Well, dear readers, our handy-dandy Memorial Day weekend continues apace. I’m just being a lazy lout on this here weekend, and because I am being a lazy lout on this here weekend I shall keep today’s notes on the short side. Yes, Virginia, today we will only have a side of notes rather than a full course. I’m certain that many of our dear readers are on vacation or eating Ambrosia Salad and taking the sun (and listen, when you’re through with taking the sun, put it back, will you – someone else may want to use it). What is Ambrosia Salad anyway? Is that the stuff with fruit bits and marshmallows and whipped cream? I like it if it is, but if it’s the stuff with fruit bits and marshmallows and sour cream then I don’t like it. I do like the name, though, no matter what kind of cream is used, although I do think it is whipped cream. By the way (BTW, in Internet lingo) what did the cream do to deserve being whipped? Just asking. I just think that Ambrosia Salad is a metaphor for life, don’t you, dear readers? In fact I know it is because I just looked at the sheet music for a wonderful song by Meltz and Ernest called Ambrosia Salad. Here it is for your very own edification. My very own edification is taking a vacation, this being Memorial Day weekend and all.
AMBROSIA SALAD Music by Hinky Meltz Lyrics by Ernest Ernest
The world is moving too fast
And so are the songs they play.
They’re manic and antic
They’re making me frantic
They’re none too romantic
Or gay…
So, it’s time to be gentle
And yes, sentimental
It’s time for a ballad
Like Ambrosia Salad…
Life can be sweet
Like Ambrosia Salad
Like when you eat
Some Ambrosia Salad
You feel very fruity and fine
And your life is whipped cream and divine
Life can be grand
Like Ambrosia Salad
Fresh fruit or canned
In Ambrosia Salad
But whether it’s fresh or it’s canned
With a cherry life’s not very bland.
You’ll find in Ambrosia
A tiny marshmallow
That makes you feel mellow and gooey.
When you eat Ambrosia
You look at the bad things in life
And you simply say phooey.
And
Life is a treat
Like Ambrosia Salad
Life is complete
Like Ambrosia Salad
It’s filled with those flavors that burst
And life is the best not the worst –
So, when you feel cursed
When you’re feeling sub-par
Just know that Ambrosia’s not very far
Away…
So make life an Ambrosia Salad
Today.
Well, if that’s not a classic I don’t know what. I’ve been singing it all morning and I feel so cheery and gay.
Last night I went with Cissy Wechter to the Gardenia to see our pal, Miss Nancy Dussault. We had a nice and reasonably non-fattening meal comprised of salad and broiled swordfish in green sauce. It was very tasty, although we could have used some Ambrosia Salad with it to add a bit of sweet. In any case, Miss Nancy Dussault was as delightful as any Ambrosia Salad. She sang lots of Richard Rodgers’s songs, both Hammerstein and Hart. I especially like Blue Moon, one of my favorite Rodgers and Hart songs. She also sang Dave Frishberg’s very funny Too Many Songs About Paris, and a very nice new song by Miss Carol Hall. I did keep wishing she’d do a Meltz and Ernest song but that was not to be. Her able accompanist was Ron Abel, he of the flowing mane of blonde hair (and I mean blonde, baby, not like the faux blonde bits in my hair). We sat next to the lovely and talented Peter Matz and his lovely and talented wife Marilyn Lovell Matz. Peter was thrilled to hear that his Ethel Merman Disco album has been issued on CD.
What happened to my side of notes? These are fast becoming a full course of notes and we can’t have that because too many Hainsies/Kimlets are not around to read them on this fine holiday weekend. Well, perhaps I’ll be proven wrong and we will have many many many (that is three manys) posts today. In the meantime, why don’t we just all click on that Ambrosia Salad of an Unseemly Button below.
The rare book fair yesterday was a big old bore, so my friend, Mr. Grant Geissman and I, vamoosed and went and ate bacon cheeseburgers. Today I shall be a lazy lout and I shall lounge and read all the livelong day and not eat bacon cheeseburgers. Then, in the livelong night I shall be attending a “movie night” where we shall be showing Invasion USA and eating Bundt Cake. I shall also catch up on my CD listening and shall have full reports for you in the coming days.
Well, time is flying away like a winged bird, so I will make good on my promise and make these here notes a side order rather than a full course. Today, as you may remember, is free-for-all day, the topics of discussion can be anything and everything under the sun, the moon, or the stars. One thing you can post about is what you are doing on this fine and fancy-free holiday weekend. What are you watching, what are you listening to, are you wearing Speedos, are you at the beach, are you hiking, are you having a lovely brunch, just what in tarnation are you doing? Post away. And if you’re bored, do feel free to click on our “new sections” button and order a book or DVD.