Hannah's Birthday

Jess

'You put your cards and heart on the table and somebody politely or not so politely declined the invitation.

And that sucks.

But it won't always be that way.

You just have to gradually learn to put them back out there again when somebody valuable comes along.'

All Good Things...

...come to an end.

Dit is zonder twijfel één van de beste televisieseries die ik ooit heb gezien, en vanavond zag ik de laatste aflevering.

Het gebeurt zelden dat ik me een dag lang verheug op het 's avonds kijken van een aflevering van een serie, maar hier was dat het geval. Keer op keer liet ik me meeslepen door de belevenissen van Tony Soprano en zijn onmogelijke liefde voor zijn beide families. Zijn echte familie, en zijn 'echte' familie. Het portret van een maffioso tegen wil en dank, grandioos neergezet door James Gandolfini.

Tony Soprano, I salute you.

Ojibwe saying

Sometimes I go about in pity for myself
and all the while
a great wind carries me across the sky.

Zookeeper Ernie #1

'We've been over this in the past. Relax, alright? I'm not going to tell you again. Because we've already been over this.'

'Sit down.'

'Why? There is nothing I have to say to you.'

'SIT down.'

'Alright, I'm sitting the fuck down. Are you happy now?'

'If I was happy we wouldn't be having this conversation.'

'Fuck that. This was a fucking mistake from the get-go. We both know that.'

'Maybe you knew. I always wanted what was best for us. For you. I loved you...'

'Oh yeah? Is that why you slept with that zookeeper?'

'It was only that one time! And I told you about it right after! You know how zebras turn me on...'

'Yeah, you're a real saint. You should get your own fucking religion. Fucking... I don't know... 'Zebras-allow-me-to-fuck-around-ism.' Yeah. And people from all over the world would worship you, because you're a saint.'

'I.. I need to tell you something else...'

'What was the guy's name? Ernie? Ernie the fucking zookeeper. Looking after the zebras and getting laid while doing so. Is that in his job description? Taking care of the animals AND the visitors? He's a lucky bastard, that Ern. Finally he got another piece of ass. I heard he was getting pretty sick of looking at those stripes all the time. I can imagine.'

'Ernie and I are getting married. We're starting a zebrafarm in New Mexico... I wanted to tell you sooner, but...'

'OH MY GOD, WHAT THE HELL IS THAT BEHIND YOU?!'



To be continued...