This And That

[poliphilo]

Yesterday's high winds lifted the cladding  off the garden wall. It was very ugly cladding and I'm not sorry to see it go. Now I have to dispose of all the rubble.

Judy's father once bumped into Ayn Rand at a New York party. He said afterwards that she was the ugliest woman he'd ever met. I was watching footage of her last night- and I didn't think her ugly; I thought her reptilian. The two things are not the same. Lizards- for example- are very beautiful in their own way.  Rand has never caught on over here; from what little I know of her I'd say it was because she was entirely lacking in a sense of humour.

The French Open is under way. We had the TV on yesterday afternoon. Eurosport runs adverts you don't encounter anywhere else- mostly for airlines. "We are Turkish airlines/ We are globally yours." Such a pretty tune. I have devised a dance to go with it.  I noted, with bitterness, that the sun was shining in Paris. 

Comments

[michaleen.livejournal.com]

Ayn Rand looks like a dark-haired and female William F Buckley Jr, another morally bankrupt pseudo-intellectual much beloved by reptiles here in the States.

I suspect that her peculiar brand of applied selfishness failed to catch on, over there, because your ruling class and those that aspire to it don't need a rationalization for their assumed superiority.

[ron-broxted.livejournal.com]

So if they choice were Ayn Rand and Anne Widdicombe who would you "do"?
Turkish Airlines? I was going to fly them to Tehran but the trip is "postponed" for now.

[endlessrarities.livejournal.com]

Ah, yes. The joys of Eurosport... We should have been watching the Giro d'Italia, but we've been a bit remiss...