more idle youths hanging around in my front garden

[boxofdelights]

sovay gave me three things to talk about:

Ferns: I know fern-seed can make you invisible because it is itself invisible. I also know that ferns don't have seeds, they reproduce through spores. Most ferns need much more consistent moisture than is available in my garden. The only fern that I can grow is bracken, whose name is synechdoche for neglect.

guitars: Almost forty years ago I fell in love with a boy who played guitar. We went to a lot of guitar concerts together: folk, rock, jazz, fusion, classical, Spanish. The one I miss most is Michael Hedges.

near-future sf: I love it. I used to love sf with aliens the most, but now I am better at noticing the zippers on the backs of their costumes so they do not engage me as easily. I love the way that unmarked literature has assimilated so many sf tropes that sometimes the only way you can distinguish between them is by looking at the publisher's name.


Comment if you would like me to suggest three things for you to talk about, that you may or may not know or care much about.

Comments

[sovay]

sovay gave me three things to talk about

You gave excellent answers.

[boxofdelights]

Would you like three things? I offer opals, berries, goatheads.

[under_the_silk_tree]

What a pretty bird! I love ferns, especially Maidenhair & Spider ferns.

[julian]

I also love that SF has snuck into the mainstream. (In that way. Some others, less so.)

Anyway. Can I have 3?

[boxofdelights]

Talk to me about airplanes, balloons, and the color green.

[hobbitbabe]

Me, that sounds like fun!

[boxofdelights]

Tell me about bears, libraries, and breakfast.

[oursin]

3 things please?

[boxofdelights]

Glasses, a comet, a bridge.

[magnetic_pole]

I used to love sf with aliens the most, but now I am better at noticing the zippers on the backs of their costumes so they do not engage me as easily.

I love this line, a lot.

Fun to read these! M.

[skygiants]

Me too -- it's such a great way to describe that thing that happens when humans are not quite successful at writing anything that's not a human

[magnetic_pole]

Exactly! M.

[bibliofile]

Guitar concerts! There are worse side effects of relationships. Also, Michael Hedges, yay.

[jesse_the_k]

Michael Hedges' music is dreamy.
I imprinted on Leo Kottke, Peter Lang, and other men with fast fingers and deep voices.

The really alien aliens have zippers on the soles and palms :,)

I'd love three things.