"No, no You Dogs. No Your Food Cake, either."

[jazzfish]

Friday night uilos and I got all dressed up and went out to Da Domenico for a /very/ tasty dinner, involving crab-with-a-C for her and gnocchi in a delicious four-cheese sauce for me. It's no Zeppolis (I suspect that the gnocchi and the fettucine alfredo are the only cream sauces they have) but it'll do.

Satyrday I pushed furniture around and then people came over and read things, and it was Good. You all /rock/. (Plus you showed sufficient admiration of my bookcases and contents therein.) I will definitely be doing this again at some point, perhaps towards the end of the summer.

(Anyone interested in additional pieces by Mr Ford should consult Jim Macdonald's carefully compiled list of Occasional Works in eight parts. Warning: may induce uncontrolled hysterical laughter.)

A set list:

• jazzfish: John M. Ford, "The Hemstitch Notebooks"
  
• heptadecagram: Samuel Taylor Coleridge, "An Ode to the Rain — composed before daylight, on the morning appointed for the departure of a very worthy, but not very pleasant visitor, whom it was feared the rain might detain"
  
• uilos: Edward John Moreton Drax Plunkett, 18th Baron Dunsany, "Charon"
  
• plumbob78: A.E. Housman, "A Shropshire Lad" LXII
  
• jazzfish: John M. Ford, "All Our Propagation: A Play for Instruments"
  
• baranoouji: Italo Calvino, from _Invisible Cities_
  
• qtrnca: Virginia Woolf, from _Mrs. Dalloway_
  
• plumbob78: A.E. Housman, "More Poems" XVI
  
• airncbuh: The Alcatraz Proclamation to the Great White Father and his People
  
• jazzfish: John M. Ford, "Scrabble With God"
  
• heptadecagram: Samuel Taylor Coleridge, "The Devil's Thoughts"
  
• qtrnca: Milorad Pavic;, from _Dictionary of the Khazars_
  
• baranoouji: Mervyn Peake, from _Titus Groan_
  
• uilos: Edward John Moreton Drax Plunkett, 18th Baron Dunsany, "The Exiles Club"
  
• jazzfish: John M. Ford, Grocery List and Harry of Five Points I ii (in which is explained the Salic Law).

Comments

[jazzfish]

Hm. We shall see. I slightly fear putting them too close together, as the novelty may wear off. When are you thinking of?

[desfido.livejournal.com]

From my perspective, between 21 June and 14 July would be ideal, since classes I'm thinking of taking this summer would either be just starting or after; I'd only have work to worry about. I also think that, while perhaps doing it too often would make it less novel and stale, a three month gap isn't *too* close.

Otherwise, could you at least try to avoid, say, August 17 - 27, since I'll be out of town around that time?

This post seems very self-centered to me, but since I'm operating on about an hour and a half of sleep right now, I'm aware, but only mildly care.