Well, dear readers, I feel there’s a little yin and yang thing going on today. I don’t know what that means, but I like the sound of it, don’t you? Yin and Yang – that sounds like a Chinese comedy team, doesn’t it? Wait a minute. Well, what do you know about that? I did a little search and Yin and Yang were indeed a Chinese comedy team who performed in China of all places. I found one of their routines.
Yin: Say, do you have any wontons?
Yang: Do you have any wontons?
Yin: Say, now that’s what I’m askin’.
Yang: Now that’s what I’m askin’.
Yin: What?
Yang: What?
Yin: Do you have any wontons?
Yang: Yes, I have no wontons.
Yin: Do you have any spare ribs?
Yang: No, I’m using all of them.
Yin: How about some aromatic shrimp?
Yang: Nah, they stink.
Yin: Do you have any Egg Foo Yung?
Yang: No, all my egg foo is old.
Yin: Well then, how about some moo goo gai pan.
Yang: I only play Pai Gow and gin rummy.
Yin: All right, what do you recommend?
Yang: I recommend the fortune cookie.
Yin: Fine, I’ll have the fortune cookie.
Yang: Sorry, you’re out of luck. I have your fortune right here and it says “Lookie, no cookie.”
Yin: Just give me some moo shoo, will ya?
Yang: We’re out of moo shoo – we have tennis shoo.
Yin: You’re nuts.
Yang: What about them?
Yin: I’m going down the street and having a poo poo platter.
Yang: You can use our bathroom if you like.
Yin: That’s disgusting. You must have Peking Duck.
Yang: Yes, Peking Duck shares the bill with Shanghai Mouse and Hong Kong Pluto.
I hear there are some rare videos that occasionally pop up on eBay and I hope to snag one of them, because these guys are a caution. You know, if anyone has a clew as to what the HELL I’m talking about, please enlighten everyone. Yesterday, I had a perfectly pleasant day – I had lunch with our very own Miss Adriana Patti. We went to Astro Burger and had bacon burgers and zucchini fries. Afterward, we went to Farmer’s Market and had soft vanilla ice cream cones (tiny, they were). After that, I took her on a mini-Kritzer tour. I then came home and got some good writing done on The Brain, and I finished the new replacement song, which I’ll now have to have transferred to sheet music so elmore can add it to his pile o’ stuff to orchestrate.
Last night, I watched two count them two motion pictures on DVD. The first motion picture on DVD was entitled Shock, one of the Fox Noirs coming out shortly. Shock stars Vincent Price and Lynn Bari. It’s a very short film (72 minutes), but even at that length it overstays its welcome. There are some very good sequences, though, and the film is well directed by Alfred Werker. I then watched the second motion picture on DVD, which was entitled Soldier of Fortune, starring dashing Clark Gable, sultry Susan Hayward, and urbane Michael Rennie. It’s an enjoyable little potboiler with a great score by the great Hugo Friedhofer. The transfer on Shock is excellent, and the transfer on Soldier of Fortune is better – great color, full Cinemascope, and sharp as a tack.
Well, why don’t we all click on the Unseemly Button below whilst I check out some more routines by Yin and Yang.
Yin and Yang – they crack me up. They do a whole routine about a Chinese laundry that had me on the floor.
Today shall be a very busy day, mostly writing and trying to complete The Brain pages that I’m doing so that I can then begin entering corrections on the short stories. I think I may have something else to do, but I can’t remember what it is. Hopefully, if I do have something else to do, someone will call and remind me what it is.
Well, dear readers, I must take the day, I must do the things I do, I must, for example, jog, write, rewrite, enter fixes, and eat something yummilicious. Today’s topic of discussion: What philosophers and philosophies are you especially taken with and why? Let’s have loads of lovely postings, shall we? In the meantime, I’ve just bid on a DVD with the classic routines of Yin and Yang, taken from an old Chinese kinescope from 1954.