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[kcobweb]

Following Foo: the electronic adventures of the Chestnut Man, by B.D. Wong. We are big fans of BD's, and he was here in town a few weeks ago doing a one-man show (galagan saw it and agreed with the review we read - a good actor, with not-so-great material to work with). Anyway, I looked him up on Wikipedia or imdb while he was here, because I was curious about some random question, and noticed that he had a child with his partner, and had written a book about it. So here we are. What actually happened was that BD and Richie (the partner) had a surrogate mother carrying a twin pregnancy for them, and she went into labor 11 weeks early; one twin died, and the rest of the book is about the struggles of the other twin in the NICU. BD was writing email updates to his family and friends, and those updates are the central kernel of this book. The early NICU parts made me cry - I have a friend who had a baby that early, and it's just awful and hard and scary. Overall, BD should learn to trust his material - he has a great story here, but he doesn't seem to believe that, and so he tries too hard. It ends up feeling rather gimmicky and overdone. (Plus, he feels compelled to include some of the glowing email responses he got to the original updates, and takes every opportunity there to name-drop.)

Aside from reading, I finished my denim quilt! It's a raggedy quilt, which means the seams are exposed and have to be clipped every 1/4 inch. Your cutting hand really starts to hurt after a while. Then you wash it and it gets all frayed. I've planned this so long in my head; I can't believe the actual construction went so quickly. Yahoo! Now, what should I do for my next project.....? (I have half a dozen things already in progress.)

ETA: links to pictures of the quilt

Comments

[journeywoman.livejournal.com]

I think you should make me a nautical quilt.

[kcobweb.livejournal.com]

I'm not very good at anything representational. Or actually getting the seams and points to match up. :)

[nadyezhda.livejournal.com]

oooh, ohhh, what's more apppropriate to go with a denim quilt than some sort of t-shirt quilt? sigh. dunno what to do with all my old Ts...

[kcobweb.livejournal.com]

I have a HY-UGE t-shirt quilt that I made a few years ago. I cleaned out my t-shirt drawer and made this nearly king-sized quilt.... and I still have too many t-shirts. The quilt was easy though.

[sanj.livejournal.com]

Oh, wow, you have been talking about this forever, and now it is done! and looks fantastic!