"We'll be DANCIN' in the pale moonLIGHT!/ HOT DAMN! I had a good time TONIGHT!" Some band sang that hook in a bar on Ludlow St twenty years ago. We got up to dance, but were asked to sit down as they 'didn't have a dancing license'. Memories eh.
@vonHatti Thanks! Yeah, I'll put it on my Substack when I get to it. Do sign up! Am putting some fun stuff on there, songs etc. https://t.co/FyVP4DQkpj
@vonHatti Lots of good jokes in it! I have a project to do a side-by-side of it with the actual Russian history. For kids. Just need a publisher and someone who knows Russia like I know kids/funny
Sinatra was ‘the most profoundly lonely person I’ve ever met’ says a recent bio. Only child of a midwife mum and fireman dad, so a v solitary childhood. At bedtime he would say, ‘I’m going to put it in the bag’. He always had a ‘night lunch’ on his bedside.
'Twas Wordsworth who wrote, 'The world is too much with us', although if he'd had to carry around a tiny technicolour talking window into the ever-unfolding hijinks of everyone living, he might have been like #phoneburnout#digitaldetox#offlinelove
I was explaining to my Ukrainian colleague the phrase ‘There’s no such thing as a free lunch’. She told me the equivalent in Ukrainian is ‘The only free cheese is in the mousetrap’ - which is so much better