| Poem for Saturday |
[Jan. 7th, 2006|12:54 am] |
( Sheridan's Ride )
I love the rhythm and the countdown in this poem, and the fact that the ride on the horse is compared to traveling by ship. Here, sort of, is an illustration to go with the poem:
Northern and Southern bears from Boyds Bear Country. The Union Bear says, "'Let us have faith that right makes might, and in that faith, let us dare to do our duty as we understand it.' -- Abraham Lincoln." The Confederate Bear says, "'Do your duty in all things; you cannot do more, you should never wish to do less.' -- Robert E. Lee."
The highlights of my day were taking my son to the orthodontist (which is located on the top floor of a local mall, meaning that he had to be bought custard afterward to soothe his sore teeth and then a Furby toy from Burger King -- at least he couldn't eat the BK Meal he might otherwise have wanted with it), writing a bunch of articles and having dinner with my parents. Oh, and getting a VHS-DVD combo recorder -- our final family Chanukah present, and one which we are well pleased with; it has been tested on our wedding highlights videotape and The Winter Guest, which has never been out on DVD and did not appear to have any encoding to prevent it from being dubbed off the VHS. ( Whoo! )
Here is my review of "The Changeling", a scattered bunch of notes rather than anything deeply thematic because while the episode has its flaws, it plays so much better than I expected -- better than I remembered. On another Shatner note, I am delighted that Boston Legal seems to be the frontrunner at the SAG Awards and amused that it was nominated as a comedy when the Emmys and Golden Globes class it as a drama -- Shatner and Candice Bergen's characters depend on the actors' comic timing, so this is entirely fitting, but interesting that the acting awards noted this when the general television awards have not. I'm bummed that Shatner and Spader are in direct competition because I think it's likely they will split votes (and even I must root for Spader to win), but since the cast got an ensemble nomination including Rene Auberjonois, Julie Bowen and Mark Valley, I will be extremely happy if they all win that, even if none of the individuals win. And I am happy to see even more nominations for Brokeback Mountain.
![[info]](http://www.deadjournal.com:8080/userinfo.gif) thefridayfive: ( Playing in the Band )
fridayfiver: ( Geico )
perkypaduan has a bad case of pneumonia and I am worried and would like to do something nice for her. What's the best distraction? I didn't have the concentration to read books when I was in the hospital, and I suspect she can't have a laptop around the medical equipment. |
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