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yamamanama10:20
There was a man in a tuxedo on the train.
He didn’t have an instrument with him so I assumed he was going to someone’s wedding or he was a secret agent or he was one half of a secret agent duo posing as newlyweds so they could infiltrate an arms deal between Donald Trump Jr. and Kim Jong Un.
10:55
I ran into Rodney’s and decided that if Ecstasia was there, I wasn’t finding it.
Guess what I found for a dollarydoo and 25 cents at Boomerang's. The answer is Armistice, the second of the Amberlough books. I’m not sure what I’ll do about Amnesty. I may or may not shell out the eight bucks if it’s still at Harvard Books. I dunno. I’ve had a hard time finding books that are later entries in a series and guess what Amazon self-publishing is pushing writers towards. The answer is series. Long-ass series consisting of 200 page books.
I'm not entirely sure what the Amazon building near Central sells but I'm just as likely to find Ecstasia there as I am at Asmara. Google and Bing don't want to tell me.
Mary was part of a mermaid and faery collective at the Mermaid Promenade called Moonrise Fae, and was wearing dolphin earrings and floral print clothing and boots and a colorful pendant. I recognized her from the Triforce and Exodus' sigil and Navi is a lot less visible than I remember her being. She’s never seen the actual sculpture race. She showed me some of her art, which was colorful, and told me that once she took a class on landscapes to learn perspective and I brought up how perspective wasn't really a thing until the Renaissance and how children and medieval artists both decide how large the object is based on its importance. She says that's religion for you. I can say the same about personality cults.
Madison’s favorite place is the mineral room in the Harvard Museum of Natural History.
She had me guess what her earrings were made of. Spoiler alert: they’re kyanite. I don't remember what her pendant was made of. Some kind of brown stone. Her favorite place in the world is the mineral room at the Harvard Art Museum. I'm also not entirely sure if her name was Madison or Adrienne but most likely Madison; the mother half of the mother-daughter team that was the Cyprus Cabinet was born before Splash was released.
Neither of them are Cypriot. Either Cyprus means the Land of Copper or copper means the metal of Cyprus.
11:15
There was a fangly fish with giant googly eyes and Lady Liberty kicking down the wall and a few other fish.
The corgi artist had a new tattoo of a fish-bunny chimera. Not a chimaera, more like a goldfish.
I saw this poster: Is your thotbot glitched? Are you experiencing: recall of past events? Multi-sensory hallucinations during sleep? Emotions? Protect your value. Take the test. This message brought to you by The ULTRA.
I found it on one of those Instagram sites that may or may not function properly when Google discovers it.
I never did find a decent substitute for statigram.
12:00
The Late Risers played Tchaikovsky's overture to Swan Lake, the Game of Thrones theme song (they're not really sponsored by GoT but they like to pretend they are), Ain't She Sweet (a song from a hundred years ago), and a Romany tune, on banjo, tuba, trumpet, and clarinet.
1:00
Abigale sang a song in Yiddish about fishing trips and unrequited love and finding happiness by oneself, and a song in Yiddish about everyone coming together and shouting "oy!" and a song in Yiddish that they interpreted about finding love in the dark and cold Russian winter. While the booklet picture and the albums have two violins, they played with an accordionist instead.
Mary says that Abigale kind of looks like her except with a different haircut.
2:00
Alas, the upright bassist walked away with the CDs so I couldn't buy one. I decided to try Shan (I think they're Shan, going by the native translations of their product names; certain Shan characters don't show up in Unicode and looks like a square with 10 7E in it) food instead. In this case, a beef curry with rice, pickled onions, and dried chili peppers. The beans are mostly used for the tea salad but some people like myself like to put them on the curry.
There was a map you could stick pins in to show your heritage. The people I saw doing this were from Barbados (which, like the duke of Hell and Final Fantasy monster Barbatos, comes from a word meaning the bearded ones, although the country Barbados is using it as a metaphor to describe hanging moss an vines) and St. Kitts.
Aimée wants all the pictures people take with her in the background and she asked me to a picture of her with one of the fine art superheroes posing behind her.
She has a tattoo of a whale and a flowerpot and the words “don’t panic.” and she says that most people don’t get it. I told her that she certainly knows where her towel is. She has a tattoo of a goldfish with a long tail against flowing water. She has a pendant that she found in a used object bin. She says that used books have character and when she buys a new book, she's always annoyed when she cracks the spine. For me, it’s about pragmatism. And about the fact that I’ve long missed my opportunity to find these books new.
Nina had fairy wings and a silver pendant and later on she wore bear ears.
A woman had an egret tattoo.
2:30
In Judy Saves the Day by Sarah Nolen, Judy just wants to take a nap after being pushed around for 400 years. Judy gets attacked by her spoon. Mr. Punch has never made a sandwich before. Judy makes him a sandwich all right, and then an alligator tries to eat her and she doesn't believe the audience when they warn her because alligators are almost extinct, and the alligator steals her bed and baby, and a policeman tells me that alligators are attracted to bright colors like yellow so it’s not really his fault and so Judy pulls out a giant donut and ensnares him in it.
3:00
Paper Citizen wasn’t selling albums. It was the first day Claire could wear a t-shirt but it didn't last long. She has tattoos of an eagle and clouds and leaves and a skull in a top hat with dice and came to Boston after being kicked out of her home in Singapore for being a lesbian. Her hair is the color of fallow fields. They played some songs that are available on Bandcamp and some new songs.
2% Milk is another band that one of the audience members was part of and they're proving remarkably difficult to find.
Claire sounds like she has a British accent but maybe that's what a Singapore accent sounds like; I've only met one other person from Singapore and that was 17 years ago.
I asked Aria if it was June and she said "yes, it's the first day."
Feh.
She had a necklace of five ornate flowers and pale blue-violet hair.
4:00
There wasn't a nearby river but we did have a Mermaid Promenade. See, for reasons unknown to me, the River Fest returned to Central Square. I don't know it's to celebrate something about Central Square or because there is stuff going on at Lechmere Park or what but okay. There's less grass to sit on and more close quarters to deal with but at least there's a small shortcut from the folk stage to the rock and alternative stage if I needed it instead of spending most of the day at the folk stage.
Mary had some red cloth and a red pendant. One of the other Moonrise Fae gave me a fake cloth flower and an oyster shell painted Kryptonite green that they said is their calling card. I ended up with a second one and he said I could start a collection.
Jacqueline was dressed as a pharaoh mermaid and has a tattoo of Nefertiti.
Emma (no, not that Emma, kupo. Not that one either) had a very fantastical seahorse mask that she always calls he but isn't sure so I asked if it was pregnant, and a seahorse pendant that she got nearby because she already had the mask. She used a DIY Christmas ornament for the eyes, while the woman with the fish got her eyes from the recycling bin and it's a really good place to find irregular shapes. I asked her if she knew about anglerfish and she thinks it’s a really sad life for them and one of the other mermaids said it was a good allegory for some of her past boyfriends.
A mermaid had a tail made from woven plastic bags and plastic bottles.
Hannah had short hair with glitter in it and a mesh shirt.
One of them had a snapping turtle.
Batman, Captain America, the Green Ranger, and Harley Quinn were there too. Harley Quinn's bag had a Refuse Fascism sticker. Mark Hammill is a national treasure.
4:15
Alisa Amador's grandfather is from Argentina but she's from here but she did spend some time there and is inspired by the music she heard there and as a youth. She sang about self-love.
I got her CD because it was 5 dollars and I got Fire in the Field's CD because the price was signing up for their mailing list and it's not like my e-mail is doing anything else. Facebook will probably overwhelm them with their spam.
Manel is an Arabic name that I thought was Spanish. Ally has rose earrings. Niamh is not in the drawing but is amazed that I almost pronounced her name properly.
Instead of getting that noodle bowl that Aimée was eating because it was sold out but on the bright side, their restaurant is near Davis Square, I got some Indonesian fried rice with sausages and meatballs called nasi gila or crazy rice. Damned if I can remember what the place was called.
5:00
Erin Bonnie and the Black Caps play a blend of folk and blues.
A woman on the train had Creativo Menti tattooed on her arm.
burning question: why does Donkey Kong collect bananas if they’re just going to go bad? Do you think he's not planning to eat them but to keep bananas artificially scarce and control distribution?
There was a man in a tuxedo on the train.
He didn’t have an instrument with him so I assumed he was going to someone’s wedding or he was a secret agent or he was one half of a secret agent duo posing as newlyweds so they could infiltrate an arms deal between Donald Trump Jr. and Kim Jong Un.
10:55
I ran into Rodney’s and decided that if Ecstasia was there, I wasn’t finding it.
Guess what I found for a dollarydoo and 25 cents at Boomerang's. The answer is Armistice, the second of the Amberlough books. I’m not sure what I’ll do about Amnesty. I may or may not shell out the eight bucks if it’s still at Harvard Books. I dunno. I’ve had a hard time finding books that are later entries in a series and guess what Amazon self-publishing is pushing writers towards. The answer is series. Long-ass series consisting of 200 page books.
I'm not entirely sure what the Amazon building near Central sells but I'm just as likely to find Ecstasia there as I am at Asmara. Google and Bing don't want to tell me.
Mary was part of a mermaid and faery collective at the Mermaid Promenade called Moonrise Fae, and was wearing dolphin earrings and floral print clothing and boots and a colorful pendant. I recognized her from the Triforce and Exodus' sigil and Navi is a lot less visible than I remember her being. She’s never seen the actual sculpture race. She showed me some of her art, which was colorful, and told me that once she took a class on landscapes to learn perspective and I brought up how perspective wasn't really a thing until the Renaissance and how children and medieval artists both decide how large the object is based on its importance. She says that's religion for you. I can say the same about personality cults.
Madison’s favorite place is the mineral room in the Harvard Museum of Natural History.
She had me guess what her earrings were made of. Spoiler alert: they’re kyanite. I don't remember what her pendant was made of. Some kind of brown stone. Her favorite place in the world is the mineral room at the Harvard Art Museum. I'm also not entirely sure if her name was Madison or Adrienne but most likely Madison; the mother half of the mother-daughter team that was the Cyprus Cabinet was born before Splash was released.
Neither of them are Cypriot. Either Cyprus means the Land of Copper or copper means the metal of Cyprus.
11:15
There was a fangly fish with giant googly eyes and Lady Liberty kicking down the wall and a few other fish.
The corgi artist had a new tattoo of a fish-bunny chimera. Not a chimaera, more like a goldfish.
I saw this poster: Is your thotbot glitched? Are you experiencing: recall of past events? Multi-sensory hallucinations during sleep? Emotions? Protect your value. Take the test. This message brought to you by The ULTRA.
I found it on one of those Instagram sites that may or may not function properly when Google discovers it.
I never did find a decent substitute for statigram.
12:00
The Late Risers played Tchaikovsky's overture to Swan Lake, the Game of Thrones theme song (they're not really sponsored by GoT but they like to pretend they are), Ain't She Sweet (a song from a hundred years ago), and a Romany tune, on banjo, tuba, trumpet, and clarinet.
1:00
Abigale sang a song in Yiddish about fishing trips and unrequited love and finding happiness by oneself, and a song in Yiddish about everyone coming together and shouting "oy!" and a song in Yiddish that they interpreted about finding love in the dark and cold Russian winter. While the booklet picture and the albums have two violins, they played with an accordionist instead.
Mary says that Abigale kind of looks like her except with a different haircut.
2:00
Alas, the upright bassist walked away with the CDs so I couldn't buy one. I decided to try Shan (I think they're Shan, going by the native translations of their product names; certain Shan characters don't show up in Unicode and looks like a square with 10 7E in it) food instead. In this case, a beef curry with rice, pickled onions, and dried chili peppers. The beans are mostly used for the tea salad but some people like myself like to put them on the curry.
There was a map you could stick pins in to show your heritage. The people I saw doing this were from Barbados (which, like the duke of Hell and Final Fantasy monster Barbatos, comes from a word meaning the bearded ones, although the country Barbados is using it as a metaphor to describe hanging moss an vines) and St. Kitts.
Aimée wants all the pictures people take with her in the background and she asked me to a picture of her with one of the fine art superheroes posing behind her.
She has a tattoo of a whale and a flowerpot and the words “don’t panic.” and she says that most people don’t get it. I told her that she certainly knows where her towel is. She has a tattoo of a goldfish with a long tail against flowing water. She has a pendant that she found in a used object bin. She says that used books have character and when she buys a new book, she's always annoyed when she cracks the spine. For me, it’s about pragmatism. And about the fact that I’ve long missed my opportunity to find these books new.
Nina had fairy wings and a silver pendant and later on she wore bear ears.
A woman had an egret tattoo.
2:30
In Judy Saves the Day by Sarah Nolen, Judy just wants to take a nap after being pushed around for 400 years. Judy gets attacked by her spoon. Mr. Punch has never made a sandwich before. Judy makes him a sandwich all right, and then an alligator tries to eat her and she doesn't believe the audience when they warn her because alligators are almost extinct, and the alligator steals her bed and baby, and a policeman tells me that alligators are attracted to bright colors like yellow so it’s not really his fault and so Judy pulls out a giant donut and ensnares him in it.
3:00
Paper Citizen wasn’t selling albums. It was the first day Claire could wear a t-shirt but it didn't last long. She has tattoos of an eagle and clouds and leaves and a skull in a top hat with dice and came to Boston after being kicked out of her home in Singapore for being a lesbian. Her hair is the color of fallow fields. They played some songs that are available on Bandcamp and some new songs.
2% Milk is another band that one of the audience members was part of and they're proving remarkably difficult to find.
Claire sounds like she has a British accent but maybe that's what a Singapore accent sounds like; I've only met one other person from Singapore and that was 17 years ago.
I asked Aria if it was June and she said "yes, it's the first day."
Feh.
She had a necklace of five ornate flowers and pale blue-violet hair.
4:00
There wasn't a nearby river but we did have a Mermaid Promenade. See, for reasons unknown to me, the River Fest returned to Central Square. I don't know it's to celebrate something about Central Square or because there is stuff going on at Lechmere Park or what but okay. There's less grass to sit on and more close quarters to deal with but at least there's a small shortcut from the folk stage to the rock and alternative stage if I needed it instead of spending most of the day at the folk stage.
Mary had some red cloth and a red pendant. One of the other Moonrise Fae gave me a fake cloth flower and an oyster shell painted Kryptonite green that they said is their calling card. I ended up with a second one and he said I could start a collection.
Jacqueline was dressed as a pharaoh mermaid and has a tattoo of Nefertiti.
Emma (no, not that Emma, kupo. Not that one either) had a very fantastical seahorse mask that she always calls he but isn't sure so I asked if it was pregnant, and a seahorse pendant that she got nearby because she already had the mask. She used a DIY Christmas ornament for the eyes, while the woman with the fish got her eyes from the recycling bin and it's a really good place to find irregular shapes. I asked her if she knew about anglerfish and she thinks it’s a really sad life for them and one of the other mermaids said it was a good allegory for some of her past boyfriends.
A mermaid had a tail made from woven plastic bags and plastic bottles.
Hannah had short hair with glitter in it and a mesh shirt.
One of them had a snapping turtle.
Batman, Captain America, the Green Ranger, and Harley Quinn were there too. Harley Quinn's bag had a Refuse Fascism sticker. Mark Hammill is a national treasure.
4:15
Alisa Amador's grandfather is from Argentina but she's from here but she did spend some time there and is inspired by the music she heard there and as a youth. She sang about self-love.
I got her CD because it was 5 dollars and I got Fire in the Field's CD because the price was signing up for their mailing list and it's not like my e-mail is doing anything else. Facebook will probably overwhelm them with their spam.
Manel is an Arabic name that I thought was Spanish. Ally has rose earrings. Niamh is not in the drawing but is amazed that I almost pronounced her name properly.
Instead of getting that noodle bowl that Aimée was eating because it was sold out but on the bright side, their restaurant is near Davis Square, I got some Indonesian fried rice with sausages and meatballs called nasi gila or crazy rice. Damned if I can remember what the place was called.
5:00
Erin Bonnie and the Black Caps play a blend of folk and blues.
A woman on the train had Creativo Menti tattooed on her arm.
burning question: why does Donkey Kong collect bananas if they’re just going to go bad? Do you think he's not planning to eat them but to keep bananas artificially scarce and control distribution?
