A look at how I've been diverting myself lately.
Books
READ: The Aeneid by Virgil, trans. by Robert Fagles, with an intro by Bernard Knox [TS Eliot on what Aeneas gets at the end of his ordeal: "Hardly more than a narrow beachhead and a political marriage in a weary middle age: his youth interred, its shadow moving with the shades the other side of Cumae"].
Movies
SAW: The Princess of Montpensier.
LAST WEEK'S MOVIE NIGHT PICKS:
MINE: Blue Valentine.
KITO'S: Mugabe and the White African
[it was Stone Cold Bummer Week, I guess].
THIS WEEK'S THEME: Paris.
Food
ATE: Lamb shank au jus @ Chez Joel [meat so tender it fell from the bone if you so much as looked at it].
Current Interests
Kito, creative marriage proposals, TV, music, my sisters, Chicago theater, my childhood, movies, my appearance, my day job, conservatives.
Fool's Four
ITEMS I RECENTLY THREW AWAY AFTER CLEANING OUT MY WALLET:
1. An expired CTA card.
2. Three ATM receipts.
3. A Kenneth Cole gift card [after I used up the remaining balance].
4. A Banana Republic gift card [ditto].
Foolish Flashbacks
TWO YEARS AGO: "List of Links 28."
THREE YEARS AGO: "I think they bought these props at Stein Mart."
FOUR YEARS AGO: "Roses are red, / Violets are blue. / I sure did miss ketchup, / And also The View."
&
"I will always advocate having sex with a twenty year-old sailor as often as the opportunity presents itself (and in my own case, it doesn't present itself nearly often enough)."
&
"'Twat' sounds like a comic book sound effect ('Look out, Batman!' TWAT! KAPOW!)."
Glitter
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