Saturday, July 10, 2010

Hall of Shame - chapter 2

This damned blogging thing is certainly a bittersweet blessing/curse.  After baring my soul about my shameful addiction to  Twizzlers the other day I found myself waking up at 4 am that nite, wide awake with a head full of other items on my List of Shame that I wanted to try to write about.  Oddly, my initial dread at revealing my low class, nay,  disgusting tastes when Happy Frog  (http://talesfromthelilypad.blogspot.com  )first tagged me with this meme, morphed somehow into the insistent need to bare all and perhaps test the fortitude of my buddies with my most revolting hidden pleasures and loathings.  I could not go back to sleep until I had created a draft blog with some keywords and phrases to preserve all those gleaming tho' heavily tarnished images that had bubbled up in my brain.

Now that I am actually in the process of continuing this virtual strip tease I am a teensy bit less gung-ho about it, but still enthused enough  to drop a bra strap and wiggle my fanny tassels provocatively. ( If anyone is foolish enough to want to conjure up actual images, I suggest you mentally download the 30 year old Lo ( still sexy as hell) rather than the current one......she is still around here somewhere.........I hear her whisper to me often to remind me of the details of good times gone by.)

Well....... anyway,  to continue with those hidden delights that nourish my soul......things that I would gladly kill for.......how about books and literature?  Coming from a person who once beat her head against the nearest wall in despair when she realized she would never be able to read every book ever written, it should be a consummate laffer to learn that, were I stranded on a Desert Island, I would not cry out for Proust, Kafka, Tolstoy or Dostoevsky.........read them all........borrrrring........just deliver the complete works of Robert Parker (Spenser for Hire), Gerald Durrell (My Family and Other Animals) and the incomparable and delightful poet, Ogden Nash, who distilled seduction down to 7 words...."Candy is dandy, but liquor is quicker".

Can you stand any more?    Well, perhaps I will deliver one more blow to my previously admirable image.  Take this, you gluttons for punishment!

Movies that I can watch over and over and which I put on when I am in need of cheer or inspiration:

Enchanted April, Shirley Valentine, Scent of a Woman. Pete Kelly's Blues.  (and almost any Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers extravaganza....hell, you not only get great dancing, but some of the best music ever written).

I must confess that I am limp and totally used up by all these confessions, but I see that I have made considerable progress at revealing more of the worst/best of me.  I am not sure how much more of this I have to do to satisfy the requirements of Happy Frog's tag, but, very likely, now that I have begun I won't be able to shut my mouth and stop, so do tune in for the next thrilling installment of  "Things You May or May Not Have Wanted to Know About Lo".

17 comments:

  1. Wow.. Robert Parker and fanny tassles... I think I'm in love now.

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  2. This girl has more facets that Liz Taylor's earrings. Tells a good story too. We love you, Lo.

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  3. Lo, you are a wonder. Believe me, I wish the 30-year-old AngelMay was still around. She was sexy as hell, too. We would have made a fantastic pair. I also, after many years and a first marriage went back to school and became a computer programmer. And I believe that "Shirley Valentine" is a flick that every living male should watch at least a dozen times - or until he "gets it"... whichever comes first. :)

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  4. By the way... I'm awfully glad you discovered blogging. I discovered it recently myself - just last September. I'll be dropping by here often.

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  5. I love Ogden Nash and anything Astaire/Rogers too!!!

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  6. OMG......I am madly in love with all of you......not because you happen to agree with me a lot, but because you understand what I am saying! You are all heavenly angels........not sure what I did to deserve, but thanks and God bless.

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  7. Lo, Hi. I really enjoyed reading your recent blog posts. You are really funny. And, even though I'm only 56, I identified with so much of what you said.

    Thanks for coming by my blog, too. I'm so glad I found yours.

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  8. Excellent choices, all. If you have to be stranded, it might as well be with great entertainment.

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  9. Robert Parker would be WAY more interesting than Proust, Kafka, Tolstoy or Dostoesvsky. Those guys are definitely NOT desert island reading. Besides, those heady tomes weigh too damn much to support on your lap while swinging in a hammock.

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  10. Yes, let's hear it for Pete Kelly's Blues and for Fred and Ginger! Excellent choices.

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  11. I agree with so many of the things you like, but could never put it in to writing like you!! Can anyone???? I have yet to see it, You are one amazing lady, and after reading your other comments, I am not alone with that thought,,,A bit green with envy, but I still love you dearly,,,Ida

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  12. As usual, I enjoyed every word of your blog!! I agree with so many of your likes, dislikes, but alas, I could never put it in writing likr you do..Who could???/ I have to see it,,,A bit green with envy, but I still love you dear,,you are definitely a wonder!!! Love, Ida
    If my comment comes through rwice it's because it didn't appear that the first one went...

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  13. I just finished a book called "Candy Girl" and it's about stripping. And well, it kinda made me want to be a stripper for an evening. The fanny tassles intrigue me!

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  14. Hi Lo, your posts are great, I'm loving them! Thanks so much for getting into the spirit of it all, wonderful stuff! :-)

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  15. Your writing is so charmed that I'm stunned. I love everything you have to say, and how you say it. My only regret is that it's not done in pen and mailed to me personally, but I can't have it all, can I?

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  16. Oh but I LOVE your blog!You write with such rhythm and vigour. I am so glad you came by mine and left a comment, as finding you is like finding a jewel ( even if you do like Twizzlers )!!I shall return! Sarah x

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  17. Ah..all these deep dark admissions are good for the soul LO.. You go girl..you are a bright spot in my day:)

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