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Assorted Friday afternoon thoughts.
Sep. 10th, 2004 03:24 pm1. My friend ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
fairmer? Is a total pro. Or at least an associate pro. In any case, her story "Huntswoman" will be appearing in Strange Horizons sometime around January. Don't worry, I'll remind you when it's time to go read.
2. I've decided that Ray used to watch Night Court. Watching Harry sometimes made him wish he'd stayed in school, and - well, I don't remember the show well enough to know how he'd mentally compare Stella and Christine the prosecutor, but he did, as appropriate. Stella said it was a stupid show, and totally inaccurate, but sometimes she would sit with him while he watched, and in between nit-picking, sometimes she would laugh, and Ray would laugh, and think that his life was really pretty perfect.
3. No, seriously, what was up with the religious-themed songwriting of the 80s? There's a Heinlein story (which I heartily disrecommend for being excessively Late-Heinlein and really kind of stupid, though I've only read a summary) called "All You Zombies," which was mentioned in a time-travel panel at Worldcon, and I felt compelled, after a few days worth of brain-niggling, to track down the (totally thematically unrelated) song with the same title. It's by The Hooters, and it's about, well.
( Patriarchs. And Zombies. )
So, wtf, mate?
And that, of course, reminds me of the perpetual mystery of the Mr Mister song "Kyrie"
( Wha...? )
For the longest time, despite being as familiar as any Catholic schoolkid with the phrase kyrie eleison, I did not believe that those were the lyrics. Partly because in church, when recited along with christe eleison, every single vowel got its own syllable (keer-ee-ay ee-lay-ee-son) while in the song it gets compressed a bit (keer-ee ay-lay-zon) and partly because, dude, unless I'm getting my random bits of liturgical Greek mixed up, it means Lord have mercy. How the hell does that fit the context? Is it any wonder I thought he was saying something like Carry a light on?
fairmer? Is a total pro. Or at least an associate pro. In any case, her story "Huntswoman" will be appearing in Strange Horizons sometime around January. Don't worry, I'll remind you when it's time to go read.2. I've decided that Ray used to watch Night Court. Watching Harry sometimes made him wish he'd stayed in school, and - well, I don't remember the show well enough to know how he'd mentally compare Stella and Christine the prosecutor, but he did, as appropriate. Stella said it was a stupid show, and totally inaccurate, but sometimes she would sit with him while he watched, and in between nit-picking, sometimes she would laugh, and Ray would laugh, and think that his life was really pretty perfect.
3. No, seriously, what was up with the religious-themed songwriting of the 80s? There's a Heinlein story (which I heartily disrecommend for being excessively Late-Heinlein and really kind of stupid, though I've only read a summary) called "All You Zombies," which was mentioned in a time-travel panel at Worldcon, and I felt compelled, after a few days worth of brain-niggling, to track down the (totally thematically unrelated) song with the same title. It's by The Hooters, and it's about, well.
( Patriarchs. And Zombies. )
So, wtf, mate?
And that, of course, reminds me of the perpetual mystery of the Mr Mister song "Kyrie"
( Wha...? )
For the longest time, despite being as familiar as any Catholic schoolkid with the phrase kyrie eleison, I did not believe that those were the lyrics. Partly because in church, when recited along with christe eleison, every single vowel got its own syllable (keer-ee-ay ee-lay-ee-son) while in the song it gets compressed a bit (keer-ee ay-lay-zon) and partly because, dude, unless I'm getting my random bits of liturgical Greek mixed up, it means Lord have mercy. How the hell does that fit the context? Is it any wonder I thought he was saying something like Carry a light on?