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May. 13th, 2013
20. A Sea of Weeds
May. 13th, 2013 09:00 amThe lawn isn’t tall enough to mow, but the back yard looks terribly shabby. Maybe this is because the back yard is now entirely composed of weeds, and weeds have that flowery, puffy top, which perhaps helps to emphasize their height.
This is the first spring when the weeds have finally succeeded in taking over completely. It’s very demoralizing. It looks so ugly and lazy. If it were not for the cats, I would like to bury the yard in weedkiller and see what happens. If mother were here, I’m sure she would have to attack the problem with all her single-minded ferocity. She would drive me nuts, being utterly indifferent to the cats’ interests, but sometimes you need a mad dictator to make the trains run on time.
This is the first spring when the weeds have finally succeeded in taking over completely. It’s very demoralizing. It looks so ugly and lazy. If it were not for the cats, I would like to bury the yard in weedkiller and see what happens. If mother were here, I’m sure she would have to attack the problem with all her single-minded ferocity. She would drive me nuts, being utterly indifferent to the cats’ interests, but sometimes you need a mad dictator to make the trains run on time.
21. Pop and Kay
May. 13th, 2013 01:00 pmPop is heading out on his rounds, and he says that he is going to … he pauses, and then says that he is going to help move some furniture for Kay. In other words, he is buying Kay some furniture. Actually, he is buying her a TV, presumably a high-definition TV. Is it too much to hope that he will be more content to stay over there now? I just pray that he is not going to cry ‘poor’ when I want to start running the air-conditioner this summer. Remember, he is also being pressed by Jack and Jill and their financial woes. The weather is still surprisingly comfortable in the middle of May, but we are surely fast approaching the sweating season.
The Smiths
May. 13th, 2013 02:57 pmA millionaire kid wants his own mansion. It's the kind of celebrity news that sickens me.
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Despite being young, Will has revealed the extra freedoms they have been allowed has encouraged his actor son Jaden to ask for a house of his own for his 15th birthday in July.
In an interview with The Sun newspaper, Will explained: 'He says, "Dad, I want to be emancipated," I know if we do this, he can be an emancipated minor, because he really wants to have his own place.'
-- ONTD
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Despite being young, Will has revealed the extra freedoms they have been allowed has encouraged his actor son Jaden to ask for a house of his own for his 15th birthday in July.
In an interview with The Sun newspaper, Will explained: 'He says, "Dad, I want to be emancipated," I know if we do this, he can be an emancipated minor, because he really wants to have his own place.'
-- ONTD
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The new Dan Brown novel is out, "Inferno", and people are already poking fun at the writer. I remember jumping on the bandwagon when "The Da Vinci" code first came out, and I enjoyed it well enough, but I only needed one trip.
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The critics said his writing was clumsy, ungrammatical, repetitive and repetitive. They said it was full of unnecessary tautology. They said his prose was swamped in a sea of mixed metaphors. For some reason they found something funny in sentences such as “His eyes went white, like a shark about to attack.” They even say my books are packed with banal and superfluous description, thought the 5ft 9in man. He particularly hated it when they said his imagery was nonsensical. It made his insect eyes flash like a rocket.
Renowned author Dan Brown got out of his luxurious four-poster bed in his expensive $10 million house and paced the bedroom, using the feet located at the ends of his two legs to propel him forwards. He knew he shouldn’t care what a few jealous critics thought. His new book Inferno was coming out on Tuesday, and the 480-page hardback published by Doubleday with a recommended US retail price of $29.95 was sure to be a hit. Wasn’t it?
I’ll call my agent, pondered the prosperous scribe. He reached for the telephone using one of his two hands. “Hello, this is renowned author Dan Brown,” spoke renowned author Dan Brown. “I want to talk to literary agent John Unconvincingname.”
-- Michael Deacon
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The critics said his writing was clumsy, ungrammatical, repetitive and repetitive. They said it was full of unnecessary tautology. They said his prose was swamped in a sea of mixed metaphors. For some reason they found something funny in sentences such as “His eyes went white, like a shark about to attack.” They even say my books are packed with banal and superfluous description, thought the 5ft 9in man. He particularly hated it when they said his imagery was nonsensical. It made his insect eyes flash like a rocket.
Renowned author Dan Brown got out of his luxurious four-poster bed in his expensive $10 million house and paced the bedroom, using the feet located at the ends of his two legs to propel him forwards. He knew he shouldn’t care what a few jealous critics thought. His new book Inferno was coming out on Tuesday, and the 480-page hardback published by Doubleday with a recommended US retail price of $29.95 was sure to be a hit. Wasn’t it?
I’ll call my agent, pondered the prosperous scribe. He reached for the telephone using one of his two hands. “Hello, this is renowned author Dan Brown,” spoke renowned author Dan Brown. “I want to talk to literary agent John Unconvincingname.”
-- Michael Deacon
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22. Seniors' Tour
May. 13th, 2013 05:00 pmPop is going on another seniors’ tour tomorrow. An Indian casino, again. So, I have another day to myself. Alas, he had to spoil the news by noting that it is also my birthday tomorrow, a fact I was happily unconscious of, and sorely wish he had been unconscious of. It might be one thing if he tossed an extra twenty bucks my way, or offered to pay for a book like he did on Christmas. But he probably wants to play the slots tomorrow, or maybe even put some chips down on a number. That’s fine. I am well-stocked. I will be thrilled just to get the air-conditioner running again this year.
