Yes, my daughter has hooked me on the show "Project Runway". I wish I could think of one redeeming feature for this "reality" show, but I can't. But I like it. I'm not that interested in fashion, and the runway models are all painfully thin; I just like the personalities, and the conflicts. I can see the tension rising, week by week, and even though I know it is heavily edited to define each participant by their worst emotions, I enjoy watching it. It will be one of those guilty pleasures, like the Star Magazine.
He said:
Wallace Stevens
Table Talk
Granted, we die for good.
Life, then, is largely a thing
Of happens to like, not should.
And that, too, granted, why
Do I happen to like red bush,
Gray grass and green-gray sky?
What else remains? But red,
Gray, green, why those of all?
That is not what I said:
Not those of all. But those.
One likes what one happens to like.
One likes the way red grows.
It cannot matter at all.
Happens to like is one
Of the ways things happen to fall.
She said:
Dorothy Parker
From Sunset Gun
The Searched Soul
When I consider, pro and con,
What things my love is built upon-
A curly mouth; a sinewed wrist;
A questioning brow;
a pretty twist
Of words as old and tried as sin;
A pointed ear; a cloven chin;
Long, tapered limbs; and slanted eyes
Not cold nor kind nor darkly wise-
When so I ponder, here apart,
What shallow boons suffice my heart,
What dust-bound trivia capture me,
I marvel at my normalcy.
