Dear Lucy:
I do know you, and I don't dare poke you about your novel because you know where too many of the bodies are buried. But, um, I'd like to see it one of these days. Of course, if I say that then you will turn around and say the same thing to me. Tricky business this.
P.S. It is always good to have continued affirmation that Andy Ihnatko, whom I have never met or even corresponded with, remains true to form.
The best chocolate for the money in the NYC area (and possibly on the entire eastern seaboard) is at Jacques Torres in the area-of-Brooklyn-I-refuse-to-call-DUMBO, anyway, so I think if I were recovering from a move in that part of the universe, that's where I'd go. But I'm curious if this move thing is endemic to the area - I have several other sets of Brooklyn friends and they all seem to suffer from the same tendency to be involuntarily migratory.
M'ris, strangely, being officially nobody at a WorldCon is one of the things that makes me edgy about the whole thing. I have envy issues.
This house I'm in dates from 1910. I came to Boston from Baton Rouge, where unless you are living at the tiny original center of town, odds are very good your house was built after 1950 - the town didn't start to spread until then. This thread has reminded me of all the various culture shocks working on this house has given me - dead gaslight lines, random lath, plaster which has hit the end of its life and when you pull the wallpaper you get a handful of sand, exposed knob-and-tube wiring in the attic, et cetera. Very good. I like knowing that others have gone before me and faced the same tribulations.
One thing that hasn't been mentioned here, and I know you're all smart people so it's probably not needed, but even so: My excellent guide (Renovation: a Complete Guide, by Michael Litchfield, 2nd ed, softcover), which I got because it seemed to be one of the few that deals specifically with old-house problems, says GET A TETANUS SHOT in italics as soon as page 4 and repeats it in several other places. When I told various renovation-savvy friends about the house, they immediately gave me the same advice. I pass it on to you.
Do the people who are not in the choir ever read The New York Times? (No, it's a sincere question. I have no idea who the NYT audience is.)
Because they pointed out on Sunday that voting machines undergo nowhere near the scrutiny and testing that Vegas slot machines do - and Vegas has a lot less at stake, just their reputation and a whole boatload of money.
(Having recently come back from there, I'm with the Times; I think we should have the Nevada gaming board oversee the election.)
Point being that at least one national newspaper is crying that the emperor has no clothes. The story was also picked up by Truthout, but I will readily concede that Truthout is preaching only to the choir.
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