Charles Mingus Cat Toilet Training Program

The Charles Mingus CAT-alog. Who knew?

Anybody out there?

Are we still doing this? Is Latent defunct? Say it isn't so...

I don't really have a topic to post about today, but did you know there's only 356 days until the World Cup?

I have seen some great screeners lately. If they come your way, check out:

Afghan Star

Burma VJ

The Garden

So, unless I hear from you guys, I'm curling up with my new stash of 007 films from Big Lots & my two big book projects this summer: Tree of Smoke (natch) & Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell.

Gateway to the Bible

Do you know if you type "blogpsot" as part of the URL, instead of the blog you are trying to find, you will be directed to ABUNDANTBIBLE.COM? What's that about?

Hey, Inconsiderate Idiot!

You know who you are. You're the one flipping your cell phone open in a darkened theater. You look kind of like this:



Or sometimes, when you think you're being discreet, you look like this:



But you know what? Whichever way you do it, it's still distracting to other patrons & rude. (I'm not even talking about those of you who answer your phones in the middle of a performance, save to say there's a special level of hell reserved for you, you selfish bastard.) If you can't go 2 hours without texting, stay home & rent something. If you are checking the time, get a damn watch like the rest of us. I paid to see the performance on stage/screen, not your phone lighting up every two seconds. Don't bring on my theater rage.

Hundertwasser

Do I have your attention? Yes, Hundertwasser is a guy who designed some pretty cool...toilets.

He also designed this:



I just happened upon a book of his at Bookworks, but now I am a total fan.

Poetry in Your Pocket!

I've given you all a break this month from my personal hobbyhorse, National Poetry Month. But please consider celebrating with me Poem in Your Pocket Day on Thursday, April 30! Poets.org offers many poems you can print out to carry around in your pocket to share with co-workers, family & friends, from Emily Dickinson to Shel Silverstein, Walt Whitman to Claude McKay.

Much too much thought

OK, I was recently at a cafe that billed themselves as having 'The World's Best Coffee'. They also had the world's most unnnecessarily complex coffee cup lid. It's just a disposable coffee cup!



Open...


...and closed.


But go ahead & say it, I've put way too much unnecessary effort in posting my indignation at the lid, as well.

Aries

Some figures from history and the arts who were born on April 13:

Thomas Jefferson, 1743

Butch Cassidy, 1866

Samuel Beckett, 1906


Eudora Welty, 1909

Lyle Waggoner, 1935

Peabo Bryson, 1951

Garry Kasparov, 1963

Ricky Schroder, 1970

Turns out the date has produced many noted figures of genius. And at least as many known for their schlock appeal.

Happy Birthday DJ Pegleg ... the perfect blend.

Vanity Not Sanity

I'm not sure anyone exists here but me & anonymous these days ... but I'll post this for him or her and anyone else who may surface.


A riddle:

With thieves I consort,
With the vilest, in short,
I'm quite easy in depravity,
Yet all divines use me,
and savants can't lose me,
For I am the center of gravity.


What am I?

When I'm 74

Did you see this? I swear I wouldn't recognize the man ... if it weren't for the swastika. The face is weary, the madness sheathed in sadness. He looks like someone who'd wander into the bar at 8am and order a PBR after spending the night at the shelter.

http://www.cnn.com/2009/CRIME/03/19/california.manson.photo/index.html