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I tried to catch up with my FList tonight. It took a while - it's really late now, but I think I got most of you. You guys are quite an interesting lot and it's really cool to read about your thoughts on shows, life and the going ons.

Sorry if you get double comments, but my internet connection has been iffy lately. I'm trying to keep my promise and post, post, post.

Nighters.

I came across this letter from Ruth Gordon to the Times critic Vincent Canby and I thought I'd share. I'm aware not everybody shares my fascination with the curse of the Follies, but it's an amusing letter in its own right.

244 Ladera Drive
Beverly Hills
California 90210

22 December 1971

Dear Mr. Canby,

What a disappointment to read your review. I know people aren't supposed to write a critic and the last time I did was fifty-six years ago today. I got a good review in the Demember 22, 1915 Times and wrote the critic. It was my first time on the stage and I didn't know you shouldn't. Today I know, but I'm doing it. I wish you'd liked Harold and Maude. They said you saw it in a screening room with a dozen other critics. I you could have seen it with an audience. Maybe you wouldn't have liked it then, but then I'd feel it you saw it the way it was meant to be seen. Shoulder to shoulder with people is how a play or film is written to be seen and I wish you'd seen it that way.

Maybe you think this is about as important as what Lillian Lorraine said was wrong with her life when the lady reporter came to interview her. Lillian Lorraine was old and broke and living up Broadway at 96th. Some paper sent the lady interviewer up to do a piece. 'What do you think happened, Miss Lorraine? Ziegfeld said you were the greatest beauty he ever had in the Follies. What went wrong?'

( Her answer )

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Trying to catch up on LJ [and will eventually] and I thought to say hello [*waves*]. My eyes have been bothering me, so my limited seeing time has been taken by working on a couple of old things. Luckily, I've managed to write this one entirely in Portuguese - so it will save me the labour of translation. It's [very] slowly coming along.

When I can't write I build things and it made me think of something Mr.Gaiman [officialgaiman] said about how he writes well, but isn't really good about putting up shelves. I built a closet these last days. Maybe that's what's wrong with my writing: too much shelving.

I haven't dared watch the last episode of Doctor Who. It's sitting here, but I'm not ready for parting of ways [sad & lame pun not actually intended]. I'm willy-nilly and quite silly, I know. I just can't. Not yet. The young'un is with me on this one... I'm teaching her the power of denial. Mercifully, our attention has been somewhat diverted by the start of Batman here. I'll be taking her & co. to see it during the week.

Anything else? No, I don't think so [I'll whine privately]. I hope you had a good weekend and that Sunday, the day I dread the most, has been like a soft & warm kiss to all of you.

And so, like another diarist with poor eyesight, to bed.

On the news, "Non abbiamo Papa.". Will CNNi ever show anything other than the Michael Jackson trial and the Conclave?!

Honestly, the rest of the world doesn't give a rat's ass about Michael Jackson's trial and we fail to comprehend why the nice people of the grand USA find RL trials so fascinating. Don't get me wrong, I'm a Law and Order fan, but the reason those shows are interesting is because it's nothing like a real trial. Those are long and boring - unless you're one of the blokes making 800 USD$/hour.

( Hear me roar! )

To end on a positive, if not novel note: Research now shows that the jump in evolution may have happened due to the introduction of Omega 3 (brain food) into the humanoid diet. While the men were out uga buga hunting, the women, gatherers extraordinaire, were gathering food from the sea. Omega 3 was then eaten by the females, their children and, in case of pregnancy, fed straight to the foetus. You do that long enough and you get yourself a big & creative brain going.

So the men were responsible for the body gaining strength through animal protein and the women were responsible for the brain actually evolving.

It's both comforting and scary to see that so little has changed.

Note: Brits, is it true they are having a major contemporary production of Shakespeare's Julius Caesar right before the election? Gotta love it.

Police Raid Club Over Nude 'Art Night'

BOISE, Idaho (Reuters) - An Idaho strip club that attempted to get around a ban on full nudity by giving patrons sketch pads for special "art nights" was cited for violating the city's nudity rules, officials said on Tuesday.

On related news...

Fend off dementia with sex

CANBERRA (Reuters) - Sex, cryptic crosswords and a good run could help ward off dementia and other degenerative conditions by stimulating new brain cells, an Australian researcher has said.

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My LJ had some major fit over one of those cute LJ things we do (this one was about my masculinity) anyway - it seems I clogged some entries with the same response multiple times.
Sorry!