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Thursday, November 5, 2009

Exuberant Amphibious Creatures


Also yesterday, Comment de Trois...

I was in the audience at the film festival on the Saturday, in a row in front of me Ruth Reichl on one end of the aisle and a lovely slim woman who I couldn't quite place on the other (Dawn Fratangelo I figured out later, after some thinking, remembering, and googling).

Driving back from
An Education (which I agree with RR I didn't "buy" either), it was a hard driving pouring slashing rain, a white-knuckled ride home. My husband hated me for the admonitions - slow down, I know it says 45 mph but I say it's night and nasty out and horrible and please can you go like -- my husband assumed I meant 15, so he did maybe 40.

Headlights trained I saw in the lovely night roads all manner of frogs or maybe toads taking advantage of a wet warm rainy night. It was like a party for them.

We hope (but aren't convinced) that no exuberant amphibious creatures were killed in the process of attending the Film Festival that night.


Local free association: www.frogboys.com

4 comments:

Anonymous said...

Over breakfast, watching Mamma Mia for the first time. It has the Tinker-Granola force in spades!!!


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U2CZ-qNipyQ

Anonymous said...

Trinket-Granola.

Rose Marie said...

Flipper ballet!

I know the feeling well. I love vacuuming around the house in scanties and curlers, wearing trinkets and eating granola... I think.

Agnes said...

Well that youtube videotape brought me way back to the time the Hudson High fortyseven football team and I drove out to Spook Rock and then you know and then and well I've been trying live that memory down for quite a few years now.