Well, dear readers, it is cleaning lady day and I must write these here notes in a thrice and vamoose because otherwise I shall be getting the evil eye in a matter of moments. I must write these here notes in a thrice and then jump in the shower. Why I need to jump in the shower I’ll never understand. Why can’t I just stand still in the shower and let the water cascade over my buff and toned abs and buns of steel? No, I have to jump in the shower, up and down, as if I were on a trampoline. I should also tell you that I am still having a dead gnat problem. In my hall bathroom there are hundreds of dead gnats. I cannot figure out where they are coming from or why. All I know is they are somehow getting in the hall bathroom and once there they drop dead immediately. Something is killing these gnats the minute they arrive. The two things I’d like to know are, why are they arriving in the first place and why are they immediately dropping dead like so much fish? I have even sprayed the window area with roach killer and still they come and still they die (not from the roach killer though). Are they dying from natural causes? Are they taking one look at my hall bathroom and going, “Oh, my God this is a frightening bathroom” and then dropping dead just like that? What is it that is killing these gnats that’s what I want to know? If we have any budding Hercule Poirots out there, or Miss Marples, or Lew Archers, maybe you can help solve The Mystery of the Dead Gnats.
My roses are in bloom, and so are my snap dragons and various and sundried other flowers. Isn’t that exciting? Isn’t that too too? I love flowers, they’re so colorful and gay. Why am I talking about my fershluganah flowers when the cleaning lady will be here at any moment? If I am still at this table typing away when she arrives she will give me, at the very least, a sidelong glance and if she does that then I have to look at her askance, and then after the sidelong glance and the look askance we will start doing the “Why Don’t You Get Out of This House” dance.
Have I mentioned that I have dead gnats in my hall bathroom? Have I mentioned that I have balls in the air? Have I mentioned that I have a meeting with a big Hollywood Star on Tuesday? Yes, Virginia, you heard that right, I shall be having a meeting with a big Hollywood Star on Tuesday. I’ll be that just whetted your appetite, didn’t it? I’ll bet that just made you sit up and take notice, didn’t it? I’ll bet that just made all of you scratch your collective heads and think, “Who could the Hollywood Star be?” didn’t it? Well, I shall tell you in due time, dear readers. Oh, yes, in due time I shall tell you. But for now you will simply have to have whetted appetites. Frankly, or even Charlesly, I like to have a wet appetite rather than a whet appetite, but that is just a whim of mine – or is it a wim of mine?
Well, I’m afraid we must all click on the Unseemly Button below because we are simply running out of time, cleaning-lady wise.
Yesterday we had twenty-something posts. Isn’t it funny, but that used to seem like an incredible number of posts, but now it seems paltry. We simply cannot have a paltry number of posts, because then we will not be perceived as the most popular site on all the Internet, people will not be jealous of us, and envious of us and want to be us. There will be no Post Envy and we must have Post Envy, we must be the envy of one and all and also all and one. So, post away, dear readers, even you lurkers out there in the dark. Join our merry group, join our happy throng, just make sure you don’t wear a thong because that would be wrong and you wouldn’t really belong. What the hell am I talking about?
Well, dear readers, as you know, today is our handy-dandy Unseemly Trivia Contest, and because I have been so busy I have not been able to come up with a question. Therefore we our having another guest quiz, this one courtesy of our very own Steve Gurey. Here is his question:
This musical had among its creative staff someone who would go on to be a major composer in several media, and included in its cast someone who would go on to win an Academy Award, and someone who would achieve fame for a period of time starring in a cult TV series. The cast also included two future Tony Award-winners. Name the musical, the composer who would go on to major success, the Academy Award winner, the person who achieved fame in the TV series, the cult TV series and the two future Tony Award winners.
Well, that is a lot of questions to answer, so get to work, you Hainesies/Kimlets. And remember: DO NOT POST YOUR ANSWERS TO THE SITE. Send them to me via e-mail to bruce@haineshisway.com or simply use the unseemly Ask BK Button.
Well, dear, readers, I must go jump in the shower then be on my merry way. I shall be going hither and thither and also yon, although not necessarily in that order. No, I may just go thither first so if you’re anywhere in the neighborhood of thither do come up and say hello. This week, I’ll be giving more information about the two signings we’re doing at the end of the month, so do check back every day, because there are always interesting morsels to be found in these here notes. Today’s topic of discussion: As most of you know, I have been a fan of cut songs from hit shows for many years, and to that end I have done four count them four Lost In Boston CDs. So, what are your favorite songs from the Lost In Boston series, or your favorite cut songs that may not have been on the series. I’ll start: Obviously the 110 In The Shade songs, but I am also very fond of Tick Tock, What Am I Doing Here? (both Promises, Promises), Let’s Make It a Night from Silk Stockings (I do love the arrangement I did, and the song is quite wicked), If I Can’t Take It With Me (I’m Not Gonna Go) from Goldilocks (with that killer vocal by Alet Oury – what a great song), Guess We May as Well Stay Married Now from I Do! I Do! and, of course, many others. The most weird but interesting cut songs? Waiting from The King and I and Like Everybody Else (Kids Ain’t) from West Side Story. Your turn.