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Wednesday, December 22, 2021

The Houghton Line

Filed under: General — Tags: — m759 @ 9:35 am

(Lily  Houghton, that is, at the end of Jungle Cruise .)

(HORN TOOTS)

LILY — Ready for your first driving lesson?

FRANK — I think so, Pants.

LILY — I hope you know what you’re getting yourself into here, Frank.

FRANK — A car.

LILY — Oh, your jokes. They will be the death of me.

Related material:  The previous post, Sunday's Woke Joke, this morning's
online New York Times  obituary for a musical-comedy star, and a famous
song lyric detailing "where you'll find me."

Bluntly Articulated*

Filed under: General — Tags: — m759 @ 2:02 am

"Come find me when you wake up."

— Emily Blunt, not  as Mary Poppins.

* The title is from the previous post.

Tuesday, December 21, 2021

Raiders of the Inarticulate . . .

Filed under: General — Tags: , , — m759 @ 11:58 pm

. . . Continues.

". . . thematic preoccupations with binaries
(free will and destiny,
fact and fiction,
conscious and unconscious,
desire and fear)
and with the overarching notion
that stories become real
when they profoundly stir
one’s heart and mind.
These elements aren’t dramatized
as much as bluntly articulated . . . ."

— Nick Schager, thedailybeast.com, Dec. 21, 2021

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