dr. seuss day

I'm going to E1's class later today to read stories for Dr. Seuss day. Sometimes his tongue twisting rhymes leave me just plain exhausted! But they are her very favorite.

The Dr. Seuss book I like best is "The 500 Hats of Bartholomew Cubbins," which is lesser-known. My favorite babysitter always brought it along when she came over and read it to us. I think my parents bought a copy too. I've never read it to my kids- I probably should.

A few years ago, we got the movie "The 5,000 Fingers of Dr T" from the library. That is a crazy movie! Almost the entire musical is this dream sequence of this boy who doesn't want to practice the piano. Dr. Seuss wrote the script and lyrics and the sets are all very Seuss-ian. I guess it was supposed to be the next "Wizard of Oz"- a child's dream world- but when they first screened it, it frightened the audiences too badly. They cut a bunch out and released it, but it still flopped. I've heard that now it has cult status some places- showing like "The Rocky Horror Picture Show." It is worth a look-see.

romance!

Wow- yesterday I watched part of "North and South" a BBC period drama, not the civil war movie, based on the Elizabeth Gaskell novel, while folding laundry. It is like "Pride and Prejudice" set in the industrial revolution- only bleak instead of witty? So very, very romantic! And if that wasn't enough, I was half-way through reading P&P and squeezed in another chapter before bed. Is it possible to overdose on period romance?

R saw all this and commented,"Uh oh. Your in one of those moods. I'm not being romantic enough for you I guess?"

"That's okay- your busy and tired." I replied. "Mr. Darcy's got you covered."