Happy anniversary.
Well, we’re here. The first year that we haven’t gotten cards or gifts or made plans. We talked about it, assured one another that we were still in love but teething and work and errands and sick dogs and travel and mouse attacks and taxes and, I dunno, household chores or something have all conspired to leave us too tired to make a fuss. Right now, anniversary plans just feel like one more thing on the already novella-length to do list.
Despite my usual lack of filter, I do see (I can be taught, it seems) that it would be inappropriate to go on at length or in detail about how much you mean to me, how very proud I am of you or how catching your eye across the room still makes me giggle like a little girl who kicks her toes in the dirt as she lifts her skirt to cover her eyes.
So I won’t do that. I’ll just say that I love you. And thank you for picking me.
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Originally uploaded by Queen Bee Creations
- Queen Bee Creations has a new bag out for fall. Looooovely.
- Knitters: Is there a name for this style hat? I’ve seen them on men and women and I really like them.
- Fabio put an incredible Sasa Lisi page up on The Beguiling here.
- Christine Noorie is making her vote public. Yay, Christine.
- …and a little kvetching: I am utterly disappointed in the customer service I’m receiving from the Standard Style boutique. I have to call back around noon and speak to the manager (the appropriate thing would have been to take my number and call me back, but that’s just more fuel for the fire at this point), so I’ll hold my tongue further until we see how this resolves.
David Riches and Matt Fraction
…at FanExpo Canada. I don’t know who took the photo, but David sent it to me. Thanks, David!
Things I Did Not Buy At Maj-R Thrift Today: Creepy Giant Stuffed Thing
Originally uploaded by Kelly Sue
I almost got this for Jane as a joke but figured a picture would be just as funny.
What is this thing, anyway?
I’m trying to figure out if there’s any way we can get there for the show. Fraction and I will actually be in the DC area on Friday. Fraction’s signing the next morning and we’ll have the baby with us, so it doesn’t seem likely, but man…
One imagines reading SPY DUST that Tony and Jonna Mendez are a charming and fascinating couple with some incredible stories to tell. Too bad the book doesn’t actually tell any of them! Whatever the reason — be it intelligence protection or just bad editing — the book is a mess. It repeatedly skips over the most interesting parts of the narrative — including the climactic exfiltration! They’re supposed to be “masters of disguise” but they include no details of their techniques and, despite having a sizable photo section, no images of themselves in disguise. (Unless you count the two photos of Jonna, who looks like an American tourist… looking like an American tourist.)
On the other hand, they provide more details of their romance than anyone would ever require. I’m glad that they found love, and I actually do think there was a skillful way to make that part of the story but, well, this wasn’t it. It sounds mean, but the route they ended up going had the same effect on me as the Will Farrel Lov-ahs sketch on SNL: toes balled up in squirmy little toe fists.
What they got right: the spy speak! “Tradecraft” is golden.
