"...stealing pounds and pence..."

[greygirlbeast]

Chilly day here in Providence, but it's really only the internal weather that concerns me.

No word count for yesterday. Hopefully that will happen today. Yesterday was spent on all the many ways I begin to begin a story. I did find a title, "The Prayer of Ninety Cats."

This is going to be a short entry (no, really), because I slept too late. How often does that happen? About seven good hours. Anyway, here are a couple of photographs of Dancy's cigar box, which will go up on eBay later today, along with Letter X of the lettered edition of Alabaster (illustrated by Ted Naifeh):









A thank you to both "Reverend Margot" and Ben Larson for their help with this project. I'm very pleased with the result. Richard Kirk has compared it to Justine Reyes' photographs of her uncle's dresser drawers after his death, which is high praise indeed.

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Last night the CoX rp took a rather spectacularly bizarre and baffling turn. In which we learn that if you want to kill a fairy, throwing a Buick at its head might not be the most efficacious strategy. Pretty damn funny, though.

My head hurts (probably, it was the Buick), and I need more coffee....

Boorishly Yours, By Any Other Name,
Aunt Beast

Comments

[sovay]

a couple of photographs of Dancy's cigar box

That really is wonderful.

[mizliz13.livejournal.com]

I love it!

[xjenavivex.livejournal.com]

Dear Aunt Beast,

When said Buick is hurled in your direction in the future, please duck.

I covet the cigar box.

Sincerely,

Mary-Grace

[greygirlbeast.livejournal.com]

When said Buick is hurled in your direction in the future, please duck.

Actually, I just sidestepped. I think its the idea that's given me a headache.

[xjenavivex.livejournal.com]

Can you take anything for your headache?

[greygirlbeast.livejournal.com]

Can you take anything for your headache?

Done.

[stotangirl.livejournal.com]

That cigar box is really, really cool. I love the idea of things found in boxes, artifacts of someone's life collected together without explanation, though the fact that they're all in a box tells you they're important and implies some sort of connectedness. (Obviously having the book up along with this box gives context, but I see it and imagine someone just happening across it and trying to puzzle it out.)

[kendare-blake.livejournal.com]

Dancy's box looks awesome. It gave me a weird sensation, too, a momentary flash of all the imagery my mind made up for Dancy while reading Threshold and Alabaster.

[stsisyphus.livejournal.com]

...if you want to kill a fairy, throwing a Buick at its head might not be the most efficacious strategy.

I suppose depending on the year of the model, there'd be a significant amount of iron in the Buick.

[greygirlbeast.livejournal.com]

I suppose depending on the year of the model, there'd be a significant amount of iron in the Buick.

I would have been more impressed by a horseshoe.

Or a horse.

[kathryn-aka-kat.livejournal.com]

What a fantastic idea, the cigar box! And I bet throwing Buicks is better than trying to drive one.

OT

[nykolus.livejournal.com]

hear, hear...

http://www.livescience.com/php/multimedia/imagedisplay/img_display.php?s=environment&c=our_amazing_pl&l=on&pic=new-squid-101114-02.jpg&cap=The+newly-discovered+squid.+Scientists+on+a+recent+expedition+brought+back+an+astonishing+array+of+the+leggy+creatures+%97+74+different+species+have+been+identified+so+far.+Credit%3A+Rainer+von+Brandis.&title=

Re: OT

[greygirlbeast.livejournal.com]

Whoa...

Re: OT

[nykolus.livejournal.com]

i agree...

[catconley.livejournal.com]

Love the Dancy box, and love the adoption of Aunt Beast. It's a good fit.

[greygirlbeast.livejournal.com]

It's a good fit.

I think so.