{"id":827,"date":"2017-04-14T16:19:40","date_gmt":"2017-04-14T16:19:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/margotdarby.com\/news\/?p=827"},"modified":"2020-03-05T16:16:16","modified_gmt":"2020-03-05T16:16:16","slug":"failing-memory-things-cant-remember","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/margotdarby.com\/news\/2017\/04\/failing-memory-things-cant-remember\/","title":{"rendered":"Failing Memory? Things I Can&#8217;t Remember"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Begins here a list of memory lapses, items I reach for mentally before drawing a blank. I am not counting things I forget because I was incapacitated. (E.g., stuff I buy on Amazon when drunk or sleepwalking.) I put an asterisk after anything I actually went and Googled, or otherwise hunted around for.<\/p>\n<h2>Stuff I Forget<\/h2>\n<ol>\n<li>Name of resort town near Rimini, where I was for WMA in Sept. 2007. \u00a0(Riccione*)<\/li>\n<li>That 1910s recording star and performer who sang &#8216;Over There.&#8217; (Nora Bayes*)<\/li>\n<li>18th century German homosexual art historian and Italophile. (Winckelmann)<\/li>\n<li>The bibulous &#8216;red brick don&#8217; with mustache in &#8216;Tinker Tailor.&#8217; \u00a0(Roy Bland)<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<h3>Stuff I Forget: Addendum, May 23, 2017<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>5. What was the number on my last mailing address in London? 305? 503? (405)<\/li>\n<li>6. Chicagoland guy now\u00a0in\u00a0Oxon at SoftPress? Richard Morgan? (Richard Logan*)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Stuff I Forget: Addendum, June 15, 2017<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>7. What was the name of David Byrne&#8217;s singing group? (Talking Heads*)<\/li>\n<li>8. What was boychik&#8217;s real name? (Leave this blank.)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Stuff I Forget: Addendum, July 14, 2017<\/h3>\n<p>Now, I&#8217;ve been collecting some at random for a couple of months and not putting them in here. But these are some of the best.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>9. The gory Gore Vidal movie with Malcolm McDowell about the Roman emperor? (<em>Caligula<\/em>)<\/li>\n<li>10. The James Bond after George Lazenby? (Timothy Dalton*)<\/li>\n<li>11. Swedish actor who was in <em>The Seventh Seal<\/em> and <em>Hannah and Her Sisters?<\/em>\u00a0(Max von Sydow*)<\/li>\n<li>12. The Negro-Thai golfer, big in the 90s, on skids since? (Tiger Woods)<\/li>\n<li>13. Simone Veil, Simone Weil, Edith Stein: who is who? (Veil&#8217;s the one who just died, Weil is the crazy <em>philosophe<\/em> who worked herself to death, Stein the one who became a nun and died in a concentration camp.*)<\/li>\n<li>14. Pop novelist and Thatcherite pol who got convicted of some obscure crime years ago? (Jeffrey Archer\u2026couldn\u2019t come up with his name on a day in May till I shook my brain a little.)<\/li>\n<li>15. Name of that Scottish c&amp;w girl singer with the 2008 hit about the black oak tree?<br \/>\n(KT Tunstall \u2014 Big Black Horse and the Cherry Tree, actually, and the song is older, 2004. (This is about the third time in six months I was stumped, had to look up an e-mail I sent someone.<br \/>\nhttps:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Zq8hiZPqj_U )<\/li>\n<li>16. That quasi-3D kind of photo or illustration, like lenticular, but not lenticular? (Oh holograph. Took me a few seconds.)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Stuff I Forget: Addendum, August 19, 2017<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>17. The Alsatian bistro across the street from the Caf\u00e9 de Flore. (Brasserie Lipp. It&#8217;s mentioned in Hemingway and a Maurice Chevalier song but I gave up after ten seconds and Googled.*)<\/li>\n<li>18. Jewish lawyer and Harvard LS professor who was always on TV and who defended Claus von Bulow. (Alan Dershowitz. Really drew a blank on this one. You can search for, Whom did Ron Silver play in <em>Reversal of Fortune<\/em>, but that works only if you know the other pieces.*)<\/li>\n<li>19. Word for when someone is older than one ought to be. (Superannuated.)<\/li>\n<li>20. Who was the gourmet popcorn man? Oscar Fliegenheimer? Oscar Redenbacher? (Orville Redenbacher.)<\/li>\n<li>21. French Jew operetta composer who did Orpheus in the Underworld? (Offenbach.)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3><\/h3>\n<h3>Stuff I Forget: Addendum, December 2, 2017<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>22. Ludwig II &#8216;Sleeping Beauty&#8217; castle. (Neuschwanstein.)<\/li>\n<li>23. Nobleman with eyepatch who ran off with Marie-Louise when Napoleon went to Elba. (Neipperg*)<\/li>\n<li>24. The dotted wire-photo process. (Halftone*)<\/li>\n<li>25. Duchess of Cambridge, maiden name. (Kate Middleton*)<\/li>\n<li>26. Upscale shoe chain with $800 over-the-knee boots. (Stuart Weitzman)<\/li>\n<li>27. Name of Jewish communists who disappeared into Czecho, late 40s, while searching for a relative. (???)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3>Stuff I Forget: Addendum, April 2, 2018<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>28. Floyd guy caught in Crystal Cave in 1925. (Floyd Collins*)<\/li>\n<li>29. Harvard math teacher and comedy songster. (Tom Lehrer)<\/li>\n<li>30. What is this familiar tune:<br \/>\n<em>dih-DAHH-dih-dih-dah<br \/>\ndih-DAHH-dih-dih-dah<br \/>\ndih-DAHH-dih-dih-dah<br \/>\ndah-DEE!<br \/>\n<\/em>Thought maybe G&amp;S, but no: Kander &amp; Ebb. Had to whistle it into Vocaroo before I got it. (&#8220;Tomorrow Belongs to Me&#8221;)<\/li>\n<li>31. Who played Don Barzini in <em>The Godfather<\/em>? He was in a Rat Pack movie too. (Richard Conte)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3><\/h3>\n<h3>The list continues on an adjacent blog:<\/h3>\n<h3><a href=\"https:\/\/margotdarby.com\/news1\/2020\/03\/05\/stuff-i-forget-the-sequel\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/margotdarby.com\/news1\/2020\/03\/05\/stuff-i-forget-the-sequel\/<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Begins here a list of memory lapses, items I reach for mentally before drawing a blank. I am not counting things I forget because I was incapacitated. (E.g., stuff I buy on Amazon when drunk or sleepwalking.) I put an asterisk after anything I actually went and Googled, or otherwise hunted around for. 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