway...

A very frustrating writing day yesterday. I managed only 620 words, about half what I did the day before, and some of those are gonna get cut, I know. Now and then, I have a great deal of trouble getting a story started. It doesn't happen very often. It virtually never happens with two stories in the space of two weeks. But here I've got The Dinosaurs of Mars and "The Apes Wife" and I cannot quite seem to find my way into either one of them. And there are deadlines, and I have to go to Birmingham on Friday for Alabama Bound on Saturday, so I really do not have time for this.

There's not much else to be said for yesterday. The cold was just enough to disuade me from taking a walk. We rented Irving Pichel and Ernest B. Schoedsack's The Most Dangerous Game (1932) from Movies Worth Seeing. This is the film that was made concurrent with the original King Kong, using many of the same jungle sets that were used for Skull Island. Fay Wray and Robert Armstrong play brother and sister, plus it was produced by Merian C. Cooper and scored by Max Steiner, adding more Kong connections. It's a fun and oddly charming film, and Leslie Banks manages to be hilarious and eerie at the same time. Afterwards, we watched still more "making of" stuff from Jackson's 2005 King Kong, then Spooky read to me from The Reptile Room until about 2:45 a.m. That was yesterday.

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Okay. The platypus says I've nothing more to say, and hesheit's pointing to herhisit's wristwatch and tapping at the crystal with a venomous spur. So, back to the word mines.

Comments

[wolven.livejournal.com]

I've no idea how I missed that, but... Damn it, Georgia, and the Vernal WTF Season.

[katrina-strauss.livejournal.com]

Similar weather conditions here in Texas, although the sky is cloudy. It's been snowing on and off all day, and we had to turn our heater back on last night after two weeks of running the A/C.

And similar writing conditions in my world. With my first trilogy complete, I've been left floundering. I started 4 new manu's in March. I thought I'd finally settled on one, but then my Muse, who was on fire, suddenly sputtered out on chapter 4. I know I'll recover and eventually finish something, but it's still hard on a neurotic like me.

[txtriffidranch.livejournal.com]

Where in Texas? I'm in Dallas, and I'm very curious as to how far south the flurries are reaching.

[katrina-strauss.livejournal.com]

I'm in southwest Arlington. We've had a few flurries throughout the day that last about 10 to 15 minutes at a time. Though of course, nothing substantial and it's not sticking.

[txtriffidranch.livejournal.com]

It's snowing here in Dallas as well, and we haven't had snow this late in the year since 1938. (Hell, the last time it snowed in Dallas in April was a solid decade ago, and that was only on April Fool's Day.) I'm already getting tired of the dittoheads chirping "So much for global warming," as if they didn't notice that the antipodes were getting late storms in October when we were still getting record highs. Either way, I'm still at work, so I might as well enjoy the snow, even if it isn't sticking: the Czarina bet me dinner that we wouldn't see snow this weekend, and I'm going to enjoy that plate of jalapeno shrimp.

[stardustgirl.livejournal.com]

I didn't see snow up here, but it did get cold enough to kill things so our spring blossoms are all brown and our magnolia tree looks awful. I did cut tulips, daffodils and hyacinths so we have indoor flowers. It was in the 80s for a few days so everything went crazy... and got zapped.

[blubeagle.livejournal.com]

We had weather last week that was in the 70's and now we have and inch-inch and a half of snow.

[kittygoth.livejournal.com]

I think there's crazy weather everywhere.

I'm in the mountains in Japan and just when it seemed we we heading for spring it started snowing on Wednesday. Today, however, I managed to get sunburn whilst cherry blossom viewing, on what must be the warmest day of the year so far in my area.

Isn't this year an El Nino year?

[sfmarty.livejournal.com]

Been in the hospital so I am way behind in all of my fun stuff.

Anyway, I found this and thought I would share. You probably have it already, but here...

http://www.oddweek.com/item_79915.aspx

[opalblack.livejournal.com]

Funny weather we're having...