Must be December.
God left Her leaf blower on high all day yesterday and the trees got stripped faster than an Escalade with Texas tags parked overnight at a Duck! City Motel 6. Now they look like backgrounds from “The Nightmare Before Christmas,” which was just selected for the National Film Registry.
Overnight the rain swept in, nearly a quarter inch of it, followed by the fabled “wintry mix” and then actual snow this very dark morning. Sort of a heavenly apology to the trees for pulling their bloomers down, I suppose.
In her office Herself is sipping some vile tea that recalls the scented-candle section at a Nordstrom, staffed by a retired exotic dancer who applies her eau de parfum using a power washer.
But she can drink whisky neat for breakfast if that blows her dress up, because she makes all the money around here. Herself, not the stripper. Though a stripper would too. Don’t ask how I know.
The private sector — Herself’s little corner of it, anyway — pays a damn sight better than anything I’ve got going on, especially if we’re talking about stripping. If we had to depend on the spare change Uncle Sammy drops in my tin cup or the singles drunk bachelorettes stuffed in my G-string we’d be fighting the cat for her kibble, and not just for fun, either.
Meanwhile, it’s 9:30 in the morning, but outside it looks like 9:30 at night, and if I had the sense God gave a stripper I’d start taking off clothes and … go back to bed.
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“Sorta cools the ankles, doesn’t it?”
The Creature From the Black Lagoon, a subway grate and toothpaste.
Yikes. A classic for sure. I was all of 1 year old and couldn’t grasp the significance of dresses being raised and trains in tunnels and whatnot. Once I figured it out I was more into Ann-Margret and Sophia Loren.
Haha. Imagine Sophia Loren as your nanny/housekeeper in “Houseboat” made when you were a toddler!
The still photos of the subway scene in “The Seven Year Itch” caused a huge stir and DiMaggio, Marilyn’s then husband, was very upset and their brief marriage ended. Marilyn’s legs and underwear were completely exposed during filming and also, as photos often do, rendered fabric more see-through than the naked eye perceives. It was the studio that created a promotional event. They had the paps come by for the filming of the scene. The black & white photos taken then are very salacious even now. Very “dirty peep show” vibe.
That photo — actually, those photos — are legendary. I can’t think of anything comparable. You have to wonder what she’d have turned out like had she lived. Ann-Margret and Sophia Loren both kept working; you’ll remember that both joined Walter Matthau and Jack Lemmon for the 1995 sequel “Grumpier Old Men.”
Kevin Pollak was in that one too. Swear to God, every time I turn around that dude is in something. He was great as the brother in Pamela Adlon’s series “Better Things.”
Yep, a classic.
Trains in tunnels? Certainly you are not suggesting…….
Speaking of movies, we watched “The Holdovers” last night. We really enjoyed it!
Hey, Paddy me boyo, thanks for the reminder. I’ve been wanting to see that. I like Paul Giamatti.
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According to a missive from my great, great, great, great ad near infinitum grandparents, who couldn’t write or read, but it was passed down verbally for lotsa generations …. so must be very accurate ….. Gutenberg suffered from the same malady. His printing press wouldn’t accept certain formats …. he had to create them …. and since only the Church could read/write (knowledge is power), it was called a “hacking” job by the masses. 🙂
Mark Twain: “History doesn’t repeat itself, but it often rhymes”.
Blimy. I like the Winter Solstice. Matches my mood.