Now, while the iron is cold...

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Lee was late getting back to the house yesterday, so I ended up eating another salad sprinkled with veggies and artificial crab meat...I just seem to have lost any ambition in the cooking department over the past few days.

I got into the first few chapters of Robert B. Parker's new Spenser book, Potshot, while I was waiting for Lee to return. The story looks like it may turn into an interesting variation of The Seven Samurai, where Spenser goes and recruits the toughest hombres he's run across over the past dozen or so novels to help defend a small Arizona town against bandits.

On another level, what pleases me is how clean and direct Parker's writing is; it resembles a sequence of new variations on his well-established Spenserian themes. It reminds me, in fact, a little of Barber's Adagio for Strings in the way it keeps bobbing and weaving, and only slowly moving toward a climax.

When Lee returned, I put aside the book and we went shopping, both for us and for Sasha.

Lee is taken with the idea of buying organic dog food, if for no other reason than to avoid the kind of stuff that sometimes makes it, according to a recent report on TV, into "ordinary" dog food (you don't want to know the details). Given that state of affairs, I can only support her effort to find and feed her dog only good, wholesome food.

We returned home and put The Legend of Bagger Vance on the VCR. Lee had been afraid that this would be a "golf" movie, but to think of this film like that overlooks the big picture. In the final analysis, Lee enjoyed the movie, and so did I, especially as I was extending Bagger's advice past golf to all manner of human action, including interpretation and writing.

Cheers...

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dog food nightmares

[tsarina.livejournal.com]

Used to work in a creepy little pet store run by a family. It was not a fun job, mostly because of the monkey, the rats and the dog food. I would highly recommend purchasing organic dog food after that experience. Yuck.