Yvonne De Carlo: Munster, femme fatale, award winning actress, dweller on my iPod.
Some appropriate responses to someone when they say, "You have Yvonne De Carlo on your iPod?!"
-"You mean you don't?"
-"Well, granted, she's no Vampire Weekend..."
-"Why, yes. Yes I do. Right before Linda Lavin (Alice) and after Charlotte Rae (Diff'rent Strokes)."
-"It's a duet with her and Ladysmith Black Mambazo."
-"It's a duet with her and Marilyn Manson."
-"It's a duet with her and Oasis."
-"Not that Yvonne De Carlo! It's the other one that has this amazing contralto voice and recorded an album of standards and starred in tons of musicals, including 'Follies.' Oh wait, it is that Yvonne De Carlo."
-"Well, there's no accounting for taste. Nice shirt."
I could go on. And then this friend/co-worker (who has made numerous appearances in this blog) and I are having lunch today. Suddenly, this jolt of pain shears through my molar as I bite into a plantain. (Yes, I had plantains for lunch.) It was like a Hitler experiment the pain was so intense. I think I bit a piece of aluminum foil on a filling, although no aluminum foil appeared afterward.
"Well, that shut you up for forty-five seconds," was his response as I held my mouth in agony.
No 'Oh gosh! Are you OK?' or 'Do you need help? Water? Anything?' or any inkling of sensitivity or compassion. Just 'Well, that shut you up for forty five seconds.'
We're very close.
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- trying to begoode
- New York, NY, United States
- on a quest to expand my horizons
1 comment:
Yo, brother-in-law...love the blog, though you seem to have a lot of hostility towards fat people--not that there is anything wrong with that? I'll try to keep the extra poundage to under 20 so I do not incur your wrath, though if you want to harbor hostility because I married your sister, then I understand.
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