Hardy Har Har(sarcastically)

So when I come to the library I often have to wait for a computer to become available for my own personal use and during this time in which I am waiting I like to pick up a little something to read. For about a month or two now I've been picking up Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? by Edward Albee. What a great fucking play. Seriously. Great. And Fucking. And a play. SERIOUSLY. Today I picked it up and read this:

George:And the women around here are no better than puntas - you know, South American ladies of the night. You know what they do in South America...in Rio? The Puntas? Do you know? They hiss...like geese...They stand around in the street and they hiss at you...like a bunch of geese.
Nick:Gangle.
George:Hm?
Nick:Gangle...gangle of geese...not bunch...gangle.
George:Well if you're going to get all cute about it, all ornithological, it's gaggle...not gangle,gaggle.
Nick:Gaggle? Not Gangle?
George:Yes, gaggle.
Nick(crestfallen):Oh.
George:Oh. Yes...Well they stand around on the street and they hiss at you, like a bunch of geese. All the faculty wives, downtown in New Carthage, in front of the A&P, hissing away like a bunch of geese. That's the way to power - plow 'em all!
Nick(still playing along):I'll bet you're right.
George:Well I am.
Nick:And I'll bet y our wife's the biggest goose in the gangle, isn't she...? Her father president, and all.
George:You bet your historical inevitability she is!
Nick:Yessirree. (Rubs his hands together) Well now, I'd just better get her off in a corner and mount her like a goddam dog, eh?
George:Why, you'd certainly better.

These two are a bit drunk during this scene but to really understand it in context just go read it. Or watch it. Or rent the movie. Lazy bones.

Here is a picture of Richard Burton as George and me in 20 years.
I just thought this little exchange was great. And it is what I read today.

I'm also reading Everything is Illuminated because they made a movie out of it and I thought I'd better read it before I went out and saw the movie. You know how it is. And I bought the sequel to Wicked, called Son of a Witch. But I'm going to read that later. And then I'm going to give it to my mother for christmas. I've read all Gregory Maguire's books. They are pretty good. I think Wicked is the best but we'll see if I still think that after I read this new one. We'll see. My pretties. Won't we?

I also saw Domino and Elizabethtown this weekend. Neither have gotten very good reviews. I loved both totally and completely with all of my heart. Domino has tom waits in it. Elizabethtown has Loudon Wainwright III in it. Two musical artists I am fond of. Elizabethtown also has Alec Baldwin in it briefly. I have a thing for him. It is sort of recent. I think he may be the 2nd most underappreciated genius of our times next to Christopher Walken. Who was in Domino. So you can see why I might have enjoyed these two movies even if they were sort of long and dilly-dallying and needed to be edited a bit more to really be great. So there you go. See them, or don't. I don't fucking care, you lot of parrot-loving bilge-rats, you scalawag swabbies, you lice-infested landlubbers. Argh.

There is a character in Everything is Illuminated who is a ukrainian translator and has some problems with the English language. He reminds me of my friend Yoshi from college. Yoshi was from Japan. He was awesome. He would say the craziest stuff sometimes though. Mostly when he would try to translate japanese common phrases into english. Or when he would open his mouth to talk. He was crazy then too.

There is this Security guard patrolling around the computer lab area trying to look intimidating. I just smirked at him. The back of his right pant leg is tucked into his shoe and his left pant leg is normal. He looks so silly!