irregular night

An irregular night. I fell asleep a little early, before eleven, without putting the cats' food out on the patio. I did not awake until two, and I had three hungry cats patiently waiting my coming.

Then, after what looked like an excellent beginning for a great night's sleep, I could not fall back asleep. So, I am up for an hour or so, doing a little reading and taking care of the early-morning blogging rounds a lot earlier than usual.

warmed-over death

I feel like warmed-over death. I just couldn't fall asleep, except toward the very end. Thank god, Pop did not kick on his music at seven. And maybe I caught a break by not being able to go downtown today.

Atheism Prevention

What is the best way to stop your child from becoming an atheist?

( The Best Answer, Please? )

Wells Fargo Bank

Pop has been getting a lot of calls from Wells Fargo Bank in the past week. I hope this is not the crack in the financial base of our accustomed lifestyle.

Lonesome Miley

Miley does a Bob Dylan number.

Miley covers "You're Gonna Make Me Lonesome When You Go" with all of the mournfulness and dusty sentiment that the classic Dylan song requires, pouring her heart into the track and giving the legend his due instead of simply covering the track and moving on. (It's hard to top the Shawn Colvin version, but Miley comes dangerously close.)

It takes not only guts but cojones the size of wrecking balls to cover Bob Dylan, and Miley rose to the occasion and not only proved that she's capable of genres beyond pop but that she thrives vocally in a folk/ country environment.

-- ONTD

See, I don't know if she can be a pop diva and continue to rake in the big bucks of a Lady Gaga, but I think she may be able to do something more: leave behind an impressive body of music that is more artful than bubble-gum popular, if she will dedicate herself to that. After all, I am sure she is rich enough that even her grand children will be able to live lives of ease and luxury without having to work a day. She just has to be okay with not working the big stadiums, but lighting up the classier venues, singing more for posterity than for mega-fame, being more concerned about taste than with exciting the masses, working on her art rather than her divahood.

Hamlet (2,1) Mad for Thy Love?

After Reynaldo leaves on his mission, Ophelia comes to Polonius and is a little hysterical with a strange tale about Hamlet.

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OPHELIA

O, my lord, my lord, I have been so affrighted!

LORD POLONIUS

With what, i' the name of God?

OPHELIA

My lord, as I was sewing in my closet,
Lord Hamlet, with his doublet all unbraced;
No hat upon his head; his stockings foul'd,
Ungarter'd, and down-gyved to his ancle;
Pale as his shirt; his knees knocking each other;
And with a look so piteous in purport
As if he had been loosed out of hell
To speak of horrors,--he comes before me.

LORD POLONIUS

Mad for thy love?

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the elephant ears

Pop asks if I would like to have Jack come and take the weed-eater to the tall grass at the mound of the elephant ears. My istinctive and immediate reaction,of course is to dismiss the idea out of hand, though I find myself wondering if I am being too risk-averse and nervous, and maybe Jack can save me a fair bit of labor. However, I have since come to see that Jack might cut up the elephant-ears themselves, the root-mounds if not the now dormant ears. Of course, we could stand to lose some of those ears, but I do not think I would care to leave that pruning to Jack's unwitting efforts.

Writing is like sex

“Writing is like sex. First you do it for love, then you do it for your friends, and then you do it for money.”

-- Virginia Woolf

I thought she was going to say: once you are done, you want to leave and forget about it. Maybe it is the difference in gender.

Unfortunately, I don't suppose I, myself, will ever be breaking into that prostitution stage. I shall die with my virtue and my poverty intact.

"Mannix"

Ah, I see "Mannix"is also available on DVD. Pricey, though. I think I'll still have to go with "Police Woman" and Angie Dickinson first.

"Entourage"

I'm also watching "Entourage". It's not really part of my formal line-up, but I could use a show in the evenings, when time is more pressed, and it would be nice not to have to break out the DVDs. Although the show is kind of annoying, there are some selling points in watching a show in which everyone's greatest fantasy is brought to life, living large in the fast lane of the rich and famous, a movie star. And why not take advantage of HBO.Go?