In the photo he looks very Get Off My Lawn. I can easily imagine him with a shotgun on the ready.
This book has enlivened many a get-together that I've been to.
I like how the last line makes it clear he's not into fucking the big ladies.
Leonard Nimoy: A pile of lovely, plus-sized women... the cosmic ballet goes on.
Man sitting next to Nimoy: Does anybody want to switch seats?
When I was in the third grade, I saw Leonard Nimoy speak at East Carolina University. I also saw the Harlem Globetrotters that year.
I just got a call from a friend who said she wants to see this. So, I'm spending Sunday in Northampton, the most liberal city in the most liberal state in the most. Um. Liberal. Uh. Country between Mexico and Canada. Cool.
We're totally the most liberal planet orbiting the Sun. A quibbler like w-lfs-n would say it's Uranus, but we can ignore him.
He's just vegetatively and philosophically trying to distract attention from his own anus.
9: Nah, Saturn straight up nationalized all its moons. Now that's left wing with rings!
I wish I were spending the day in Northampton. I'd love to go to the Smith College Museum of Art, it's wonderful (and this sounds very cool.) I hear that Northampton's Table and Vine closed down, but there's another location in (I think) West Springfield that'd be worth checking out. Plus the bookstores, a quick trip to South Hadley to go to the top of Mt. Holyoke, maybe popping over to Amherst to go to Bart's Homemade, yum. I don't know if Carmelina's in Hadley is still any good, but when I lived out there nearly 20 years ago (sweet jesus) it was my favorite restaurant in the area. Damn, that is one happy valley. Western Mass is close to heaven, especially heading into this time of year.
He doesn't necessarily find them sexually attractive. "But I do think they're beautiful."
So unnecessary. It could have ended just as well without this line.
Spock is fluent in Yiddish? I did not know that.
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JL's paean to Northampton, and western Mass. in general, is apt.
I don't know if Carmelina's in Hadley is still any good, but when I lived out there nearly 20 years ago
I don't either. Know whether Carmelina's is still there. (thanks, I'd actually forgotten the name of that place.)
But that happy valley was the best place I've ever lived, almost 15 years ago.
I've some friends in the Valley; I should be seeing them this summer, and while they're probably ignoring the Nimoy thing, they'll at least know about, well. The valley.
I lived in the happy valley for a summer. It was intensely beautiful, and all the food was delicious.
In the Uncanny Valley, all the food is disconcerting.
Carmelina's is still there--they have a website. I always look at it with longing whenever I'm out there, but haven't eaten there since 1989. I lived at that time in South Hadley, working for a now long gone summer theater company. We used to go into Northampton every Sunday (our day off) and then eat at Carmelina's. I try to go back to the area at least once a year, generally making a stop when I head out into the Berkshires to do volunteer work for a kid's camp out there. I am bummed about Table and Vine, though; I hope the remaining location will stock West County Cider, which is utterly delicious and impossible to get out this way.
Leonard Nimoy's pretty cool, too. West End boy made good.
I desperately miss the watering holes of the Valley, since moving away last fall. The local food was delicious, but the ethnic food scene (for nearly any modern value of "ethnic") was pretty lacking.
India House in Northampton was some of the best Indian food I've ever had. And I remember a Northhamptonese Chinese place that was totally good. The Tea Pot? But no, there wasn't any real variety.