May 10, 2007

Cultural hodge podge

I am, at this moment in time:

-- reading 1001 Arabian Nights and having the time of my life

-- reading a biography of Andrew Jackson

-- waiting for two movies to arrive: The Searchers and Lady from Shanghai

-- watching Demolition Man for the bazillionth time

-- listening to Avril Lavigne's latest album - catchy! Yet also filled with girl-on-girl scorn which is a turn-off.

-- getting ready for my second installment of my Shakespeare project. Taming of the Shrew is next. I've been working on it for a week now.

-- contemplating starting a bikram yoga class

-- researching the Druze in Lebanon. Just because.

-- doing in-depth research about how to effectively wash my makeup brushes - which I paid a shitload of money for. Any suggestions welcome.

-- re-discovering the offensive pleasure of h*enta*i

-- putting together a collage of Cary Grant photos from Penny Serenade

-- obsessing on the fact that tomorrow Social Security is going to reveal the top baby names of 2006 ... what will be the top name for boys? For girls? Can I BEAR to wait until tomorrow?


Seriously. I have worked on - or thought about - or experienced - each one of these separate items - all in one 24 hour period. What the hell is my problem? Can't I put the Druze on the back burner and just ... oh ... enjoy the spring twilight?

NO.

I CANNOT.

THE DRUZE WAITS FOR NO ONE.

Neither does Demolition Man.

Posted by sheila
Comments

You are without a doubt the most eclectic person I've ever known.

Posted by: michele at May 10, 2007 8:36 PM

seconded.

Posted by: amelie / rae at May 10, 2007 9:48 PM

Wash your makeup brushes in the sink with a squirt of shampoo in about two or three inches of warm water. Swish 'em around really good, then squeeze the excess water out into a towel.

Dry upright.

Posted by: Lisa at May 10, 2007 10:36 PM

Hey, that's not so great. I cut my nails today. Tomorrow I may put the snow shovel away.

Posted by: DBW at May 10, 2007 10:55 PM

If you actually figure out just *what* the Druze believe, let me know, eh?

Even Tommy Friedman refused to tackle that one. Way to be ambitious, Sheila. ;)

Posted by: Kathy at May 11, 2007 12:15 AM

DBW - hahahahahaha Only one activity a day!

Tomorrow I will sharpen my pencils.

Sunday I will comb my hair.

etc.

Posted by: red at May 11, 2007 7:37 AM

Lisa - thank you! Shampoo? Really? Just my regular ol' shampoo? I'll do it today.

Posted by: red at May 11, 2007 7:37 AM

Kathy - hahaha I know, right? As a matter of fact, when I first read From Beirut to Jerusalem was the first time I was like: what the HELL do these people believe and why won't anyone tell me??

Posted by: red at May 11, 2007 7:38 AM

Michele Catalano! How the hell are ya??

Posted by: red at May 11, 2007 7:39 AM

I'll just be happy if the "top baby girl name" is neither "Britney" nor "Paris."

Posted by: ricki at May 11, 2007 8:39 AM

I've been wanting a nickname. "The Druze." Hmmm.

"Druuuuuuuze!" (When I enter my favorite watering hole.)

"Hey, it's The Druze!" (When I meet up with my riding buddies."

"wat^? NMH. cya l8r. druze" (when text messaging)

"Druze rulez" (what I could sneak into the ladies room and write on the stall)

Druzenheimer, Druze-ness, Druzinator, Druzie-druzenstein, making copies...

Actually, it starts to sound like something you'd want your doctor to look at. "I've got the Druze, and it really itches."

Yeah, maybe not such a good nickname.

Posted by: Eric the...bald at May 11, 2007 10:38 AM

Sheila! I'm great! I'll shoot you an email tonight.

Posted by: michele at May 11, 2007 12:10 PM

I don't have many opportunities to put on neckwear, but I have been looking to buy a hen tie for years.

Posted by: triticale at May 12, 2007 10:01 AM

Just checked out the 2006 popular names list. Gag...puke... I just cringe at the trendiness and herd mentality. OK, I can understand in-the-past when there was no Internet, and everyone was just aping the latest cool-sounding character names off soap operas (Hi, all you Dakotas and Shanes, you're - what - in your early teens now?), but there is NO EXCUSE now to give your child the same damned name that every other third kid in the same class at school will also have.

By the same token, I also despise people who give their kid a too-unique name, because they're so afraid of being "ordinary". That's just as bad. Or...perverting the spelling. Hi, Scheilagh!!

Posted by: Tempe at May 12, 2007 4:41 PM

I second the shampoo suggestion. In fact, I just washed my blush brush yesterday using that method and it worked like a charm. I see we're both on the same mental plane... well, except for the Druze thing. And Demolition Man. And the Cary Grant collage. And...

:)

Posted by: curly mcdimple at May 14, 2007 1:40 PM