Obscure Tuesday!!!!

"But all you have to do is knock on any door and say, "If you let me in, I'll live the way you want me to live, and I'll think the way you want me to think," and all the blinds'll go up and all the windows will open, and you'll never be lonely, ever again. If that's the case, I'll change the plea - that is, if you know the law's right and you're wrong."-Spencer Tracy 


Well, I'm not really in a chatty mood tonight because I'm not feeling too well. Consequently, I'm going to get to business...


Movie of the Week


Inherit the wind...


Probably one of my all time fav films. Really fantastic actors such as Gene Kelley, the 1st Darren from Bewitched, and my all time fav actor Spencer Tracy...
Inherit the Wind is a story about a teacher B.T. Cates who is arrested for teaching Darwin's theories. Famous lawyer Henry Drummond defends him; fundamentalist politician Matthew Brady prosecutes. It's a very thinly disguised rendition of the 1925 "Scopes monkey trial" with debates between Clarence Darrow and William Jennings Bryan taken largely from the transcripts. 


Now some will say that this movie is against religion but I absolutely love the dialogue. Personally, I've never understood how anyone could really say they believe something when they have no idea what the other side is. 











For the poem of the week, may I suggest some Walt Whitman classics and some of my personal favorites. Read them for no other reason than the fact that they are the poems in the Levi commercials. 


Lastly, I'm introducing a woman you should know feature. These are women that I think history has mostly forgotten but were pretty awesome. They went against the times and were originals. I can't imagine anything better. This week's is my favorite conservative woman, Alice Roosevelt. 

During the time of her Father Teddy Roosevelt's Presidency, she smoked cigarettes in public, rode in cars with men, stayed out late partying, kept a pet snake named Emily Spinach ) in the White House, and was seen placing bets with a bookie. Her father once said, "I can either run the country or I can attend to Alice, but I cannot do both." She was an admitted hedonist and warmonger who I just get a kick out of. Click on her name to read the full wiki bio.