Friday Miscellany
Life's been entirely too hard for entirely too long lately. According to those stress quizzes, I should already have a major illness or accident, if that gives you perspective. Therefore today you get whatever random bits of non-wisdom that are left at the edges of my psyche.
FAVORITE FLAGS:
I've always liked flags. I used to study the color plates in our World Book when I was a kid and now I have the world map with all the flags at the bottom on a prominent wall in my office. My very favorite is the flag of Lebanon because it has a TREE. My second favorite flag has always been that of Brazil because it has a globe with stars; funny how I married Brazilian. The Canadian flag is a close third to Brazil because that maple leaf is almost as good a symbol as the entire tree but it's so very hard to draw (as I learned when I was about seven.) Runner-up is Jamaica for visual aesthetics alone--I like the colors and the bold "X" design.
My review of Fellini's Satyricon: It wasn't in chronological order, there were a lot of dead people in it and they STOLE the hermaphrodite!
I can't stand to drink hot beverages.
The first "rock concert" to which I ever went was John Denver. Don't shoot me: I was seven. The first one I chose was Billy Joel ten years later. Followed by Chicago, Marillion/Rush, Pink Floyd twice, Roger Waters and Petty/Dylan. Arlo Guthrie too, but that was a much smaller venue.
I've met the Dalai Lama. God Incarnate had very warm hands.
FAVORITE POEM:
since feeling is first
who pays any attention
to the syntax of things
will never wholly kiss you;
wholly to be a fool
while Spring is in the world
my blood approves,
and kisses are a far better fate
than wisdom
lady i swear by all flowers. Don't cry
--the best gesture of my brain is less than
your eyelids' flutter which says
we are for each other: then
laugh, leaning back in my arms
for life's not a paragraph
And death i think is no parenthesis
--e.e. cummings
One of my biggest peeves is that women's garments almost never have pockets. Howinthehell can you keep from having to carry a purse without decent pockets?!?
Windex takes semen stains out of sheets. Fast.
You can make piecrust in a food processor but you really don't wish to do so. Comes out tough.
Goya guava nectar mixed 50/50 with club soda is delightful but you have to drink it before it settles.
When I was eleven I literally wore out my first set of Lord of the Rings paperbacks.
You know that game where you take a word like "Chevrolet" and try to see how many other words you can make from it? I'll kick your ass. Unless you're my mother, that is.
"White Chocolate" is neither.
A big part of why I like Tucker Carlson is because he consistently uses "different FROM."
I love the smell of a new box of crayons.
Happy weekend, everyone!
FAVORITE FLAGS:
I've always liked flags. I used to study the color plates in our World Book when I was a kid and now I have the world map with all the flags at the bottom on a prominent wall in my office. My very favorite is the flag of Lebanon because it has a TREE. My second favorite flag has always been that of Brazil because it has a globe with stars; funny how I married Brazilian. The Canadian flag is a close third to Brazil because that maple leaf is almost as good a symbol as the entire tree but it's so very hard to draw (as I learned when I was about seven.) Runner-up is Jamaica for visual aesthetics alone--I like the colors and the bold "X" design.
My review of Fellini's Satyricon: It wasn't in chronological order, there were a lot of dead people in it and they STOLE the hermaphrodite!
I can't stand to drink hot beverages.
The first "rock concert" to which I ever went was John Denver. Don't shoot me: I was seven. The first one I chose was Billy Joel ten years later. Followed by Chicago, Marillion/Rush, Pink Floyd twice, Roger Waters and Petty/Dylan. Arlo Guthrie too, but that was a much smaller venue.
I've met the Dalai Lama. God Incarnate had very warm hands.
FAVORITE POEM:
since feeling is first
who pays any attention
to the syntax of things
will never wholly kiss you;
wholly to be a fool
while Spring is in the world
my blood approves,
and kisses are a far better fate
than wisdom
lady i swear by all flowers. Don't cry
--the best gesture of my brain is less than
your eyelids' flutter which says
we are for each other: then
laugh, leaning back in my arms
for life's not a paragraph
And death i think is no parenthesis
--e.e. cummings
One of my biggest peeves is that women's garments almost never have pockets. Howinthehell can you keep from having to carry a purse without decent pockets?!?
Windex takes semen stains out of sheets. Fast.
You can make piecrust in a food processor but you really don't wish to do so. Comes out tough.
Goya guava nectar mixed 50/50 with club soda is delightful but you have to drink it before it settles.
When I was eleven I literally wore out my first set of Lord of the Rings paperbacks.
You know that game where you take a word like "Chevrolet" and try to see how many other words you can make from it? I'll kick your ass. Unless you're my mother, that is.
"White Chocolate" is neither.
A big part of why I like Tucker Carlson is because he consistently uses "different FROM."
I love the smell of a new box of crayons.
Happy weekend, everyone!
posted by SamD | 9:00 AM
2 Comments:
I've always loved South Carolina's state flag. Even though there are a lot of negatives to my native state, we've got a lovely flag. And it's got a tree!
My first concert was the Bee-Gees when I was 9.
Oh yes I agree, South Carolina's flag is a very pretty thing.
One of my friends in seventh grade was _seriously_ into the Bee Gees and I actually liked "Love You Inside and Out" well enough to
have bought the 45...remember _those_?
Hugs,
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