Polly & Her Kong. If the exposure had been better, you’d see big soulful eyes just begging you to play! 
Day: September 23, 2004
I came back from lunch & my sandwich shop menu board had fallen down. It took me five minutes to find the missing piece of plastic that frames it on the side. I had just been thinking how I needed to take it down & revise the lettering on it, as it has prices for “media plans” and various planning-related tasks, and it’s been just over a year since I went to the buying side.
I looked over at the sign, propped against the wall, and was reminded of a ritual in the monumentally huge & gorgeous Cathedral Basilica Catholic church in St. Louis in CWE.
When archbishops in that church die, their hat things are suspended from the ceiling by a piece of thread. (This would be the ceiling in one of the smaller chapels, off to the right, the Mourning Chapel, I do believe. It’s stark, dark, somber, and dead priests are buried under the floor. It’s amazing to move into that chapel, especially if you’re leaving the bright beautiful Tiffany-designed chapel. I digress.) Anyway, those hats are suspended until the thread breaks, and then the mourning period for that individual is over.
It is time for me to move on.
I love rituals like that. Odd to those who know me, I used to go to that Catholic church, just for the peace I felt there, along with the jaw-dropping beauty of the mosaics….. for nothing in that church is painted. Take the virtual tour
Now I have to find all the right letters to re-do my sign!
So, like, the first time I heard The Killers, I thought, “Wow! Heavy Duran Duran influences. Me love it.” What’s so fabulous is that when I later read the Rolling Stone review, they also referenced Duran Duran. In listening to the album some more, I’m also picking up some Queen influences. All I can say is, all of us have a little Cameron Crowe inside of us……. it’s nice when it gets validated!
What I found annoying today: People who purchase expensive sports cars and then drive 5 mph under the speed limit. Seriously. Come on. The whole reason I didn’t buy a VIPER was because my commute at the time was on Forest Park Pkwy in St. Louis, and it’s 35 mph the whole way. Too many unbridled horses under that hood, baby. They’d get me in way too much trouble. Oh yeah, and the fact the car cost like $100k, that also played a factor. It was dead in the water when I learned it doesn’t have air conditioning.
What I found wonderful today: A big bowl of shrimp galanga coconut milk soup.
What I’m looking forward to: Dinner with Roger & James, watching Survivor & Knitting. Tomorrow’s Friday. Sewing bunches this weekend. The Weekend. Yay!
What I’m still disappointed by: Dad not making the trip this weekend to visit. *sigh*
Perhaps I’ll forget about my sadness by going to see The Forgotten– hey, I know the reviews are mixed, but I’m not going to care. I love Julianne Moore, ever since she was Frannie (& Frannie’s twin, who as I recall, sometimes was damned evil) on As The World Turns. And it’s got that Hot Guy from HBO’s The Wire in it. (I’m sick of linking. it takes me 800 years to get it to work right. BOTHER!)
And dammit, I’m eatin’ some ice cream.