Green Eggs and Codfisch

I am pleased to announce that May 9 is the day that the Vienna stock market crashed in 1874, which started the Long Depression worldwide (not to be confused with the Great Depression). Today is also the day that the Romans used to have a festival to exorcise ghosts of the dead from people's homes. According to Wikipedia, you must walk barefoot and throw black beans over your shoulder at night. Tricky business, exorcism.

There are two more performances to Die Lustige Witze--one on Tuesday and one on Sunday the 31st. I'll probably go on the 31st, because I'm seeing/hoping to see La Boheme on Monday. It's crazy: this month I'm planning on seeing eight different shows, ranging from famous operas (Lucia di Lammermoor) to Japanese puppet shows. And May is always the craziest, busiest, worst month, besides November.

Wanted to quickly draw attention to kabeljau, my fan fiction community. It doesn't have much yet, because in truth I haven't written much yet, but I'm adding each week, and that's where I'll post my summer project.

Formally introducing Brr's Sex-on-a-Horse Saturdays!

Every Saturday in June, July, and August I will post a fic drawn from the prompt "sex on a horse". The fandoms aren't quite set in stone yet, but for sure these will be making an appearance:

• Merlin
• Harry Potter
• Mädchen in Uniform
• Xena
• Star Trek (both Voyager and the 2009 movie)
• Torchwood
• Wuthering Heights

I myself won't actually be online this summer (I'm going to the Himalayas for a couple weeks, then for the next month I might have Internet, but it's not definite) but I'll set the fics on a self-timer. I'm excited to see where this goes!

Well, I went and saw the new Star Trek movie today with my sister. I think I'll write a longer review later, but I just wanted to say right now: it was brilliant. It was extremely visually stunning and quite unlike Voyager or the other series. Lots of action, lots of attractive characters (apparently that was a major source of grief for "real" Trekkies, but I think I've obsessed over Star Trek enough to call myself a real fan, and I thought this movie did the franchise justice, even if it did appeal to non-sci fi fans as well). I loved characters like Scotty and the Russian pilot (so cute!).

And... yes. That's that.


[through translation]
Waiter: What would you like to drink?
Me: I would like apple juice..... apple juice.

This was after my sister and I had a minor tiff regarding "Apfelsaft gespritzt", which is sort of like mineral water mixed with apple juice. It's vile, but she loves it, and I nearly ordered it by mistake.