It smells like someone died

[stillsostrange]

Because it's nearly my birthday, Precious, and because I couldn't stand to wait till August, we're taking advantage of an otherwise annoying holiday and going to the beach. The full moon over the beach tonight was worth what will likely be a hell of holiday traffic tomorrow.

It's also been two years since we've been to Galveston, and I was unaware of the existence of the Pleasure Pier. We saw the ferris wheel lights as we drove down the seawall, and now I have "People Are Strange" stuck in my head, and the overwhelming urge to write a vampire story. Perhaps a Pinocchio vampire story. And somehow I've lived to be two days from hobbit adulthood and never before noticed that The Lost Boys is very much a Pinocchio story already.

Comments

[dichroic.livejournal.com]

If you haven't read Sean Stewart's Galveston I recommend it. (I lived in SE Houston for 7 years; for me, Stewart does a great job of capturing the (better parts of the) feel of the place, there and in Mockingbird.)

[http://users.livejournal.com/la_marquise_de_/]

Have a good time.

[marthawells.livejournal.com]

The pleasure pier just opened a month or so ago, I think. The multi-story Admiral hotel was originally out there; Ike put giant holes in the walls and it was condemned, but the pier itself was still in good shape.

It's a neat idea, since there was a pleasure pier like it where Murdoch's used to be, back in the 1910s and 20s.

[cmpriest.livejournal.com]

I haven't been to Galveston in years, myself. Used to love that place. Would bring a bag of Cheetos to feed the seagulls on the ferry ride over :)