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Now Is The Winter of Our Discontent

February 9th, 2009 by cooper

Like Richard, we attempt to bring on our own sum­mer through the mani­pu­la­tion and treachery of Valentine’s Day.

I don’t think much of Valentine’s Day as a rule, a fee­ling I expres­sed in my Inau­gu­ral Valentine’s day blog post. As little atten­tion as I pay to the day I will admit to accep­ting Valentine’s gifts not only from boy­friends, but from rela­ti­ves, friends and even com­pa­ra­tive stran­gers, as it’s rude to refuse a gift if it comes with good inten­tions and no expec­ta­tions. Does that make me a hypocrite?

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I was con­si­de­ring pos­ting, for the week of Valentine’s Day, about things I love. Not in a roman­tic way, in a gene­ral way. Then I thought “eck”, that could get pretty nau­sea­ting. I could post only about things I love to hate, defi­ni­tely an easier task, but one that I fear would leave a por­trait of hardhear­ted­ness ever­las­ting. To that end I’m back to a week of pos­ting about things I love, in a gene­ral way.

The rules are sim­ple, though I will post about anything which comes up, it will be in a loving way. For ins­tance I might say “I love the shade of yellow Anne Coul­ter chose for her hair this week”, but only of course if I really love it. ;)

For today, thanks to sk, I love this little piece I dis­co­ve­red at The Lit­ter Box.

Peter Sellers doing his Beat­les’ “A hard day’s night” ver­sion of Lau­rence Olivier’s ver­sion of this piece of Richard III.

I loved the ori­gi­nal Pink Panther. I admit I’ve only seen Sellers on a cou­ple of other movies, but in that limi­ted reper­toire he appea­red to be a vir­tuoso of his craft.

Tit­led cop­ped from Richard III
William Sha­kes­peare

peace

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15 Responses to “Now Is The Winter of Our Discontent”

  1. DougNo Gravatar says:

    Sin­ce­rity on Valentine’s Day? Is there no romance in you at all?

    Doug’s last blog post..Gout

    • cooperNo Gravatar says:

      Indeed, but it doesn’t come in a box of cho­co­la­tes or a shiny bau­ble.
      I pre­fer dark cho­co­late though, and you can get me a man made dia­mond just have it set in a pla­ti­num and desig­ned by someone besi­des J lo or Celine Dion.

  2. Very cool video to post. You simply have to see Peter Seller’s film “The Battle of the Sexes” (1959). One of my favo­rite films as a child was “The Mouse that Roared”.

    Happy Valentine’s Day in advance!

    indeterminacy’s last blog post..Inde­ter­mi­nacy #428

  3. gNo Gravatar says:

    Not my dis­con­tent, it’s been warm enough to surf. That video is pretty sweet. I’ve seen him the Pink Panther but that’s about it.

    I LOVE — THE WEATHER THIS WEEK.

    I love that the only Valen­tine I have to send this year is to my grandmother.

    g’s last blog post..Enough Said

  4. piaNo Gravatar says:

    Peter Sellers hey­day was the 50’s and 60’s and he wasn’t “cute” enough for me. Though I loved his movies and sense of humor – believe he was a fre­quent Car­son guest

    As “he’s just not into you” is coming out Fri­day, my friend and I deci­ded it would be a per­fect movie to see on Satur­day night

    pia’s last blog post..Thoughts while wal­king on the beach

  5. piaNo Gravatar says:

    Oh it’s very very rude to refuse a gift espe­cially on Valen­ti­nes Day as peo­ples inten­tions are gene­rally truly pure and loving

    But saying something nice about Ann Coul­ter? That my dear Coo­per is anti-American

    pia’s last blog post..Thoughts while wal­king on the beach

  6. johnNo Gravatar says:

    I love terms like” inau­gu­ral Valentine’s” blog post.
    Is Sellers dead?
    It’s dif­fi­cult to be good and funny, or funny and good, in that way.
    The clip was good, a whole week of love is going to be hard.

  7. ChrisNo Gravatar says:

    Sha­kes­peare? Am I seeing a little Sha­kes­peare on this site? Isn’t mani­pu­la­tion, treachery and mur­der (I think that’s what Richard did) a des­pa­rate way to bring about Valentine’s Day? I don’t see you as that des­pa­rate Coop :)

    Chris’s last blog post..Road Trip

    • cooperNo Gravatar says:

      What bet­ter place for the Bard.

      “Friends, Romans, country­men, lend me your ears; I come to bury Cae­sar, not to praise him”.

      Works well here.

  8. caseyNo Gravatar says:

    Now that was a video I’d never have seen if I hadn’t stop­ped here. I’d pro­bably know the words were Sha­kes­peare but I wouldn’t remem­ber the play.

    I know it’s a joke — the holi­day — like you said in that ori­gi­nal post, all the wife bea­ters buy their sig other flo­wers or candy, something more if they are rich wife bea­ters. it means nothing.

    So, what do you think I should get my gf for Valentine’s Day?

    casey’s last blog post..Death Penalty Reminder — Maryland