Breakfast in the Fine Company of Morning Glories

That's all.....

I am packing my literary, artistic, and culinary bags and moving over to hotel_jewelweed .

I will not deleting this journal, but I will soon be friends-locking all of my entries, archiving it through LJBook, and posting a 'Gone Fishin'" sign.

My reason for doing this is simple: I want to clean things up and start a new chapter. This journal is five years old, filled with all kinds of cluttered posts addressed to different audiences, interspersed with travel logs and recipes, and I really want to simplify things, clarify, and refocus. I also want to make it all prettier.

So dear friends, if you would like to hang around for the second act and continue reading, you can find me at hotel_jewelweed  and I hearily invite you to join me there. I promise good conversation, gracious living, and a delightful room with a view. ¹

Oh, and I'm still whoring:


EDIT: smolder ? If you see this, could you friend hotel_jewelweed  onto both kielle  and _redpanda_ ? I want to always be able to read Kielle's locked posts, without having to log into jewelweed . Thanks!!


¹ Building is in progress-- its pretty naked at the moment, with sheets draped over what little furniture there is.  Please don't worry if I haven't friended you yet-- I'm just disorganized.

That said, I am generally going to prune my f-list pretty strongly, not as any kind of personal statement but mainly because I'd rather keep this list pared down to people who really do read my LJ and seem to still be "connected". Sometimes you follow a journal for awhile and there's a connection there, but then things kind of drift apart. Its a cluttered list and I just want it to be less so. If you friend me though I am very likely to friend you back.

Damn, changing your name is hard.  How do these sound?  Yes, I am fishing for ideas.  The wackier the better.  If this were a paid account, I would create a poll.

Radio Medici

Silverweed (Zap. Was just informed this has icky conotations)

Alma Datura

Allegro Maestoso

Placet magistra

Vesper Sparrow

Rock Violet

Saxifrage

Palazzo Jewelweed

Inner World of the Outer World

A Nice Chianti  (ggrrr... it appears that every variation on this is taken!)

Queen of the Blackberries  (according to lore, When you put blackberries on a threshold or windowsill, you can force a vampire to count over the thorns and berries until morning comes.)

Glove of the Fox

or (Thanks to the Unitarian Jihad Name Generator)  Sister Pepper Spray of Quiet Reflection



New Ideas:  

Allegro con l'Oro  (I think that  means "Quickly, and with the gold." Or maybe Allegra con l'oro?  "Happily with the gold"?)

Puttanesca (courtesy of tar_miriel .  EDIT:  Ah too bad!  It's taken!)




EDIT:  *coughcough*  Oh, and I am still whoring, of course:

I took a break in my completely chaotic holiday schedule to enjoy the yultide hospitality of my friend Brian, who lives in this breathtaking historic house in Cambridge. It's the oldest still standing house in Cambridge with low ceilings and four gigantic fireplaces (one of which he turned into a lounge with cushions, candles, and a creche hiding in the breadbaking oven).

His tree, swathed in ribbons and shells, was admired, and carols were sung. Including the following verse from We Three Kings, which was all new to me, and which we all sang with gothic gusto:

Myrrh is mine, its bitter perfume
Breathes a life of gathering gloom;
Sorrowing, sighing, bleeding, dying,
Sealed in the stone cold tomb.

Every lugubrious verse sung by what sounds like drunken pirates

Wow. Those Victorian holiday carols are so... wow. Time for a cheerful prance through Highgate cemetary, I say. This is my kind of fun.

I have to confess belting that out at Brian's place was the biggest thrill I've had so far this holiday.

In other news, I am finally getting my energy back-- just in time for another journey into the family zone. Gah. I think I am going to let my hair down for New Year's. I will really, really need it.

I am sorry I haven't been posting much lately-- much catching up is in order for the new year. Promise.

My little nephew has declared that he is going to climb Mount Everest.

But not until he is fourteen.

Only in Finland....

Digital Disobedience: Cyberactivism and Culture Jamming Workshop

Friday, December 1, 6:00 pm
Science Center 110, Harvard University
(One block north of the Harvard Sq T)

Ji Lee, Artist and Creator of the Bubble Project (www.thebubbleproject.com)
J. Salvatore Testa, Defender of Truth and Liberty, Hacktivismo (www.hacktivismo.com)
Prof. Fred Turner, Stanford University and author of "From Counterculture to Cyberculture"
Prof. Carrie Lambert-Beatty, Harvard VES Dept., teaching "Art and Activism since the 1960s: Culture Jam"

Join us to explore the interplay between digital technologies, activism, and the ability to modify and critique cultural institutions. The format of this event will be highly interactive. We'll first have short presentations from each of the speakers, then we'll break up into groups that will discuss ideas, issues, and projects with each of the presenters.

Sponsored by Boston Free Culture and the Berkman Center with support from the MIT Computing Culture Group and the Culture Jam course.

With....

George Lucas's remastered version of the timeless classic Singing in the Rain!