“I wasn’t guzzling, I was being sociable.”
by chuckofish
This is my new mantra. As my mother said, we watched The Pajama Game this weekend. I found myself relating most to the side character played by this actress. Sadly, I couldn’t find any good images from the film to convey that joke well enough.
Today, has the potential to be a real rage post. But I’m going to resist the temptation to write the same post I always do. Also, I waited two hours and ate dinner before attempting to beginning to write.
So, from the files of videos I’ve stumbled across on YouTube, this one really made me laugh.
This weekend, at an estate sale, I got a framed print of one of my favorite Winslow Homer paintings which I promptly hung in my dining room.
This painting makes me think of Hemingway, but I dug out Moby Dick because the eternal struggle-vibe is more how life feels these days and I don’t think I have a copy of The Old Man and the Sea.
“There are certain queer times and occasions in this strange mixed affair we call life when a man takes this whole universe for a vast practical joke, though the wit thereof he but dimly deserves, and more than suspects that the joke is nobody’s expense but his own.”
–Moby Dick
“And thus, though surrounded by circle upon circle of consternations and affrights, did these inscrutable creatures at the centre freely and fearlessly indulge in all peaceful concernments; yea, serenely revelled in dalliance and delight. But even so, amid the tornadoed Atlantic of my being, do I myself still for ever centrally disport in mute calm; and while ponderous planets of unwaning woe revolve around me, deep down and deep inland there I still bathe me in eternal mildness of joy.”
–Moby Dick
dual personalities 