I. Both days this weekend met my yardwork criteria: they were overcast and approximately 80, so I allowed myself to go outside. I see now the criteria should be expanded to require the weather be overcast, 80 or less, AND have some actual oxygen molecules in the air that are not bound to hydrogen to make humidity. At any rate, both days I was out doing yardwork, and Mom-in-my-Head was pleased.
II. Both days this weekend were capped off with delightful movies, both starring Frances MacDormand. First, she was in Burn After Reading, looking like this:
Then the next night she was in Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day, as a completely different human being.
(The very best part of Burn After Reading was the CIA superior: J.K. Simmons.
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III. Generalissimo Michael Jackson is still dead.
I cannot wait for Tuesday, when Michael Jackson is buried and the news channels are once again dedicated to covering the news.
My favorite line from Burn After Reading would have to be Brad Pitt to John Malcovich: "You think it's a Schwinn." That has become short hand around here for "you have no idea what you're talking about." :)
Posted by: tonya | July 06, 2009 at 09:16 AM
Dear, dear, dear, Queen, whatever are you thinking? The funeral and the burial are not in this case the same thing at all; then there's the memorial concert, and the will (that could become another Jarndyce and Jarndyce all by itself) and then Neverland, and spirited opposition from Gary, Indiana; plus fuss in London over the O2 stadium's suddenly empty calendar... This is a show that will run and run.
You're just going to have to suck it up.
Posted by: Big Dot | July 06, 2009 at 07:17 PM
Tonya - That makes me giggle imagining it.
Big Dot - I'm so sick of him. I wish he was dead. Oh, wait.
Posted by: TheQueen | July 07, 2009 at 12:27 AM
Big Dot - Just when I despair that literacy is lost around the world, you pop up with Jarndyce. Happy sigh.
Queen - I'm not so sure the Generalissimo hasn't been dead for some time now.
Posted by: Becs | July 07, 2009 at 04:48 AM
I thought Burn After Reading was incredibly stupid. But I am interested in Mrs Pettigrew.
Posted by: #0.75 | July 07, 2009 at 09:48 AM
Becs - God tweeted today that He was hoping it was all a publicity stunt and that MJ would spring out of the coffin and do the Thriller dance.
.75 - I've been watching Tipping the Velvet and thinking of you.
Posted by: TheQueen | July 07, 2009 at 11:19 PM