photo by Chuck Anderson.
Monday, January 31, 2011
A Poem
We who are
your closest friends
feel the time
has come to tell you
that every Thursday
we have been meeting
as a group,
to devise ways
to keep you
in perpetual uncertainty
frustration
discontent and
torture
by neither loving you
as much as you want
nor cutting you adrift.
Your analyst is
in on it,
plus your boyfriend
and your ex-husband;
and we have pledged
to disappoint you
as long as you need us.
In announcing our
association
we realize we have
placed in your hands
a possible antidote
against uncertainty
indeed against ourselves.
But since our Thursday nights
have brought us
to a community
of purpose
rare in itself
with you as a natural center,
we feel hopeful you
will continue to make unreasonable
demands for affection
if not as a consequence
of your disastrous personality
then for the good of the collective.
This poem made me laugh out loud. It also made me wish I could read it to some people in my life I just can't get rid of.
your closest friends
feel the time
has come to tell you
that every Thursday
we have been meeting
as a group,
to devise ways
to keep you
in perpetual uncertainty
frustration
discontent and
torture
by neither loving you
as much as you want
nor cutting you adrift.
Your analyst is
in on it,
plus your boyfriend
and your ex-husband;
and we have pledged
to disappoint you
as long as you need us.
In announcing our
association
we realize we have
placed in your hands
a possible antidote
against uncertainty
indeed against ourselves.
But since our Thursday nights
have brought us
to a community
of purpose
rare in itself
with you as a natural center,
we feel hopeful you
will continue to make unreasonable
demands for affection
if not as a consequence
of your disastrous personality
then for the good of the collective.
Phillip Lopate
This poem made me laugh out loud. It also made me wish I could read it to some people in my life I just can't get rid of.
Sunday, January 30, 2011
The Real Version
Chutes and Ladders was a hoot when I was a child and playing it on a board, not so much as an adult where the playing field is my life.
Thursday, January 27, 2011
Monday, January 24, 2011
Saturday, January 22, 2011
Friday, January 21, 2011
Thursday, January 20, 2011
Ally McBeal
Who didn't at some point watch the silly exploits of this waify lawyer? The dancing baby, Al Green, the hallucinations, the singing, dancing and that unisex bathroom!
Sadly, the series went down hill and lost it's way after Robert Downey Jr. left in the 4th season. But the rest of it was pure fun.
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