I really need to check in on McSweeney’s more regularly. Here’s an amusing list of ways to make classic movies less sexist. Gone With the Wind sounds about right:
Rhett kisses and grabs at Scarlett against her will. Scarlett informs Rhett that though they are married, she still has autonomy over her body and has the right to refuse sex. The pair ascend the staircase in thoughtful conversation, and Rhett wakes up the next morning glowing with newfound feminist awareness.
Read the whole thing at least if you want a lift from Ebola, beheadings, and the exploding stock market.
Well now, that Rhett was a nice-lookin’ man…
Well now, that Rhett was a nice-lookin’ man…
Some conversations might be foregone for sake of mutual interests…
I refuse vehemently to apologize for that double post.
Now you will see that this lovely four-poster bed has a popular rice motif, with 1200-count Egyptian cotton sheets, lightly powdered with a lavender-scented, finely-milled cornstarch dust to absorb moisture …
Perhaps we should step out onto the balcony. It feels a little…close in here, don’t you think?
Flick that ceiling fan on if you will. The switch is right… there.
Now, isn’t that better?
And in the blink of a glittering eye, Mr. Dave’s erudite site is hi-jacked into soft-porn.
No that I haven’t been working on this for a day or two.
Cherry cordial, anyone? It’s time for elevenses.
Oh, c’mon Guarneri. That’s your cue. (Hint: LZ)
It’s Music Friday at Dave’s. What do you have, Ice?
Steve? PD?
Oh, all right,then:
http://youtu.be/QdRnRr7pLSk
Nobody else wants to play, Mr. Dave. Let’s go play with my friends:
http://youtu.be/8Pl1YU1rXuE
http://youtu.be/6G78gBMxFjU
http://youtu.be/n2FrFBceLuY
http://youtu.be/dwMqBvBLJio
http://youtu.be/o3tBzYcl7-8
So that’s what I have for the day. Try it. You’ll like it.
Well, just one more:
http://youtu.be/ozWYjLRI2P4
They’re hopeless, Mr. Dave.
Guarneri, where are your sorry guts?
You’re not afraid of music.
The first volume of William Carlos Williams came today.
I already have all of Sandburg.
Jason took my Dickinson.
I sold the Walt Whitman.
Sometimes,
just sometimes in this electronic age,
one must hold a book in the hand.
Thank you, medicine man.
http://youtu.be/ozWYjLRI2P4
Sorry:
http://youtu.be/VJ95FaapL58
Herb Alpert was/is one of the most attractive men in jazz. Grrrrrr….
http://youtu.be/bsKo_LtShsw
http://youtu.be/UcAzR2QyPCI
http://youtu.be/BrZBiqK0p9E
http://youtu.be/UJkxFhFRFDA
http://youtu.be/JmXw7zJFDr0
http://youtu.be/8CntMRiAm-k
http://youtu.be/PoIoewwgaow
http://youtu.be/PoIoewwgaow
I imagine many of your readers aren’t old enough to remember most of this music. It was part and parcel of our household.
http://youtu.be/7FCvVLuzlbc
http://youtu.be/1mLdUFw4Xfc
http://youtu.be/EOKow_Dh1nA
I watched a blues guitarist tune a 12-string to play last night. The performance time was too late for me, but he’ll be at the civic center Monday at 6.
I can hardly wait. Twelve-string blues. His hands were three of mine.
Robert “Guitar” Finley
http://youtu.be/tl1pjQVBauE
http://youtu.be/SAey9ztGNHo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kCMWKIul0s4&list=PLFA744D0AB27D23FB
Somebody, somewhere, should be laid up in bed this beautiful Sunday morning falling in love with again with a fascinating partner while listening to Ferrante & Teicher.
And working the NYT crossword together.
http://youtu.be/ufCJ-xsN8c0
http://youtu.be/ufCJ-xsN8c0
Sticky kwyboRD!
http://youtu.be/66qe76gkCxo
http://youtu.be/UwF0n2ZKwVw
http://youtu.be/DZJdMzkY_C4
http://youtu.be/rmfmdKOLzVI
Now Beyonce is a woman who can keep two thoughts in her head at the same time.
Then there’s what she can do with her body all the time. I truly wonder how she does the Hokey Pokey.
I am not sure how many thoughts Nicki Minaj can keep in her head, butt does it matter, sizewise? Nicki for President.
Putin’s KGB training would be out the window. France & Italy would be like lovestruck school boys. Angela Merkel may find tendencies she never knew she had, and the Arab sheiks would leave the little boys alone for 8 years.
Ummm. Yes, TB. Harness the power of imagination, fo’ sure.
Meanwhile, Herb just gets better with age:
http://youtu.be/6mejBINAhFI
http://youtu.be/qCkn2Y8TGAU
Good Lord,TB!
http://youtu.be/LDZX4ooRsWs
I love this girl!
http://youtu.be/vdrqA93sW-8
Ms. Minaj has a sense of humor to go with her BIG booty. Good for her!
She takes “callipygous” to new latitudes!
http://youtu.be/7PCkvCPvDXk