used it before

Author: Published: 02/08/2020

used it before

Likely I’ll use it again

“But when the planets
In evil mixture to disorder wander,
What plagues and what portents, what mutiny!

  • Ulysses in Shakespeare’s

    • Troilus and Cressida Act 1, scene 3.

That’s a special passage, for me, as it’s a very formal Ulysses making a point about the way the Universe runs, and when the planets wander off course, like Mercury (or Venus or Mars) retrograde? Yeah, have stuff to look at.

astrofish.net/travel

Just favorite passage short and in longer format, for me.

the Portable Mercury Retrograde

Portable Mercury Retrograde – Kramer Wetzel

Portable Mercury Retrograde: astrofish.net’s Mercury in Retrograde

The Gentlemen

Author: Published: 02/07/2020

The Gentlemen

Starring Hugh Grant, golden boy from Uvalde, TX: Matthew McConaughey and host of others. The bitchy sister from Downton Abbey, as a cockney wench?

Predictable, perfectly timed, well-starred, excellent acting, just a romp of good, bad violence, starts in medias res, don’t miss the opening segment, as that sets a definite tone, and it only gets better. Hugh Grant was stunningly amusing as a sodden Brit., and the rest is all good fun. Honor among thieves? Penchant for over-the-top, graphic violence? Set against the similar scenery from Downton Abbey?

Just plain good, fun. Brilliant bit of story-telling, story within a story. Sort of an “also ran” in terms of movies this week, but really a delightful piece of entertainment.

Good movie, made even better by showing up at the Alamo Drafthouse and watching their trailers before the show started. Beach Bum Matthew explained that texting a talking, phones in general, we, like, not cool during the show.

“Put it in your fanny pack and zip it.”

The Gentlemen

Excellent escapist film. Did I mention Mercury was almost retrograde yet?

the Portable Mercury Retrograde

Portable Mercury Retrograde – Kramer Wetzel

Portable Mercury Retrograde: astrofish.net’s Mercury in Retrograde

Mostly Dead Things

Author: Published: 02/05/2020

Mostly Dead Things

Mostly Dead Things – Kristen Arnett

As a literary term, “Black Humor” makes me think of Shakespeare’s Troilus and Cressida, whether that play is black humor? The play was performed and published before the term came into existence, so I’m not sure. But it fits, in my mind.

The book’s title alone would indicate that there is a chance of the really darkly comic material herein.

“They were both women who’d break your heart and smile afterward.” Page 51.

One word: Southern.

Or, to some? “My people.”

Although not too heavy-handed, the symbolism of taxidermy and stuffing a dead animal, then mounting it, runs concurrent with grief.

Interesting premise.

This is one of those eloquently evocative tales, a fine piece of literature knitted together with prose and depth of description that paints an image of the rural South, that bit of real estate that’s not “The South,” but more more souther: Florida. The tale is eerily reminiscent of the greats, and bears consideration.

Mostly Dead Things – Kristen Arnett

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