Just saw this question, Knygatin. I had the Pfizer shots — one injection, then another about three weeks later. Absolutely no lingering effects. A little soreness and a little tiredness the day after the first one, something like that.

Here in ND the correlation between Covid deaths and not being vaccinated is high.

Thanks for letting me know. I will not discuss the vaccine or Corona virus further, because it risks falling into yet another heated political discussion, and I feel I have had quite enough of those at The Eldritch Dark.

Hello fellow Eldritch Darkers,

Fedora, Panama hat, cowboy hat, summer/safari hat, baseball cap (pointing forward, ... sideways (!!), ... backward (!!!)), top hat, bowler, newsboy cap, beret, bucket, beanie, or ... frolicking bare under the scorching Sun?

Santa Claus jolly beard, Moses authority beard, Jesus hippie beard, trimmed beard, 19th century sideburns, mustache (bushy, ... waxed, ... or elegant Klarkash-Tonic), or clean shave?


I, ... usually bucket ... (want to do the Fedora, but socially kind of difficult to pull off). Shave.

Knygatin Wrote:
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> Hello fellow Eldritch Darkers,
>
> Fedora, Panama hat, cowboy hat, summer/safari hat,
> baseball cap (pointing forward, ... sideways (!!),
> ... backward (!!!)), top hat, bowler, newsboy cap,
> beret, bucket, beanie, or ... frolicking bare
> under the scorching Sun?
>
> Santa Claus jolly beard, Moses authority beard,
> Jesus hippie beard, trimmed beard, 19th century
> sideburns, mustache (bushy, ... waxed, ... or
> elegant Klarkash-Tonic), or clean shave?
>

Hah!

I see that cannabis is legal where you live, K...

;^)
>
> I, ... usually bucket ... (want to do the Fedora,
> but socially kind of difficult to pull off).
> Shave.

--Sawfish

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Dale Nelson wrote (in the Fritz Leiber thread):
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>
> I've read the first two items. I didn't expect the surprise twist about the misanthropic wizard's tower. I'd have
> been pretty pleased with myself to think of that, back when I was writing sword-and-sorcery stories.
>

I didn't know you are a writer too. More power to you!

Yep, that's yours truly. I used to write sword-and-sorcery for the fanzine Endeavor back in the 1970s. I wrote them on a manual typewriter, just like Two-Gun himself.

[www.youtube.com]

It's always fun listening to how REH imagined this whole civilization thing to work.

Turns out there's an English translation of Gaspard de la Nuit done by none other than Donald Sidney-Fryer.

[www.amazon.com]

Smith was at least familiar with the collection, considering the name of Averoigne's most prominent resident, but I do not know if he actually read it.

Yet, if he did, what else inspired him aside from the title?

Quote:

In it, you will meet Scarbo the vampire dwarf, Ondine, the faerie princess of the waters, and an unforgettable assortment of lepers, alchemists, beggars, swordsmen and ghosts.

I would like to wish you all a Merry Yuletide. With warm festivity together with your loved ones and relatives; and if you happen to be alone, then still enjoying the material and spiritual comforts of some good seasonal food and traditions.

This Yule I'll be watching Walt Disney's From All of Us to All of You (1958). I know, I know, that's childish and silly of me, but I think old Walt was a really swell fellow. I think I'll be able to squeeze in Lovecraft's poem "Old Christmas" too. Usually I have read his short story "The Festival" on Christmas Eve, but I know it so well by now that it is lodged inside without reading.

I would be interested in hearing of your favorite stories around Yuletide.

Merry Christmas to you, Knygatin!

Lots of times we watch Ron Howard's The Grinch Who Stole Christmas simply because of Jim Carey's antic energy.

Haqppy Holidays, all you EDers!

--Sawfish

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Knygatin Wrote:
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>
> This Yule I'll be watching Walt Disney's From All
> of Us to All of You (1958). I know, I know, that's
> childish and silly of me, but I think old Walt was
> a really swell fellow. I think I'll be able to
> squeeze in Lovecraft's poem "Old Christmas" too.
> Usually I have read his short story "The Festival"
> on Christmas Eve, but I know it so well by now
> that it is lodged inside without reading.
>

I am afraid "Old Christmas" was too familiar, as well. This, along with too much mulled wine, made me nod over the book. ;) I will finish reading the poem on Christmas Day instead.

Do you have the tradition of drinking mulled wine in California and Oregon around Christmas?

I dreamed last night. Neil Young (all in long hair, hippie clothes, and the usual lumberjack checked shirt) was out trying to roller-skate down a hill - with one foot before the other the way it is done. His back foot suddenly involuntarily turned inwards, crossing his legs, and he took a bad fall, slamming into the cement. But he was so high on drugs that he immediately scrambled to get up and continue. I was also on roller-skates, and nearby him, but with much more control, trying to instruct him after the fall; but it seemed useless.

The Sojourner of Worlds Wrote:
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> Turns out there's an English translation of
> Gaspard de la Nuit done by none other than Donald
> Sidney-Fryer.
>
> [www.amazon.com]-
> Fryer/dp/0974071129
>
> Smith was at least familiar with the collection,
> considering the name of Averoigne's most prominent
> resident, but I do not know if he actually read
> it.
>
> Yet, if he did, what else inspired him aside from
> the title?
>
>
> In it, you will meet Scarbo the vampire dwarf,
> Ondine, the faerie princess of the waters, and an
> unforgettable assortment of lepers, alchemists,
> beggars, swordsmen and ghosts.
>

I am not familiar with this connection, but from briefly looking at Gaspard de la Nuit I doubt that Smith pondered much over, or was interested in, the philosophical difficulties of Art being divided into sentiment and idea. He was too creative to be stalled by such theoretical thoughts.

Knygatin Wrote:
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> Knygatin Wrote:
> --------------------------------------------------
> -----
> >
> > This Yule I'll be watching Walt Disney's From
> All
> > of Us to All of You (1958). I know, I know,
> that's
> > childish and silly of me, but I think old Walt
> was
> > a really swell fellow. I think I'll be able to
> > squeeze in Lovecraft's poem "Old Christmas"
> too.
> > Usually I have read his short story "The
> Festival"
> > on Christmas Eve, but I know it so well by now
> > that it is lodged inside without reading.
> >
>
> I am afraid "Old Christmas" was too familiar, as
> well. This, along with too much mulled wine, made
> me nod over the book. ;) I will finish reading the
> poem on Christmas Day instead.
>
> Do you have the tradition of drinking mulled wine
> in California and Oregon around Christmas?

Not among any of those I know or have known.

>
> I dreamed last night. Neil Young (all in long
> hair, hippie clothes, and the usual lumberjack
> checked shirt) was out trying to roller-skate down
> a hill - with one foot before the other the way it
> is done. His back foot suddenly involuntarily
> turned inwards, crossing his legs, and he took a
> bad fall, slamming into the cement. But he was so
> high on drugs that he immediately scrambled to get
> up and continue. I was also on roller-skates, and
> nearby him, but with much more control, trying to
> instruct him after the fall; but it seemed
> useless.

Hah!

This instantly brings to mind an anecdote about John Lennon.

Apparently at the height of the Beatles success after going orthogonal on us with Revolver, Sgt. Pepper, etc., there was a lot of talk among critics/reviewers concerning "What does all this mean? What are the lyrics of Elenor Rigby, for example, hinting at?"

This supposedly both irritated and amused Lennon, so that he's supposed to have said, in a broad Liverpuddlian accent, on finishing "I am the Walrus",

"There. Let the fookers figure *that* one out...".

Merry Christmas!

--Sawfish

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I never listened much to The Beatles. I have a record with their famous ballads collected. As a kid I really enjoyed John Lennon's rebellious record ROCK 'N' ROLL.

Merry Christmas! Or, more in line with my convictions, Merry Yuletide! And may the Sun bring back the light to us and Nature's fertility. :)

Yeah, if you want to rebel, best do it on a "grand scale" and pretend you're a walrus. =D