Well, dear readers, I have breaking bombshell news for you so hold on to your hats – it is March. Yes, you heard it here, dear readers, it is March, and it is my fervent hope and prayer that March will be a month filled with health, wealth, happiness, creativity, and all things bright and beautiful. In other news, I am sitting here like so much fish having just watched the most horrendous production of Follies ever – Opera Toulon in France, but the show is performed in English. The only thing they got right was doing it sans intermission and having a good orchestra. I’m not sure a single person on the creative team understood the show – the direction is appalling, the performances from everyone is like being hit over the head with a ball peen hammer, with an emphasis on the ham. What this director has Ben do at the end of the show is beyond repair, the choreography is banal and pointless, the set is ridiculous and the transition into Loveland is laughable as there IS no transition. The costume person has Sally in an I don’t know what kind of dress that’s – wait for it – green, so that in Too Many Mornings, when she sings the lyric “I should have worn green, I wore green the last time” – well, did anyone actually read the script and listen to the lyrics? But the audience cheers – like all opera audiences. And whoever directed the video presentation should be run out of town on a rail, with the constant cutting to a close-up of the goofy conductor during all the musical numbers. It was something to behold – I’m just not sure what that something is exactly, but there is a French word that comes to mind that starts with an M. A perfect way to end the short month known as February, although it was a bit longer thanks to it being a leap year. And we’ve just made the leap into March, haven’t we? We have. I got eight and a half or nine hours of sleep, depending on who you ask. Once up, I had a conversation with the publisher just letting them know when they’ll receive our stuff, then I had another conversation with David Wechter. Then I went to the mail place and picked up one of the two important envelopes, but thankfully the most important of the two. Then I came home, had a Chinese chicken salad for food and then did a few things that needed doing and then I finally sat on my couch and watched the Follies thing. And here we are, aren’t we? Marching into March like good little soldiers and soldierettes.
Today, I’ll be up by ten-thirty at the latest and I’ll go cash the important check. I need to put gas in the motor car, so I’ll do that directly after. I managed to go eight weeks on one tank of gas so that’s pretty good. What’s not good is gas prices are on the rise again for no reason. It needs to be stopped again with threats. I’ll eat something light but fun – perhaps another salad – we’ll see what I feel like. I’ll do some writing, and then I’ll check and see if the other important envelope has arrived and if so I’ll go get it. At some point, I’ll watch, listen, and relax.
Tomorrow and Sunday are ME days, but I’m hoping to get at least one of the two blurbs I’m waiting for, and we’ll make the book available for pre-order. Sunday night, my brother’s in town and so cousins Alan and Dee Dee and I and a few others are meeting him for dinner at a local eatery. Then next week is busy, with the designed book coming and a final proofing happening, plus writing and meetings and meals.
Well, dear readers, I must take the day, I must do the things I do, I must, for example, be up by ten-thirty at the latest, do banking, put gas in the motor car, eat, write, see if the other important envelope has arrived and if so I’ll go get it, and then watch, listen, and relax. Today’s topic of discussion: It’s Friday – what is currently in your CD player and your DVD/Blu and Ray/streaming player? I’ll start – I have no idea. Your turn. Let’s have loads of lovely postings, shall we, whilst I hit the road to dreamland, where I shall stand up and March, March, March right into March and, of course, it is my fervent hope and prayer that March will be a month filled with health, wealth, happiness, creativity, and all things bright and beautiful.