This song is a ballad of unending domestic upheaval

1. asakiyume, I promised: my remembrance of Dr. Fiveash is now online as part of the October/November 2013 Lexington Colonial Times. It is a condensed and edited version of my original post from September; in this format it's missing all its italics, but it is also freely downloadable and included as part of a two-page memorial with short interviews and other memories and I am very honored to see it there.

2. Of course, at the time when we felt the lack of internet and the snafu with Comcast most keenly, we didn't have much of a way to complain about it publicly except through derspatchel's phone and intermittent shouting on LJ. Privately, whatever. One night we played each other songs of inconvenience and annoyance. Have a brief selection:

Michael Flanders & Donald Swann, "The Gas-Man Cometh"

He couldn't reach the fusebox without standing on the bin
And his foot went through a window, so I called the glazier in

Frank Zappa, "Flakes"

Well, our toilet went crazy yesterday afternoon
The plumber he says, never flush a tampoon
This great information cost me half a week's pay
And the toilet blew up later on the next day

Bernard Cribbins, "Right Said Fred"

Had bad twinges taking off the hinges
And it got us nowhere

Bob Gibson, "To Morrow"

If you had gone to Morrow yesterday, now don't you see
You could have gone to Morrow and returned today at three
For the train today to Morrow—if the schedule is right—
Today it gets to Morrow and returns tomorrow night

[bonus earworm] Lush, "Ladykillers"

I'm as human as the next girl, I like a bit of flattery
But I don't need your practiced lines, your school-of-charm mentality

3. I saw Nigel Davenport most recently in Phase IV (1973); I had entirely forgotten he was in either Peeping Tom (1960) or A Man for All Seasons (1966). I remembered mostly that he was the production voice of HAL 9000, if not the final "I'm sorry, Dave." Thanks to Pirates of the Caribbean, I imprinted slightly on his son.

4. Okay, speaking of A Man for All Seasons, Rob will be playing the Common Man in the Porpentine Players' production thereof in January. Having decided in 2008 that I needed to see a stage production and then having been unable to find one anywhere, I am especially pleased about this.

5. I found this comic some time ago, but it bears repeating: Cativan.

I got work done from home this afternoon! And now I need to clean a kitchen and buy groceries. Yay?