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You are worth your weight in gold, you are worth your weight in sorrow, baby
Guess who has two thumbs and parents who gave them a book on Dorothy Arzner for their birthday?
Strictly speaking, I also have a book on Norman Bel Geddes and several cards and an IOU from my brother and his family for the original cast recording of Gian Carlo Menotti's The Consul (1950). It was a quiet day, which was not a bad thing after the intensity of the weekend. We had dinner with my family, surf and/or turf as was variously preferred; I had lobster Madison-style, which means I tore it satisfyingly apart with my bare hands. My mother baked a hazelnut-flour cake and my brother layered it with whipped cream and raspberries. My father took the back off Bertie Owen and blew out his fan with a can of compressed air and a dramatic clog of cat fur shot out, which explains the overheating. I just have to survive the work week until Friday, when a college friend has bought me birthday tickets to Les contes d'Hoffmann at the Met. I don't know how the year is going to go, but I am doing my best to be here.
Strictly speaking, I also have a book on Norman Bel Geddes and several cards and an IOU from my brother and his family for the original cast recording of Gian Carlo Menotti's The Consul (1950). It was a quiet day, which was not a bad thing after the intensity of the weekend. We had dinner with my family, surf and/or turf as was variously preferred; I had lobster Madison-style, which means I tore it satisfyingly apart with my bare hands. My mother baked a hazelnut-flour cake and my brother layered it with whipped cream and raspberries. My father took the back off Bertie Owen and blew out his fan with a can of compressed air and a dramatic clog of cat fur shot out, which explains the overheating. I just have to survive the work week until Friday, when a college friend has bought me birthday tickets to Les contes d'Hoffmann at the Met. I don't know how the year is going to go, but I am doing my best to be here.
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Thank you. It was a nice birthday.
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The cat has a human health problem, the computer has hairballs: we live in the time of the Singularity. I curl up on couches and am happy.
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I'd never heard this phrase before Dreamwidth. Do you know where it comes from? ^_^
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It's a pop culture reference, but I don't actually know the origin. I first heard it from a college friend who would deploy it suddenly in conversations in a sort of determinedly absurdist way: "What has two thumbs and needs to finish its Greek homework? This guy!" This behavior was eventually responsible for me and my partner of the time being glared at by the rest of the theater in which we saw Christopher Nolan's Insomnia (2002); the script used a variant of the line in a context that was meant to be obnoxiously unfunny, but it didn't matter. We'd been hearing the setup for weeks and we cracked up.
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One of the best lines in "Shampoo," btw.
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I think they do.
One of the best lines in "Shampoo," btw.
I really love the song. Did you know Elvis Perkins is going to be in Boston in December? I'm hoping to be able to afford tickets.
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Guess what I'm listening to right now: ~ ~ The Live Hadestown Album ~ ~
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I HAVE TO GET THAT.
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Also, nice to put face to username! :o)
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It is one in which I spend a significant percentage of my life.
Also, nice to put face to username!
Hello!
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Thank you! I am really glad not to be looking for some kind of secondhand new not-the-same computer on top of everything else.
You will probably enjoy the Arzner book if it turns up near you. It does not have the most graceful style, but the information density is great.
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I'm very glad Bertie Owen could be cured with comparative ease.
P.
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About ten minutes in the future of that photo, a cat settled herself at the other end of the couch where I stretched out my feet. All was well.
I'm very glad Bertie Owen could be cured with comparative ease.
Thank you!
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Thank you! It was.
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Thank you!
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Thank you from Friday!