Well, dear readers, it is the countdown to Christmas. Yes, you heard it here, dear readers, the countdown to Christmas has begun. It is the time for turtledoves, partridges in pear trees, calling birds, French hens, leaping Lords, and the whole shebang. Every day here at haineshisway.com we shall be counting down the days, hours, and minutes to both Christmas Eve and Christmas Day. This will be the most festively festive place on all the Internet. Every day we shall dance the mazurka, a dance I would normally not touch with a ten-foot pole or even a five-foot czech. The mazurka, of course, is a Polish dance and I’m sure many ten-foot poles have danced it with gay abandon. I wonder if Mike Mazurki ever danced the mazurka? I seem to have gone off on a tangent. Have you ever gone off on a tangent? You know, gotten really angry at a tangent and just let the tangent have it? Where was I? Oh, yes, the countdown to Christmas. Yesterday, just prior to the countdown to Christmas, I spent a rather leisurely day being leisurely. I slept until ten, and then I got up and puttered around the home environment. I then took a drive in my motor car, and then came back and got the rest of my Christmas cards done and ready to mail. In the evening, I supped with a friend at Genghis Cohen, a wonderful Chinese restaurant in LA. The food was, as always, spectacular, and it was great to eat a wonderful meal after the food poisoning episode. We had Orange Chicken, Szechwan green beans (delicious!), Crackerjack Shrimp and white rice. The orange chicken is the best anywhere, and their special crackerjack shrimp is crackerjack. I came home quite filled with foof and sat on my couch like so much fish. Filled with FOOF? See what happens when your finger goes to the wrong letter? I have now created a new word – foof (foof, spelled backwards). I know it will enter the lexicon quickly and soon songwriters will use it in songs such as What Kind Of Foof Am I and Foof, Glorious, Foof, and Best Foof Forward and The Foof On The Hill. I’d better quit while I’m ahead, otherwise I’ll have to quit while I’m afoot or, even worse, while I’m aknee.
Yesterday, I only managed to watch one motion picture on DVD, which was entitled A Foreign Affair, a film of Billy Wilder, starring Miss Jean Arthur, Miss Marlene Dietrich, and Mr. John Lund. It’s not my favorite Wilder picture, but it has wonderful moments and excellent performances. He’d do the foreign thing much better a decade later with One, Two, Three. I like Miss Arthur, but I’ve never been as taken with her as I am with other comic actresses of that era, like Judy Holliday or Veronica Lake or any number of others. Mr. Lund, I thought, was quite good, and Miss Dietrich has a lot of fun and gets to sing several songs. The region 2 DVD looks fine – not the greatest transfer I’ve seen, but still nice. There are some cherce bits of dialogue, and a couple of really funny sight gags, and the rest just sort of ambles along amiably.
Well, why don’t we all click on the Unseemly Button below whilst we all countdown to Christmas and sing These Foofish Things (Remind Me Of You) whilst doing the Polish mazurka and watching a film with Mike Mazurki with gay abandon. I think that covers all the bases.
Have I mentioned that we shall be dancing the mazurka with gay abandon? Have I mentioned that it’s now the countdown to Christmas? If so, then we can just hot-foof it to the next paragraph.
Here we are in the next paragraph. I find this a very interesting paragraph, don’t you? I feel this paragraph is filled with pith, don’t you? This is just about the pithiest paragraph I have read in a ‘coon’s age. This paragraph is so much pith that I just put on my pith helmet in tribute to this pithy paragraph. You know, if anyone has a clew as to what the HELL I’m going on about, please keep it to your various and sundried selves.
This morning I must go have a work session with Miss Linda Purl and her music director, Mr. Ron Abel. That will take about two hours, then I must mail my Christmas cards and ship a few packages that need shipping. After that, I shall come home and do things that need to be done, after which I shall go to rehearsal. Tonight our special effects person will be there to watch and make sure that what she’s doing will work with our staging. Speaking of our play, the play’s official website is up and running – not much to look at at the moment (photos and more bios will be added this week), but check it out and you’ll see our logo and tag line, and information about our performances. It’s at www. Deceittheplay.com.
Well, dear readers, I must take the day, I must do the things I do, I must do everything I’ve mentioned and more and I must then do more and everything I’ve mentioned. Today’s topic of discussion: Who are your favorite comic actresses of all-time and what are your favorite films in which they’ve appeared? Let’s have loads of lovely postings, shall we, whilst we dance the Mike Muzurki mazurka whilst counting down to Christmas with gay abandon.