Morning Love " 'Tis the season" edition

"Hyde, is that a keg?" "Yeah, well you know, 'tis the season to get sloppy." - "That 70's Show", "Hyde's Christmas Rager" episode Good Morning, my lovelies, I hope all is well and your holiday shopping is going swimmingly. We here at the "House of Love" are feeling the holiday spirit, even here in good old California. It may not be a white Christmas, but we're still going to indulge in some Egg Nog this year. J We've missed you, my lovelies. Without further ado, let's begin… MORNING QUOTES: "Ah, Sylvia Plath, interesting poetess, whose tragic suicide was misinterpreted as romantic by the college girl mentality." - "Annie Hall" (1977) MORE READING MATERIAL FOR YA'/ "A Single Man": "You a single man? Got some little cheerleader waiting for you back home at Hollywood High?" "Well, no," I said. I didn't feel like explaining my own girlfriend problems, not to him. It was only quite recently that I managed to extricate myself from a long, claustrophobic relationship with a girl in California whom we will call Kathy. I met her my first year of college, and was initially attracted to her because she seemed like an intelligent, brooding malcontent like myself; but after about a month, during which time she'd firmly glued herself to me, I began to realize, with some little horror, that she was nothing more than a low-brow, pop-psychology version of Sylvia Plath. It lasted forever, like some weepy and endless made-for-TV movie---all the clinging, all the complaints, all the parking lot confessions of "inadequacy" and poor "self-image," all those banal sorrows. She was one of the main reasons I was so wary of the bright, apparently innocuous flock of new girls I had met my The thought of her had turned me somber. Bunny leaned across the table. "Is it true," he said, "that the gals are prettier in California?" I started laughing, so hard I thought my drink was going to blow out of my nose. "Bathing beauties?" He winked. "Beach Blanket Bingo?" "You bet." More of "The Secret History" to come… BOOK-OF-THE-DAY: Artie Lange's "Too Fat to Fish" RANDOM MUSINGS: More to come, my lovelies. Today it is just a short and sweet treat. UNTIL NEXT TIME…