Well, dear readers, it was quite lively around these parts yesterday, oh, yes, it was quite lively. I have never seen such liveliness. We were all so light and gay and sunshiny. At any time I expected to see a lonely goatherd show up with his lonely goats in tow, just to bask in our lively light and gay sunshiny day. Wasn’t that poetic? Wasn’t that just too too. It made me want to frolic, frankly, and it even made me want to frolic, charlesly. I wanted to put on a laurel and a jonathan tunick and romp about mercilessly. But alas and alack, I was at work, and could not do such things without arousing suspicion from those around me. But by golly and by gum we were like a Maxfield Parrish painting yesterday, were we not? If there is one of you out there who knows what the hell I’m talking about, please keep it to yourself.
Do you know what I think, dear readers? Well, I’ll tell you what I think, dear readers, because why should I keep secrets from you? Let us leave secrets to fools and simpletons on other websites – we have no secrets here. So, I think we should all put on our pointy party hats and colored tights and pantaloons, I think we should break out the cheese slices and ham chunks and I think we should dance the Hora and even the Fox Trot until the cows come home, because we have a birthday to celebrate. That’s right, you heard it here, dear readers, we have a birthday to celebrate – our very own dear reader Jason is another year older today. Let us drink our toast (no mean feat) in honor of Jason’s birthday and on the count of three let us all shout it to the highest hill: One, two, three – Happy birthday, Jason! Let us have the time of our life by the skin of our teeth, let us celebrate in our various and sundried towns, let us say huzzah and hooray, not necessarily in that order, and let us say huzzah and hooray all the live-long day. Let us party until we drop or, at the very least, let us drop until we party.
I have an idea: Let us make today another day in which we’d like to put on our various and sundried laurels and jonathan tunicks, and romp about mercilessly. I find it ever so much fun – perhaps even that sourpuss Mr. Mark Bakalor will join in our frisky fun.
Well, why don’t we all frolic and click on the Unseemly Button below, because this here party is not over yet, not by a long shot.
You see, you see, the party is still going on. That is because we know how to throw a party here at haineshisway.com. Let the uncouth interlopers try and emulate us, but they are doomed to fail because this is where it’s at, baby, this is where it’s happening, this is where the in crowd comes to be in. Didn’t I just say that yesterday whilst wearing my laurel and jonathan tunick?
I watched a DVD last night, something called Y Tu Mama Tambien and I must say I hated just about every minute of it. I should have known better – when critics fall all over themselves in orgasmic praise of a film’s sex scenes then you know the movie is going to be trouble. Oh, it meant well, but it just went on and on and frankly the sex scenes were so movieishly “frank” it was just annoying. The director, Alfonso Cuaron, has done better, although I’m just not that big a fan of his work. This fellow is going to direct the next installment of Harry Potter, and I don’t know if that’s such a swell idea – none of his films have really worked, even though a couple had some enjoyable moments. We shall see.
We had several High Winners of our Unseemly Trivia Contest. Here was the question:
This unsuccessful musical by authors who were accustomed to success, had in its ensemble a player who would go on to win an Academy Award. Also in its cast was a fine jazz/cabaret performer. Also in its cast was someone who would go on to become a major soap opera star. Also in its cast was someone who would go on to star in a smash hit musical a couple of years later, a role they would later recreate on film. That person would also star in a TV series.
Name the musical.
Name the ensemble player who would win an Academy Award
Name the fine jazz/cabaret performer
Name the person who would go on to soap opera stardom
Name the person who would soon star in a smash hit musical on both stage and screen, and name the TV series they later starred in.
And here is the answer:
Me and Juliet
Shirley MacLaine
Barbara Carroll
Bill Hayes
Ray Walston
Our High Winners were JMK, Mark Rothman, Michael Shayne, Pam Spitzner, Steve Gurey and JRand55. And our Highest Winner, chosen at random by our Electronic Hat, is Pam Spitzner, who will receive a sparkling prize if she will send me her very own address.
Well, dear readers, I must take the day, I must do the things I do, I must journey forth to the hills of Woodland where I shall work all the live-long day. We want to see lots of party posts here at haineshisway.com and I shall be checking in often. Don’t forget, tomorrow is Ask BK Day, so be thinking of your excellent questions. Today’s topic of discussion: What is the best birthday present you’ve ever gotten? If that’s too tough, the second topic of discussion is – tell us what your favorite childhood movie theater was and describe it. Post away, my pretties.