December 2008
Soylent Green is on TCM. Charlton Heston’s finest hour.
Should I go to Iceland for New Year’s?
New rule. Moratorium on quoting 30 Rock episodes until one calendar week has elapsed from broadcast. Such a crime was perpetrated against me by loudvoiced customers in Starbucks.
No matter how much you laughed, it’s not funny when you say it (even especially when quoting that infernal Jane Krakowski).
But now that I’m in the clear:
She had a suitcase full of wigs, Lemon.
To be mean and clever and vicious - I love it.
Elaine Stritch on BBC 4. Download it here.
bulletin from down under
From my friend S:
“Spent yesterday morning pulling fertility-drugs-infused-tampons (I kid you not) out of the vaginas of a mob of sheep…. Neil gave me an official title - Chief Tampon Collector (is that better or worse than the title the miners gave me, Official Shit-Blower-Upper???). Also went yabbie-fishing with sweet, serious-faces little girls Tully and Jamila who treated me with...
7 fishes for Christmas eve
Caviar and blinis
Shrimp & cocktail sauce
Clams with handmade pasta
Malpeque oysters
Baccala (salted cod)
Seared scallops with prosciutto
Crab cakes