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January 1, 2006:

HAPPY NEW YEAR AND WELCOME TO 2006!

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Well, dear readers, you won’t believe it – I can hardly believe it myself and yet I must, for it is true. It is 2006. Isn’t that amazing? Why it seems only yesterday it was 2005. Of course, it WAS only yesterday that it was 2005 so that could explain that. But, here we are, the first day of the New Year, 2006 and all I’ve got to say is HAPPY NEW YEAR AND WELCOME TO 2006! Isn’t that exciting? Isn’t that just too too? If 2006 goes as fast as 2005 did, then in about ten minutes it will be 2007. In any case, let us welcome 2006 with open arms and a happy heart and a positive outlook. Let’s start 2006 on the right foot, shall we? Okay, everyone, stand on your right foot. On the count of three: One, two, three – there, now we’ve started 2006 on the right foot. One must always start a New Year on the right foot. I don’t know why, really, but so it is written, so it shall be done. I’m already enjoying 2006. For example, I shall spend the early morning hours in my lounging pyjamas, my smoking jacket, my leopard-spotted dickie, and my bunny slippers. I shall lay about like a gazelle with a hangover. If you missed any of the merriment and mirth and laughter and legs of our New Year’s Rockin’ Eve celebration, then be sure to check out both notes and posts because this was the place to be.

Yesterday, I didn’t do much of anything, other than watch a motion picture on DVD entitled Fury. Fury was the first American film of Fritz Lang, and it’s lost none of its power over the years. And what it has to say about gossip and mob mentality and justice is as potent today as it was back in 1936. The cast are all marvelously marvelous, especially Spencer Tracy as the wrongfully accused man, and Sylvia Sydney as his fiancĂ©. The transfer is quite good.

2006 (6002, spelled backwards), a brand spanking New Year. For me, it starts off quite busily – first with the new play, which goes into tech at the end of this week, then buckling down Winsocki and getting Miss Linda Purl ready for her New York presentation, and then her act in late February. And, of course, beginning the new adventure of teaching a musical theatre workshop twice a week. I’m really looking forward to those things and whatever else comes along, which will hopefully be a lot. I’ve also got to get crackin’ on the new Kritzerland releases for early this year, the first of which will be the Kevin Spirtas “live” CD, which will most likely be followed by a Schmidt and Jones show.

Well, why don’t we all click on the Unseemly Button below, because 2006 is already speeding by, like a gazelle on a Harley.

Have I mentioned that it’s 2006? I spent the last hour of 2005 contemplating things, as I always do on New Year’s Eve. I have made some resolutions that I would like to keep, and I will, of course, always strive to be the best I can be, which is, after all, all one can do. I’m hoping to keep as much negativity out of my life as humanly possible, and I’m hoping that 2006 will bring happiness and health and wealth to all our beloved hainsies/kimlets everywhere.

I think that I can safely say that in 2006 soon we will be the most popular site on all the Internet. I’m hoping some hainsies/kimlets will get off their butt cheeks and come to LA to see the play, and I’m hoping for some other get-togethers in different parts of the country. I’m hoping to visit the Pogues sometime soon, and I’m hoping to get back to New York, New York sometime soon.

Today, I shall be watching DVDs and perhaps even taking in a movie. Of course, in may not want a movie, in which case I will not take in a movie. Damn them, damn them all to hell. I shall enjoy my day, for tomorrow we go back into rehearsal, and then it’s straight on through until previews, which begin one week from tomorrow.

Well, dear readers, I must take the day, I must do the things I do, I must, for example, relax and smell the coffee or the roses or the Brie, I must plan out my week, I must begin my quest to lose twenty count them twenty pounds, and I must get back to my writing every day. Today’s topic of discussion: What are your New Year’s resolutions? What would you like to change in your life, what would you like to keep the same, and what would you like to get rid of? Let’s have loads of lovely postings, shall we, whilst we start 2006 on the right foot.

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