The Lounge will be closed for a week or so. Deal with it.
In the meantime, I encourage you to Netflix Michael Apted's entire "7 Up" series.
I think I may have mentioned this before, but in case I haven't, go get it. Contrary to the positive-sounding title, and while it can be brilliant and beautiful, it is a hauntingly-heartbreaking series in which we watch a dozen British seven-year-olds decline, sept-annually, toward slow inevitable obscurity, disappointment, and death.
Starting at age seven, in the mid 1960s, the same group has been filmed every seven years to find out where they are along their "journey." We started watching the latest installment tonight, "49 Up." The kids are now 49. Most are fat. Most are grandparents. I suspect at least one has died, but I haven't gotten to that part yet.
Despite distance, political boundaries and quirky turns of phrase, we see that all lives are essentially the same. We are them, and they are us. What we blame on fate is really nothing more than the predictable pattern on human existence. Pointless, really, when you come to think about it.
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Nothing quite like an uplifting start on a Monday morning. Who shit in your punchbowl this weekend?
ReplyDeleteSomebody needs a hug.
ReplyDeleteThe point of your existence is in your wife's womb and running around your house screaming daddy.
ReplyDeleteSomebody does need a hug, but I'm not sure if it's Brian or Fred.
ReplyDeleteClosed? Kegger at inog's!
ReplyDeleteMaybe Brian and Fred should hug each other.
ReplyDeletenaked.
ReplyDeleteewwwww!
ReplyDeleteApparently, anonymous is a heterophobe.
ReplyDeleteNot exactly. You assume too much.
ReplyDelete"Not exactly" isn't much of denial. So there is some truth to the assumption.
ReplyDeleteIs this getting personal?
ReplyDeletequirky turns of phrase
ReplyDeletethats you Americans, us British talk proper
Nah, not personal. I'm not sure who personal you can get with an anonymous and an pseudonym.
ReplyDeleteFred is a hottie. I would hug her naked.
ReplyDelete'fred' doesn't approve of pseudonyms?
ReplyDeleteUh, anonymous, my use of the term pseudonym was in reference to myself.
ReplyDeleteOh, wait. If you are the same anonymous who implied that he/she is a lawyer in the comments for the previous posting, that would explain why this might be confusing for you. You see, the term pseudonym is of Greek origin so you might not be familiar with it. A synonymous term of Latin orgin is alias.
And, Mrs. G&T, you are one hot momma yourself.
Different anonymous, but nice try.
ReplyDeleteI said if . . . Apparently, people who use anonymous have a tendency towards reading comprehension issues.
ReplyDeleteWow. So I guess everyone was right- Fred does need a hug.
ReplyDeleteWow. Anonymous does have issues with reading comprehension since it was anonymous who has been trolling for hugs. Poor anonymouse. No one to hug.
ReplyDeleteHugs for everybody!
ReplyDeleteExcept anonymous who thinks needing a hug is a bad thing.
I find 7Up uplifting
ReplyDeleteThat's because I'm crisp and clean with no caffeine.
ReplyDeleteDon't steal my name!
ReplyDeleteWhy is it I'm the only one think'n that Big Bri is off to rehab when ever there is a break in the Lounge?
ReplyDeleteHe said the Lounge would be closed a week this time. Only Britney can do rehab that fast. Wait- did Brian shave his head or get a new tatoo?
ReplyDeleteMaybe it's testicular cancer, and he's getting a silicone ball put in.
ReplyDeleteWe knew a wrestler in high school that lost one of his balls. We called him uno.
ReplyDeleteSo if Big Bri shaves his balls - does that mean it could be rehab and testy cancer?
ReplyDeleteand who wants to check?
ReplyDeleteeeeeeewwwwww
Maybe he'll go commando and get out of a limo - anyone willing to get a shot of that?