| KHftCEA 2000-06.1 June |
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KHftCEA 2000-06.1 June
RIP Tito Puente- to think of you of all people- of all musicians- succumbing after being hospitalized for an irregular heartbeat! The universe is not without its sense of heavy handed irony. Sorry I missed you when you came to Tufts... 00-6-1 --- The scylla of remembering so well all life "seems just like yesterday" and the charybdis of not remembering enough to get the full value of your life. 00-6-1 --- "The mystery of what a couple *is*, exactly, is almost the only true mystery left to us, and when we have come to the end of it there will be no more need for literature-- or for love, for that matter." --Mavis Gallant --- A guy sentenced to death tells the king: "Spare my life, and within one year I will teach your horse how to dance." The king, laughing uproariously, agrees. Later, a friend tells the guy: "Who are you kidding, you'll never be able to do that." The guy responds, "A lot can happen in a year. The king may die. The horse may die. And who knows... the horse might learn to dance!" --- Odd watching 'real dyke' porn- it even includes processing! I liked it, it made it more real. 00-6-3 --- Institutional rituals must help people feel like their part of something eternal or at least long lived, the keeper of a flame that has burned well into the past and will burn way into the future. 00-6-3 --- Love illusions are very famous. He says "I never really loved you. I mean, not really." She says, "What?" "Not once," he says, "in the last thirty-two years." "Not even that week in Santa Cruz?" He says, feeling the honor of truthfulness, "No." He says, "Not deeply really. No. It was an illusion, but not untill disillusionment. Before that, it was a fact. It was love." --Grace Paley --- Those old x-ray machines the shoestores had- now banned, radiation and all that- how cool that must have been, to see the bones of your feet in real time... 00-6-4 --- "It's much easier to bathe unruly children if you take the first step of holding them under the water until the bubbles stop." --James Israel paraphrased --- "Science is like sex: sometimes something useful comes out, but that is not the reason we are doing it." --Richard Feynman --- Sort of like the scene in Oaklahoma (as it SHOULD have been played...) "I'm just a girl who caint say nnn... nnnnuh... nnnuhhhhhh..." --Wayne Throop @ rec.arts.sf.written --- "History doesn't always repeat itself... sometimes it just screams 'Why don't you listen when I'm talking to you?' and lets fly with a club." --JWC,Jr. --- Morrocan Mint Tea (according to Habib) In a smallish glass, put the leaves from about four stems of mint and pat them down ("garden fresh mint" said the package- it should smell fresh and the leaves should be rough.) Pour boiling water over the leaves. Stir in two teaspoons of sugar. Keep stirring to ensure the leaves don't scold. Let simmer to taste. Drink and enjoy. Yum! 00-6-7 --- "The Wonder Twins had the right idea. I defy you to think of any crisis situation that would not be vastly improved by the presence of a gorilla with a bucket of water." --Maraud --- "Motherfucker, I ain't seen pussy in so long, I'd throw stones at it." --David Sedaris' brother 'Rooster' --- I have learned to take satisfaction in the life that Hugh has led. His stories have, over time, become my own. I say this with no trace of a kumbaya. There is no spiritual symbiosis; I'm just a petty thief who lifts his memories the same way I'll take a handful of change left on his dresser. --David Sedaris --- Went to Joe and Esther Scheinfeldts' 60th anniversary with Mo on Sunday. Who knows, maybe I have a shot at a ripe old age. Esther told me how the Scheinfeldts probably got their name as jews who were fleeing (pre-WW2) and stopped in the town of that name, now the village of Schonfeld or something. 00-6-12 --- |