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- What are you doing this weekend?
- When was the last time you took a nap?
- Will you join my nap army? Duties include: Sleeping, cuddling, possibly taking breaks for snacking.
Friday, September 2, 2011
Weekend Open Thread
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twice - on two seperate websites you get me with this.
ReplyDeleteI haven't napped since last thursday. I am about to die.
PS - please write me a blog title for my guest blog here, it's burning a hole in my conscience that I haven't written one yet, yet my head is entirely empty.
Saturday evening: dinner at friends' followed by watching (probably) "Of Human Bondage" with Bette Davis and Leslie Howard--mmm, wall-to-wall masochism subtext. Sunday: other friends here for shortcake (dead easy recipe) with late-summer peaches and blackberries poached in sugar syrup, whipped cream on top. It's finally sunny and warm here in SF so we'll probably take some long walks, too. Quiet bliss, in other words.
ReplyDeleteAnd afternoon naps.
ReplyDeleteMel. Please don't die. Napping is an excellent alternative. And, in your time zone, it's almost time to go home! I will send you an idea... although my warning about being unintelligible is still true... Am reconsidering my "sleep is for the weak" mantra.
ReplyDeleteJohn, you are always eating something lovely! And regarding your Bette Davis film, I just finished reading "Of Human Bondage" the other month. It was a little bit like stabbing myself in the gut over and over again. In a literary sense, of course. Also: Bette Davis Eyes is a fantastic song.
I'll take sleep over the misery of sleeplessness any day of the week.
ReplyDeleteYeah, we eat good. Cooking for me has a lot in common with music-making: I like the preparation, I like the actual execution, I like laying it on people I care for, I lap up their warm responses. I don't even mind dishwashing (much of which is done by the machine anyway.)
My favorite Bette Davis movie is William Wyler's "The Letter," also based on Maugham. The story line is high melodrama but Davis' performance, and the way Wyler uses spatial metaphors for the hierarchy of Brit colonials, Chinese city dwellers, and Malayan plantation workers knocks me out. It's definitely a movie to watch at least twice, as is Wyler's "the Heiress," based on Henry James' "Washington Square," with a fantastic performance by Olivia de Havilland.
I am going to Boston for the weekend!
ReplyDeleteOoh neat, I've never been to Boston (though almost wound up working there for a hot second).
ReplyDeleteI took a nap just last weekend. I might tomorrow, too. I will definitely join your nap army, or rather we should merge nap armies*.
ReplyDeleteI guess I should get back to work. Red Bull now, naps in the Future. FUUUTUUUURE.
*What Nate from 6 Feet Under was actually talking about.**
**If you research this, there will be spoilers.