Well, we’re up to our pupiks in snow today, Chatterheads. Lost a branch out front, but otherwise we’re okay, kinehora. Just lost power for an instant (so far). Hope you’re all okay too.
Here’s the woman I hired, I mean married, to take care of the shoveling. I’m not sure we’ll be able to find our other shovel. (I hid it pretty well.)
It’s been a while since we’ve heard from our style and culture consultant Ana but she weighed in today to, well, excoriate one of her favorite actresses, Barbie, for a serious style faux pas. (BTW, the plural of faux pas is also faux pas when it’s written, but when spoken, it’s pronounced foe pah (singular), and foe pahz (plural.)) Ana says this outfit of Margot Robbie’s at Tropfest is ridiculous, even considering the gothic Wuthering Heights connection. “Did someone tell her to throw on some underwear and a shower curtain?”
Simpler is always better, advises our Oscar nominee for Best Actress for Blonde and for Worst Actress (Razzle Awards) for Ghosted. Thanks Ana. We agree!
Since we’re trapped inside today, we might as well take a look at the NYTXW.
We’ve never featured The Band before. I don’t believe it’s true. But at 11A today, for “Final use for an old T-shirt” we got RAG. Hello boys! You like tuba solos, folks? Resin up the bow!
At 48D, the “London theater district,” was, of course, SOHO. Shane MacGowan wrote this song, below. He was a founding member and vocalist of The Pogues, a Celtic punk band we have featured in Owl Chatter before.
MacGowan passed away in Dublin in late 2023 at the age of 65. His coffin was borne through Dublin on a horse-drawn carriage as fans lined the streets. Hundreds gathered inside and outside Saint Mary of the Rosary Church in Nenagh, County Tipperary, including celebrities Nick Cave, Johnny Depp, BP Fallon, Bob Geldof, Aidan Gillen, President of Ireland Michael D. Higgins and former Sinn Féin leader Gerry Adams. There was dancing inside the church as “Fairytale of New York” was performed by the Pogues with Glen Hansard, Lisa O’Neill and John Sheahan from the Dubliners.
“Fairytale of New York” went to No. 1 in Ireland on the weekend of MacGowan’s funeral. The Pogues reissued the song as a charity seven-inch single in tribute to MacGowan and to benefit the Dublin Simon Community, an anti-homelessness organisation he supported.
Oh, no! Just lost the internet till tomw. Will finish up on my phone. Here’s MacGowan’s great song. See you tomorrow, snowbunnies!
You took my dreams from me when I first found you.
I kept them with me, babe, I put them with my own.
Can’t make it all alone, I’ve built my dreams around you.
Rest in peace, MacGowan.
The Wellington Files 
One response to “The Measure of My Dreams”
six weeks since my shoulder replacement surgery and I am still milking the lack of my right arm [for another 6 weeks] to get Anne to do the shoveling out here. i watch through the window and point out the spots she missed [and she really appreciates that]
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