Well, dear readers, not much to report today as it was a very short day due to my having slept close to eleven hours and not arising until two-thirty in the afternoon. I really needed a good sleep and by gum and by golly and buy bonds, I had it. Soon after I awoke, I had a very nice telephonic conversation with a piano player who might join us if we resume the Kritzerland shows, which I’m hoping we will. I also had a nice conversation with our own dear reader Jeanne. Let’s see, what else? What else, let’s see. It was so late after my telephonic conversation, that I just ordered a chopped Eyetalian salad from CPK. It arrived pretty quickly, and I ate it all up and I’m happy to say it was my only food for the day. I haven’t had a sweet treat in five days now. The good news is that the chopped Eyetalian salad has exactly 1,000 calories. After that, I did some stuff on the computer and then the day was done, and the evening began the beguine. I did sit on my couch like so much fish, and was seeing what was on Prime but fell right asleep for forty minutes. Then I watched another interview with Anne Jackson and Eli Wallach – what a sweet couple they were. And how lucky was I to see them on the stage several times – twice in The Typists and The Tiger, twice in Waltz of the Toreadors, and once off-Broadway in kind of a greatest hits evening of scenes from shows they’d done. I’m guessing that theatrical couples, once a mainstay of the theater, have pretty much gone the way of the dodo bird. In fact, I can’t think of one since the Wallachs passed away. Actually, it would be fun to think of the theatrical couples over the years. Of course, the Lunts, Burton and Taylor did Private Lives, but their coupling was more movies, and Google is impossible in terms of searching this, since most of the links are to couples who are married but don’t do theater together. I’m sure there are more than the Lunts and the Wallachs, so let’s figure out who else there was and post the answers on the discussion board. I posted another song video on Facebook, one of my favorite arrangements I did, from the album Shakespeare on Broadway. I’ll post a few more, just because it’s apparently irritating a certain UK producer so much that he’s now copycatting. I listened to no music, and I do have some to listen to. I also watched a couple of trial videos as those are sometimes fascinating and these were. And here we are and because I just had a thirty-minute telephonic conversation, I must finish these here notes and get them posted.
Today, I’ll be up by ten, I’ll shave and shower, and then it’s a noon o’clock meal with cousins Dee Dee and Alan, Mickey Rapkin, my brother, and someone he’s bringing who thinks he’s also a cousin. I’m sure that will be fun. I’ll bring my brother a copy of Kritzer World, since he is in it, fictionally, of course. After that, I’ll do a quick stop at Gelson’s and the mail place, and then I’ll come home. Once home, the rest of the day will be a ME day – no work, just watching, listening, and relaxing. I do believe the pre-order page for the new book should be up at some point tomorrow night.
Tomorrow, I know I have a lunch thing at two-thirty and there may be something happening at around eleven in the morning, but I can’t remember. I’ll also do a little writing for sure. Tuesday, I’m hoping to have the book back from the designers and then I’ll give it one final once-over and lock it. I’m also hoping to have the third blurb so we can get the dust jacket finished. If all goes according to Hoyle, we should be able to get everything to the publisher by Thursday or Friday. I think I have a couple of meetings/meals, too.
Well, dear readers, I must take the day, I must do the things I do, I must, for example, be up by ten, have a lunch, stop at Gelson’s and the mail place, come home, and watch, listen, and relax. Today’s topic of discussion: It’s free-for-all day, the day in which you dear readers get to make with the topics and we all get to post about them. So, let’s have loads of lovely topics and loads of lovely postings, shall we, whilst I hit the road to dreamland, happy to be revisiting some tracks from my recordings and telling tales how they came to be, kind of the other side of the tracks.