A couple of years ago, Plei found a seller on eBay that was selling off a stockpile of the Charles of the Ritz "paper white" compacts. I think we each bought two.

I did, too. As well as some of the eyeliner.

I wore that lipstick all through college-- I am sad now, even though I imagine it would now make my teeth look really yellow.

Whoa, wacky synchronicity. Lucia di Lammermoore just opened in San Francisco yesterday.

Also, it's being broadcast for free tonight at the Giants ballpark. People are bringing blankets and snacks and bedding down on the playing field.

That kicks SERIOUS ass. I adore Lucia.

The Giants have another promotion where you get to sleep on the field over night. One huge slumber party of Giants fans.

I am the proud owner of Poe For Moderns which includes beatnik inspired readings over jazz backing, as well as the most jaw-dropping jazz vocal ensemble version of "The Raven" you probably don't want to hear.

Ooo. Do you have "Closed On Account of Rabies"?

I had to wait till I was home to look it up, but if there's a "most goth love letter" category, Keats wins:

I have two luxuries to brood over in my walks, your Loveliness and the hour of my death. O that I could have possession of them both in the same minute. I hate the world: it batters too much the wings of my self-will, and would I could take a sweet poison from your lips to send me out of it.

Who else has read The Stress of Her Regard?

Oh, my! Yes! I love that book, although I love Last Call even more

Gothiest Opera? Probably "Bluebeard's Castle."

When I opened this topic I surely did not expect to catch Robert Frost and John Keats wearing black velvet and eyeliner, but the evidence is irrefutable.

How could I forget Anna Akhmatova:

Sue! yes! love Akhmatova and Mandelstam.

If we're going modern, I'd drop in Szymborska as well.

but if we're rolling backwards, I'd bring in Lycidas even though it's a pastoral.

::waves back at Raq:: there's good stuff here I haven't read. yippe. thanks for the Sterling link David.

wrt classifying everything dystopian as cyberpunk, yes and no. I don't think the booksellers have any idea what cyberpunk is. Feminine dystopias (I'm thinking Herland) don't normally get pulled in though. OTOH, Candace Jane Dorsey gets put on my list for (learning about) Machine Sex.

here's one that should likely be a crosspost with boxed set. any successful cyberpunk TV shows that anyone can think of?

eta for spelling (though I doubt I got all) oi what a day.

any successful cyberpunk TV shows that anyone can think of?

Max Headroom!

Isn't that Thomas DeQuincey?

You are correct, sir. They were friends (and DeQuincey may have been Coleridge's dealer, so to speak). Damn my confuzzled memory!