Well, dear readers, what a party we had here at haineshisway.com. If you missed any of the merriment and mirth and laughter and legs, do use the Unseemly Archive Button so you can catch up on notes, posts and various and sundried effluvia. It was non-stop and I had one of the best birthdays ever, thanks to you, dear readers.
I mentioned that I’d received an e-mail from Michael John LaChiusa, who took exception to a question I posed (in which his name was evoked) in our Max Preeo interview. I assured him that the question was phrased the way it was because I’d read a quote in an interview that said much the same thing. He wrote back and said that that quote had been widely misinterpreted (it was about not caring about the audience) and that he did in fact have a love affair with his audience. I told him I’d put a note at the end of the interview to that effect, and I also thought you’d all be interested to read it here as well. We’re going to get together when I’m in New York and perhaps I’ll try and have him do an Unseemly Interview to get his perspective on today’s musical theater.
Don’t forget, tonight is our Unseemly Live Chat. If you haven’t sent me your AIM name please do so. If you have sent it in the past, then we have it. The chat will begin one hour earlier than usual, at six p.m. Pacific Mean Time. I have to participate from the office because directly afterward I’m being taken to a birthday dinner. I do hope all of you can come to the chat because we do have the best time and it is simply too too.
Amazingly, we still have not had one single guess for our Unseemly Trivia Contest – you have until midnight tonight. Donald has a brand spanking new radio show up, so be sure to tune in.
It’s very gray out today. Today is gray but what the hey, we still can play, and gray’s okay, it goes away if we say oy vey so come what may let’s mold some clay and be light and gay in the key of A. What the hell am I talking about?
Well, why don’t we all click on the Unseemly Button below because I must wrap these notes up in a pretty pink ribbon and be on my way.
Have I mentioned that it is very gray out? Have I mentioned that I have to wrap these notes in a pretty pink ribbon and be on my way? To wrap these notes is better than to rap these notes because we do not care for rap with or without the pretty pink ribbon. Has anyone noticed that I’ve gone off on a tangent?
In any case, I really must wrap up these here notes in a pretty pink ribbon because I have to do some things around the house before I leave. For example, I must check on my spackling. One cannot leave before one checks on one’s spackling for that would be unseemly. Not only did I spackle I also painted over the spackle. Wasn’t I adventurous on my birthday? Spackling and painting, oh my. But now there are no unseemly holes in my walls (I’ve been changing pictures around and some holes were visible) and everything looks sparkling clean and tidy.
Well, dear readers, I must take the day, I must do the things I do, I must get in my automobile (after checking my spackling, of course) and drive in traffic, I must work all the livelong day and then I must take part in our very own live chat and then I must be taken to dinner. Today’s topic of discussion: Have you ever constructed or built anything with your own two hands that you are especially proud of? I, myself, have spackled but never built anything with my own two hands. Second topic – if you could have one single item back from your childhood (one that went missing) what would it be and why would you want it (your very own Rosebud)? I’ll start – I have very little from my actual childhood, and I suppose most things are gettable from eBay – what I would like to have back are things I wrote – my faux newspapers, little journals, etc. and also some 16mm film I shot when just a wee sprig of a twig of a lad of a youth. Your turn. I’ll check back in soon, so let’s have lots of posts for my mental delectation. For now, I shall wrap these here notes up in a pretty pink ribbon.