"That's bait." (151)
The warmth is back. Today's high was 70˚F and sunny.
I was up at about 6:45 this morning, and while sun rose, I found myself reading all the old issues of Billy Martin's "Purple Proze" newsletters from back in the 1990s (Issue No. 1 is July 1995). Which sent me to all sorts of places. Like my own newsletter, Salmagundi. Our lives were so very entwined back then. We were so embarrassingly young. Our brazen, passionate, mouthy youth, when speaking our minds was more important than breathing, and never mind if we were wrong at least half the time. Anyway...
That led me to reading entries in my pre-LJ online journal from the summer and autumn of 2004. There's so much in that old journals, about two and a half years worth of entries, beginning in November 2001, before I started blogging at LJ. Here's a bit from September 16, 2004, not quite chosen at random:
"It's easy for the doomed to be gallant"
I love that line. Myrna Loy says it in Test Pilot (1938), which also stars Clark Gable and Spencer Tracey, as well as Lionel Barrymore. I needed old movies last night, so I turned on TMC and lay on the living-room floor for a few hours, lost in black and white. I watched Manhattan Melodrama (1934) before Test Pilot. It also stars Gable and Loy. Mostly, aside from enjoying these films on their own merits, I needed to briefly pretend the world could work the way it was in old movies. Some think they've outgrown such celluloid fairy tales and the need for them and consider such things passé and comedic. But that's only because they're empty, hollow people lost in an empty age. In old movies, there is justice, and bravery, and duty, and selflessness, regardless of the evil that men might do, or the corruption in "the real world."
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Dear 2022: If you insist on constantly accusing people of "gaslighting," at least know what the word means.
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I was looking at my Wikipedia article this morning (yes, I sometimes do that), and I noticed that while it mentions I attended UAB and CU Boulder, it neglects to mention I also attended Birmingham-Southern College, albeit briefly, in order to study with a biologist there, the late Dr. Dan Clark Holliman.
This afternoon's film was George Miller's Fury Road (2015).
Please have a look at the Big Cartel shop. I know you got Xmas money burning a hole in your pockets.
Later Tater Beans,
Aunt Beast (Eighteen Years Later)
11:37 a.m.
I was up at about 6:45 this morning, and while sun rose, I found myself reading all the old issues of Billy Martin's "Purple Proze" newsletters from back in the 1990s (Issue No. 1 is July 1995). Which sent me to all sorts of places. Like my own newsletter, Salmagundi. Our lives were so very entwined back then. We were so embarrassingly young. Our brazen, passionate, mouthy youth, when speaking our minds was more important than breathing, and never mind if we were wrong at least half the time. Anyway...
That led me to reading entries in my pre-LJ online journal from the summer and autumn of 2004. There's so much in that old journals, about two and a half years worth of entries, beginning in November 2001, before I started blogging at LJ. Here's a bit from September 16, 2004, not quite chosen at random:
"It's easy for the doomed to be gallant"
I love that line. Myrna Loy says it in Test Pilot (1938), which also stars Clark Gable and Spencer Tracey, as well as Lionel Barrymore. I needed old movies last night, so I turned on TMC and lay on the living-room floor for a few hours, lost in black and white. I watched Manhattan Melodrama (1934) before Test Pilot. It also stars Gable and Loy. Mostly, aside from enjoying these films on their own merits, I needed to briefly pretend the world could work the way it was in old movies. Some think they've outgrown such celluloid fairy tales and the need for them and consider such things passé and comedic. But that's only because they're empty, hollow people lost in an empty age. In old movies, there is justice, and bravery, and duty, and selflessness, regardless of the evil that men might do, or the corruption in "the real world."
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Dear 2022: If you insist on constantly accusing people of "gaslighting," at least know what the word means.
---
I was looking at my Wikipedia article this morning (yes, I sometimes do that), and I noticed that while it mentions I attended UAB and CU Boulder, it neglects to mention I also attended Birmingham-Southern College, albeit briefly, in order to study with a biologist there, the late Dr. Dan Clark Holliman.
This afternoon's film was George Miller's Fury Road (2015).
Please have a look at the Big Cartel shop. I know you got Xmas money burning a hole in your pockets.
Later Tater Beans,
Aunt Beast (Eighteen Years Later)
11:37 a.m.