What are you doing, what is happenin', RIGHT THIS MINUTE?

The water for the asparagus is boiling.

I am not looking forward to my visit to the dentist early tomorrow morning.

Logging in the book I just picked up from the library: House of Silk. Otherwise--it's 4:00 p.m. where I am, time for breakfast.

#2

Oh dear.

I know only one decent counter-measure for that: promise yourself a stupendous reward for after. Spend good money on something mad!

#3

Damn right, breakfast is all-day food.

The asparagus, eet ees steeming.

I'm boiling water too! My sister gave me a big jug for making iced tea.

I am looking at this blinking computer screen
happy with my windows 8 office 365 which I installed last weekend
delaying to look in my agenda what I will do today
wondering if I have time to read a bit before making coffee

Listening to France Culture on iTunes and avoiding getting started with work.

235 reviews Katrinka ! Yo !

Woke up from dreams where every type of thing was falling out of all my orifices--subway tokens, hen's eggs, vitamin supplements, brass knuckles, bunches of grapes, &c. Going up to Commercial Drive with a friend for good coffees and stale pastries.

'Just finished registering online for a 5K this Sunday. I wanted to get a "PR" (personal record) on it, but now I see the course is all hills.

Aw heck. Hoka hey. Let's go. Today is a good day to die...

>6 MeditationesMartini:

Martin, when I read that, I thought maybe you were going to deliver a baby.

The night's still young!

Typing out a sentence on LibraryThi

The sky is blue!

Don't scoff--it's been like this only about three days this whole month.

It's been gross and grey here too. Last year we had Juneuary (tho I was away); this year it's more like Junevember. Booooo.

The climate is telling us that the end is coming.

It makes me crazy when oilpatch types talk about how cl. change is gonna be so great for Canada because the rest of the world will be drowning and famining but WE'll be settling the Arctic.

It has happened before. remember GREEN - land. but then it swings back to ICE - land

rising sea levels ? Tell that to the folks who lived between Belgium and England ON THE BOTTOM of the Northsea

On the one hand--MORE SEA.

On the other--LESS LAND.

The funny thing about Anthropocene is that it could turn out to be the best thing for krakens.

mmmm, calamari

QUE LE GRAND KRAK ME CROQUE !! Mille sabords de mille sabords

Thinking of a Haiku

20, Calamari aren't so pleasing when THEY are eating YOU

Don't do it Lola !

Taking a break from cutting weeds -- which have reached Burmese density despite being in the Northern mountains -- and hauling firewood by hand (too steep for tractor): the fuel-quest never ends. Pant pant pant ...

preparing to eat mussels hand grabbed from nearby--garlic, white wine, parsley (fresh and aromatic), olive oil...pasta
Swimming for food program has started.

reading your contributions and thinking which book I should finish under the sun...

In re #26 (the Pleasures of Molluscs). In addition to the many other crimes alleged against you by some of the benighted souls on Pro & Con, you now are arraigned for Culinary/Verbal Torment in the First Degree. Lord-bird, do we envy you. Eat hearty, and have an extra portion for us! They're not chowin' down like this in LaCrosse.

Wondering if I've made terrible decisions...

In re #27. My dear friend, you should naturally be reading the works of Rick Harsch and/or Goddard Graves. -- Goddard (aka Harry). PS: I can't speak for Rick, but much of my Harmony Junction was written under the sun, and most of the day-time scenes occur in good light, rather than rain, fog, or snow

In fact, in one scene of HJ the snow pretty much parts for two characters rather biblically.

An exception to prove the rule, but what an exception. To be ultra-picky, it was FALLEN snow more than FALLING SNOW. Anyway, live like them. And thanks for the plug-o-la. How were the mussels -- and who's doing this dishes?

I slept a bit, the dishes were group done--I did three--I woke up the wife and kids gone...the mussel diver extraordinaire had already gone home...But before he left we had talk about where to rustle lamb...

How many ways can we think-of to get into trouble (heehee)? Speaking of lamb, you've probably never heard Bruce Philips' cracks, so I'll fill-in those gaps in your experience. He used to say he was from Utah, where the men are men and the sheep are nervous. He'd add that the only virgin wool you could get was from sheep who could out-run the Mormons and the Republicans. Here's to violating the TOS gleefully.

If that violates anything they can TOSS off

That may become LT folkore -- watch it. But as for watching, I mean the creation of tradition, not the delightful digitation. Being the old-timer that I am -- and possibly born so -- I have the quaint notion that some things are best done in private. But even so, one recalls the incomparable Peter Sellers (as Chance, in the film of Being there): "I like to watch".

AND in Lolita, giving it to Humbert, 'bet you like to watch...'

But as for seclusion, I'm merely following, lamb that I am, what I assume to be the long-established habit of your local priest, rabbi, imam, bonze, or Christian Science practitioner. Enough of this: I have go watch the young Inspector Morse. And I can assure you, HIS hands will be plainly visible, and used with shattering probity, for the entire ninety minutes. And please, no remarks about probes. This isn't South Park, ya know.

You have a very good prose status.

Hey -- I won't take this lying down.

Not usually, but don't bend over backwards to take it.

Reading all these postings while I am supposed to be working! Contemplating finding wood for an arc here in New York. Is the rain EVER going to stop?

Getting bitten by a mosquito

like a stupid human, wishing the day could have been longer, more seaside, more beer, more children, more sardines, more calamari, more sun, more expanse...

Sipping lemonade after hoofing around the block, a 3/4-mile walk that my husband and I take as often as we can force ourselves. Some exercise is better than no exercise. It's about 80 degrees F outside right now, not bad.

tearing down my old shed with a temperature of 33°C. Cleaning up the garden for my daughter's B-day party tomorrow evening ( 21 years ! ).

On the back porch, listening to the 9th inning of the Cardinals game and listening to crickets, and avoiding writing my overdue review for Early Reviewer's group. But because the book is sitting right next to my laptop, it feels a little like I'm working on it . . .

Chilling after cleaning up the kitchen from dinner, and sucking on a couple of Hershey's Kisses by way of dessert. Shortly I'll probably go continue with my current educational project by watching another old Japanese movie, this one by Kurosawa.

47: I thought I was the only one who stuck the book next to the computer and felt like I was making some sort of progress toward getting the review done!

48: What Kurosawa movie did you see? I have only seen a couple. They are weird, but I am glad I saw them.

Just eating some leftover pork fried rice and wondering if I've made terrible decisions...

49: This one happened to be Stray Dog (1949). Other Japanese films I've seen recently include Yojimbo and Sanjuro (both by Kurosawa) and Ugetsu, When a Woman Acends the Stairs, Tokyo Story, Floating Weeds, and The Burmese Harp. I'm concentrating mostly on the films of Kurosawa and Ozu, but not exclusively. This viewing is in conjunction with my reading of Donald Richie's A Hundred Years of Japanese Film, which I've been working my way through for several months now.

I've decided that I will have gone far enough when I can make, or understand, or at least recognize one true generalization about Japanese film (which may never be possible).

I saw the Burmese Harp! That was a really interesting movie.

I have seen Kagemusha and Throne of Blood. I thought they were both very much worth seeing. Very weird, though.

As I get older I have started to feel that generalizations are, to make one, always wrong.

Generalizations about people are pretty apt to be wrong, but I wouldn't hesitate to generalize about, say, guinea pigs or cotton underwear or magazine subscriptions. Granting that there can be exceptions to just about anything, I don't think we could function if we couldn't treat most things as members of a class and make use of what we know about the class. We probably wouldn't be here if our ancestors had insisted on getting to know each sabertooth tiger individually.

Yes, good point. Pattern recognition is both a blessing and a curse.

I'm just getting home from the barn, I've been playing with and feeding my mini-donkey and pygmy goats (and of course, shoveling poo, of which the little hay burners make plenty.)

mini-donkey and pygmy goats

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Pickchurrrrrrrrs, please!

Pickchurrrrrrs of my mini-donkey and the little bitty goats are here:

http://upstategirl-laurajwryan.blogspot.com/

ENJOY!
(The cuteness factor is off the scale on these little critters.)

Watchin' the Patriots' 3rd string kick the asses of the Eagles' 3rd string.

ELIZABETH! I want to kiss you on the nose!! Just look at those eyes!

Thanks so much, Laura. Darn, I want a farm! Just to have critters running about! (No way for actual farming...)

And the goats--are they "for" something, or just pets?

What am I doing right now--sitting grinning like a happy idiot, with a super-hot cup of super-black tea in hand! Yes! And then I go brunch with the brunching set!

Ugh: getting ready for work. Trying to enjoy my last drop of tea before heading into the office to make a buck.

My wee goats, the "Little Bits" or "The Littles" are just pets, they are like puppies and jump up to beg for treats. Elizabeth is adorable...she has a heart breaking hee-haw when I leave the barn...for such a wee donkey, she's very loud (Godzilla loud), but the little whimpering "hawwww" at the end is pitiful. She also whispers "heehaws" in her stall when she gets excited.

What I'm doing now, I'm drinking a glass of Tej (honey wine), reading Graham Greene's The Heart of the Matter and winding down before bed.

I have seen Kurosawa's Stray Dog more than 20 times. Throne of Blood many times. Anna, what do you mean by weird?

I am currently hoping something genuine and meaningful floats toward my synapses of action.

Shucking oysters!!! Well, no, I'm taking a break from shucking oysters. Oyster shuckers--RESPECT!

When people tell you you need a real oyster knife to open the damned delicious critters--believe them, they tell the truth.

Sorry Lola, but I think you are really skinning a cat.

Looking for a "story" version of Miller's Death of a Salesman for a patron's daughter...

Wondering if this group is revivable.

No, as dead as a dodo

lol

A voice from beyond the grave? :)

Hey Lola !
I was wondering what you were up to, banging the doors of all those empty rooms in le Salon

Raising the dead, that's my business of the night.

"No longer dormant"

Looking for Pedro Paramo ?

Him too

IReading something interesting ?
I am enjoying myself with scoop by Evelyn Waugh

I have bookmarks stuck in about 100 books, all of which are interesting but less interesting than the next 100 I'll stick a bookmark into.

ok daybreak... got to go

>74 LolaWalser: I'll copy that as an aphorism

Good morning, sleep well

Il n’y a peut-être pas de jours de notre enfance que nous ayons si pleinement vécus que ceux que nous avons cru laisser sans les vivre, ceux que nous avons passés avec un livre préféré.

Marcel Proust,« Sur la lecture »

Pauv' p'tit, avec ses bouqins...

Pondering lunch... cold chicken and grilled vegs, heavy on the zucchini.

Not hungry enough yet to go prepare it... pondering... pondering...

Right now, as I read this?
(1) sipping coffee;
(2) feeling uncomfortable in my gut (a) metaphorically, because I'm worried about some family matters and also about all the stuff I have to do and how weird the world is at present, and (b) physically, because I have a recurring affliction, and no, obvious as it may seem, I don't think they're connected; and
(3) making an effort to notice what's going well. Some things are, despite how it may seem. For instance, I want to salute LolaWalser for trying to wake the slumberers in this hall--salute in my favorite celebratory medium:



I hope it works.

Heh, thanks Meredy--as Pogo didn't say, we have met the slumberers and THEY ARE US. :)

I've no great hopes, with so many people gone from LT in general, but it's interesting to revisit old conversations--lots of good stuff in here...

Pox on the discomforts! Good to see coffee's not proscribed. I'm afraid I'm limited to one small Turkish in the morning now.

Wondering whether to drink that one last coffee before bed or not. It puts me to sleep, and then wakes me up rudely. Wondering if now is a good time to start reading the Iliad with the boys.

>83 captainsflat: I keep meaning to go back to the Iliad, my son and I tried to read it together and gave up once they started introducing the horses.

shirking work

Oh yes, people, let's have a good old-fashioned fat classic read again!

I am more worried about my attention span than theirs, to be honest. I don't mind horse introductions, battle descriptions are what weary me.

I will definitely look up any and all groups reads of it here on LT. Any support and fellow reading welcome.

Currently holding off son from this computer with one hand while trying to grocery shop and type this. Yes, I know it's not as fun as Crusader Kings II. No, you can't take it yet. Yes, you should definitely marry off your bastard daughter to that conniving sneaky duke.

Maybe a drinking game for the battle scenes? "Every time someone is stabbed... cut... limb hacked... a god trips up... do x, y, z..."

Although Crusader Kings II sounds good too. But that mariage is doomed. Doomed, I say!

>87 LolaWalser: I don't think anyone would survive that drinking game!

Seriously if people want to do a group read of the Iliad I am in.

Well I didn't THINK I wanted to do it but what the hell let's do it!

tabernaque Lola ! wherefrom comes all this nostalgic enthusiasm?

I have the lattimore translation, I think. I’ll check today.

>90 Macumbeira:

Nostalgia schmostalgia, Mac, we must READ. We MUST read. WE must read. Tu piges?

>91 anna_in_pdx:

Cool! I'll see if I can get that new translation there was some buzz around (first translation by a woman? In English anyway.), and also check out a Greek version--modern I mean--I see Project Gutenberg has one up and dear lord let's hope the typos are few and identifiable...

And off the bat, get a load of Greek insanity (concerning the translator of the version on PG, Alexandros Pallis):

"Alexandros Pallis... was a Greek educational and language reformer who translated the New Testament into Modern Greek. The publication, in the Akropolis newspaper, caused riots in Athens in 1901 in which 8 people died. His translation was subsequently published in Liverpool.(1) The New Testament in Modern Greek was not legalised until 1924."

Lunatical jerks.

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