What I’m reading: Antony and Cleopatra
What I’m listening to: So Still
What I’m watching: Baby Mama, Bottle Rocket and Funny Face. And the final round of the Masters, which was insanely compelling.
What I’m drinking: Plymouth, Q Tonic and lime. And a whole bunch of kosher wine.
What Rufus is up to: Wagging his tail in his sleep last week, which I take to mean he was having the happiest dream ever. And another Sunday greyhound hike up in Wawayanda State Park! Enjoy the pix!
Where I’m going: Las Vegas next Sunday for a biz trip. None of my usual suspects of biz pals will be there, Tom Jones is out of town, and I refuse to bet on baseball, so this may turn out to be a very boring trip for me.
What I’m happy about: Our seder went off without a hitch and Mom made it safely back to St. Louis this weekend after her 10-day stay. Oh, and we got to see my cousins Lewis & Denise on Saturday (at one of my favorite Thai restaurants, hence the decor in the photo).
What I’m sad about: A friend of mine blindsided me with news that his wife blindsided him with divorce papers.
What I’m worried about: There’s no Q Tonic at the liquor store where I’ve been buying the stuff. Now I’ve gotta start searching some other haunts and begin hoarding it before it goes the way of the New York Sun and every other goddamn thing I really like in this world.
What I’m pondering: What it is about Audrey Hepburn’s in-her-prime beauty that literally makes my eyes well up when I see her in a movie.
Gil –
What liquor store do you usually get your Q Tonic at? I can give them a call to ask them to order more for you.
Cheers,
Jordan
Founder
Q Tonic
Y’all are crazy with the customer service! I’ve been buying at Gary’s Wines on Rt. 23 in Wayne; I figured I’d hit up Stew Leonard Wines in Paramus and maybe Whole Foods to start stocking up! I’m down to 3 bottles!
So – I gather you liked Funny Face? AH is luminous, and quite funny too, I think, although I’m also a fan of Kay Thompson, who in her spare time authored the Eloise books.
had I your inches….
Does the Audrey Hepburn reaction have something to do with wanting to feed her?
Antony and Cleopatra has to have one of the most annoyingly pretentious lines ever (that is, if you use it correctly.)… “We are dying, Egypt, dying.”
If you ever want to lose every last friend you have in the shortest amount of time ever, say it in a faux-ironic world-weary voice whenever someone asks you how you’re doing. It’s better than being a leper.
You beat me to Antony and Cleopatra which is on double deck in my schedule of Shakespeare reading. I am three plays shy of completing my second trip through the 38 plays; this has been a (mostly) chronological journey. Just finished Two Noble Kinsmen to be followed by Henry VIII (another collaboration with John Fletcher), A&C and then, last, Merry Wives. I delayed that one because the first time I agreed with Auden that the only thing good about it was that it inspired Verdi’s Falstaff. Perhaps this time will be different.
I’ll be eager to hear your thoughts about Antony and Cleopatra.
Hey, Kevin: Are you sure that line’s from A&C? I thought it was from this
! (which I bought this week, thinking of you, of course)
Zeke: I gotta read some backup material on it, since there are a few plot-points I’m unclear on. (Plus I gotta read Bourgeois Surrender’s recent posts on the play: here and here!)
Ok, I had to double-check but yes! After all, they don’t call the University of Missouri-Columbia one of the top thirty schools in the central Midwest for nothing…