Prawn Hopping, Race Car Bingo, Cat and Dog Long Distance Relay, Towel Birthdays, stuff like that.
Music
All of it.
Television
Yo Gabba Gabba! Stereolab meets Atari! Brobee is Emmy material--I haven't seen such emotional intensity since Richard Chamberlain in The Thorn Birds or Shogun!
Books
Just finished East of Eden. I wish I never had to finish it. I'm going to invent a circular book--kind of like a rolodex but with more character development.
Heroes
Give and give. Keep giving. Giving is both good and great, much like all things.
About me: All the books I'm reading, I've noticed, have a horse and rider on the cover, which is weird because there’s hardly a thing in common between them besides the fact that often people ride horses for pleasure or travel or to escape into some brilliantly cruel and natural landscape in order to test one's resolve in the presence of said cruel and natural landscape: George Eliot's Middlemarch and Cormac McCarthy's Border Trilogy, and when I drive home after picking up more baby food at the Walmart (the only place to shop in York, Nebraska), I pass this section of town, a rolling green section not overtaken yet, miraculously, by corn, and there are 5 or 6 horses there grazing, slowly, beautifully, and I glory yet again at the way all bodies have been made to accommodate their surroundings, a horse’s neck exactly as long as the distance to the grass, our own hands exactly as long as it takes to reach almost everything, but I digress: the horses. I cannot make it past this pasture without tearing up, swallowing, glancing back at Nora in her car seat, mouthing an empty water bottle. Don't think about those horses. Don't you think about them right now. You are driving. Driving is very important right now. Then, waking up around 3 one morning, I remember something Grandpa Smith said in a hospital room, doped up on morphine, before his surgery, sure that the black and white tiles were coming up, moving away to expose hands, faces, the pain and fear of the past, the body turning against itself, dying. He said: Don't hold back, Kid. There's no reason to. If you have horses, ride them. Don't just put them out to pasture. Am I in the stable? Am I saddled? Am I saddled?
Who I'd like to meet: Gertrude Stein, John Steinbeck, Frankenstein, Einstein, Rodgers (but only if Hammerstein is with him), Gloria Steinem, and the man who invented the Steinway piano: Richard Gere.
Hello My Dear, I would like to wish you a very HAPPY BIRTHDAY... thinking that it was tomorrow, I would be early, but the Birthday Alert disappeared, so perhaps it was yesterday, in which case, that might explain why you appear to get younger all the time. If one's birthday was always yesterday, one would have to travel backwards in time to get any older, which would defeat the purpose of traveling back in time, 1) because when you would show up at your birthday party, they might notice that you look older, 2) because the younger version of You might get jealous that the Future You can travel in time and therefore, 3) the Younger You might feel upstaged on her own birthday. and 4) there would have become a glut of Lisa Hargon Smiths running around with the "Happy Birthday To Me" song eternally stuck in their heads, and 5)all the Lisa Hargon Smiths of Yesterday would have to decide upon which Lisa Hargon Smith to send to the future, and they would probably send back the oldest, the wisest, the prettiest, and the coolest (all of them except the original 'Yesterday' one being just one day older, it would be hard to choose)
So congratulations on being picked the the oldest and wisest, prettiest and coolest of them all!
I love u the most hope all is well. nora is magnificent and tell you hubby that pig farmin is dumb.. Play music!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! luv u much, j P.S. tell rasa and your dad I said hello
.. Peter, Paul , and Gary are boldly going where no band should go! Please join us at Hodi's Half Note in Ft. Collins at 9PM Thursday the 27th for the most fun you will ever have. See You There! Love, Colin and PPG ..
I would like to come visit,
but I have been having a cold
that I do not want to pass on
to any little babies.
Pippi is so very much looking forward
to meeting someone
who is somewhat her size
in hopes of swapping fashionable outfits.
