The Friday Five

1. What was the last song you heard?
"Diane Cool and Beautiful," which is track #5 on the Joan of Arc album now playing (currently on track #6)

2. What were the last two movies you saw?
Confessions of a Dangerous Mind and The Pianist. Which, interestingly, both use LvB's "Moonlight" Sonata at dramatic moments.

3. What were the last three things you purchased?
Cat food, toilet paper, and NyQuil.

4. What four things do you need to do this weekend?
Assuming I get my deadline met today, there aren't four things I need to do this weekend. Cleaning and writing, I suppose, as usual.


5. Who are the last five people you talked to?
My partner, my editor, my friend Geoff, Tony the shopkeeper, and the girl on the street who warned me about the past-ankle-high slush puddle in the gutter.

The Friday Five

1. What was the last song you heard?
"Diane Cool and Beautiful," which is track #5 on the Joan of Arc album now playing (currently on track #6)

2. What were the last two movies you saw?
Confessions of a Dangerous Mind and The Pianist. Which, interestingly, both use LvB's "Moonlight" Sonata at dramatic moments.

3. What were the last three things you purchased?
Cat food, toilet paper, and NyQuil.

4. What four things do you need to do this weekend?
Assuming I get my deadline met today, there aren't four things I need to do this weekend. Cleaning and writing, I suppose, as usual.


5. Who are the last five people you talked to?
My partner, my editor, my friend Geoff, Tony the shopkeeper, and the girl on the street who warned me about the past-ankle-high slush puddle in the gutter.

Applicability, NOT allegory!

Quotes swiped without shame but with gratitude from a thread at the Oscarwatch forum:

May 1945:

"....it is the aeroplane of war that is the real villain. And nothing can amend my grief that you, my best beloved, have anything to do with it. My sentiments are more or less those that Frodo would have had if he discovered some hobbits learning to ride Nazgul-birds, 'for the liberation of the Shire'. Though in this case, though I know nothing about British and American imperialism, in the Far East that does not fill me with regret and disgust..."


August 1945:

"The news today about 'Atomic bombs' is so horrifying one is stunned. The utter folly of these physicists to consent to do such work for war-purposes; calmly plotting the destruction of the world! Such explosives in men's hands, while their moral and intellectual status is declining, is about as useful as giving out firearms to all inmates of a gaol, and then saying that you hope that ' this will secure peace'."

[both J.R.R. Tolkien to his soldier son Christopher.]

Applicability, NOT allegory!

Quotes swiped without shame but with gratitude from a thread at the Oscarwatch forum:

May 1945:

"....it is the aeroplane of war that is the real villain. And nothing can amend my grief that you, my best beloved, have anything to do with it. My sentiments are more or less those that Frodo would have had if he discovered some hobbits learning to ride Nazgul-birds, 'for the liberation of the Shire'. Though in this case, though I know nothing about British and American imperialism, in the Far East that does not fill me with regret and disgust..."


August 1945:

"The news today about 'Atomic bombs' is so horrifying one is stunned. The utter folly of these physicists to consent to do such work for war-purposes; calmly plotting the destruction of the world! Such explosives in men's hands, while their moral and intellectual status is declining, is about as useful as giving out firearms to all inmates of a gaol, and then saying that you hope that ' this will secure peace'."

[both J.R.R. Tolkien to his soldier son Christopher.]