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truepennySo the nearest FedEx outpost is in the next small town over. Along the state highway between here and there, there is an honest-to-god pumpkin patch. Which, you know, no big deal, except I've been reading Peanuts cartoons since I was old enough to read, and I'd never seen a pumpkin patch before.
Sheltered life or something.
So anyway, there's a pumpkin patch. And I drive by it these days wondering how sincere it is.
And while I'm in the FedEx outpost, filling out the little form so as to be able to send The Virtu to my editor in New York, "The Time of My Life" comes on the radio. Which is, of course, one of the most magnificently cheeseball songs of the magnificently cheeseball 80s, and off the Dirty Dancing soundtrack no less.
But it has this absolutely specific association for me, and for that reason, even though it is the cheeseball of cheeseballs, I get that stupid little tug at my heart when I hear it. Namely, the 1988 Winter Olympics, and Elizabeth Manley's silver. She skated to "The Time of My Life," not for the competition, but in the thing afterwards, where the skaters do what they want, dance the things they love, and Scott Hamilton does his back-flip. You know. And Manley's performance was a love letter to Calgary and to Canada, and I got chills watching her. I get chills thinking about it, even now. And I know it's silly, but sometimes that doesn't even matter. It still makes me want to stand up and cheer.
And I guess that's appropriate, in a backwards sort of way, because just at the moment, I have something to cheer about.
The Virtu is on its way to New York. I met my deadline.
Sheltered life or something.
So anyway, there's a pumpkin patch. And I drive by it these days wondering how sincere it is.
And while I'm in the FedEx outpost, filling out the little form so as to be able to send The Virtu to my editor in New York, "The Time of My Life" comes on the radio. Which is, of course, one of the most magnificently cheeseball songs of the magnificently cheeseball 80s, and off the Dirty Dancing soundtrack no less.
But it has this absolutely specific association for me, and for that reason, even though it is the cheeseball of cheeseballs, I get that stupid little tug at my heart when I hear it. Namely, the 1988 Winter Olympics, and Elizabeth Manley's silver. She skated to "The Time of My Life," not for the competition, but in the thing afterwards, where the skaters do what they want, dance the things they love, and Scott Hamilton does his back-flip. You know. And Manley's performance was a love letter to Calgary and to Canada, and I got chills watching her. I get chills thinking about it, even now. And I know it's silly, but sometimes that doesn't even matter. It still makes me want to stand up and cheer.
And I guess that's appropriate, in a backwards sort of way, because just at the moment, I have something to cheer about.
The Virtu is on its way to New York. I met my deadline.
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Date: 2005-09-26 06:53 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-09-26 06:54 pm (UTC)The exhibition. Where they get to use music with words. (Except for the ice dancers; they can use music with words during the regular competition as well.)
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Date: 2005-09-26 07:01 pm (UTC)And I get the same goofy grin whenever I hear Ravel's Bolero piece, the one Torvill and Dean did their famous ice dancing bullfight to.
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Date: 2005-09-26 07:24 pm (UTC)I've started picking up the compilations Fantagraphics (http://fantagraphics.com/peanuts/peanuts.html) is publishing. They're excellent. The way the strip grows and the characters change is remarkable. More than a comic strip.
I'm a bit behind, but they're spaced nicely so I can pick them up twice a year.
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Date: 2005-09-26 07:31 pm (UTC)Congrats!
Too bad Ace doesn't send out advance copies to random bloggers. :-)
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Date: 2005-09-26 08:01 pm (UTC)Tell your publisher's PR department:
Michael J. Lowrey, Editor-in-Chief
Sunrise Book Reviews
1847 N. 2nd Str.
Milwaukee, WI 53212-3760
is itching for galleys.
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Date: 2005-09-26 08:01 pm (UTC)Tell your publisher's PR department:
Michael J. Lowrey, Editor-in-Chief
Sunrise Book Reviews
1847 N. 2nd Str.
Milwaukee, WI 53212-3760
is itching for galleys.
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Date: 2005-09-26 08:35 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-09-26 08:48 pm (UTC)I wish I could be a completist and say I never read "Peanuts" either, but that would be a lie. We still use phrases from it on a nearly daily basis.
Very best congratulations on getting the book out of the house on time.
P.
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Date: 2005-09-26 11:57 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-09-27 12:48 am (UTC)Congratulations!
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Date: 2005-09-27 09:56 am (UTC)Congratulations and well done! I got chills reading that. It's great to have such inspiring and encouraging writers on LJ these days :) Brava! *hugs*
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Date: 2005-09-27 12:41 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-09-28 12:50 pm (UTC)I am The Suck for not finishing and getting you comments in time for the deadline; but I will still send them if they could be of use.
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Date: 2005-09-29 06:22 pm (UTC)