Shopping For Birthday Presents (several posts from MySpace)
Current mood: pensive
Category: Life
Question:
What do you give a man who has everything?
Answer:
Anything.
Question:
What do you give a man who once had everything, but threw it all away?
Answer:
Nothing. He's not going to appreciate anything you give him.
If you want to acknowledge his birthday, send him a sympathy card.
(Deeplip)
Some Self-Destructive Old Men Cock Block Themselves
Current mood: exasperated
Category: Romance and Relationships
PLAYLIST* (HAIKU)
I have Jo Stafford's
Manhattan Serenade - the
original 78.
You could have listened
to it and gotten laid but
now it is too late.
*That's an inside joke --- but not as inside as I'd like it to be.
(From Deeplip's novella -in-verse, Unreqwerty'd Love.)
Playing To An Empty House
Current mood: anticipatory
Category: Writing and Poetry
INTRODUCING PRINCETON READS
The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother by James McBride
Monday, March 6, 6-7 p.m.
Princeton Public Library
Join us for the grand opening of Princeton Reads as we introduce The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother to the Princeton community.
The event will feature a paired reading of selections from the book by Library Director Leslie Burger and Leighton Newlin, Chairman of the Borough Housing Authority, followed by a reception.
Everyone who attends the event will have an opportunity to have themselves photographed reading The Color of Water. The photographs will be used in Princeton Reads posters and publicity.
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Attendance is spotty at these events. The picture-taking gimmick is tacky and won't entice many people in famously low-key Princeton, where residents take pride in ignoring their local celebrities.
Maybe if the authors were willing to read naked, more people would come out.
(Deeplip, who will be reading her poetry fully clothed - but only because she precedes Paul Muldoon, and she doesn't want to upstage him.)
Current mood: pensive
Category: Life
Question:
What do you give a man who has everything?
Answer:
Anything.
Question:
What do you give a man who once had everything, but threw it all away?
Answer:
Nothing. He's not going to appreciate anything you give him.
If you want to acknowledge his birthday, send him a sympathy card.
(Deeplip)
Some Self-Destructive Old Men Cock Block Themselves
Current mood: exasperated
Category: Romance and Relationships
PLAYLIST* (HAIKU)
I have Jo Stafford's
Manhattan Serenade - the
original 78.
You could have listened
to it and gotten laid but
now it is too late.
*That's an inside joke --- but not as inside as I'd like it to be.
(From Deeplip's novella -in-verse, Unreqwerty'd Love.)
Playing To An Empty House
Current mood: anticipatory
Category: Writing and Poetry
INTRODUCING PRINCETON READS
The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother by James McBride
Monday, March 6, 6-7 p.m.
Princeton Public Library
Join us for the grand opening of Princeton Reads as we introduce The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother to the Princeton community.
The event will feature a paired reading of selections from the book by Library Director Leslie Burger and Leighton Newlin, Chairman of the Borough Housing Authority, followed by a reception.
Everyone who attends the event will have an opportunity to have themselves photographed reading The Color of Water. The photographs will be used in Princeton Reads posters and publicity.
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Attendance is spotty at these events. The picture-taking gimmick is tacky and won't entice many people in famously low-key Princeton, where residents take pride in ignoring their local celebrities.
Maybe if the authors were willing to read naked, more people would come out.
(Deeplip, who will be reading her poetry fully clothed - but only because she precedes Paul Muldoon, and she doesn't want to upstage him.)
posted by Deeplip at 10:26 AM
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