And now everything has raisins 'cause you fell for a raisin-crazy fool

[sovay]

I had a very nice time this evening reading Charon and listening to everyone else in Tom Stoppard's The Invention of Love (1997) on the Scintillation Discord, notably featuring nineweaving and rushthatspeaks as the older and younger Housman, and then as I was driving home from dropping off Rush-That-Speaks I turned on WGBH and found myself in the middle of a jauntily jaundiced jazz un-standard that sounded like a lost Rodgers and Hart and turned out to be Rachael and Vilray's "Hate Is the Basis of Love" and now it's stuck in my head and so is some Anakreon, so after all this has been a pretty good night.

P.S. I completely forgot to mention the turkey that approached me at a stop sign earlier in the afternoon. I hope it was able to catch the next cab.

Comments

[cmcmck]

Not a sight to expect to see every day! :o)

[thisbluespirit]

Turkey!! XD

And I'm so glad the reading went well. <3

[davidgillon]

Perhaps it was thinking 'Any poet in a storm'?

[asakiyume]

Turkeys were on the move yesterday! A whole bunch of them were foraging in my backyard. One slipped on the crusted snow.

I'm glad the reading turned out fun. I'm guessing Stoppard doesn't presuppose hate as prompting the invention of love? (... or does he? I don't know the play)

[choco_frosh]

...I think I've met that turkey.

[landofnowhere]

It was great to have you at the reading last night!

Also that turkey gives me flashbacks to living in Cambridge (though I never saw a turkey in the snow!)

[yhlee]

Turkey!! :D

[regshoe]

Well, that is a fun bird sighting :D Er, I hope it wasn't lost (do they often turn up in towns/cities???)

[gwynnega]

That is a turkey with attitude.

I'm glad the reading was fun!

[jesse_the_k]

Urban turkeys deserve their own great memes. We see at least four a day.

[reconditarmonia]

The reading sounds like it was lovely. I was only just telling someone the other day about that play! We were talking about Housman, they had not known he was gay.

[thawrecka]

Turkey! :D I hope the turkey got where it was going.

[hyarrowen]

Urban turkey looks very spruce and very much at home. Great picture!

[alexxkay]

The wife and I were on a rare outing yesterday. On returning home, we found the front yard occupied by four territorial turkeys. We made it inside, but things looked a bit iffy there!

[nnozomi]

in the middle of a jauntily jaundiced jazz un-standard that sounded like a lost Rodgers and Hart and turned out to be Rachael and Vilray's "Hate Is the Basis of Love"
A late comment, but thank you for turning me on to this! They're fun--my dad would have adored them.