¿Atrévase me piden de dónde vino eso?
Temo ambas respuestas.
Envidio y respeto a la persona que puede decirle lo que usted necesita oír.

Mi solamente esperanza
Es eso que usted es Michael Fitzsimmons a mi Peggy Sue
Y quizá, en una noche estrellada,
Le inspiré, una vez.

Young Ones

Once in every lifetime,
Comes a life like this,
Oh I need you, you need me,
Oh my darling can't you see...
Young ones!
Darling we're the young ones.
The young ones
Shouldn't be afraid
To live, love, there's a song to be sung
For we may not be the young ones very long.

She & Him

When I was a little bit younger
The strain I was under could make me cry.
Now I'm a little bit older, a little bit bolder
Never so shy.

Sweet darlin', come hold me
Just a little bit longer now...



Thank you Benny and Juliette for this.

Some Recent Randoms

Flattin' with Hughesey.

Shelves: straight.

The ANGry MONSter.

R.I.P. Mother's.

Sweet Pete.

Pater goes overboard with kayak prep.

Kayaking dins. Sanny was the size of my head.

kAYAk. Nice skirt!

Skeptical about the kayaking getup.

Random Bits from Sunday Morning

Yesterday: a good day.

Nathan Yan/photo

Today:

Mike Pelayo/photo

Sitting here in the kitchen at the flat; Juliette's sitting next to me talking on the phone to the world-famous Vicki Hughes; Mike and Lisa are away changing the world, but they'll be back soon to watch the game. Comfortable and happy all.

I made a serious sin of omission in my previous Top 5 post. Somehow, Ordinary People didn't make my Top 5 Movies of All Time. This movie shaped my life and topped my list for a good 5 years, and I threw it in the gutter with all the other movies that missed the list, with America's Sweethearts and Blue Crush and Casanova. My apologies, Timothy Hutton. My apologies, 1980.

Now it is a few hours later and Mike and Juliette are in the kitchen arguing about two Italian phrases, one of which means "to have a party" and the other of which means "to cut someone's head off." How did we all get to this point, in this kitchen, in this city, with each other, with these pints of ice cream and cups of tea, wearing these clothes with these haircuts? Historical path dependence.

Time to go lie on my heavenly bed, read about German history, and pretend I'm still in school.

27 years ago in Reading, England...

Glad you're around for another year, big brother. It's legitimately your special day!

Remember that time we were in the kitchen, standing by the fridge, and you told me to remember the number 9?

I remember still!

I'm so hungry.

Meeee tooooooo.

You had dinner!

That was hours ago. I thought about calling you but I know you had a bad experience with Cheeseboard.

I would have gotten over it! For future reference, ALWAYS give me a chance to say yes to pizza ok? I'm effing starving.

You should eat.

That's helpful. It's 12:30.

Matt's eating. Hey sports! Where and when did you get that pasta?

Gypsies. Like half an hour ago.

Dude, Gypsies isn't open at one in the morning.

Hello? Are you guys still open? Ah, ok, thanks. Fuckers. Why would they answer their phone this late just to tell me I can't have dinner?

Vending machine time. But we practically cleaned that out, too. Haven't seen red vines in there since we polished them off over summer.

God, this is what I'm reduced to. Doritos for dinner at 12:30 in the morning.

::shuffle shuffle shuffle::clunk clunk::

Those look amazing. I want some too.

::shuffle shuffle shuffle::clunk::

::silence::

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO.

You ok?

A dangler! No no no no no no no!

Aw man that's really stuck.

Look at it! Just hanging there! What's holding it up? Nothing! It's the last bag! Stupid Ruffles!!! I knew I should have stuck to the script and punched in Doritos! Aaaaaaahhhh!

Shake it.

I'm shaking it! Everything is shaking but these damn Ruffles!

They are just cemented in there!

Are you going to be helpful on this one?

I'm just saying, they're stuck.

Damn it! This is what I'm talking about! This paper is all about cutting us down to size. You think you're having a good night? Here's a deadline story. You managed to get the story in on time? The printer won't print it. You missed your deadline? Have fun humiliating yourself by crawling on top of the desk to write it in red on the board. You still have work to do and you're hungry? All we've got is chips. Oh, you want the chips? YOU CAN'T HAVE THE CHIPS. You can only WATCH the effing chips! As they DANGLE in front of you!

I remember that Simpsons episode where Homer reaches into the vending machine and sees the detached hand in there next to him, just a bunch of bones.

Helpful. Thanks. Help me dislodge these damn chips or I'm out.

What the hell are you guys doing in here?

See the chips?!

Oh man, that sucks.

Thanks.

Remember when Skyler got that dangler over summer, and then Louis got both bags and wouldn't share?

That was epic.

Focus guys. The chips.

Ok ok ok. Where are all those coat hangers we used to have in here?

Are you kidding me?

Seriously, this is a weird place.

There are no coat hangers. You've just got to beat down the machine, Matt, you're stronger than us.

Just stuck!

YOU'RE NOT HELPING.

::shuffle shuffle shuffle shuffle shuffle::

They're moving! They're moving!

::shuffle shuffle shuffle::




::clunk::




Yessssssssssssssssss.

You're welcome.

Thank you! Two gold stars.

Those'll come in handy.

Want a chip?

No, thanks, I hate Ruffles.

Yeah, I'm not that keen on them either.

o_O