Meanwhile, I spent yesterday reading Alcott's Rose in Bloom for fun (it's one of those favorite books I tend to go back to just for comfort, although you definitely have to suspend a modern perspective, or you'll start screaming when [spoilers?]one character gives up a career for The Man She Loves, and another dies for the Horrible Sin of Stumbling Home Drunk on New Year's Day) and a ton of documents at victorianlondon.org--I don't know why I ever doubt that that site will have exactly what I need, because it solved several problems I was having with hotel dining, dinner parties, servant duties, and Death in the Household, as one helpful article was called.
Two requests and a bunch of linkspam from y'all, from the Raiders of the Lost Ark warehouse that is my inbox:
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starlady42: "Cleo, if you get a chance, could you pimp http://www.asbrand.com/? This is a friend of mine who is trying to navigate the nightmare that is the US government's permanent resident (green card) process for his wife and daughter. All the details are on his site -- they've been jerked around by the bureaucracy several times already, and are running out of time and money. Any help would be greatly appreciated."From
golden_d: "I was wondering if you might be interested in Operation Find Don for your linkspam? Don appears most importantly in this essay written by Sarah Bunting of TWOP fame in mid-September 2001. It's the kind of thing that could really use some plugging. Thanks!" I actually want to say that I've linked to OFD before--way, way back in the day when Sars first posted about it. And she still hasn't found the guy? Wow. From
etherealshores: "Miss Cleo! I have found the most amazing Halloween-type music ever: www.noxarcana.com. Seriously, check these guys out. They are amazing."From
bandersnatch42: "Did you see Viggo Mortenson's surprise cameo on The Colbert Report? It was made of awesome."From
elendiari22: "I have a steampunk book I thought I'd recommend to you: The Haunting of Alaizabel Cray. It's set in Victorian-esque London and it's really creepy and riveting."From
maetang: "No human sacrifice in term time, please. Glen David Gold on the impishness that inspired his novel Carter Beats the Devil."From
edda: "DID YOU KNOW THERE'S SUCH A THING AS A GOBLIN SHARK? BECAUSE THERE IS. Because I HAD to Google them from that link you gave me. Holy effin' snotballs, I'm gonna have nightmares now."From
rahrahmah: How to Write a Book. "Do not postpone other projects so that you can focus on the current one. It’s better to spread yourself so thin that you produce an evenly distributed amount of complete crap.... If you’ve gotten this far without a single technical foul-up, now’s a good time to download something viral.... If one of your cowriters is something of an optimist, shit in his hat."Hmm. I think I'll save the linkspam proper for later, rather than overwhelm everyone now.
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