Quiet 5 up, Sat- Hot, as usual-
Jingles naps behind me- Guarding the swag! As if!
For myself?
Odd day- Sleeping in shifts- 12-5, then up for 60 mins or so- And back abed, til 9A-
Ph burrs, 7A- Huh? Feckit! Lv msg-
J's mate (and mine, true, opera buddy) D- Good wishes- But- Garrulous, ya know?
Ans machine as performance venue- 3 min rap-
Had coffee, and clld her back-
Sweet, is sending on some amazonia to J- Anxious- J & D can do an hour no prob on the horn- Reassured her, best I could-
Jingles? Well, her mostly dry diet makes for easier pick up, in the living room- Pees well outside-
I hate the backsliding, due to fence issues-
So-
Saw Miss J for an hour or so, early afternoon- Woke her, after some reluctance (on my part), from deep sleep- Guess they've been working her, in PT, OT and any other T-
Good visit- See her tomorrow- Took another letter to the post-
Drive home, sans car A/C- I just don't use it- Air is moving, I'm fine- Sister Pat used to say I was part Arab-
Dug out J's black Ray Bans, put 'em on, fight the glare-
Whoa!
Alert! I NEED my spex, to drive- Chunked the sunglasses-
Who knew?
I do, now-
Headed home-
And thought about shades, and the bosses we elect-
JFK- Tortoise shell Ray Bans, on his yacht, with his kids-
And the nxt wk, every man in DC, NY and LA had a pair on-
Johnson, Nixon- Nope, too shady-
Carter- Who the fark knows?
Reagan- Looked good in shades- Hollywood primed him, for the look-
Poppy Bush? Nope-
Clinton? Didn't he don a pair, while doing his sax (not sex) thing, on Arsenio?
The usual embarrassment, for him- One of many-
Underwear much?
Geo W- Nope-
Obama? Think so, but no memory of- Like so much of his tenure-
Trump? Again, no recall-
Which brings us-
Biden's parading about in aviator spex is, well, kinda pathetic-
And a little sinister-
Trope that make-up is a woman's disguise, false face, for the world?
You be the judge-
Ditto shades-
Seen Woody Allen's SLEEPER (1973)- Futuristic comedy?
The World Commissar (or whatever) was presented to his people wearing shades-
And it turned out he was just- A nose (shades of Gogol!)-
So ditch the spex, Joe- You're in your ninth decade- They make you look like a second rate Latin American jefe- Mebbe the desired?
Ditto the Corvette- This current avalanche is coming atcha for a number of reasons-
And aging ain't that bad- Ask the man who owns one...
As in-
Cary Grant, in NORTH BY NORTHWEST (1959), had call to put on a pair of Ray Bans several times, course of the film-
And he looked terrific in them-
Course, he was Cary Grant- And we, well, aren't-
Something to mull over on a hot drive-
Mme K, made up some tuna salad, just now- 4 cans!
W/mayo, onion, and- Capers! Will report-
Tuna melt w/Swiss much?
And after, mebbe a cookie or two-
Dropped a bag of same, yr Pep Farm giftie, w/J today- For the W/E staff-
As a former grunt in that army, I know they'll go down good-
Latersville,
E
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Nose_(Gogol_short_story)