May 1, 2010

"Why can't I be an outsider?  Why can't I be hip?...  What I wouldn't give to be a non-conformist like all those others"--Jules Feiffer

Helen's husband (seeing her sister for the first time): "She's Helen's exact image--but beautiful!"--Her Sister From Paris

"He didn't pick you, Betty.  He married you, but--he didn't pick you"--Peyton Place

    Dreamed of visiting my alma mater Mount Allison campus in September; reading of a dictatorship in ancient Greece that collapsed in one generation; seeing a group of assassins stalking Roman Polanski; arriving home on New Year's Eve just before midnight.

    Started reading Explainers, a reprint of Jules Feiffer's early cartoons in The Village Voice from the late 1950s and early 1960s.  He was very original.

    Went to an Asperger's Meetup at Newtonbrook Bowlerama, where we played two games of five-pin bowling.  Rebecca smoked us, but I managed to come a strong second.

    Dinner was Chinese food.

    Saw the DVD of Her Sister From Paris, another Constance Talmadge-Ronald Colman silent comedy.