Tugged at My Sleeve

[livingdeb]

I attended most of today's Poetry on the Plaza event: "The Poetry of Jacques Prévert" with actor Michael Palmer.

The weather was excellent.  The loudspeakers were perfect--I could hear the speaker perfectly and there was no hint of any pain.  The reader was both enthusiastic and clear.  And had a lovely British accent.

Of course he was reading poetry.  But there were two things I liked.  One was a line something like "The gorgeous weather tugged at my sleeve."  (After which the writer paused what he was doing to pay attention to his surroundings.)  Very nicely described.

The other was an entire poem about a guy who had come back to his home town after having done some bad things.  He kept looking for a familiar face, but couldn't find one, which made him sad.  He went to a crepe shop, but couldn't make himself swallow a a bite.  He left and lit a cigarette, but then didn't want to smoke.

Then he remembered about his Uncle What's-His-Name who had told him when he was growing up that one day he would hang from the gallows.  He was so afraid that he didn't do anything at all as a kid, not even cross the street.  Just thinking about this made him angry.  He decided to look up his uncle.

He found him, and his uncle didn't recognize him, but he recognized his uncle.  He wrung his uncle's neck.  Then he was hanged on the gallows.  After eating 20 crepes and smoking a cigarette.

Household Tip of the Day - Push in the little thingies at the ends of the box that holds your roll of tin foil or other wrap to help keep the roll from falling out the box (described by Patty at Homemakers Daily in Aluminum Foil Frustration No More!). After some investigating, I see that most such rolls in my pantry do not have these tabs, but you could easily make them yourself with a knife (that you're willing to use on cardboard).

Cake of the Day



The turtle on the bottom makes me think of Greeks. Is that wrong? (It is if it wasn't really the Greeks who thought that Atlas was holding up the earth while standing on the back of a turtle--or whatever that was.) Well, maybe this is multicultural.

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Poorly designed tabs

[livingdeb.livejournal.com]

Turns out the one roll of something that I have with these tabs also requires cutting, as if no tabs were designed. That's because other flaps inside the box block the tabs from going in, so you have to cut through those to get it to work.