In the early These Times, when I'd fled MSNBC for CNN (stop laughing), I saw an interview with one of the families that had volunteered their early elementary-grade 2 kids for the trials, and everyone was beaming and the kids were so proud...
Almost vomited on my nice carpet. It was sort of like that anecdote my mother told me lo these very many decades ago, when she was in the theater watching "On the Beach" while she was pregnant with me, and the scene came on where the young mother gave her baby the bottle laced with a lethal dose of sleeping pills, and my mom had to run from her seat and throw up. (One of the few times she showed the appropriate maternal instincts, by the way...).
And funny thing. I've only ever seen that film on TV. They censor that scene....
I thought of "On the Beach" when I was in Melbourne's city centre during the first lockdown. The empty, desolate streets reminded me of the last moments of the movie after everyone who lined up outside the old Queen Victoria Hospital (now demolished) in Lonsdale Street to get their suicide pills had gone home to die. No dance number from Fred Astaire in that movie.
In the early These Times, when I'd fled MSNBC for CNN (stop laughing), I saw an interview with one of the families that had volunteered their early elementary-grade 2 kids for the trials, and everyone was beaming and the kids were so proud...
Almost vomited on my nice carpet. It was sort of like that anecdote my mother told me lo these very many decades ago, when she was in the theater watching "On the Beach" while she was pregnant with me, and the scene came on where the young mother gave her baby the bottle laced with a lethal dose of sleeping pills, and my mom had to run from her seat and throw up. (One of the few times she showed the appropriate maternal instincts, by the way...).
And funny thing. I've only ever seen that film on TV. They censor that scene....
I thought of "On the Beach" when I was in Melbourne's city centre during the first lockdown. The empty, desolate streets reminded me of the last moments of the movie after everyone who lined up outside the old Queen Victoria Hospital (now demolished) in Lonsdale Street to get their suicide pills had gone home to die. No dance number from Fred Astaire in that movie.
Geez I keep lying. Mom wasn't pregnant then...
You’re funny
I always hope to express myself memorably.
Ok I had a hard time not laughing re CNN. Just admitting it.
On mom, wow. 😢