LP & I are going to visit my mother today and stay the night with her. Before we leave I’ll leave explicit instructions to Nesta not to have any stray toms over to party.

Spidey, Uncle Allen is back in California for the time being. Thank God. But he’s only there to put up his condo for sale and then the first of the year he’ll be back permanently. He’s got a choice of three houses that would be suitable for him (not ours). Before BP drove him to the airport do you think he offered thanks of any kind to us for putting up with his wrinkled old butt for weeks on end? I’ll leave you to figure that out for yourself.Thanks for bringing him up. I can feel my blood pressure going up.

Oh, and I hope some of the rest of you are privileged enough to be the recipients of Respighi’s jazzy emails! The woman is so witty! On the subject line was “Fart” and then I opened it and she had written “tee hee.” Thanks Respighi, you made my day!! ; )

364 more days until Pretzel Day

What a good The Office episode.
We saw:
Stanley excited about Pretzel Day.
Ryan the Temp's initiation by Dwight K. Schrute.
Dwight's cousin and best friend, Mose.
Interaction (by phone, at least) between Jim & Pam. How sweet was that?
That Michael is a good salesman despite his shortcomings as a human being.
Phyllis giving Bob Vance of Vance Refrigeration a little sugar in the pretzel line.

Prairie Home Companion

I bought Prairie Home Companion last week on DVD and watched it on Sunday. I really enjoyed it. It's not my favorite Altman movie (that distinction goes to The Player,) but it was good. Is there anything that Meryl Streep can't do? Her singing is absolutely wonderful. And Lily Tomlin? Woot. Love me some Lily. I'd like to have Lily over for some chili and cornbread. I love Lily's face with its age lines. No Botox for Lily. She's over 60 and it shows but that's a good thing. I hate expressionless actor-Botoxed faces.

Remember that god awful movie she was in with John Travolta years and years ago? I can't remember the name of it and I'm too lazy to Google it, but it was enough to leave a bad taste in your mouth. she was wooden. He was wooden, and the script sucked. NO CHEMISTRY.

PHC is not for everyone. There's not a single M16 firing or car chase or bank explosion in the entire movie. It's slow and steady and satisfying. Garrison Keillor is a surprisely good actor--even though he was playing a character named "Garrison Keillor." What a stretch.

Sometimes I don't like Kevin Kline. In some movies he comes off as being too "actor-y" but he was okay in this. Guy Noir was his character's name. What a great name.

SNL's Maya Rudolph was in it and was surprisingly okay.

Who sucked in the movie, you ask. Okay I'll tell you who sucked in the movie. Lindsay Lohan sucked, that's who. She's such a cartoon in the media with her antics that I couldn't get passed the buzz and see her as this dark teen obsessed with suicide and bad poetry. She needs to go away for about ten years and come back and "ACT."

Another pot smoking loony actor I don't like is Woody Herrelson. Blech. But John C Reilly, who was in Chicago, was a-okay as Woody's singing cowboy partner.


Oh, and on that gossipy website that Mems got me hooked on, someone says Meryl is addicted to pornos. Eh. That's ok. She sings like an angel and she should be nominated again for an Oscar for her role in The Devil Wears Prada. The woman is mesmerizing.

Trying to help out a Sister

Here Schell, here's a pillow you can use to replace the one you lost


 

Drinking cat

Yesterday I was making dinner and glanced out the window and saw this huge cat drinking from the birdbath. I took this picture through the front screen door--that's why it sucks. I opened the door hoping to get a better shot , the cat saw me and hightailed it over across the yard.
That was pretty much the highlight on my Sunday. That, and of course admiring my object dee art left to me by my dead Aunt Dorothy.

 

Another angle

Perhaps it's beautiful from
this angle.

 

Another view

Perhaps another view would help. The built-in caddy, I assume,
would hold either loose cigarettes or matches perhaps.
Do you love it yet? Tell me it's not ugly (although I did LOL
for three straight minutes at Mems' previous comment.)
Thanks, Porks, for seeing the beauty.



 

Pretty Ugly

It’s Sunday. BP’s away, LP’s asleep on the couch, and Nesta’s been put on the back porch because she was climbing and almost knocked over a priceless relic I inherited from my dead Aunt Dorothy. It’s actually a huge, old, strange coffee table ashtray from the 60’s or 70’s. It’s one of those things that I can’t decide if it’s pretty or ugly. Of course we don’t use it as an ashtray. BP smokes, but he’s nice enough to only do it on the porch or in the basement. It’s an “object dee art,” as Roseann once called something on her TV show.













That's the lighter in the top left corner.