IT WAS THOSE GOD DAMN LEG LIFTS. FITNESS IS A LIE.
Fitness is a lie perpetrated upon us by the … Fitness-Industrial Complex.
I blame Republicans.
Dream of the Secrets Revealed
Reblog: “Dream of the Secrets Revealed” at the Eunoia Review
Once I heard the origin of the epic
revealed in the waves of my dream.
This long journey out of war,
leaving the burning city, carrying father,
on my back, like our names, like the
streets, pavements, squares, but all
somehow learned second hand, moving to
seas of winds of sirens and monsters
of the gods and their other offspring,
believed we’d left all
behind for paths our own, ignored
our bent backs as we walked again
selling oysters on some shore,
everyone and everything smaller now,
not recognizing the buyers
see us as dressed wrong,
dwellers not of any polis, our words
fallen short of targets, no one
who will stay for our stories,
our accents and salad phrases reveal
a longing for a farm,
all we once knew, restored
in a few acres, but at night this
also seems a concession, a lover settling
for money, a…
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Poster for “Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny” (2023)
Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures.
(It makes a high-pitched wine.)
Tried to spray this goddam squeaky door with WD-40; now it just sounds like pop-reggae fusion.
Turns out I was actually spraying it with UB40.
“Christmas Eve at the John Wanamaker’s Department Store, New York,” Franklin Booth, 1916
(And keep your hands off mine.)
Portmanteau of the day — better + burrito = betterrito.
“It becomes tiring to keep up the character you invented.”
“As life goes on it becomes tiring to keep up the character you invented for yourself, and so you relapse into individuality and become more like yourself everyday.”
― Agatha Christie, in her autobiography
Photo credit: Agatha Christie plaque -Torre Abbey.jpg: Violetrigaderivative work: F l a n k e r, CC BY-SA 3.0 <http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/>, via Wikimedia Commons
Throwback Thursday: “Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom” (1984)!
“Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom” (1984) was the first sequel to 1981’s “Raiders of the Lost Ark,” but it was technically a prequel — its story is set a year prior to the events of the first film. I was predictably obsessed with seeing it when I was a kid. I even remember getting excited over the tagline you hear in the trailer below — “If adventure has a name, it must be ‘Indiana Jones.'”
But I was a little late for the party, and a few of my sixth-grade classmates saw it before I did. They even blabbed about the rope-bridge finale in class, which I guess is the first time in my life that spoilers were ever an issue. It didn’t affect my enjoyment of the movie, however. (Somewhere, the shrinks at UC San Diego are smiling.) I was over the moon for this “second Raiders movie.”
If memory serves, I even had the story on audio cassette. I think it was a birthday present. I had the novelization too; that was even more fun!
Cover to “The Further Adventures of Indiana Jones” #1, Terry Austin, 1982
Marvel Comics.
Kinda breaks my heart every time I read it.
Eric Robert Nolan, Author 