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Truly Useless Observances for June 2026

Tuesday, June 9, 2009

#Underheard: Blog Of Conscience And Sour Melancholy

From the desk of Broderick Mitchell --

Item! I was a sucker for big action and adventure in the 80s (believe it or not), and so I found the news that there might be a big boss decided upon for the impending A-Team movie very exciting. According to Variety, Liam Nielsen (Schindler’s List) is rumoured to portray the cantankerous Hannibal, a role originally made famous by actor George Peppard. The other key players (Face, Murdock, and Mr. T) have not been settled yet but that’s fine by me – they always confused me. Face was too perfect for hanging out with the others, and you knew Mr. T would always get angry, turn green, and take out a tank or two. Murdock was all over the place. In my book, Hannibal was the captain who made it happen, always on the jazz, always with the right amount of gusto.

I was thumbing a book about evil things and came across the famous woodcut of Albrecht Dürer and his take on the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse. I watched horse racing over the past few weeks, and it made me wonder if any evil horses participated in past Preakness Stakes. (I’ve read Damrosch was known to nudge children into feeder troughs).

I’ve got a niece who crochets oven mitts and Dalcy and I received one in the mail last week or so. My wife likes stuff like this and immediately hung the thing on the wall above the oven. What good is it going to be there, I protested? Isn’t the mitt supposed to be used with the oven and not as a silly decoration? I suppose it will soon fall behind the stove like everything else.

Stay good!

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