Best E-mails of the Week 4/20/03

 

 

Turn your speaker on and click here, and then click to download the midi file.

The music is When Johnny comes marching home again.

http://www.contemplator.com/folk/whenjohn.html

 

Happy Easter!

 



 

 I made a wood box out of scraps from new deck rails at our house. Mary's reaction:

A little putty,- a little paint - will make a carpenter what he ain't.

What she meant was:  Wood putty - Carpenter's buddy.

My motto: I did my best and just caulked the rest.

 

This is an action video game to fire missiles at Osama Bin Laden

http://www.rock103.com/bin.html
 

 

A new play coming to Broadway next week is Long Day's Journey into Night.

Playwright Eugene O'Neill's old house in our town is for sale right now for several $ million.

The play takes place in 1912 at their summer home on Long Island Sound, but I can't figure if it was the north shore, or Connecticut.

After reading about this dysfunctional family, I was surprised to learn that the play is an autobiography of O'Neill's own life!

Older brother to Edmund (Eugene) is Jamie Tyrone, as depicted in 1939 and 1940.

I see that JD Salinger introduced Holden Caulfield in Catcher in the Rye eleven years later in '51.

Holden is a complete rip off of Jamie's character, don't you think?

Here's Jamie speaking at midnight to Eugene:  "Nix, Kid! You listen! Did it on purpose to make a bum of you. Or part of me did. A big part. That part that's been dead so long. That hates life.  My putting you wise so you'd learn from my mistakes.  Believed that myself at times, but it's a fake.  Made my mistakes look good.  Made getting drunk romantic.  Made whores fascinating vampires instead of poor, stupid, diseased slobs they really are. Made fun of work as a sucker's game.  Never wanted you to succeed and make me look even worse by comparison  Wanted you to fail.  Always jealous of you.  Mama's baby, Papa's pet!"

Here's Holden to his brother D.B.:  "I mean, for instance, I don't see how he could be like a phony like that and still like that one by Ring Lardner, or that other one he's so crazy about, The Great Gatsby. D.B. got sore when I said that, and said I was too young and all to appreciate it, but I don't think so. I told him I liked Ring Lardner and The Great Gatsby and all. I did, too. I was crazy about The Great Gatsby. Old Gatsby. Old sport. That killed me. Anyway, I'm sort of glad they've got the atomic bomb invented. If there's ever another war, I'm going to sit right the hell on top of it. I'll volunteer for it, I swear to God I will."

I'll let you know more after we see the play in the city.

 

 

 

Raf turned 21 this week so we all went out to dinner for his birthday.

He was so pleased when he ordered a beer. The waiter asked him for ID, and he produced it.

The waiter at the Old Grist Mill then brought Raf some birthday cake too.

 

Pete


 

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