Oh well, it’s probably better than what I was going to write about, a couple of irritating drivers I found myself behind yesterday. After the jump, a 25-question survey. Enquiring minds want to know!

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I hadn’t been in a courthouse since I was in college, fighting a parking ticket. I emailed a lawyer friend, asking if I needed to wear a suit, because I really didn’t have a clue. (His answer, should you be interested, was that anything was fine as long as it didn’t disrespect the court. He then related the story of an idiot who wore a “fuck you” t-shirt to a municipal court date and received 30 days for a traffic offense. It is not wise to trifle with a judge.)

So there I was in divorce court. It was interesting what an assembly-line procedure it was. All the cases were with the same lawyer, to speed things up, I’m sure. The first couple cases involved other lawyers and were basically a matter of setting a later date with the judge for what I guess would be more of a trial. Then the routine cases started up, 20 or 30 of them. The lawyer had advised me when I checked in with him that I was next to last.

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I’ve got a post with pictures from a really fun show I saw last Sunday (Les Marteaux Pikettes, Joey Skidmore Band, Les Fossoyeurs @ Fred P. Ott’s), but just can’t get time or energy to write it. So instead, here’s another meme. Feel free to play along!

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Tomorrow is the second in the series The Sounds of Silents at the downtown KCMO library. This month’s selection is a 1925 documentary called Grass: A Nation’s Struggle For Life. The local public radio station, KCUR, ran a story on it as part of its Friday arts coverage this morning. Since Jeffrey and I did minor edits to the movie for the DVD to be shown, I can tell you it’s an amazing piece. The movie was made by the guys who later did the original King Kong, and tells the story of the migration of 25,000 people and half a million animals across rivers and mountains in search of (literal) greener pastures, in what is now Iran. There are many unforgettable scenes. I know the sight of nomads hacking a narrow path up a mountain through knee-deep snow in their bare feet (their crude shoes were too slippery), the thin line of thousands of people and hundreds of thousands of goats and sheep winding for miles behind them, will stay with me a long time.

I haven’t heard the music yet, of course, since Jeffrey needed the DVD to compose to, but last month’s installment was wonderful and well-played. Really, if you’re looking for something to do Saturday afternoon, this is pretty hard to beat: 3:30 pm, at the beautiful downtown library, 14 W. 10th Street. Admission is free, and they even provide snacks! The movie is about an hour long. They do recommend reservations—call 816.701.3407.

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In honor of National Poem In Your Pocket Day, here’s one of my favorites. By Robert Frost, if you’re not familiar with it.

Nothing Gold Can Stay

Nature’s first green is gold,
Her hardest hue to hold.
Her early leaf’s a flower;
But only so an hour.
Then leaf subsides to leaf.
So Eden fell to grief,
So dawn goes down to day.
Nothing gold can stay.

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Since this is from MySpace, probably so. Oh well, I’m tired but not ready to go to bed, so here goes.

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