Elephants and Elizabeth Taylor

Elephants are such fascinating creatures, don't you think?  They have so many traits humans find endearing, but I'm not going to go and wax rhapsodic trying to anthropomorphize them.  I saw this article today on Neatorama, a site I like very much, about elephants coming close to man in order to get fresh mangoes.  I love mangoes, I can certainly understand why they want them!  It immediately brought to mind the movie "Elephant Walk" with Elizabeth Taylor.  I watched it once, but didn't really follow the story until the end.  I loved the movie even though I didn't get it.  I was too young, I think.  Now I want to watch it again, and try to pick up the plot a bit more. 

Another Elizabeth Taylor movie I love is "Suddenly Last Summer."   Tennessee Williams is BRILLIANT, (Remember "A Streetcar Named Desire?")  But "Suddenly Last Summer" is SO over the top Gothic, haunting with an appalling yet can't-look-away ending.  Of course "Streetcar" is haunting as well.  Tennessee Williams had a lot of issues, I think, and created very compelling images as a result.  He should really be on my interests list.

Some recommended movies here, and some rambling. 

As usual with my journal, you get a cornucopia of haphazard, arbitrary and bewildering fascination.

Posty McPosterson

Our dasdardly governor says that West Virginia has no worries when it comes to the financial downturn.  We'll make it just fine!!

Sure we will.  When such a large percentage of your citizens live below the poverty line, how can a few dollars less make or break us?  Depression? Poverty?  Bring it on!  Don't use MY tax dollars to bail out a bunch of idiots who sit there and cry over their own poor judgement. 
A state job is fairly secure.  The state will operate long after other things close down.  And if it closes down, and I lose my job?  I have skills and parents to fall back on.  We can scrimp, because we're scrimping now.  We can plow up the back yard and grow food.  We can DO IT.

So there.