And the saw snarled and rattled, snarled and rattled, As it ran light, or had to bear a load. And nothing happened: day was all but done. Call it a day, I wish they might have said To please the boy by giving him the half hour That a boy counts so much when saved from work.
This piece is great, but so much better on a re-reading, with knowledge of the end:
They listened at his heart. Little—less—nothing!—and that ended it. No more to build on there. And they, since they Were not the one dead, turned to their affairs.
Now I'm off to the Holiday Club to meet Satchel for a drink.
― crunkleJ (crunkleJ), Saturday, 2 December 2006 04:20 (seventeen years ago) link
― Lance Rock (pullapartgirl), Saturday, 2 December 2006 19:49 (seventeen years ago) link
And then I came home and watched "Seven Brides for Seven Brothers," which is my second favorite Hollywood musical. Sexist? Oh, hell yeah. On one level it's ludicrously sexist, but that's all parody. On a deeper level it's good ol' fashioned 50's sexist, and that's harder to swallow. But know that going in, and it's just marvelous. The songs are great, and I sing them in the shower sometimes. ("Bless your beautiful hide / Wherever you may be.") The dance numbers are so great that they made me a little misty, no joke. There are not a lot of movies that make me choke up because of how unrepentantly JOYOUS they are. They don't make those at all anymore.
The #1 musical, though, is always "Singin' In The Rain," which I watched on Thursday night. And yeah, I don't know what it is that makes me get all misty when Donald O'Connor does "Make 'em Laugh," but it gets me every time. It's a totally different kind of misty than at the end of "It's A Wonderful Life"; less sappy but somehow more nostalgic. It's not tugging at the heart strings, but it's tugging at something. It's a feeling of, "Now THIS... this is perfection."
― whoop de doodle (kenan), Sunday, 3 December 2006 04:13 (seventeen years ago) link
Don't bring a frown to old BroadwayAh, you got a clown on BroadwayYour troubles there[flourish] THEY'RE OUT OF STYLEfor Broadway always wears a smile
etc.
― whoop de doodle (kenan), Sunday, 3 December 2006 04:21 (seventeen years ago) link
― whoop de doodle (kenan), Sunday, 3 December 2006 04:24 (seventeen years ago) link
― Lance Rock (pullapartgirl), Sunday, 3 December 2006 05:31 (seventeen years ago) link
― Laurel (Laurel), Sunday, 3 December 2006 05:35 (seventeen years ago) link
I know I do. But if only you knew how very very much I like girls...
The liking of musicals is harder to explain, is all.
― whoop de doodle (kenan), Sunday, 3 December 2006 05:47 (seventeen years ago) link
I ALWAYS PROTEST TOO MUCH. ABOUT EVERYTHING. I PROTEST ABOUT EVERYTHING I CAN THINK OF BECAUSE I'M COLOSSALLY INSECURE. This should not be news, exactly.
― whoop de doodle (kenan), Sunday, 3 December 2006 06:08 (seventeen years ago) link
― whoop de doodle (kenan), Sunday, 3 December 2006 07:18 (seventeen years ago) link
WHY THE FUCK AM I AWAKE. so fucking sleepy. i woke up at 6:30 and dammit it's sunday.
― JuliaA (JuliaA), Sunday, 3 December 2006 13:48 (seventeen years ago) link
http://youtube.com/watch?v=bP21zUrMh7s
― whoop de doodle (kenan), Sunday, 3 December 2006 17:37 (seventeen years ago) link
― JordanC (JordanC), Sunday, 3 December 2006 20:34 (seventeen years ago) link
Which will it be? Netflix or Cable?
― crunkleJ (crunkleJ), Sunday, 3 December 2006 21:00 (seventeen years ago) link
RentCell phoneDSL (landline and internet)CableElectricityGas
― crunkleJ (crunkleJ), Sunday, 3 December 2006 21:04 (seventeen years ago) link
Student loan goes in right after Rent.
― crunkleJ (crunkleJ), Sunday, 3 December 2006 21:05 (seventeen years ago) link
― JordanC (JordanC), Sunday, 3 December 2006 21:20 (seventeen years ago) link
― Laurel (Laurel), Sunday, 3 December 2006 22:09 (seventeen years ago) link
― Jeff... (Jeff...), Sunday, 3 December 2006 22:55 (seventeen years ago) link
― Ruud Haarvest (KenL), Sunday, 3 December 2006 23:07 (seventeen years ago) link
― Ruud Haarvest (KenL), Sunday, 3 December 2006 23:08 (seventeen years ago) link
― danno martinez (danno martinez), Monday, 4 December 2006 00:30 (seventeen years ago) link
― n/a (n/a), Monday, 4 December 2006 00:44 (seventeen years ago) link
Jesse doesn't get TCM anyhoo. I say fuck a bunch of cable.
― whoop de doodle (kenan), Monday, 4 December 2006 04:52 (seventeen years ago) link
This is the evil of AT&T dsl. It comes with a landline, no option. Canceling the dsl means getting rid of the phone, and vice versa. They make you sign a contract.
― whoop de doodle (kenan), Monday, 4 December 2006 04:57 (seventeen years ago) link
So I have a cellphone and I have a cable modem. So far, no troubles. I don't anticipate many, either, since both of those companies have real competition.
― whoop de doodle (kenan), Monday, 4 December 2006 05:04 (seventeen years ago) link
― whoop de doodle (kenan), Monday, 4 December 2006 05:06 (seventeen years ago) link
― Armando Grouse (Armando ), Monday, 4 December 2006 14:51 (seventeen years ago) link
― Laurel (Laurel), Monday, 4 December 2006 14:56 (seventeen years ago) link
I do wonder, though -- I ordered some stuff from that Alchemy lab of perfumery and I was wondering how long it would take to get here. Has anyone made an order and received it? How long did it take?
― Armando Grouse (Armando ), Monday, 4 December 2006 15:04 (seventeen years ago) link
― Armando Grouse (Armando ), Monday, 4 December 2006 15:07 (seventeen years ago) link
― JordanC (JordanC), Monday, 4 December 2006 15:13 (seventeen years ago) link
― whoop de doodle (kenan), Monday, 4 December 2006 15:15 (seventeen years ago) link
I'm having some hot chocolate at my desk. None of my coworkers have commented on the crazy dye job I got this weekend. I look Calico, in a good way, or at least I think so.
I haven't received my Alchemy lab order yet.
― Calico (calico), Monday, 4 December 2006 15:15 (seventeen years ago) link
― whoop de doodle (kenan), Monday, 4 December 2006 15:24 (seventeen years ago) link
Jesse, get rid of your electricity.
― Lance Rock (pullapartgirl), Monday, 4 December 2006 15:29 (seventeen years ago) link
― crunkleJ (crunkleJ), Monday, 4 December 2006 15:30 (seventeen years ago) link
― crunkleJ (crunkleJ), Monday, 4 December 2006 15:35 (seventeen years ago) link
― Laurel (Laurel), Monday, 4 December 2006 15:37 (seventeen years ago) link
I ate my leftovers of Jenny squash with some turkey cold cuts and gravy, to which I added mushroom powder (Spice House?), and as usual, it made me happy.
― crunkleJ (crunkleJ), Monday, 4 December 2006 15:38 (seventeen years ago) link
No joking. Seems like with all the Brown Line crap, if you live north of Belmont, your arrival time to work is in the hands of the Transit Gods. Even leaving the house early does not guarantee anything.
Last night was blazing hot, as it is now too.
See, my trouble is that when it's 40 outside, they leave the heat just as cranked as if it was 20. My skin turns to parchment and my cats begin to char around the edges. But when it's 20, it's juuuust right.
― whoop de doodle (kenan), Monday, 4 December 2006 15:41 (seventeen years ago) link
― crunkleJ (crunkleJ), Monday, 4 December 2006 15:43 (seventeen years ago) link
― Jeff... (Jeff...), Monday, 4 December 2006 15:44 (seventeen years ago) link
lol at Mai-Tais
― whoop de doodle (kenan), Monday, 4 December 2006 15:44 (seventeen years ago) link
― Laurel (Laurel), Monday, 4 December 2006 15:45 (seventeen years ago) link
― otto midnight (otto midnight), Monday, 4 December 2006 15:46 (seventeen years ago) link
― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 4 December 2006 15:48 (seventeen years ago) link
http://static.flickr.com/106/313349673_632589420e.jpg?v=0
I love my coat, and the Burlington Coat Factory in which it was made.
― JordanC (JordanC), Monday, 4 December 2006 15:49 (seventeen years ago) link
― Laurel (Laurel), Monday, 4 December 2006 15:50 (seventeen years ago) link