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• 21:54 @Bookwormsarah A good point. And I do have a very nice evening dress which needs to be worn... #
• 22:10 Speaking to dad, back from rehearsal for Burns Night play. He gets increasingly Scots... Quite disconcerting. #
• 22:20 APs went to Caerlaverock, but failed to see the Cackling Goose. I think this sounds like something out of Harry Potter, but may be American. #
• 23:47 I don't like Dubya, but this strikes me as v bad form: tinyurl.com/8fzt5t #
• 00:16 @ParrotKnight My sentiments exactly! Something of a betrayal of hospitality, too. #
• 08:30 Listening to the Today programme, and thinking of my American friends. And praying for Obama - I suspect he'll need prayer! A big job ahead. #
• 08:38 Stefan Georg wasn't _that_ sinister, was he? (Was he?) #
• 08:42 & while Stauffenberg wasn't planning a democratic regime in Germany, _neither were the Allies_. We can't know what would have been. #
• 08:50 I must admit I was disappointed the first time I heard 'Hail to the Chief'; it seemed a bit - jaunty. #
• 09:01 Inaguration starts at 5 pm. Should I skip Mediaeval Church and Culture seminar? I probably need the time for proofreading, anyway (excuse!) #
• 09:07 @justinbrett You probably won't thank me, but: www.luminarium.org/sevenlit/herrick/vine.htm 'Creeper' rather than 'tentacle', tbh. #
• 09:56 @ParrotKnight Ah, right, thank you for the clarification (mistake to listen to Today when half asleep?) #
• 11:50 @justinbrett I have the horrible feeling that the only Great Poet of the era who wasn't dodgy was Herbert, but I'm now scared to look... #
• 11:55 Ooops. Have slightly missed a deadline for sending in an abstract. Bugger (but honestly, burying said deadline in a pdf is not helpful). #
• 15:12 @pellegrina I've always felt there's something vaguely sinister about Krispy Kreme donuts, but it's the spelling of 'cream' that worries me. #
• 15:32 Also forgot that I needed to find some bibliography on the Treasury of Grace. Clearly my day to be forgetful. #
• 15:34 M Coverdale rendering Jer 8.22: "There is no more treacle in Gilead" (a good thing; that sounds sticky!) #
• 16:03 Found it worryingly hard to get the telly to work! #
• 16:05 Chaotic publisher sends me another text for translation... Am starting to wonder if they really do have anyone else working on this project. #
• 16:14 *Searches franticly for photocopies among folders that turn out to contain information from DDO and D and D handbooks* Need filing cabinet. #
• 16:15 Gosh, Bush sen. looks _awful_. #
• 16:25 The band at the inauguration is playing the RVW English Folk Song Suite. Nothing wrong with that, of course, but disconcerting all the same. #
• 16:44 *is unexpectedly moved* #
• 16:55 Crumbs, that's an amazing hat Aretha Franklin is wearing. Also, I note that 'God Save the Queen' is a dreary tune whatever the words used! #
• 17:01 Oh, shut up and let us hear the music, Matt. We all know about Harrison and his pneumonia. #
• 17:06 Obama evidently very nervous! Which is really rather reassuring. Well, God bless America. #
• 17:14 ... any minute know he's going to mention the white heat of technology.
  
  Well, maybe not. #
• 17:29 Who commissioned the Vogon poetry? ... Though I don't think the way it's being read is helping it. #
• 18:08 *tries not to be too much of a supercilious arse in the faith of stupid misinformation about Anglicans on Little Details! #
• 18:29 That's not the Rising! #
• 18:54 @ParrotKnight Oh, they announced Springsteen's "Rising" to play the news out, but they actually played that awful 'My Country tis of thee'. #

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Comments

[straussmonster.livejournal.com]

Daddy Bush really didn't look good, no.

[tree_and_leaf]

No - not long for this world, one suspects. Which is a shame, as he's by far the most likable ex-President Bush.

[straussmonster.livejournal.com]

I am reasonably sure he's still surprised that it's W. and not Jeb who made it all the way.

[(Anonymous)]

According to Matt Towery, Jeb Bush is such an arrogant sod that he managed to antagonize every Republican in Florida. As soon as they could get rid of him, they elected Crist to be his exact opposite. George W, on the other hand, has only one gift, but it is an important one - he gets along with people.

Re: Stefan George

[straussmonster.livejournal.com]

Jeb was term-limited, so it's hard to say what would have been.

[parrot-knight.livejournal.com]

That would leave only three ex-presidents, one of whom would be the remarkably energetic octogenarian Jimmy Carter, and the others would be Bill Clinton and George W. Bush. I'm not sure what I learn from this, other than it seemed worth noting.