July 26, 2006

An Early Lunch with the Old Man Today.

I walk him to his car. We are talking about my favorite subject.

"What are the chances," he asks, "that you're a selfish asshole?"

"They're quite good," I tell him. "But I make up for my selfishness by being really, really greedy."

He laughs. "Very nice." And he kisses me goodbye, gets into his Infiniti, and drives off.

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What

. . . is the driving force behind your life? What animates you? What's your main goal as you walk through your days? The most important thing?

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July 24, 2006

Dear Abby,

My mother's on the warpath again. Would it be unethical for me to sneak her an extra Prozac? Or is there any point: she appears pretty determined to have a fight with me tomorrow.

Oh, well. It's like my middle-aged acne—it'll keep me young.

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Oh, That Joni.

She's smart.

People don't know how to love
They taste it and toss it
Turn it off and on
Like a bathtub faucet
Oh sometimes the light
Can be so hard to find--
At least the moon at the window--
The thieves left that behind.

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July 23, 2006

When Planning a Party . . .

one must make the assumptions that:

1) the date selected many weeks ahead of time will fall during a heat wave, and

2) one will get one's period on the day the party begins, incurring cramps and the necessity for steady doses of codeine.

Therefore, it behooves one to clean the house on the weekend previous to that of the potluck itself. Hey—at least I remembered the appetizers this time.

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July 21, 2006

Tips for Dealing with the Heat

. . . courtesy of one of today's birthday boys.


(Also having birthdays today: Justene's teenage girls, who turn 15 today, and Prof. Fractal, who should be 45 if I'm remembering the formula correctly.)

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At 8:00 p.m.

I checked the thermometer in the breezeway area of the garage. It had finally dipped below 100 degrees.

And still, we're too stubborn to turn on the AC.

Tomorrow, though, it'll be different: we're having people over at night, and I'll be straightening up during the day. So when I get up I'm turning on the air.

This is a big deal for Methodists: we tend to convince ourselves that unnecessary expenditures will send us to hell. Where, I've been told, the AC is spotty at best.

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Jauhara

. . . posts a timely set of Bob Dylan lyrics.

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July 20, 2006

So, Who Designs

. . . Bob Hymers' website?

I mean, that thing is as ugly as . . . well, it's as ugly as sin. It's as ugly as the man's miserable life's mission of turning people off to Christianity and to all religion/morality. Ugly inside, ugly outside.

P.S. Also—unattractive. In case I wasn't being clear.

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When It's Hot,

don't just sit around with a pillow on your lap and a hot powerbook on top of the pillow.

It won't help at all, you know.

This has been a public service announcement.

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July 19, 2006

I Update My Niece on My Crime-Novel Progress

I'm working with two different crit groups. My regular writing teacher is turning into a Nazi (she must think I need it) and my new "novel teacher" is a Nazi from the get-go. I will either achieve Great Things, or end up as a lampshade.

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July 18, 2006

Do You Suppose Iran Promised

. . . that it wouldn't come in Syria's mouth?

Whaaaaaaaat? I asked a question.

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July 17, 2006

"Bekaa Valley 26809,

I used to call that number all the time,
But the last time that I called it, you hung up cryin'."

—with apologies to David Cassidy and the entire Partridge Family

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"And Then She Got Really Angry."

Well now, I knew this girl. It's true she had read
Sophocles in a fairly good translation
And caught that bitter allusion to the sea,
But all the time he was talking she had in mind
The notion of what his whiskers would feel like
On the back of her neck . . . ."

From "The Dover Bitch," by Anthony Hecht—in which Matthew Arnold doesn't really come off all that well if you want to know the truth about it

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July 16, 2006

Kinky Omelet Variations

Martin G. used to add two teaspoons of flour to the eggs, and then strain the egg mixture. That would remove some of the white, along with any unblended flour. His family insisted that this made the final product, technically, a crepe.

Zora used to whip up the eggs, so that they'd almost get fluffy--notwithstanding the presence of yolk--and then put in some Worchestershire sauce. Since she claimed to be vegetarian, I always allowed myself to believe the Worchestershire sauce was vegetarian, and was free of anchovies. Of course, I might have been wrong.

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Sean's Got Video

. . . of Malkin attempting the Cindy Sheehan fast. Rugged; very rugged.

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Harrell Notes

. . . that the people at A.N.S.W.E.R. are not asleep at the switch!

No, sirree: they're having an "emergency march." In a month.

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What I Do on Those Occasions When Women Seem to Really Fucking Hate Me.

Option 1: I try to have compassion for them.

Option 2: With every action I take, I assert the notion that I'm smarter than they are, and better-looking. That both men and women desire me beyond all belief. That I'm creative, and that my erstwhile blue-collar family has managed to put together a shitload of money.

As I get older, I seem to be able to take the high road more and more. But I don't do it every time.

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The Importance of Making Omelets.

Now that I've developed an omelet filling that we all three (mother, husband and self) can live with, it might be time to stop making them in sequence. With a MoFo twelve-inch omelet pan, I could simply produce one really butch omelet.

Though it might be a challenge to turn it. And there is the margarine vs. butter debate. (That one is solvable: I'll use olive oil. Healthier that way, anyway.)

Good food is such a fundamental pleasure in life. I'm glad my first few boyfriends taught me to cook.

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Beloved Palestinians: Shhh.

Youssef Ibrahim has some mighty tough love for his Arab brothers:

. . . Your leaders have wasted three generations trying to fight for Palestine, but the truth is the Palestine you could have had in 1948 is much bigger than the one you could have had in 1967, which in turn is much bigger than what you may have to settle for now or in another 10 years. Struggle means less land and more misery . . .

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