Gallagher and Hogbens

I had a craving couple of days ago to read some Henry Kuttner. These cravings are powerful, man! I've never felt this way about food.

Anyway, I checked the library catalogue, and there was only first or ancient editions that are not for circulation. :( Then I checked the online bookstores - just to see if there is and recent editions,and there is one, but I have no idea what's inside. For raiding the usedbook store I don't have much energy. So I hit the Internet - Russian online libraries, and of course, it was there (perfectly legal, as it was published before 1973). Pity, only the translations, but I downloaded the stuff, our it into my Palm and ate it up.

alcoholic inventor Gallagher and the Hogbens family were the heroes of our formative years. I wonder why they are not more popular in their home country? I am happily filled with the madcap humour of Henry Kuttner and planning to go read some of Kuttner and C.L. Moore. And then probably go over Robert Sheckley. But it is so weird - I loved them in Russian, and now it is a pain to find the stories I loved in original (part of the problems is that I just have no idea how things are called in original)...
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There are no birthdays in my friends list in June. What's up with that? Happy June (kerfuffle-free) to everyone then! and I will have to find a=other things to make me post.

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There were several kerfuffles that I missed and one big LJ suckage that was impossible to miss. I kind of don't have much energy to worry much at the moment, and I am probably way too jaded, but I don't believe in much privacy in the Internet in principle (it would be nice, but I don't cherish hope) and in goodwill of corporations. I am glad they were made to realize the screw-up, and I don't doubt they will screw up again. I am not leaving though. I carved up a good little niche for myself here that not that much about fandom anymore (though I consider myself a marginal member of fandom), but about friends here and there - some I met on LJ, some I found after many years through LJ, and some I brought to LJ. I cannot recreate it anywhere else.