If you feel like a patient, why not dress like one?

[sovay]

Today I was inside two doctor's offices, one municipal department, one supermarket, and two extraneous stores, therefore since about five-thirty in the evening have been toast. I did capitalism and stared at cheap noir. I was delighted to hear of the ninety-sixth birthday of Tom Lehrer and reassured that we did not have to do Jell-O shots to celebrate. Have a flowering tree.



I had no idea that volcanoes blew smoke rings.

Comments

[minoanmiss]

Heh, what would Dressing Like a Patient entail?

[sovay]

Heh, what would Dressing Like a Patient entail?

I suspect it would not be very different from my ordinary clothes, but the song's narrator fantasizes about being a mineral deposit, a ball of mica inside a rock. My father has always said that in his next life he'd like to be a rock.

[minoanmiss]

A glittery mineral deposit. That sounds lovely.

In my next life ... I can't decide between a dancer and something that flies.

[pameladean]

I keep thinking that that volcano is secretly Gandalf.

Probably other characters are famous for blowing smoke rings too and I am just forgetting about them.

P.

[elisem]

I keep thinking that that volcano is secretly Gandalf.

Headcanon accepted.

[sovay]

Probably other characters are famous for blowing smoke rings too and I am just forgetting about them.

Gandalf's are famous in more than one world, though. And there is something very appealing about the notion of a benignly smoking volcano after all the tsuris with Mount Doom.

[thisbluespirit]

That is beautiful blossom! I'm sorry about the rest of the day - I hope at least some of it was useful. <3

[sovay]

That is beautiful blossom! I'm sorry about the rest of the day - I hope at least some of it was useful.

Thank you! All of it was useful, I am just still mostly toast today.

[cmcmck]

I saw that pic of Etna doing its thing!

Quite remarkable.

[sovay]

Quite remarkable.

I love that Etna's known for doing it. I really hadn't known.

[scifirenegade]

Hope you're feeling better.

Beautiful blossoms, and I'm pretty sure we got invaded by Mysterons, what with those Etna smoke rings :P

[sovay]

Beautiful blossoms, and I'm pretty sure we got invaded by Mysterons, what with those Etna smoke rings

I hope this doesn't lead to an epidemic of the uncanny valley.

(Thank you!)

[mrissa]

I hope today is less tedious, and thank you for letting us know about Tom Lehrer's birthday, I am listening to "Wernher von Braun" in belated celebration.

[sovay]

I hope today is less tedious, and thank you for letting us know about Tom Lehrer's birthday, I am listening to "Wernher von Braun" in belated celebration.

You're welcome! That one was actually in my head recently, on account of thinking about Frau im Mond (1929).

Today I am very tired, but have nothing to do except capitalism. I would prefer to be writing about movies, but I need a sort of extra two days in the middle of this week or a lot more sleep.

[choco_frosh]

...why would you have to do Jello shots to celebrate, again?

[sovay]

...why would you have to do Jello shots to celebrate, again?

Tom Lehrer has a claim to inventing the modern Jell-O shot!

[gwynnega]

That is a lovely flowering tree.

[sovay]

That is a lovely flowering tree.

Thank you! I passed it on the way to the second doctor.

[kathmandu]

Looks like a cherry tree?

[sovay]

Looks like a cherry tree?

I think it's an almond. There was one at the end of our old street. There are a couple of cherries around here that I found last year, but they aren't doing much yet.

[theseatheseatheopensea]

I did capitalism and stared at cheap noir.

The story of my life!

That's a beautiful tree, and I love that volcanoes blow smoke rings! <3 It's a fun party trick that Bilbo, Thorin and Gandalf (and Nick Charles) would approve of! XD

I hope you could get some rest!