Showing posts with label Alan Arkin. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Alan Arkin. Show all posts

Monday, November 7, 2011

Serpentine, Shel!!!! Serpentine!!!


If you ever saw (the original) In-Laws with Peter Falk and Alan Arkin, you’re smiling now. One of the funniest scenes in a movie, ever.

Why is a direct path boring but going back and forth is fun? What makes hairpin turns and Silly Straws so much fun? Why is a kickoff return with seventeen laterals more entertaining than a straight-up-the-field return?

And don’t even get me started on body shapes.

Even making a curvy motion with your finger in the air is more fun than making a straight line. Go ahead, try it. Do it with a flourish. Pretend like you’re conducting a symphony. Lassooing a cow. Cracking a whip. Yee-ha.

And in the case of this spoon, curvy is highly functional, too. It’s the best kind of curvy. I found it at Argo Tea; you hang your spoon on the lip of your cup so you can store it between stirs without getting your saucer all wet and coffee-y.

Poo-poo it if you must but for hot beverage drinkers who like to stay dry this is a very happy spoon. And it's got a curve in it, so that makes it more fun right there. I'll take a dozen.