What my cousin does when not teaching Philosophy
April 26, 2008
Dade yesterday
talked to my Dad on the PHONE yesterday -- just the second time since his surgery, BUT this first since he got the new "ear" installed...
his transformed voice on the phone was one JOYFUL NOISE!!! The music has returned!!!
April 25, 2008
shift happens
And apparently it is happening to Holst's "Planets - Mars"
watch:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=FqfunyCeU5g
My poor archaic brain was outwitted by my mobile LONG ago...
watch:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=FqfunyCeU5g
My poor archaic brain was outwitted by my mobile LONG ago...
April 19, 2008
My father - party animal
My mother is back with the ancestors for the next couple weeks, and so my father is on his own. He wrote me the following in an email today.
"I've warned her (mother) that if she calls during one of the wild parties
I'm planning with several of my girlfriends, I won't appreciate it if
her call comes in during the string quartet recital or the Schopenhauer
lecture."
I think the two of us enjoyed this comment for very different reasons.
yep, he's a party animal...
this also made me giggle
I should preface by reminding you that my father is having his latest hearing device "installed" in the near future. If it doesn't work, the implant is his next step...
"I must also learn about using the Bluetooth feature on my
cellphone and coordinate with the navigator in my Prius. It will all be
voice activated and supposedly very easy and very safe to use even when
driving along at breakneck speeds. In the Prius, that means 35 mph"
the picture that comes to my mind is the navigator's feminine, slightly condescending voice, reacting to his now routinely loud voice
prius "speak more quietly please"
dad "RIGHT OR LEFT?!"
prius "please speak more quietly, so I can understand you"
dad "RIGHT OR LEFT?!"
prius "PIPE DOWN!! YOU'RE BADGERING ME!!!"
(maybe my mother should just program her voice directly into it)
"I've warned her (mother) that if she calls during one of the wild parties
I'm planning with several of my girlfriends, I won't appreciate it if
her call comes in during the string quartet recital or the Schopenhauer
lecture."
I think the two of us enjoyed this comment for very different reasons.
yep, he's a party animal...
this also made me giggle
I should preface by reminding you that my father is having his latest hearing device "installed" in the near future. If it doesn't work, the implant is his next step...
"I must also learn about using the Bluetooth feature on my
cellphone and coordinate with the navigator in my Prius. It will all be
voice activated and supposedly very easy and very safe to use even when
driving along at breakneck speeds. In the Prius, that means 35 mph"
the picture that comes to my mind is the navigator's feminine, slightly condescending voice, reacting to his now routinely loud voice
prius "speak more quietly please"
dad "RIGHT OR LEFT?!"
prius "please speak more quietly, so I can understand you"
dad "RIGHT OR LEFT?!"
prius "PIPE DOWN!! YOU'RE BADGERING ME!!!"
(maybe my mother should just program her voice directly into it)
April 17, 2008
head-banging anyone?
My cousin Mike is on tour just at the moment and will be coming my way next weekend. I'm not calling ahead to get on the list; just going to hang out by the speaker until he recognizes someone who watched him squirt milk though his nose as a kid, and see what happens...
does that make me evil?
April 10, 2008
the weight of the world
G officially has bulging discs in four lumbar & cerval vertabrae. Surely it's from carrying George (white bass#1)and Gigi(white bass#2)around everywhere, but I tend to also see some metaphor alive in the situation...
April 6, 2008
Eliot St. friday night
Shelley, Kate, Mare, and Mark
Brian, with his Kate, talking to local theater moguls, awaiting his theater run in Dublin... makes me green!
Mer works the room. When I showed up, she had a bottle in one hand and a glass in the other. My favorite way to be greeted by my hostess!
April 3, 2008
April 2, 2008
what I was reading last week
The journey of a thousand miles
starts from beneath your feet
tao te ching
starts from beneath your feet
tao te ching
Oh to be in England now that Spring is here
yes, that is snow as a matter of fact...on EASTER morning.
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