Those who do not learn from history are stupid
Cleaning off the desk and ran across these amongst the receipts.
You have a charming way with words and should write a book.
I don’t know about “charming”, but when did fortunes pick up this nagging tone? I know, I know, I need to get one of them done.
An admirer is concealing his affection for you.
Good. I hope it stays concealed. I mean, unless he’s got publishing connections….
Barbara’s comment at the end of Tim Burton’s Sweeney Todd, The Demon Barber of Fleet Street: “I don’t suppose there’ll be any of those humorous outtakes during the credits.”
Every couple of years, the Oregonian dredges up some relatively recent transplant to Oregon to write an op-ed bemoaning the weather, the laid-back atmosphere, the general lack of culture, the scarcity of ultra-expensive lofts, etc. Well, the latter two items have been taken care of, with the new condo development designed by Christo across from the Lone Fir Cemetery on Morrison Street.
2,169,030 articles on Wikipedia and the Oregon State Capitol is “Today’s featured article”.
No job, no skills, no money, no nothing
No nothing ’cause I want it for free [Dirt cheap!]
Want it for free, all that is coming to me
So I look real hard for somebody to blame [Someone to blame!]
Somebody to blame or an easy way out [Easy way out!]
An easy way out ’cause it ain’t much fun [No fun!]
The place that starts with a square and ends with a one
What can you do? You get what’s given to you
Square one, here I come, here I come square one
You get what’s given to you
Square one, here I come, here I come square one
Nothing the next year needs more than an anniversary present of a bronze statue of the bridegroom Ganesh, Remover of Obstacles, patron of letters and learning, and the latest addition to our little object pantheon on top of the cabinet in the living room.
Then again, his arrival today wasn’t exactly presaged by the best omens, Hindu-wise.
In the spring and summer of 1998, a young, fluffy cat started meeting Barbara on our back deck when she got home from work. By the time the rain came in the fall, he’d figured out the cat door and started sleeping on the laundry in the back hall, figuring out that there was an opening for a peppy male cat amongst our two spinsters. By winter he’d pretty much moved in full-time and we started vetting him.
At first, Barbara just called him Boy Kitty. But during a particularly energetic bout of chasing a string on a pole (something Barbara had put together to help us try to run off some of his cabin fever that first winter) with A&E’s “Biography” on in the background, an episode provided the perfect name for a cat who would run full tilt into a chest, stand up, and shake off the hit to get back to the chase: Jackie Chan.
His personality is incredibly sweet, although he’s always liked to tussle with my hand (leaving a fair number of shallow scratches over the years) and there are some spots where arthritis in his back will bring out a warning bite. He was good company five years ago when I broke my leg, although he did tend to hog the pillows I was supposed to be using to elevate the afflicted member. I’ve made a running joke out of the softness of his fur, saying that it’s like “scratching the belly of a cloud” or “having your hand mauled by a cloud.”
A few weeks back, after touching one of Jackie Chan’s sensitive spots, Barbara’s sister Marie came up “The Cloud That Will Bite You,” which had the three of us in stitches for no particular reason.
Because he came over the back fence, we don’t have any idea of Jackie Chan’s actual birthdate, but from the age he was when he started appearing, we figured he was from a late fall litter, so we just picked our all-purpose non-Christmas holiday, which makes him ten years old today!
Talking at The Horse Brass last night Russell sang a snippet of the theme from “Alfie” and we briefly discussed Jude Law’s remake of that and the critical reaction to his version of “Sleuth”. Russell suggested Law and George Clooney for a remake of “The Man Who Would Be King” as the next step (which brought me back to my desire to see a “Three Kings 2”) but the Caine movie I really want to see Law do next is “Zulu”. That should be a minefield of ethical problems.
Also discussed: Brat Pack remakes. John Carpenter’s movies are getting redone, why not John Hughes?
Just a little something to do on a Friday morning. Ice on the puddles in the background.
From the Oregonian’s TV Click magazine, last night’s AMC vs. Animal Planet avian matchup at 8!
