After the first time you told me that you loved me in the New York lights
Physical state: still junk. In order to start my day off with a doctor's appointment, I went to bed early, meaning I lay eight hours in the dark in assorted pain until my alarm went off, doing nothing to persuade me against insomnia. On the other hand, I spent the afternoon with ![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
rushthatspeaks cooking the squash and apple soup from Sean Sherman and Beth Dooley's The Sioux Chef's Indigenous Kitchen (2017) and eventually helping my mother set up an apple crisp and when I came home in the evening, spatch and I went for a brief walk in the freezing dark during which he captured me looking like a slightly damaged old color photograph. I can deal with that. I am incredibly charmed by this performance of "A Hole in the Bucket" by Harry Belafonte and Odetta. Ernst Lubitsch's The Smiling Lieutenant (1931) is one of the pre-Codiest movies I have ever seen. I had a plan for sleep, but then a cat dozed off on my knees.
rushthatspeaks cooking the squash and apple soup from Sean Sherman and Beth Dooley's The Sioux Chef's Indigenous Kitchen (2017) and eventually helping my mother set up an apple crisp and when I came home in the evening, spatch and I went for a brief walk in the freezing dark during which he captured me looking like a slightly damaged old color photograph. I can deal with that. I am incredibly charmed by this performance of "A Hole in the Bucket" by Harry Belafonte and Odetta. Ernst Lubitsch's The Smiling Lieutenant (1931) is one of the pre-Codiest movies I have ever seen. I had a plan for sleep, but then a cat dozed off on my knees.
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I love The Smiling Lieutenant. That Belafonte-Odetta duet is delightful.
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Thank you. I think this is the worst year I have had medically since my health actually broke and you know, we have a pandemic on, I didn't need it.
I love The Smiling Lieutenant.
We knew nothing about it! We went into it cold! Chevalier started singing lines like "We're the boudoir brigadiers" and it just didn't quit. (I had never seen Maurice Chevalier young before. I was charmed by him, too.)
That Belafonte-Odetta duet is delightful.
My mother found it tonight and then thought she might have heard it live originally. I consider it fully as definitive as the version from Sesame Street that turns out to co-star Rita Moreno.
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That picture of you is both charming and conveys the CHILL in the air last night. Brrrr.
Hurray for cooking and cats that sit on knees. Good on you for squeezing some joy out of a day marred by pain and doctors.
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I've been playing it on and off for three days now.
And it led me to ask the internet the question that song always prompts in me, and mudcat had some answers: how exactly do you use a straw to fix a bucket? (That whole thread is fun; I especially like the contributions of Eric the Viking.)
I'll check it out! I assume it's a straw as in a wheat or a barley straw, but my mother always said it was in the sense of a thin light stick or a reed.
That picture of you is both charming and conveys the CHILL in the air last night. Brrrr.
It was like full-scale winter. And then tonight we were back to late autumn again.
Hurray for cooking and cats that sit on knees. Good on you for squeezing some joy out of a day marred by pain and doctors.
Thank you. I am working at it! (I have good collaborators.)
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It's funny to think that the properties of a farm straw (or a reed) mean that it can be used both to let water pass through (so, as a drinking straw) and to keep water from passing through, as here.
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The Hole in the Bucket discussion is really delightful.
I had a plan for sleep, but then a cat dozed off on my knees.
I submit that the cats probably get enough sleep, and you don't, so you're allowed to move them.
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*hugs*
It's a bit nuts.
I submit that the cats probably get enough sleep, and you don't, so you're allowed to move them.
It's against the Geneva Convention! A cat told me so!
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I love Odetta and Belafonte. Together, they're brilliant!
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I love how much neither of them even bothers to pretend this song is not an epic job of (successful) stalling.
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Thank you!
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*hugs*