13 Thursday: The Leopard Skin Pillbox Hat
1. Well, you must tell me, baby … How your head feels under somethin’ like that … Under your brand new leopard-skin pill-box hat … Well, you look so pretty in it … Honey, can I jump on it sometime? … Yes, I just wanna see … If it’s really that expensive kind … You know it balances on your head … Just like a mattress balances … On a bottle of wine … Your brand new leopard-skin pill-box hat … ~ Bob Dylan
2. Sometimes when I’m out shopping I have a terrible feeling that one of Oprah’s makeover artists is going to come up and bust me for needing a new updated look.
3. Well it’s not really a pillbox and it’s not really mine, but I tried it on just for Deana.
4. When my scale tips towards 120 I jump up and down, not for joy but because I need to burn some calories.
5. Said to Joe while watching a PBS show on the history of the Rolling Stone Magazine: “I like to watch music specials of the Woodstock generation like my father watched WWII war shows.”
6. Also said to Joe, hanging up the phone after getting our credit card company to remove a 4 day past due $30 late fee with me complaining loudly in the background: “I guess I’m the bad cop and you’re the good one.”
7. A few nights after the Rolling Stone show, I died and went to heaven watching another PBS special. This one was Eric’s Clapton’s Crossroads Guitar Festival with a line-up that included Jeff Beck, Robert Cray, BB King, John Meyer, Steve Winwood, Willie Nelson, Robby Robinson, and more. Even Bill Murray got in the act, opening the show singing Van Morrison’s Gloria. Have you contributed to your PBS Station lately?
8. “Hey, I just made an elf out of myself,” my sister Tricia wrote to the Love Link, our family email group. The subject line read “Here’s some non-stop belly laughs for you!” She was right. After watching HERS, we all made OUR OWN and spent hours emailing them back and forth.
9. After not knowing who Doris Lessing was when I drew her name playing “Celebrity” on Thanksgiving, I looked her up and enjoyed learning about her. She, a recent Nobel Prize winner in literature, doesn’t like to be labeled. She has been called a social activist, but what she says about that is this: “movements get taken over by hysterics.”
10. About religion she has said, “I’m so afraid of religion: its capacity for murder is terrifying.”
11. Some near life size views of downtown Floyd via Gary Boyd are HERE.
12. A Woman’s Lit Zine Online: I’m thrilled to be published in Della Donna’s December issue. Check it out HERE. My contribution is HERE.
13. Chunky, clunky, and funky: That’s how I recently described Josh’s old Isuzu truck, which I was forced to drive when he took Joe’s truck back to Asheville in order to transport the log splitter and then Joe went out of town with my car. The description came when Joe called to ask if I made it home alright. It has over 200,000 miles, no power steering and is just plain JUNKY! But it runs.
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November 29th, 2007 12:59 am
I love Doris Lessing! 🙂 But I was an English major… so I have an advantage on you there… 🙂
November 29th, 2007 1:13 am
I like the Rolling Stones too, Mike Jagger has the same age as I, but I think it’s time now to retire now and not singing life anymore. Compared to what I have seen 40 years ago, they now look ridiculous to me, lol !
November 29th, 2007 2:21 am
I had heard that Doris Lessing quote before but I had no idea who said it. Thanks for identifying it.
November 29th, 2007 4:51 am
Do you happen to have a thing for hats per chance? I like this one. Suits you. And judging by the smile on your face, you like it too. A match made in heaven? 🙂 I’ll be doing my thirteen soon too. Will give you a shout when it’s up.
November 29th, 2007 9:05 am
Fabulous hat!
I don’t suit them myself. Eric Clapton is one of my all time favs!
Happy T13!
November 29th, 2007 9:06 am
I like hats and buy them but then don’t end up wearing them because in reality I like the IDEA of hats but don’t like anything on my head. My favorite hat is the one I’m wearing on my sidebar. I have two. A girlfriend brought them to me from Chili.
November 29th, 2007 9:17 am
i saw advertisements for that rolling stone special while i was at my parents. we don’t have TV (well, we have one, but no cable or satellite, so no stations). i wish you could just buy a package with 5 stations you want, b/c that’s probably all i’d watch… with PBS being one of them.
and regarding the quote about religion… i think i would word it the ‘misuse’ of religion. some of the greatest people of our time that have changed the world for the better, did it because of their religion, like mother teresa, and william wilberforce, who almost single-handedly abolished slavery in britian after becoming a christian. i just watched ‘amazing grace’, the movie about him, and was incredibly moved. that’s not even to mention, the people out there running soup kitchens, shelters, working in thirld world countries b/c they feel God has called them to help the needy….. there are millions of them out there that never get any recogniton, nor want recognition. i know many myself…..
November 29th, 2007 9:43 am
I used to have a small black and white TV and no roof antenna or hook up but I could still get a couple of channels.
I agree with what you said about religion, BMM, but do think it’s a double edged sword. I liked the quote because it was counter to what we normally think and reading it it made me think. Seems when we separate ourselves into nationalities and religions there is trouble, especially if we try to impose our ways on to others.
Sometimes groups are too much like cliques. I think we are born good and it’s in our nature to want to do good work (when we aren’t thwarted by early abuse) and we don’t really need religion to remind us of that but, on the other hand it does serve many people well.
November 29th, 2007 9:44 am
My car doesn’t have power steering, either. Parallel parking provides a great upper body workout as a result.
November 29th, 2007 10:43 am
Can I be 120? That would be nice…
Love the hat!
November 29th, 2007 10:52 am
Funny how all my life I’ve been wanting to lose five pounds but it’s always a different five pounds. When I was younger I was 110 and wanted to be 105. Then I was 115 and would die to be 110 again. Now I frequently hover near 120 and want to be 118. My standards have gotten lower…or is that higher?
I’m petite and 5 foot and a hairline. When I go over 120 I feel huge.
November 29th, 2007 11:06 am
All I have to say about this is 120 pounds? I’d love to weigh 120 pounds. You lucky gal. Great list. Have a wonderful TT. 🙂
November 29th, 2007 11:25 am
Gosh Colleen to me 120 sounds so small. 135 is my perfect weight but I’d love to be 125. I think at 120 I’d wear about a 2! You are petite!
You look hot in the hat! Really you do, did you buy it? I know it is soft but I love how it fits and I can just throw it on and go!
November 29th, 2007 11:27 am
As always a fascinating TT, Colleen…LOVE that Hat..especially the way you are wearing it, in that rather rakish manner. And it’s funny about hats, for me too…I lOVE the idea of them—well, some of them—-but I don’t like to wear anything on my head, either….Weird, huh? Doris Lessing….How Brilliant is she? Oh My!
About AWAY FROM HER…it is not really anything like IRIS….it is it’s own special story…beautifully told and BEAUTIFULLY Acted….worth seeing in every way.
November 29th, 2007 11:28 am
I didn’t buy it because I wasn’t sure I would really wear it. I just like the IDEA of it.
Deana, are you gonna post a photo of you wearing it?
I do want to see Away From Her, Naomi. I liked the movie Iris too. I often go for the bittersweet stuff.
November 29th, 2007 12:29 pm
Coll, I just love re-watching these little elf videos. Matthew & Patrick do too! We laugh and laugh and keep saying “play it again”! It was a good thing to post the week of Daddo’s anniversary. I think he would have gotten a real kick out of it don’t you?
November 29th, 2007 3:12 pm
happy tt!
-a
November 29th, 2007 4:27 pm
I just posted my 13!
November 29th, 2007 4:46 pm
I’m going to have to check out that Crossroads Guitar Festival! Sounds amazing 🙂
Thanks for sending me the heads up about the latest issue of Rolling Stone! What a picture!
I’m using my photoblog today for the T13 as my regular blog is not feeling well 🙁
November 29th, 2007 7:47 pm
Howdy,
My First Wife and I watch Eric Clapton and others on PBS just last night. Same show as you, I guess. It was mighty good. Indeed!
Oh, that Leopard-skin hat would look really good on My Hats Blog. Whatcha think? Take a look.
http://peoplewhowearhats.blogspot.com
November 29th, 2007 7:51 pm
Howdy!
My First Wife and I watched Eric Clapton, et al just last night on PBS. Same show as yours. It was good. I liked the Cheryl Crow part, too. Even Vince Gill did a good job.
And your hat! Your delightful leopard skin hat will go great on my Hats blog. Whatcha think? Wanna send me a picture sans the $13 balloon?
Looks like all is well with you.
November 29th, 2007 8:27 pm
I am a huge Dylan fan. Growing up in Vermont, I had a beat nik for a mom. I was exposed to the most amazing literature and music right from the womb. When I was about 9 I wanted a Monkeys album really badly for Christmas. Well, Santa brought me Bob Dylans Bringing It All Back Home. I still have it! Thank God I never got the Monkeys. (there is no telling how I would have turned ou!) Love the hat but I too can’t quite pull them off.
November 29th, 2007 8:33 pm
I’m only trying it on!
Okay, here’s a good Dylan story. I was trying to turn my young son on to the icon Bob Dylan, explaining how great his music was etc. He was about to be on a TV show, can’t remember the circumstances, but it was during the period when he was singing awful and he came on and we couldn’t make out a word. He garbled through a song and Josh looked at me like I hat two leopard skin pill box hats on my head upside down. At one point I thought maybe Dylan was singing bad just to fool with us. You know like bad is good.
Let me know if you get a blog, Sue, so I can come over and talk to you.
November 29th, 2007 8:35 pm
That hat looks like a lot of fun. Hello, Michele sent me….but I would have come anyway. I hope that you visit my Thirteen…I always enjoy your visit. You are one of the most interesting people that I know online. 🙂
November 29th, 2007 9:47 pm
1. Where DO you get these props?!
4. Had me laughing
5. I know what you mean…I was watching an ‘American Experience’ on the Summer of Love a few months back and felt really weird that my youth was now being looked at as history. I did see some of the Rolling Stone program, but had to leave before very far into it…I can’t remember why, just that I was upset that I had to go and that I didn’t have a way to record it.
12. Congrats on your inclusion in Della Donna’s.
November 29th, 2007 11:10 pm
Thanks, June!
The leopard skin pillbox hat was mentioned before. Ever since I heard Bob Dylan sing that song (which I love) I have fantasized having one for fun. Deana has one and we have talked about it. She told me there were some in Targets, so when I was in there I tried one one, snapped this photo, took it home and printed it out, stuck the 13 on it, and then scanned it back in the computer. I know there must be an easier way, but I don’t know what it is.
November 30th, 2007 4:16 pm
I’m loving the hat! Gotta go get my elf on now.
November 30th, 2007 5:07 pm
Thanks for explaining…I was starting to imagine you having this one secret closet with all of your props falling out when you opened the door! As for how to work the photo into your blog, I don’t have any easier way to share with you.
November 30th, 2007 6:59 pm
I liked reading about Doris.
I seem to admire people named Doris actually.
And the quote you highlighted was the one that made me sit up and focus.
~S
December 1st, 2007 9:29 am
The hat is fun(ky) key.
“movements get taken over by hysterics.” is exactly what I was groping towards in trying to talk level in Vanana Shiva post. She’s level and solid. Emotionalism thrown wild with names is what others are doing.
December 1st, 2007 2:15 pm
I wonder if Oprah’s gang hangs out at 2nd hand stores?!!!
I thought that said, “Women’s Zit Line”!!!
(Darn CFS!)
December 1st, 2007 3:26 pm
Regarding number 7 – yes ma’am. Gladly and often. I saw that show, too, and didn’t die, but surely went to heaven.
December 5th, 2007 1:27 pm
Love that song, and the pic is great! 🙂
December 7th, 2007 5:17 pm
Hey, I saw the Crossroads Festival, IT was amazing. Sorry I stop by so infrequently. I will start doing better, I promise.
Hope you are well.