A look at how I've been diverting myself lately.
Books
READ: Home at Grasmere by Dorothy and William Wordsworth [I felt bad for Dorothy. She only kept her journal in the first place to please her (rather humorless) brother, who raids her reminiscences for his preachy poems, until one day he's like, "Oh, by the way, I'm making Mary Hutchinson my wife, but don't worry, I can show myself out"].
COMING UP: Coleridge [and don't even get me started on that nutcase], Camus, Wharton.
Movies
LAST WEEK'S MOVIE NIGHT PICKS:
THEME: The Circus.
KITO'S SELECTION: Dumbo (dirs. Armstrong, Ferguson, Jackson, Kinney, Roberts, Sharpsteen; 1941) [see Glitter, below].
MINE: The Greatest Show on Earth (DeMille, 1952).
Current Interests
Lesbians, gay guys, art, Mark Twain, Chicago theater critics, Jane Austen, the Internet, local news broadcasts, my day job, fashion, my adolescence, the right wing, Romantic poets, NU, my family.
Fool's Four
THE FIRST FOUR SONGS THAT SPRING TO MIND:
1. "I Speak Six Languages" from The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee.
2. The theme song to The Nanny.
3. "Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy."
4. Christina Aguilera's "Candyman."
Flashbacks
TWO YEARS AGO: "I cannot believe that a grown, mom-aged individual could go her whole life without ever having heard that gay guys do it in the butt."
FOUR YEARS AGO: "How to Write a Fool's Gold Coast Entry."
FIVE YEARS AGO: "I have concluded that it's time I abandon dating altogether and start relying on prostitutes when the body electric requires release."
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"Edith and her daughter Lana promised they would try to make it, but odds are good that they will be late, seeing as how Edith is a drunk and Lana is dead."
Glitter
And now, please enjoy these racially insensitive crows from Walt Disney's Dumbo.
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