dorothy parker

ok, so...i bought myself a birthday present a while back.....in february....and i am just now getting around to enjoying it.....a collection of dorothy parker stories and critical reviews she wrote while at the new yorker.....read by folks like christine baranski, cynthia nixon, alfre woodard and shirley booth........and it is beyond my expectations.....dorothy is my idol for cutting satire and pleasing sarcasm.......such a witty woman has rarely been on the radar since.......some examples.......'That would be a good thing for them to cut on my tombstone: Wherever she went, including here, it was against her better judgment'......and 'if all the girls that attended the yale prom were laid on the ground end to end....it would not surprise me a bit'.......and 'take care of the luxuries and the necessities will take care of themselves'......and my favorite....'I don't care what is written about me so long as it isn't true'.......gotta love a woman like that....her short stories are particularly poignant.....she was a hard-boiled broad who wrote about hard-boiled broads...the cd's started out with big blonde.....which is her most famous, yet fairly long to be called a short story......i like dusk before fireworks....for its brevity if not for it's concise depiction of the sort of 'beautiful young man' that surely were numerous in parker's aquaintance........i am not half-way through.....and have not listened to npr in days now that these cd's play while i drive......an amusing diversion........