It's How You Split the Donut

[mrdreamjeans]

Snippets and dribbles ... earthy lines ... odd behaviors ... quotes that struck me as funny or true ... or both ...

Driving to work ... A guy in a grey pick-up truck comes up behind me and I'm doing 70mph. He comes up to within four feet of my bumper and hangs there. It's a two-lane road. I look in the rear-view mirror and can see a man with a full head of snowy white hair, a bushy white beard, glasses perched on the end of his nose, glaring over the steering wheel at me. I swear I was being tail-gated by Santa Claus. Santa had fallen on the naughty side of naughty or nice. Can you see the headline? Obscure Actor Rear-Ended by Santa! The same day he appeared at the local burger joint where I was eating lunch. He wouldn't look me in the eye. By the way, Santa likes onion rings with his burger.

I found gas at $2.76/gallon. Why am I so excited?

My friend Annie ... On being loved ... Love me just the way I am or you can shit in your hat and pull it down over your ears! Well, that's tellin' it like it is ...

A line from comedian Dwight Slade on Blue Collar Radio (referring to an admonishment from his grandpa) ...Stop that right now, or I'll slap you like a Sunday mornin' boner! Who knew Sunday was the special day?

Over the weekend, I bought DVDs for the first time in a couple of years. My purchases? Dream Girls, Diary of a Mad Blackwoman, Charlotte's Web, Rent and For Your Consideration. Musicals or comedies anyone? I can feel the eye-rolling now. That's so Neil. Well, yeah it is:)

designerotter posted that he adores Oriental rugs and was shopping for more. Having stayed at his comfortable condo last October, I can testify that he has many rugs and they are lovely... After reading his blog, this flipped into my brain ... a title ... "Joseph and the Cozy Carpeted Cave". Shall we write the tale? Illustrations by Joe?

A thought by Precious Ramotswe, a Botswanan woman of traditional build ... (I like this term, much nicer than having to repeat that you are just big-boned:) It's from the new book, "The Good Husband of Zebra Drive".

How a person divides a donut (is) a real test of integrity ... A good person would cut the donut in two equal pieces. A shifty, selfish person would divide it into two pieces, one would be bigger than the other and he would take that one for himself. She had seen that happen.

Hmmm ... Sharing a donut ... I may have shared once... mental-pause for fuzzy memory ... Nope... I ate the whole thing:) Precious, or her creator Alexander McCall-Smith, must not be familiar with Krispy Kremes! But it does bear asking the question ... How would you split the donut?

Comments

[huladavid.livejournal.com]

Have either you or designerotter heard of Mouse Rugs?

http://www.bitwisegifts.com/page/bg/CTGY/04000

If you hadn't, I thought you might be interested.

[mrdreamjeans.livejournal.com]

I haven't. Thanks for providing the link! You didn't answer though ... How would you split the donut? :)

[huladavid.livejournal.com]

You forget, I'm a well trained Minnesotan, so the scene would go something like this:

Me: Ufta. There's only one doughnut left.

Other Minnesotan: You go ahead and have it.

Me: Oh, no. You take it.

OM: Ohh, no. I couldn't. You take it.

(Repeat x n)

OM: You sure?

Me: Oh yah.

OM: Okay... Good doughnut.

(At this point the proper Minnesotan would develop a massive grudge, purse his lips, and not talk about it for about 15 years.)

[mrdreamjeans.livejournal.com]

You totally gave me a complete picture of such an exchange. *giggle*

[mrdreamjeans.livejournal.com]

I checked out the site. It's actually a fun idea ... But the whole thing is so uniquely odd that it feels a bit like a hoax. Is this company actually for real? *smile*

[huladavid.livejournal.com]

As far as I know it's legit. I've got one of the pads, but I picked it up in a store about 10 years ago when I was in Madison, Wisconsin.

[designerotter.livejournal.com]

Thanks for the tip, David ... I just went to the site and ordered a batch of mouse rugs - thank goodness they don't really make them out of mice :0) I've had one of these for years that I picked up here in Madison at the shop of the Elvejem Art Museum (now renamed the Chazen). But back then they only carried one or two patterns in the shop... now I've got lots to choose from !

[mrdreamjeans.livejournal.com]

Let me know if they work well, I'll have to order one:) It sounds like David and you picked one up at the same store a decade ago. Glad you got your yearning for rugs satisfied!

[designerotter.livejournal.com]

..who knows, this could be methadone for rug addicts like me ... it's certainly less costly than the full-scale counterparts !

Splitting the Donut

[kent4str.livejournal.com]

The way I was taught is that person A cuts and person B gets first choice. That way it's most likely to be fair.

But then, who'd cut a donut? Get your own!

Re: Splitting the Donut

[mrdreamjeans.livejournal.com]

Exactly ... When I read this my first thought was how wise ... second was, Cut the donut? What could she possibly be thinking? LOL!

[gayhawk.livejournal.com]

Split a donut?! NEVER - it's all mine!

Santa, huh? Maybe he wanted to give you a presetn early.

Are you sure you didn't play Tobias Beecher?!

[mrdreamjeans.livejournal.com]

LOL! Exactly! Spoken like an emotional eater from way back!!! (Though I'm being a bit duplicitous ... I don't like glazed donuts ....)



I like cake donuts with cimmamon sugar or FROSTING!!! hehehe ... *muttering to self* ... Whoever heard of splitting a donut! .......

[gayhawk.livejournal.com]

Emotional eater? ME?! Why, Sir, whatever do you mean!!!?

Order of preference -
1. Chocolate iced
2. Plain cake donut dunked in milk
3. Powdered sugar

Hope things are going well for your parents. Reread your bio recently and pray that you someday find someone who deserves the prince you are!

[mrdreamjeans.livejournal.com]

Ahh ...Many thanks ... The interviewing process is taking longer than I thought. I've been involved with some pretty terrific men who remain, along with my friend Casey, my closest friends. It will take a very special person to wake me from my relationship sleep.

I agree with your donut choices. I bet you'd share with me ... come to think of it, I put us both as men who would insist that someone else eat the whole donut, would put others' needs first.

The folks are doing well ... We're coming up on a year since my Dad's second stroke and 11 months since his heart attack. Fingers crossed.

HUGS!

[gayhawk.livejournal.com]

Your 2nd paragraph is so right on.

Prayers for nothing but goodness and positive energy for your dad, and you.

Speaking Of Glazed doughnuts

[huladavid.livejournal.com]

Back in '79 I was going to go to nursing school, and for some reason everyone in my family thought it would be best if I went to one in Houston. So I moved there, and got a job at...lemme remember...Methodist Memorial in the TMC.

Anyway, one of the patients was an elderly Asian guy (retired missionary, if I remember correctly). His wife was there just about every day, morning 'til night, and whenever I'd help him to the toilet she'd slip a glazed doughnut into my pocket, saying, "You eat, you eat!"

Although her timing could have been better, I'd always did.

[designerotter.livejournal.com]

Ha! ...if you and I are the parties vying for the donut, there'll be no problem. The donut stays intact. You see, I'm mad about glazed raised donuts (especially home made or from the bakery) - and I don't like cake donuts. See? I knew we were compatible friends *grin*

Though I confess there's such a thing as a 'private' donut ... in my case it's one covered in powdered sugar. Whenever I try to eat one in public I soon resemble Mephistopheles trying to impersonate Santa Claus - and failing.

Almost forgot: your original question ... it would never cross my mind to divide a donut any way but down the middle. I'm not really virtuous though...just set in my ways :0)

[mrdreamjeans.livejournal.com]

Ah ... finally a difference between us. I perfer cake donuts with frosting if I eat donuts at all ...

Btw, very off topic ... They've done away with the position of resident designer for the Shakespeare Festival in Ashland, Oregon. Bill Bloodgood (whom I know from his time at Houston's Alley Theater many years ago) held that position for decades. The new artistic director wanted to give more designers an opportunity to work there. I believe that my close friend Michael Olich always has designed there, at PCPA in Santa Maria CA and other places on the West Coast. Get thy materials together! :)

[designerotter.livejournal.com]

Thanks for the tip! Bill Bloodgood and I started our design careers about the same time, and I knew he worked at Ashland for years.

As for the donuts, it's nice to know you're not merely 'hardcore' ... with frosting, you've elevated yourself all the way up to "decadent" *grin*

[mrdreamjeans.livejournal.com]

You've heard me say it more than one time ... In my family, frosting is a food group! :) If you look at the time on the posting of this comment, you'll see that I'm having a bit of insomnia. It's 2:04am and I have to be up at 7am. OY!

[designerotter.livejournal.com]

Hope you got through the day without any emergency cases of the drowsies. I've been busy drafting a show (not one of mine; I'm helping out a colleague - long story). Trust me, drafting can be a fabulous cure for insomnia.
Hope you're sleeping tight tonight.
Sweet dreams & Hugs !
PS - Frosting is defintely a food group ...amen.

[mrdreamjeans.livejournal.com]

I'm about 90 minutes or so away. If you're there, I'm there. I used to go to Austin at leisure since my sister's lived there for 20 years. In fact, when I fly, I'm right between Houston Bush Intercontinental Airport and Austin Bergstrom. However, with the divorce, I don't do that anymore ...

Course, I could always abduct you and bring you to Brenham:) Let me know! HUGS!

[cimarrondfw.livejournal.com]

Hey, I'm growing both my beard and my hair now. I might look like your tail-gating Santa Claus. LOL

[mrdreamjeans.livejournal.com]

You wouldn't do that now, would you? LOL!

[scottokc.livejournal.com]

(With mouth full) Donut? What donut? :)

[mrdreamjeans.livejournal.com]

LOL! Ever eaten those mini,chocolate-covered donuts ... You can talk with your mouth and no one can tell! hehehe

[huladavid.livejournal.com]

You oughta come up here during the state fair, 'cuz they have these mini-doughnuts. What I like about 'em is that the fryers always make me think of those log carnival rides.

(Slightly related note: A couple of years back my sister & her boyfriend-in-crime were down for a visit, and we took a quick tour of a small art fair--which meant there was "fair food" all over the place.

I remember her standing outside a deep-friend cheese curd stand looking in horror and, saying: "What is wrong with you people down here??")

[scottokc.livejournal.com]

I remember those. When I was a kid, I liked the mini donuts that had powdered sugar on them. The powdered sugar all over the place was usually a dead giveaway.

[mrdreamjeans.livejournal.com]

I never had a problem with that since the donut was consumed in one bite:)

[scottokc.livejournal.com]

They usually came in a package with several donuts in the package. It seems like I always managed to get powdered sugar on me no matter what.