Sorry, I’m spent, and in a very bad mood continued over from last night by popular demand. I was watching “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf,” thinking “amateurs.” But it’s off to the Fair again. Here’s another crappy pseudo-tilt-shift picture from yesterday:
More Fair stuff throughout the day – just check Twitter. Back Monday with a much better mood.
Pass it along, if you wish
37 Responses to Friday: Big Nothing
Host with the Most
I could tell that you must have been a bit out of sorts yesterday when you called up Prager to ask some obtuse point on his guest’s book on Thatcher. Even they couldn’t quite figure out what you were asking.
I laughed thinking – “James is trying to escape from whatever is going on in his duties at the Fair…”
The little rooskies could sense that I was in a bad mood myself when I picked them up from camp yesterday. So, what does the 10 year old start singing from the back seat? “Mommy’s alright, Daddy’s alright, they just seem a little weird …” Cracked me up. Cloud removed.
Woke up on the wrong side of the bed, did we?
That’s funny, because we used to warm up with Surrender. In our old brick house with the attached garage, it shook the windows in every room. My parents never really bothered to listen to the lyrics (mostly because they were delivered in the di rigueur sneer of most teen garage bands). Had they bothered to really listen (some Indonesian junk that’s going ’round), I believe that my mother may have commented “oh, my!”
As to our host’s mood, let me just ask: What did I do?!!!
I’ll try harder.
Does that have the good Richard Burton or the bad one?
What, did the Fair run out of deep-fried food on a stick?
It will be entertaining to see Our Host putting a hammer lock on Hugh Hewitt and jamming a Scotch Egg down his throat. I need to get to the fair.
If you were watching Who’s afraid of Virginia Woolf, don’t blame you for being in a crappy mood. I saw it in a film class during my college years. I don’t care if it’s a classic, I did not like anything about the movie. The characters were nasty sh**s, dialogue had me yelling at everyone to SHUT UP!! And I plain ol don’t like Elizabeth Taylor. Put me in the same room with the characters and I’d have them shot dead. And when the film was over I was in a major sh** mood 2-3 days (not kidding)
By monday you’ll be fine James, just stay away from that movie.
Can’t remember much about it now except that it might have been on TV when I was a kid. Seem to remember it pretty much as MikeH says, but what would I know? It’ll be interesting to hear James’ take on it.
It seems to me a lotta angst in theater and books are created by people who don’t know what the real stuff looks like. I see enough of it in my own life; why do I need to pay money to see it?
must have been the sky ride up from the non-powered launching pad over by the main gate on Snelling.
enjoy that one this afternoon and weekend, folks, with cross winds 15 to 30 mph.
that would put me in a foul mood even worse than that awful piece of celluloid sludge would. I get my fix of dysfunctional cells of self-centeredness yelling past each other on tv Thursday nights.
recommended cure: strawberry shake at the Kiwanis booth, then head over to Hamline Church for a complete home-cooking meal.
un-recommended cure: building pavilion and 35 booths of window sellers.
@ MikeH
I don’t like her, either. I’ve always wondered why people do.
“Woke up on the wrong side of the bed, did we?”
Some days, there is no right side.
We’re doomed. Because it’s the fair, our host can’t have pizza night. Without pizza night on Friday, the week is just a long succession of indistinct Tuesdays and not that smokin’ Tuesday Weld either. Besides that, the days are getting noticably shorter so it’s nearly farkin’ winter out already.
Then again, there’s the fair and an old dog and a young daughter and a lovely if reclusive spouse and friends and work and a road that goes ever on.
When someone watches Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf and sneers “amateurs,” I have to wonder if all is well on the home front.
Wait, are you guys saying that Elizabeth Taylor was once in a movie?
The things you learn on the internet.
@Mr Hat: NostrilDrippus Predicts! ™ says: “Things suck, and then you die.”
he’s a crank.
it’s a nice fresh sunny morning out, the grass is not burned up from summer, might get a little humid and hot, but in a month we’ll start whimpering for that. and in four, we’ll be crying for that.
swschrad says: “The other end of a gift horse is full of (poop.) get over it.”
Actually, I think it’s a pretty good tilt-shift picture, if you happen to like them. Which I do.
The Jasper one didn’t quite work (as a tilt-shift). Way too close to the subject, if you ask me.
Otherwise, Jasper pictures are always good.
Why do some people like Elizabeth Taylor?
Because when she was young she might have been the most beautiful actress in movies and when she did her best acting she was quite a good actress (two Academy Awards). On top of which she happens to be an extremely charitable and loyal lady (see Clift, Montgomery or Jackson , Michael).
Yeah, if you are going to judge her by some of her poorer performances or her sometimes over the top persona or all the marriages, and you don’t know about her earlier career, you can be snide.
But it’s hard to name a single actress today who combines her beauty, acting ability and character from the 1940′s -1970′s.
I’ll listen for who compares today.
James, I am sorry to hear you’re in a poor mood. I hope you feel better soon. Have some deep-fried lard on a stick.
Nob
@boblipton: double deep-fried lard balls on a stick. dip sauce based on uncooked bear fat is a quarter extra.
@ Cory
Great, she was loyal to a child-molestor. Way to be, Lizzy.
Glad I have your permission to be snide.
_@_v – if you like tilt-shift pix… http://tiltshiftmaker.com does all the work for you…
_@_v – what you get for your money…
http://citynoise.org/upload/39198.jpg
My two least favorite “family-in-crisis” movies are Who’s Afraid, etc, and War of the Roses. I thought the latter was a comedy and, of course, it was a piece of poop. It did not help that I had gone through a similar divorce several years before. I know, I know, waaa boo-hoo, mommy Pelosi protect me!! Ish, that last sentence almost made me ralph
Restoration Hardware and its prices are good for a laugh. Stupid, pretentious people are never in short supply.
Sir James; whatever poop sandwich your now eating will not last forever. Don’t dwell on it. Remember what happened when my favorite Uncle got into an extended funk – Poland and Europe surrendered. In Frances’ case, this was unremarkable.
Brisko:
Re your comments on the child molester and being snide:
res ipsa loquitur
Feel better James. Screw all the fair food. Get tanked.
My Liz comments were aimed at the last few decades where she is known mostly as a celebrity.
I do love the awful little princess she plays in “Father of the Bride”. Poor Buckley.
@fizzbin: speaking of surrender, was reminded a couple weeks ago of one of life’s most satisfying answers. approximately quoted from slashdot,
“the French have reason to be excellent at languages. They never know who they will have to surrender to.”
Trouble in Tangletown©
sprain in the left ankle tonight, ten steps from the bus stop. we’re on ice and wrapped up in elastic bandages. maybe the fair on Sunday, maybe next weekend. shame to waste two advance tickets and two coupon books, so I’ll fake through it somehow.
it’s always somethin’.
I understand the mood. It’s pretty much all week long with me, but that’s me, and no one’s really interested and [wrestled away from keyboard] mmph!
I’m sure I join many, many intelligent units in hoping that you have a great weekend, and a wonderful Monday to cap it.
Elizabeth Taylor as Cleopatra! Homina, homina, homina, woot, woot!
Wagner:
I’m with you.
So far no modern candidates to match Liz.
A mood as black as jjajangmyeon, and not nearly as savory. But perhaps the weekend will lift spirits around Jasperwood.
Wagner: I second that. Rrrowrrr…
“Nostalgia is a symptom of fear”
http://www.deepglamour.net/deep_glamour/2010/08/dg-qa-paleofuture-blogger-matt-novak-nostalgia-techno-utopian-optimism.html
Off-topic, the link to the Dorcus Collection from the Institute home page is missing. The Dorcus collection is listed, but it’s missing a clickable link.