2 Some old movie or other is again flickering and bandying about. Conga line. Barbara Stanwyck. That sort of thing.
3 I looked up for a second just to catch some gal, might have been Stanwyck say sarcastically, "How quaint!"
4 That's what's missing in the world.
5 People don't say things like "How quaint!" anymore.
6 This one sounded sarcastic, but my mind has been mellowed lately, so it turned the line upside down, causing me to reminisce about the days when someone would say, "How quaint!" and smile at an old town, a field of daisies or in my case, an old movie.
7 I tire of all the sarcasm and negativity.
8 I'm beginning not to care. My mind has been sunshine and fields of daisies lately.
9 I'm pretty sure it's the Man.
10 Not THAT sure. Just pretty sure.
11 I discovered that I accidentally bought some Chiquita bananas yesterday.
12 I was in our neighborhood Safeway and grabbed a bunch of bananas from the organic rack.
14 I got home horrified that they were from Chiquita.
15 Chiquita was formerly the United Fruit Company with huge associations with the Dulles Brothers and the law firm Sullivan and Cromwell, known for being representatives to I.G. Farben, a company in Germany that funded the Nazi death camps.
16 Okay, okay. For years, any time I would be in the fruit aisle and see Chiquita bananas, I would give them the slip.
17 I was thinking that the reason I have been having lovely dreams of fields of daisies and all is that the Man probably put something into my bananas.
18 I have been uncustomarily mellow the past few days. It began with the Chiquita bananas I bought a few days ago.
19 To begin, I don't believe for a second that they are "organic". We're talking about the Man here.
20 Mellow Yellow.
21 Chiquita bananas haven't always appealed to me anyway. Plus they had commercials with bananas dancing and stuff.
22 Every time I would see a Chiquita banana commercial, I would split.
23 Okay I'll stop.
24 I had a thesis. I swear to you.
26 The fact that I've been a mellow fellow lately.
27 I don't think it's my accidental switch to Chiquita bananas. I don't think it was the Man slipping me Mickeys.
28 I think it is because I began taking all these vitamins.
30 A movie just fired up on the teevee. The Age of Innocence.
31 The opening scene had an opera scene with daisies.
32 I don't know, maybe it was the bananas...
33 Moving On, Part One: What was that?
34 No.
35 I am better now. Word of honor. I am better now.
36 Moving On, Part Two: Yesterday I wore my favorite hat to work. It is a Stetson straw. It's old, but solid. I wore it with a suit jacket, plaid shirt, and a tie that somehow matched.
37 Dapper Dan.
38 I don't wear sunglasses too often because I think we Californians overdo sunglasses. But it was bright yesterday morning. The sun demanded I wear protection.
39 I couldn't find my regular sunglasses but I did find some back-ups, a bifocal pair that I could use to see both the road and the dashboard.
40 I zipped out the front door, looked at my car door window right before I opened it and then I clumb in.
41 Do you do that? Look at yourself in the window each time you get in the car? I goofed on that.
42 Irrelevant Teevee Sidebar: Strauss just started up in 3/4 time. On the teevee. I looked up. Smiled. It may have been the bananas.
43 Who knows?
44 Fear and Loathing on Seis de Mayo.
45 And...Back to It: When I saw my reflection, I was a dead ringer for Dr. Hunter S. Thompson, the guy who had his body shot out of a cannon after he died.
46 I felt mellow yesterday morning too.
47 If the Man is getting me mellow, I don't mind too much.
48 The Vienna Waltz is swirling around the room, including a dance. And shadows wash the room.
49 I've no idea what this movie is about because I've been going bananas trying to hit this DN's deadline.
50 Unlike normally, I remain calm beyond words.
51 I think I'll sneak out.
52 Anybody lookin'?
53 See you again. Take your vitamins.
54 Peace.
~H~
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