A emortimer-ism of LB's

"If you are wearing a hat, it is your birthday!" (said with extreme emphasis)

Yah, he knows Bess.

(BTW, my love, we really need to spend time with you and him and "fighting sticks" - there were a few issues at camping, and I'm thinking we need to discuss "da rules").

As a bibliophile, this saddens me. As a watcher of people, it doesn't surprise me.

"When I started teaching, at University College, Dublin many years ago, I urged students to believe that the merit of reading a great poem, play, or novel consisted in the pleasure of gaining access to deeply imagined lives other than their own. Over the years, that appeal, still cogent to me, seems to have lost much of its persuasive force. Students seem to be convinced that their own lives are the primary and sufficient incentive. They report that reading literature is mainly a burden. Those students who think of themselves as writers and take classes in "creative writing" to define themselves as poets or fiction writers evidently write more than they read, and regard reading as a gross expenditure of time and energy. They are not open to the notion that one learns to write by reading good writers."

- Dennis Donoghue, from Defeating the poem, printed in the New Criterion, April 1, 2006.

I've run into this a bunch lately

(me, my son, my flist, etc)

"It's not fair!"

Who the hell told you it was ever going to be fair? If you're waiting around for things to be fair, don't hold your breath.

To paraphrase one of my favourite movies - "Life isn't fair. Anyone who tells you otherwise is selling something."

KWLT Presents Don Juan In Chicago by David Ives

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Originally uploaded by the_nita.

Don't forget Don Juan in Chicago, by David Ives. Performing June 21-23, 28-30, starting at 8pm at the St. Jacobs Church Theatre, and being put on by KWLT. Tickets are $15 for non-members, $10 for members. You can call KWLT at 519-886-0660 or email boxoffice@kwlt.org for tickets. Eyego and group rates available - contact the theatre for more information


If you haven't seen it yet, this week is your last chance. The show has been getting rave reviews from those who've seen it. It's funny. It's sexy. It has a Pirate Devil - what more do you people want from me?

Rock out!

The irony is wonderful - the Zimmers cover of "My Generation"

Please let me be this cool when I get older.

Something that makes me warm & fuzzy

I remember hearing from both my parents, some from my sister, and lots from my family that they loved me when I was growing up. I don't really ever remember hearing my parents' friends tell my folks (or vice versa) that they loved each other.

I regularly hear it between me and my friends, and even the children of my friends. And I believe it.

Yes, the world's going to hell in a handbasket on so many fronts, but that those in my life who I choose to keep there feel that they can tell me that, and hear it in return, without the associated social crap that might have been what kepts the previous generation from doing so? That's a good thing.