9.06.08 happy birthday, nerd face!

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today is my leetle brahther’s birthday. he is, i want to say, 28 years old. oh they grow so fast. it seems like it was only last week that he pulled my hair and hit me and yelled, “it’s MY turn to play Zelda!”
those were the days.

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there have been several things that keep popping up in my entertainment lately. recurring things. one of these things is Brazil. first, it was West, and now my conversation partner is from Brazil.

the second is Chicago. specifically the history of Chicago. first there was the book The Devil in the White City, then there was the history of the Gatling gun and that took me into Chicago, and now i’m reading a book on Leopold and Loeb and that of course, took place in Chicago. so now i feel like i’ve been schooled in the history of Chicago 1890 – 1930.

and the third thing seems to be the strangest of all. it’s Lillian Hellman. she keeps popping up. first, one of my co-workers had mentioned she had read a book about her. i didn’t think anything of it really. but then i happened across one of the strangest movies i’ve ever seen, The Children’s Hour. and when i looked up information about it i found that, you guessed it, Lillian Hellman had written the original play. weeks later i read Lee Israel’s Can You Ever Forgive Me? in which she forges letters of… Lillian Hellman.

so finally i went to the library (the “real” library, according to my darling husband.) and picked up an autobiography of Hellman’s. i figure maybe if i read about her she’ll quit following me.

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