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Strangeness
Aug. 4th, 2011 10:58 pmWent to the local county fair today. It keeps shrinking. The yuppies who run it clearly don't understand the concepts and are doing their best to kill the whole thing off. Barn spaces standing empty, The only thing increasing is the booths full of political kooks and medical quacks.
I also hit 1000 in an odd place: My 1000th post on the FurRag writer's forum. I never thought I'd end up the chattiest participant there.
Mosquitoes were nearly extinct here 10 days ago. Now with the heavy rain we suddenly got, they're back and very hungry. Swarms of them. I took Tess out to the pasture late this afternoon, and after two hours she was begging to go back in. As soon as she saw me she came galloping, and not out of any affection for me, I'm sure. More like "Get me out of here before they carry me away!" Fortunately, these aren't the really big B52 biters but rather the tiny whiner kind but there are so many it's quite unbelievable.
We watched High Society this evening. Released in 1956, it was Grace Kelly's last film before she became Princess Grace. Ironically, it had a scene where she was driving a sports car recklessly. (In 1982 she died in a car crash.) The reason it was on our list, though, was for Cole Porter's music. He wrote so many hit musicals, but hardly any of them ever made it to film. This one was actually a remake of The Philadelphia Story rather than an actual stage musical, and Porter wrote the songs for it. First time Bing Crosby and Frank Sinatra appeared in a film together, too, I think.
OK, work tomorrow still, so off to bed.
I also hit 1000 in an odd place: My 1000th post on the FurRag writer's forum. I never thought I'd end up the chattiest participant there.
Mosquitoes were nearly extinct here 10 days ago. Now with the heavy rain we suddenly got, they're back and very hungry. Swarms of them. I took Tess out to the pasture late this afternoon, and after two hours she was begging to go back in. As soon as she saw me she came galloping, and not out of any affection for me, I'm sure. More like "Get me out of here before they carry me away!" Fortunately, these aren't the really big B52 biters but rather the tiny whiner kind but there are so many it's quite unbelievable.
We watched High Society this evening. Released in 1956, it was Grace Kelly's last film before she became Princess Grace. Ironically, it had a scene where she was driving a sports car recklessly. (In 1982 she died in a car crash.) The reason it was on our list, though, was for Cole Porter's music. He wrote so many hit musicals, but hardly any of them ever made it to film. This one was actually a remake of The Philadelphia Story rather than an actual stage musical, and Porter wrote the songs for it. First time Bing Crosby and Frank Sinatra appeared in a film together, too, I think.
OK, work tomorrow still, so off to bed.
