Backtalk: A Medium Place
It's Schooner Festival week so I went into the archive for a nice photo of model boats from last year. I'm nearly finished a nonf...
A New Orleans style cafe briefly operated near the bookstore where I worked as a manager in the nineties. Chicory coffee and beignets were recommended, but the flavor of chicory never grew on me, and no caffeine is a definite dealbreaker. I used to stop by during lunch breaks. The owner, originally from NOLA, was nice and chatty about its rich musical history. I'm a good, thoughtful listener - or at least appear to be so - and a lot of people tell me way too much.
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| Coffee & Beignet |
What's your earliest memory? Roughly how old were you? Did your parents tell you what your first words were? I moved to the US at the age of four so my memories are clearly divided into Before the US and After. The earliest memory I have is probably from two years of age.
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| Pullman and Arquette from Lost Highway, David Lynch, 1997 |
I watched John Huston's Wise Blood last week. Other than being set in the 70s instead of the late 40s/early 50s of O'Connor's book, it was remarkable in its faithful adherence to her story. Kept most of the memorable lines from the book. " No man with a good car needs to be justified!"
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| Brad Dourif in a rare leading role as Hazel Motes |
May all your joints remain in their proper places.
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| Strange Tales 178, Marvel Comics, February 1975. Art and convincing, gripping monologue by Jim Starlin |
Currently 10:16 AM, but I'm assuming I'll be tired when this publishes. Not as tired as an overactive toddler in a bookshelf, but still. pretty tired.
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| None dared call it murder! |
Good evening, BT. Suffering the effects of booster 2. I feel like hot garbage. Actually, even the hot garbage is like, "I feel like SQRL." Photo below is a wood thrush that crashed into older daughter's window and tumbled into the open screen door below it.
Good evening BT. Somehow I've (re)watched enough movies this year to come up with 25* I would've paid money to watch in the theater. Let's blame garbage weather and COVID-19 as opposed to general idleness on this writer's part. I'll break them down by category cuz that's what I do.
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| We've all seen this one right? Here's a hint: |
| Cheech Wizard by Vaughn Bode, just like it says on the tin. |
Howdy howdy. Howd it go today?
Star Wars premiered on May 25th, 1977. I didn't see it until sometime in late summer after I turned 7. I remember waiting in the loooong line for tickets and wanting to go home about 10 minutes after we got there.
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| Nerf herder says "what?" |
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| Simone Simon, Cat People, 1942, Jacques Tourneur. Far superior to the '82 remake. Sorry, Paul, you terrible lay. |
Good evening, citizens of BTV. Please show us your papers and line up on the left. Those without proper documents, please step to the right. Yes, under the sign reading "OUBLIETTE" thank you kindly.
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| AKA Jack Burton, not the hero he thinks he is, is he? |
Did you have a good May 2? I hope so.
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| the humble f hole |
Happy Monday evening, all. What did we ever do to Monday that it should treat us so badly? Blues lyrics, right? Oh monday, why you treat me so bad? Oh monday, why you treat me so bad? Sunday makes me weary, Tuesday just make me mad...
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| The Guy from High Maintenance. Season 2, I think. |
Can't corral my thoughts today so I'll be brief. A whole village sighs relief.
How is everyone handling the Big Government enforced jet lag today?
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| What Was I Afraid of? by Dr Seuss |
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| "I need the DPR on my desk EOD! What's the ROI on that? Rhonda from accounting pinched me! I'm going to HR next time you doodyhead! No you stink. No you do. Nuh uh." |
