January 23, 2006

Here’s Looking at You Kid

Filed under: Almanac - Ric @ 8:17 am

It’s the birthday of actor Humphrey Bogart, born in New York City (1899). He was expelled from Massachusetts’ Phillips Academy and immediately joined the Navy to fight in World War I serving as a ship’s gunner. One day, while roughhousing on the ship’s wooden stairway, he tripped and fell, and a splinter became lodged in his upper lip; the result was a scar as well as partial paralysis of the lip, resulting in the tight-set mouth and lisp that became one of his most distinctive onscreen qualities.

From the Writer’s Almanac by Garrison Keillor
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To Sleep Perchance?

Filed under: Reflections - Ric @ 1:00 am

Hotel beds are never as comfortable as your bed at home. Sure they’re often bigger, and at the more fashionable establishments, there are usually not a compliment of canines attempting to crawl in with you, but something is missing.

…still awake and blogging…

It’s like the hotel room is too perfect in a way your own home would never be. Too clean, too pressed, too “spit and polish” minus the spit of course. Home is warm, fitted and comfortable. Home is where I can fall asleep peacefully on the sofa or curl up into my warm comfortable bed and find rest, even though the three canine amigos will no doubt be hogging the covers.

Guess that explains why I’m still awake and blogging… Hotels are a lot of things, but they’re not a place where I sleep well.

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