It's got to happen sometime—until then, raise a drink

[sovay]

I slept almost eight hours. I forgot that spring in New England lasts about that long these days; by the time I was walking to M.F. Dulock in order to pick up an order for myself and my parents, it was eighty degrees out and humid as soup. The thunderstorm held off until this evening when I was talking with selkie. (Members of our household brought us both cookies! It was almost like sharing a meal!) Best prize for worst wearing of a mask seen so far in these pestilential days goes to the dude sitting on the curb on Highland smoking with his mask pulled up over his forehead, where I guess it was protecting his third eye. I really don't want the state reopening on Monday. Somerville has extended its citywide state of emergency provisionally until December.

I have been rewatching Black Narcissus (1947) because Ian McDowell was talking about it. I can't wear shorts like David Farrar can, but I do covet Mr. Dean's hat.

Comments

[nodrog]

The respirator on the forehead is a giveaway:  He's a Megacity Judge.



That's what that yellow thingumbob is.

[sovay]

He's a Megacity Judge.

Oh, good, just what this dystopia needs.

[nodrog]

But the kid's right:

If Batman were actually a Gotham City cop…

[rosefox]

A lot of chins in my neighborhood are very well protected. It's infuriating.

[sovay]

A lot of chins in my neighborhood are very well protected. It's infuriating.

I am also fascinated, by which I do not mean that I am enjoying, the number of people who cover their mouths but not their noses, as if the nostrils are not involved in the respiratory process at all.

[rosefox]

Yesterday Kit and I were drawing on the inside of our wooden fence with sidewalk chalk, and I was very tempted to go out the gate long enough to write A MASK THAT DOES NOT COVER YOUR NOSE IS EQUIVALENT TO NO MASK AT ALL on the side of the fence facing the sidewalk. I still might.

[cmcmck]

They've eased off very slightly here and are now crapping themselves because people might actually choose to take advantage of the fact this weekend.

Asked people to go back to work and then panic about public transport.

A clue, they need one!

[sporky_rat]

The only times so far I've had someone not wearing their mask correctly at me was when I was having trouble hearing them and politely asked them if I could lip read them.

They carefully tugged the strings up a bit, I read their lips, they put their mask back on again, touching only the strings, and I was able to make my purchase.
(This has really driven home the need for elocution classes in my area, wow.)

[kore]

"President Trump unveils "Operation Warp Speed," a program to develop a coronavirus vaccine, during a press conference in the Rose Garden."

Man, I think we're down out through the wrong leg of the Trousers of Time and are well into the Inside-Out Socks of Dystopia.

[sovay]

I still might.

It sounds like a public service to me.

[sovay]

Man, I think we're down out through the wrong leg of the Trousers of Time and are well into the Inside-Out Socks of Dystopia.

And they smell so funky.

[sovay]

A clue, they need one!

It's not like there aren't plenty out here for the taking!

(Good luck.)

[sovay]

The only times so far I've had someone not wearing their mask correctly at me was when I was having trouble hearing them and politely asked them if I could lip read them.

I am glad that the people in your area are being protective of one another. I really appreciate the passerby who approached without a mask the other night when rushthatspeaks and I were masked-and-distancedly hanging out in the driveway and crossed the street to give us room. That showed consideration and I didn't think fast enough to thank them.

(This has really driven home the need for elocution classes in my area, wow.)

(I can see that.)

[teenybuffalo]

I am fixating on that photograph. I know nothing of this film except that a lot of the protagonists are lonely and/or horny and fall in love with this guy. He looks like the costumers got the instruction, "Scarecrow from 'Wizard of Oz' but sexy," and did their best.

[sovay]

He looks like the costumers got the instruction, "Scarecrow from 'Wizard of Oz' but sexy," and did their best.

That is not an inapt description of Mr. Dean's dress sense. He does appear to own enough of a formal suit that he shows up black-tie for Christmas, but he is also drunk at the time and wearing a fur coat that may at one time have been a yak, so it evens out. He also considers shirts optional. Hat and short-shorts, however, are a must.

(I do not exaggerate the shorts. This isn't even the best shot of him in them.)

[teenybuffalo]

I'd been led to expect tiny shorts. I STILL was unprepared for this image. What else can one say but *tips hat* m'leggy

[sovay]

What else can one say but *tips hat* m'leggy

Well done.

[ethelmay]

You have no doubt seen the meme of it being compared to a person wearing the waistband of their underwear under their penis, but it might not be very polite to draw that on a sidewalk.

[rosefox]

I hadn't seen that, but that's wonderful.