Destry Rides Again

[dexterjerome]

A few words of advice: when the dentist says to take care of your teeth, please listen! I'm a sorry example of why brushing alone is not enough. Amazingly enough, I have no cavities, but I do have a handful of other dental issues that come from pish-toshing the dental floss

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[madge_pastiche]

You're such a doll for thinking about Marlene Dietrich or rainbows! I think weird semi-scholarly things that have to do with my surroundings. Like, I get panicked and think, "I have to transcend this! I will find a way to think this time staring at the ceiling is very very interesting, so...I'll make up a rhyming poem using the letters of the logo on that lamp! Or I can do math with the ceiling tiles! That will improve my mind and be very, very distracting!"
(I'm a freak. Just realized that.)

Although I also think about "cankles" because the first time I went to this dentist the hygienist rattled on and on about her pregnancy, which caused her legs to swell up to the extent that, in her words, "My calves were totally like invisible from my feet. I mean, I didn't have ankles. Cankles- I had cankles."

My condolences on the gum issues. Poor thing. Uck. (And I can't wait to see the movie!)

[dexterjerome]

Gah! Cankles sounds so grody. I knew this dude once whose last name was Shankles and he was the trashiest of the trashy. But ankles, as a word in itself, sounds okay by me. Wonder why that is?

Next time at the dentist or doctor, I might borrow your techniques & see how that goes. Or astral projection, maybe I'll try that! Hmmmm...

I want to see Dietrich's 'Blonde Venus' so I can see her wild routine in the giant blonde afro.

[phyllisgabor]

I've seen that--it's amazing--she starts out in a GORILLA COSTUME, and then she pulls the mitts and head off and she has that huge wig on! One of the greatest moments in motion picture history.

I used to read her daughter's kiss-off book constantly when I was in high school, just because I was amazed at the strange power Dietrich held over men and women alike.

[dexterjerome]

My morale is suffering from not getting my pop-trash reading fix lately. Should I look for her daughter's book? I'm longing to jump into 'Lovely Me,' but maybe I could add the Dietrich book to the list.

(Meanwhile, I'm completely swamped with cataloging exercises. Will I ever be free?)

[phyllisgabor]

it's a quick and dirty read, but it has one fatal flaw--her daughter is a total homophobe who says some really pinheaded things about gays and lesbians. It's an interesting book, especially the parts about costume design (Dietrich usually designed her own costumes) and the Von Sternberg years. But parts of it WILL make you cringe.

I almost had a nervous breakdown during the one cataloging course I took, so you have my sympathy. I don't know how people do that for a living!