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the new dykes to watch out for has some hot word-on-word action.

cats still going a little crazy tonight. they want some reassurance i'm going to be here a bit more. this is good. they were getting complacent.

on my kitchen counter a little bit ago:

pic of counter with stuff on it

the flowers and the basil (in a mason jar) and the pecan bars are part of the bevy of stuff/foodstuffs la sent me home with yesterday. there's more in the fridge. fresh from the garden (fresh after a 9-hour drive, anyway). swiss chard and sweet & hot peppers and tomatoes too. also shown above is my new cutting board. and visible in back is fred the cartographer's old personalized VA license plate, mailed to me when he heard i was a fan of what it says: ZEUGMA.

speaking of which, i happened to see today, via clicking on dianne wiest while IMDbing woody allen's september, that the pretension that is charlie kaufman has a movie coming out called synecdoche, new york.

i hate him for this.

investigated where it is i left off with "the L word." beginning of season 3. wearily, i arranged for the library to pull the first two discs of that year for me.

the lesbians, the lesbians... the lesbianism. the men, the mens, the menfolk, barry white, the manliness.

oh, that reminds me--- another new name for manny tonight: Mandy Potemkin. nickname: "Battleship," of course. and "Hambone." always "Hambone," everybody "Hambone"...

mandy patinkin did a duet with madonna in dick tracy (songs by steven sondheim). the old gf loved it esp much. youtube has an audra mcdonald version of the song, in medley with the best song in "merrily we roll along," the told-backwards sondheim show i was just tellng

scrawlspace about today.

i think i liked the pared-down piano version of "what can you lose" in the movie better. there was harmony. and i think mandy ("88 keys") was singing it about madonna, and she about warren beatty, so, if so, that's nicely complicated, complicating. but i like a little understatement in the realization too---what's under it being so biggg already.

however, you can't really do "not a day goes by" without some big Bigggness, in my estimation. one slight lyric difference--- i remember the "hell to pay" part like this:

But you're still somehow a part of my life And you won't go away And I have to say, if you do I'll die Dying day after day after day after day...

also at work today, imagined along with other imaginings, was MR: The Musical.

more musical numbers in this life, i say! as one might say "more cowbell!," or pay more than (mere) lip service to making out.

cats have now hit the wall. they're passed out. i should join them.

"good thing going" was in "merrily we roll" as well. was it a better song? am i going to have to get that record out, late on a school night? "old friends" sticks with a body, too.

how many sondheim fans are out there, i wonder. and still reading. two? if that? identify yourselves?

no guarantees i won't go on about sweeney todd sometime. fans or none.

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you know, in virginia you're supposed to return those to the DMV when you get rid of your car.

i'm totally calling the DMV police on you.

ha! illicit virginia plate. i love it.

i don't see you outing yourself as a sondheim boy.

but that was a cute pic over on

upsidedownblue today. that kid! i remember that young man. do you?

"Syzygy" is also a favorite of mine. ;^)

And that's where I left off with the L Word, too. Someday.

::is pretty neutral on sondheim::

i like the collection of souvenirs :) this one is just pretty and all about good memories, but i generally like to be able to see the traces of travel around for a few days after i return...

I'm eating many of my traces. :]

that's the best way for them to disappear (otherwise it takes a while to muster the will to throw them away :)

Lovely composition. WHat's the #5 plate?

I got your postcard, thanks! Wolf Gap--where's that? We were in Shenandoah on Saturday! Stony Man Cliffs, or something like that. We were trying to hike to it, but we took a wrong turn. Then we went to Sperryville and ate at a restaurant called Rae's. It was good. Also ate at ECOW (Epicurious Cow) on the way in in the morning. I wanted to take the lying-down, tail-thumping, mascot lab home with me. Next dog: lab.

Composition largely accidental, but thanks. I'll take "lovely" cuz I actually cleaned that part of the kitchen counter recently.

What is that expression about getting your (own) house in order...? ;)

Anyhoo, the #5 plate was a "scratch and dent" item at Bed, Bath & Beyond (no doubt you have this box store all around the District of Columbia, if not in it proper) --- real cheap. No scratch, no dent, but perhaps part of a set once. I think I saw a box of stuff like it.

I actually rather like stripes. But I have a long history with the pool balls and my imagination.

Wolf Gap is where the trail was in the earlier pix. Looking out to West Va in one direction (pictured, facing south-ish) and Va in the other. We didn't hike terribly far, but it felt out in the middle of freakin' nowhere.

That reminds me, I should post about Friday night.

Forgot to say: Wolf Gap is near Woodstock. Near Columbus Furnace, I reckon it was.

There was an old furnace spot-- the Snow Hill Furnace, I believe it was--- not far at all from our place outside S'bury.

Also: that's big, that news/thought on the lab. The lab's kind of the standard dog, to me.
[art fair bingo square with thirsty dog]

how do you post a pic in a comment? what's a furnace spot?
oh-- the plate is a pool ball. i didn't get that at first.

i just use an html image tag

see here:
http://www.livejournal.com/support/faqbrowse.bml?faqid=6

furnace spot meaning a place there was an old furnace. towns down 'round there get named after 'em, like places with "mill" in the name.

y9ou mean like a blast furnace?

Main Entry: blast furnace
Function: noun
: a furnace in which combustion is forced by a current of air under pressure; especially : one for the reduction of iron ore

I like the Stony Man trail. It's one of Jeff's favorites too. Although his new favorite is the Bearfence Mountain rock scramble. He and Brian hiked that twicxw on Labor Day weekend. I went with them one time, and my problematic knee was, well, problematic.

Bearfence Mountain rock scramble-- is that in Shen too?

Have you ever done Old Rag?

can't rem where i am in l word. beg of season 4? downloaded to computer via amazon unbox and yet unwatched.

have never seen sweeney todd! i think i need to sometime.

the thoght of madonna singing a showtune (i.e., her voice can be heard more clearly than in her thumping dance music) makes me want to quietly retch.

so hope your trip was great overall--and hope i get to see you soon!

Oh, do go on about Sweeney, Sweeney Todd. The demon barber of Fleet Street. I'll read.

You're up late. Sleep the migraine away?

I listened to much of Sweeney at work today. Via youtube segments. Couldn't watch, really. As it was the atmosphere of the show may've influenced my editing.

There's a hole in the world like a great black pit And it's filled with people who are filled with shit And the vermin of the world inhabit it. But not for long... They all deserve to die. Tell you why, Mrs. Lovett, tell you why. Because in all of the whole human race, Mrs. Lovett, There are two kinds of men, and only two. There's the one staying put in his proper place And the one with his foot in the other one's face. Look at me, Mrs Lovett, look at you. No, we all deserve to die--- Tell you why, Mrs. Lovett, tell you why: Because the lives of the wicked should be made brief; For the rest of us death will be a relief. We all deserve to die.

cool. do post abt. fri. night.

Nicely composed...

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