The Seven Deadly Sins: Sin #7 LUST

1) My wife and I have always been, and continue to be, faithful to one another, although we do have what we term the "Jude Law Rule," by which either of us is free to stray from our marriage vow -- but only with the aforementioned Mr. Law!

Ah, frailty thy name is...yeah, like that's gonna happen for either of us! ;)

2) What does it say about a man when he doesn't have a single model from this century in his choices in Sports Illustrated's Greatest Bracket Ever?

The Seven Deadly Sins: Sin #6 GLUTTONY

Two words: Cinnamon Rolls




Two more words and a sound: Fried Dough (Yumm!)

Seven Deadly Sins: Sin #5 SLOTH

Our Christmas tree came down TODAY!!!!

The Seven Deadly Sins: Sin #4: ANGER

Top three angry titles:

3) 12 Angry Men

2) Look Back in Anger

1) Hedwig and the Angry Inch



And, now, a poem by Emily Dickinson:

Mine enemy is growing old, —
I have at last revenge.
The palate of the hate departs;
If any would avenge,—

Let him be quick, the viand flits,
It is a faded meat.
Anger as soon as fed is dead;
'Tis starving makes it fat.

The Seven Deadly Sins: Sin #3 GREED

It's only money
It's only dough
and the people who crave it
and worship and save it
all come to know
You can't take it with you when you go!

from Double Dynamite (a.k.a, It's Only Money)
satrring Frank Sinatra, Jane Russell, and Groucho Marx

The Seven Deadly Sins: Sin #2 ENVY

People of whom I'm jealous (or the "what's [s]he got that I don't" whine) -- in no particular order (and certainly no particular objectivity either).

Tony Kornheiser
(even after being suspended by ESPN for making fun of Hannah Storm's clothes)

Neil Sedaka, singer/songwriter
(although he's not had a hit since the mid '70s, he did pen "Happy Birthday, Sweet Sixteen")

Gina Barreca, Professor-cum-stand-up-comedian

Gig Young and/or Hector Elizondo, actors
(if you saw 'em you'd recognize 'em)

Gilbert Murray, classicist
(a fine, fine translator but, more importantly, the author of Poets in a Landscape)

ANYBODY who can tap dance

The Seven Deadly Sins: Sin #1 PRIDE

Take a listen to this Nick Lowe song, "I Trained Her To Love Me," be aghast at the dismissive (to put it politely) attitude of the song's persona, and wonder if, in fact, he will "wind up one lonely twisted old man."

Pride goeth before the fall.

Another fine song about sin...

...Eartha Kitt's "I Want to be Evil" (1962)!

I want to wake up in the morning with that
dark brown taste
I want to see some dissipation in my face

I promised in my response to a comment from a recent post that I'd do a series on the SEVEN DEADLY SINS!

To get that underway, here's a clip from the 1986 musical film, Absolute Beginners.

The song is "That's Motivation," the singer David Bowie. (If you want to cut right to the song, start at about the 1:30 mark.)

Take special notice of the aforesaid sins, but please don't neglect Mr. Bowie's tap dancing or the hommage to the "Come Fly With Me" Sinatra.