Lili Saintcrow @lilithsaintcrow@raggedfeathers.com

Bryn Terfel’s growing on me in this recording too! His voice has a very distinct color in this performance, somewhere between dark amber and old honey, and I like his consonants.

I will say that while Pisaroni is the best Leporello, Renee Fleming as Donna Anna in this recording is growing on me. I like the fury she brings to Anna’s part.

(The best Leporello is still Luca Pisaroni. I cannot be swayed from this opinion.)

Have switched to opera for the afternoon. Don Giovanni, come on down!

“But evil is not done just by one kind of person…And normal people do incredibly evil things.” https://www.kirkusreviews.com/news-and-features/articles/silvia-moreno-garcia-velvet-night-interview

“Relying on prison labor to do some of the hardest work to save this incredibly rich state, it is unconscionable.” https://www.shondaland.com/inspire/books/a37134938/breathing-fire-reports-on-the-women-fighting-californias-wildfires

In which the dogs are early, a story is blooming, and I cannot look past my garden gate.

Blood, Sunrise, Constant https://www.lilithsaintcrow.com/2021/08/blood-sunrise-constant/

I’d better get some coffee before there’s *actual* blood.

And why am I seeing said sunrise, you might ask? Because the damn dogs are morning people, ergo, I have been rousted from my bed.

The sunrise is positively bloody. Sailors, take warning.

A whole chapter dragged, unwilling word by resisting word, out of my cortex. Now a few throwaway lines on the next and then…I shift to another project and repeat the process.

You’d think it would get easier, but some days it’s like chipping granite with a toothpick.

I had thought to have this zero done by the end of August but…that’s not going to happen. Especially not with copyedits landing.

Ah well. Live and learn.

“eBay’s team knew it was in trouble, according to their own messages obtained later by federal prosecutors.” https://www.bostonglobe.com/2021/07/31/business/it-has-be-known-what-was-done-us-natick-couple-harassed-by-ebay-tell-their-story-first-time

Am *thisclose* to dunking an Earl Grey bag in my afternoon espresso, just to see what happens.

I am a monster, I know. But I’m also a lot of fun.

Today’s office jam is Xploding Plastix’s “Dizzy Blonde.” I feel like I should be on a unicycle.

(Neither I nor the wasp were injured, due to a rather fantastic critical dex roll on my part.)

Last but not least, a full complement of bees accompanied me. I was not quite the center of a moving cloud, but I was greeted several times and almost swallowed a wasp.

At least everyone is practicing a modicum of social distancing, though I’m sure my expression and pace helped them grok I was not in the mood for contact.

It’s the little things.