Many of us may have listened to “Santa Baby” this season. It is always on my playlist for the holidays. But the truth is that for me Eartha will always be “Yzma” from Disney’s Emperors New Groove.
Eartha
Yzma: All right, I’ve had enough of this. Tell us where the talking llama is and we’ll burn your house to the ground.
Kronk: Er, don’t you mean or?
Yzma: [even more angrily] Err, tell us where the talking llama is *or* we’ll burn your house to the ground.
Chaca: Well, which is it? That sounds like a pretty crucial conjunction.
The New York Times has much more.
Her outspoken anti-war stance made her many enemies.
As the AP reports, “The thing that hurts, that became anger, was when I realized that if you tell the truth — in a country that says you’re entitled to tell the truth — you get your face slapped and you get put out of work,” Kitt told Essence magazine two decades (after being investigate by the FBI and CIA for speaking against ‘Nam.)
Playing “Santa Baby” one more time…..
#1 by cav - December 25th, 2008 at 19:58
Harold Pinter has also given up Bush–bashing. RIP Harold.
#2 by cav - December 25th, 2008 at 20:15
Is it wrong to worry that Moribund might have a Happy New Year? : ) Hope so.
#3 by Becky - December 25th, 2008 at 20:26
Enjoy!
#4 by Becky - December 25th, 2008 at 20:31
Cav,
Poor Mori is so cynical, in the best of year’s, he will not have a good year. But I sincerely hope 2009 is better for all of us!
#5 by Moribund Republic - December 25th, 2008 at 21:04
False optimism is true pessimism. If you want sunshine tend to your lobotomies and move to Arizona.
I am having one of the best years of my life. Reality is returning to face you, stop looking away.
#6 by Becky - December 25th, 2008 at 21:34
False optimism? You’re wrong Mori. We each make our own sunshine. Life hands every one of us our share of good and bad. Some of us are defeated by life, and some become stronger. I wanted to tell you about two people close to me who died recently, but it’s too much to share right now. Suffice it to say, I witnessed two very different ways of living — one an optimist, one a pessimist. Both lives did end, but the first left sunlight that lives on in her friends and family. For the other, the light has gone out.
I see reality quite clearly, thank you. But every day offers something about which to be glad. I have frequently quoted the following passage from Kurt Vonnegut’s 1997 book, “Timequake”, in which he writes,
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Words to live by.
#7 by Moribund Republic - December 25th, 2008 at 22:11
Yadda, yadda, yadda. Nonsense, the outstanding debt in this nation now stands at 10 trillion dollars. Our tax dollars now go to debt service more than anything else.
Things are really going well right now, personally, just want to spread the reality to others. The rejection of the reality that is currently staring us in the face is a sorry affair. The fact is that pie in the sky being promoted by certain elements of our society is the very thing that has brought us to this place we are now. No one really wishes to confront the real problems we face.
The problem is that most folks are waiting for someone to show them the way. What they don’t know is, there is no way, your existence is temporary, and how you feel about how other people see the world is entirely subjective.
If hanging with people that help validate your own beliefs makes one feel better, then do it. Doesn’t change the reality of what is happening around you, or that the Sun will come up tomorrow, whether you are here, happy or not. Same is true for me. Plenty of people appreciate a hardball look at life, and that brings them sunshine. We all gravitate to those that understand our ideas.
Do you never tire at the constant new age uninformed sanctimony that poses itself as superior? Give me a New York curmudgeon any day, at least I know what they really think. Maybe. Many just act out life for effect, and others cling to movements they can’t comprehend, to give them an identity. I don’t have that problem.
I enjoy all my moments in life, good and bad, each has their moment to make us feel, and learn.
I ma very optimistic, it is that many that claim optimism have not a clue what the challenges really are. They are pretty lazy really, and replace the work involved with what they believe is a greater depth of feeling. I rather perfer those that just don’t care, more honest.
Those you claim are pessimistic, may just be seeing the lining of reality that others may not wish or cannot face.
#8 by Becky - December 25th, 2008 at 22:38
“Do you never tire at the constant new age uninformed sanctimony that poses itself as superior? ”
Ah, Sanctimony, thy name is Moribund.
#9 by Moribund Republic - December 26th, 2008 at 04:49
Only the reverse image reflection of what is seen here most often.
This ought to cheer you up Becky.
#10 by cav - December 26th, 2008 at 07:40
Given that you are well, perhaps we could wish our ‘other’ Moribun Republic a New Year of reality – apart from that which was created for us to suplant the real reality, wherein lies are truth, you know the one…
#11 by cav - December 26th, 2008 at 07:42
Now I miss the edit feature…to be able to place a ‘d’ and a ‘p’.
#12 by Moribund Republic - December 26th, 2008 at 08:44
Chew on this reality, and get ready for it.
There are going to be some very disappointed, deluded, obots before long. Do yourselves and our country a favor and let go much sooner than your egos will let you. Note his statements on Jerusalem being an “undivided city”. Should make our Arab friends happy. Watch what he says about the crimes occurring in Gaza.
Remember that the Presidents true power rests in the conduct of foreign policy. Domestic policy is in the hands of Congress, and has been controlled by his party pushing 3 years now to our current result.
Obama is a fraud.
#13 by Moribund Republic - December 26th, 2008 at 08:46
Why is there no edit feature? Take up too much bandwidth and slowed the site down?
#14 by cav - December 26th, 2008 at 12:22
I don’t know why but neither of your links are operating for me.
I dreamed last nite about finding an empty wallet on the sidewalk. It occurs to me that the difference between an optimist and a pessimist is that the prior will work to fill it, while the latter sees the poverty reflected by it. Yada, yada…
#15 by Moribund Republic - December 26th, 2008 at 12:47
Well they work for me.
Here is one for humors sake.
http://www.esquire.com/the-side/feature/obama-spanish-christmas-doll-122308
For realities sake; http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article20095.htm
Pessimists don’t keep anything of importance in their wallets.
#16 by Misty Fowler - December 26th, 2008 at 13:02
I somehow missed this news, and just found out from this post. I’m very sad about this. Eartha Kitt was such a beautiful and amazing performer. At my last party, I made everyone watch “Santa Baby”, and “I Want To Be Evil” is a song I listen to almost daily as part of my playlist.
I’m sad, and yet somehow I know she’s out there somewhere dancing and singing up a storm.
#17 by Shane Smith - December 27th, 2008 at 09:05
Misty, Eartha is one of those people that makes me wonder about the line “i would rather burn out than fade away. 81 hardly seems like burning out in a flash, and yet her life seems in many ways to have been one long party. I am sure you are right about her.
#18 by coffee buzz - January 4th, 2009 at 10:24
Eartha Kitt was and will continue to be a legend. I just found out that she starred in the Emperor’s New Groove, how funny