I'm never going to live down mentioning those two mules, am I? They are big mules: Mouse is 16.5 and Woodrow is something over 17 hands. Sister Sarah rode a donkey, so I never quite got the two mules thing. Yeah, I got that Eastwood's character was one mule. People regularly make asses of themselves without any help at all, but a donkey is only half the necessary equine mule-making team.
This is very Stoic. One of the great teachers of Stoicism (probably Epictetus?) said something along the lines of "When you lose something you once owned, think to yourself 'It was never really mine to begin with, I only borrowed it'," because in the end we lose every material possession anyway, and many of them we lose through the twisted course of life. It isn't losing the items that causes us pain and suffering, it's our emotional attachment to them.
TMW traffic is so bad, your plane is stuck on it. Had to do another lap around the air field because there was "traffic on the runway".... And now that we've landed, 15 mins have gone by sitting on the tarmac because of said traffic. Oh its good to be back in the city...
she starts off with a mule until it becomes lame when she trades it for a burro … since a burro is not a mule Hogan is the second mule Shirley MacLaine said that in her opinion the mules should have been Eastwood and seigel since neither of them was able to deal with a ballsy woman
It's also very Buddhists, two of the Five Remembrances: 4. Everyone and everything that I love will change, and I will be separated from them. 5. My only true possessions are my actions, and I cannot escape their consequences.
I'd forgotten about the lame mule. I should see if I can find that movie somewhere and watch it again. I liked it.
In retrospect, I'm not sure whether Shirley Maclaine was really a ballsy woman or more of a crazy bitch. I guess it was both. Or it depends on who you ask.
The particular point of dissent was that she wanted to be billed above Eastwood contending that because it was called ‘ two mules for sister Sara’ Sara was the main character and hogan was a supporting part in the end they compromised and she was billed above him on the credits but not on the poster since the marketeers knew fine well that for an action Western Eastwood was the box office draw interestingly Seigel originally wanted Elizabeth Taylor for the part but they fell out when she insisted he change the filming location
That moment when someone forgets to put the commode bucket back... and then someone else comes along and uses said commode. It's not the first time, and that's why that room now has hard flooring instead of a carpet.
I flew today, too! And it's the first time--ever--I had no delays, complications, or snafus. My first time in Chicago or anywhere in the Midwest so TMW you realize you are NOT on the East Coast anymore.
Thats funny, i flew back to the east coast Did you hit turbulence? We hit a bad patch and the pilot came on the coms to tell the flight attendants to stop service and buckle up. I've flown a lot and have never gotten sick, ever, but these past few times there has been bad weather (rained leaving Michigan both times i flew) and ive nearly reached for the barf bag each time. Im taking dramamine for my flight back
Nothing. Smooth as a baby's ass, which I hear is the smoothest thing ever. NRA (the other one) food show all weekend, so all that will be entering the face. Dinner is all Michelin Star, high-end napalm. My chefs picked all the joints... I'm just along for the ride.
TMW you have decided to finally break down and buy a pair of trekking poles for your next adventure, and the young pup at REI says, "I don't use them, but you might like them." Me: "Why don't you use them?" YP: "Because I'm young and strong." Me: [resisting the urge to whack him with the pole I'm holding in my hand] "Well, anyway, tell me about these."
Young and strong but obviously dumb as goose grease. You showed great restraint in not smiting the young whippersnapper with your cane.
I considered it. But being dumb is neither a crime nor inevitable, nor, I hope, a lifelong sentence. I bought the poles he advised, and like them very much,
