Monday, March 30, 2009

Creating and Consuming

"Life's a banquet and most poor suckers are starving to death!"Auntie MameThe novel Auntie Mame by Patrick Dennis is the only novel I ever laughed out loud at while reading. (The movie with Roz Russell isn’t nearly as funny as the book.)This idea stuck with me. How much does each of us feast on the...
              

Thursday, March 26, 2009

Bed, Bog, and Beyond

Before we leave this Celtic month, a nod to The Simpsons, of which I am a declared dissenter. But as few tv shows have St. Patrick’s Day episodes, attention must be paid to the spirit behind its “In the Name of the Grandfather,” if not the execution.And so I put on my shamrock top and watched the episode...
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Friday, March 20, 2009

Life and Death on this Vernal Equinox

“A few light taps upon the pane made him turn to the window. It had begun to snow again. He watched sleepily the flakes, silver and dark, falling obliquely against the lamplight. . . . . His soul swooned slowly as he heard the snow falling faintly through the universe and faintly falling, like the descent...
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Tuesday, March 17, 2009

T-Shirt Message of the Day: "Made in Australia from Irish Stock"

I’m always very happy to see visitors to this blog from Australia/the exotic sounding continent of Oceania.Sydney—WyeeQueensland—BrisbaneWestern Australia—HigburyVictoria City—Epping, Diamond CreekSouth Australia City—AdelaideTasmania—HobartIt’s a combination of the place Australia has in the imagination...
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Sunday, March 15, 2009

"Those that I fight I do not hate; Those that I guard I do not love"

Here we are again at the annual focus for things Irish. How sad that this now includes three funerals for men of public service, the result of a new spark of violence in a land which had finally, slowly settled into an era of sanity following the 1998 Good Friday Agreement. Ireland and death. It’s a...
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Friday, March 13, 2009

A Week of the Familiar

This week was oddly filled with remembrances of things past. I saw a preview for the Broadway revival of West Side Story (disappointing); sang a benefit concert of classic chorale standards (pretty satisfying); and watched one of the last episodes of the long-running series, ER (very satisfying, but...
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Monday, March 9, 2009

Do You Hear What I Hear?

I hope not. Barbra Streisand does. So do William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, Bono, The Edge, and Pete Townshend. We suffer from tinnitus, that maddening, elusive condition/damage of the ear that produces continual sound in the absence of external stimuli. The rockers developed it from the loud music/bass...
              

Wednesday, March 4, 2009

Steed and Emma, Meet Michael and Fiona

I knew I liked USA’s Burn Notice last year when it premiered, but with the roll out of the second season I realized a big piece of that like is this: Michael and Fiona are the updated, newly corporeal spirits of John Steed and Emma Peel. They have same panache, intelligence, elegance, and chemistry...
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