Bad News From Outer Space!
possibly the most perfect line ever spoken in a film? i think so. what could be worse than bad news. and from outer space!!
it's from moonraker. you know, that film about space gardeners. trying to even out the moon craters with their giant space rake. in this film, roger moore plays the giant space rake. he is, by all accounts, some sort of garden tool.
what can i say, sometimes you have to call a spade a spade.
but i digress. why am i talking about bad news from outer space? because that is what i got today. no, nothing about the space shuttle. they did their whole zero-g hokey pokey with no difficulties. i got bad news from siam, which is like outer space. and by bad news i mean perhaps the worst metaphor i have ever read.
goatbelly writes that he's reading a noir thriller set in bangkok, called The Big Weird in which, natch, Bangkok is the big weird. it contains this sentence which was emailed to me with much shock and horror:
The Big Weird was the black hole which swallowed moral judgements like light going down the deep throat of a black hole, one with solar system sized earrings and a laughter of cosmic wind that mixed snow and ice into a wall with no address.
may god have mercy on our souls.
i have never been clear on how exactly to use the word "natch" in a sentence but you have given an excellent example. how does one pronounce this word? does it rhyme with "snatch"?
curious,
miss nelson
yup!
i picked it up from an old movie, "The Lost Weekend," which is a melodramtic (and Oscar winning) story of a drunk. it's short for naturally. the saucy friend says it and i thought it was hysterical.
the word. not the movie.
The author's name is Christopher G. Moore if you're interested in avoiding or laughing at any of his work.
Pure hilarity.