Chipper sent this link to me under the rather cryptic header “Big Head”. Marcus Aurelius was a great writer and his contribution to the philosophy of Stoicism should not be forgotten. Here’s a link to the Meditations.
I’m off to see Music Man tonight. I am starting to think about writing a musical and rather than having a discernable plot, it’s a thirties style attempt to jam about 100 songs with the most minimal amount of plot or discursive linking possible into 2 hours. Like, my parents hate the plot and fast forward to the musical numbers. Eddie Izzard in an enormous red ball gown as the Master of Ceremonies? A little girl asking for pirates and ninjas, and she gets the pirates but you never see the ninjas? Of such is the coloured marzipan from which I wish to confect a musical…. A giant squid sings a sad song about the depths of the sea, with its limbs operated by the cast members? I even have a name for the opus.
OMG. Gizmo, when he’s cleaning his nether regions, makes a noise like the quacking of a really subdued duck. He just gave about five demonstrations in a row. The quack he emitted on the sofa last night cracked me and Jeff up.
Soon, the mandolin lessons.
