Posted by Sarah @ 09/13/2003 08:44 AM PST

Wow! That was a stroke of luck. I literally just crawled out of bed about 3 minutes ago, after a MOST relaxing nights sleep. I'm feeling very Zen right now too, BK. However, that might be because I'm not fully concious.

Chocolate: Fudge! There is a little store down in Timbuktu, Corolla, Outer Banks, and I can't remember the name, but they have the most delicious fudge on the face of the earth. It melts in your mouth.

I'm sorry to say I dislike malted milk balls. The texture just bothers me.

Posted by Sarah @ 09/13/2003 08:48 AM PST

I love chocolate. I've always been satisfied with Hershey's or Cadbury's or whatever. But DRs Kerry and MusicGuy are determined to spoil me and have introduced me to Godiva.

Posted by Old Laura @ 09/13/2003 08:49 AM PST

The first post. Very zen. My favorite piece of chocolate was one I got many years ago when I was a little girl. We had just esscaped from Hungary after many attempts and much shooting, fire, terror, etc.. I was terrified and sick, but had to pretend to be fine so we wouldn't look suspicious. I think this must have been in Austria - just after coming across the border... We were sitting in a train compartment and a big black American soldier came and sat opposite me. I had never seen a black man before and all people in uniform were, at this point, frightening. The man looked at me, said something in a strange foreign language (English)reached into his pocket... and took out a chocolate bar which he offered me. It was the beginning of the rest of my life.

Posted by Panni @ 09/13/2003 08:53 AM PST

Okay, NOT the first post. Still Zen-ish.

Posted by Panni @ 09/13/2003 08:54 AM PST

That would be "escaped"... "Esscaped" is Hungarian. Pronounced "eshkaped"...

Posted by Panni @ 09/13/2003 08:57 AM PST

Bruce - I am shocked to see that you didn't tell everyone there's a new Juliana's Journal up!

Well folks - there is, and you simply must must must (that's 3 musts) read it... it's divine!

Posted by Craig @ 09/13/2003 09:06 AM PST

I had a date which left me euphoric
She was terribly sweet, and, in fact, high caloric:

She smelled like chocolate
Or so it appeared
She smelled like chocolate
Which, I have to admit, was weird
And when I told her
She started to smolder
And I thought, "Great,
I've discovered my date
Has a chocolate chip on her shoulder."

She tasted like chocolate
Each Hershey kiss
Was filled with chocolate
And I didn't know she was Swiss!

As I nestled my nose in her... M and M's
She exuded the scent from her... glands
I admit that she'd melt in my mouth
But not in my hands

The smell of chocolate
Was giving me fits
For while I loved her chocolate
My forehead, it broke out in zits

Smelling her, well, it brought up some fears:
Had she dated the three musketeers
Peter, Paul, Baby Ruth, the god Mars
As she was looking for Mr. Goodbars?
But my one greatest moment of envy:
When she climaxed she yelled out "Oh, Henry!"

She smelled like chocolate
Which is kind of pathetic
For she is deep, dark chocolate
And I'm a diabetic
The ending was so bittersweet
For never again shall we meet
But whenever I want an encore
I'm the kid in the candy store
Sniffing the chocolate
Nestling the Nestle's
Recalling the scent of a woman I'll always adore ... yum!

Posted by Noel @ 09/13/2003 09:07 AM PST

Craig, the new entry was not only divine, it was divoon!

Well, here I at work. My divoon job that allows me to surf the web and print out pictures of the WSM. And now I am hungry. I am simply yearning and longing for rich creamy gobs of chocolate. My favorite kinds of chocolate (not that I would turn down any!) are Cadbury Cream Eggs, Kit Kats, Ghirardelli chocolate bars, chocolate truffles of all kinds but especially with coconut and/or caramel, and Yoo Hoo drinks. Yes, I love to drink chocolate!

Well, within an hour I will be leaving work and heading off to audition for my school's production of Macbeth. Please, please send me good vibes because I am not a little nervous, and I don't think anything will set me as right as some nice strong H/K vibes!

Posted by Maya @ 09/13/2003 09:14 AM PST

My favorite type of chocolatey chocolate concoction? Isn't that like asking a mother to pick a favorite child?!?

I am a Cadbury Chick, a Nestle Nymph, a Hershey Harlot and a Godiva Goddess.

But my favorite chocolate product is one of nostalgia. My grandmother always used to buy each of her grandchildren their prefered chocolate bar from Laura Secord (which I think is a purely Canadian entity). My favorite:

Laura Secord Frosted Mint Chocolate Bars

hmm... how do I begin to describe them? :)

Posted by Emily @ 09/13/2003 09:26 AM PST

Craig,

The new JJ entry is fabulousity itself!

;)

Posted by Emily @ 09/13/2003 09:27 AM PST

BK, is chat going to be tomorrow as usual?

Normally you mention it in your Saturday posts.

Posted by Emily @ 09/13/2003 09:29 AM PST

Chat is Monday night this week.
I LOVE See's Dark Chocolate Nuts and Chews.

Posted by bk @ 09/13/2003 09:52 AM PST

Good vibes to Maya!~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Posted by Old Laura @ 09/13/2003 09:59 AM PST

BK & Panni,

"Shank" you for a delightful and amusing evening!

The Pogues

Posted by Chuck Pogue @ 09/13/2003 10:28 AM PST

Good vibes to My-Oh-Maya!! You can do it with your mad memorizing skills :)

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Posted by Sarah @ 09/13/2003 10:50 AM PST

Ooh chocolate! You're speaking my language, BK! Great topic!

I love Hershey kisses, especially with almonds, the Maxim chocolate-covered cookies that my dad brings home from France, the chocolate mousse at this restaurant in NYC (I forget the name, sorry!), and chocolate cannolis from Isgro's Bakery in Philly.

Posted by Laura II @ 09/13/2003 10:53 AM PST

As far as plain (pure) chocolate bars, I have found that I like Nestlé's and Hershey's pretty much the same. In other words: a lot. Otherwise, in general, if it's chocolate, I like it. I'm not that picky...well, sometimes I am, but mostly not. I don't know if I really have a single favorite but I do love Little Debbie's Nutty Bars® ("Classic crunchy wafer bars, full of the great taste of peanut butter enrobed in fudge"--okay, it's more peanut butter than chocolate, but I don't care) and the Canadian candy bar Coffee Crisp. I used to get CCs when I was going to college in Bellingham, WA. They were imported (there were a lot of Canadians attending college there). They're now available in the US and I've even seen them locally.

Posted by George @ 09/13/2003 10:54 AM PST

ooh best wishes to Maya! think lovely thoughts (ooh a Peter Pan reference)!

Posted by Laura II @ 09/13/2003 10:55 AM PST

I feel sorry for anyone who has lived their entire life without visiting California, because the odds are they have never had any of the confections from Sees Candies. The Sees Candy Company has been a California tradition since...well, if you click on my name, I've arranged a link to their site, and you can find out all about them.

I'm personally in love with almost anything they coat with their rich dark chocolate. If there's a box of See's Candies nearby and there are any nut clusters napped in dark chocolate, those nut clusters are claimed by me, pronto! Do not, I repeat, DO NOT even pretend to try to take those nut clusters away from me! My response will be reprehensible but will be pardoned by any jury.

Posted by S. Woody White @ 09/13/2003 10:55 AM PST

I am pained to report that I am allergic to chocolate...I cannot eat any of it.

That of course makes me an outcast, but I have learned to live with it, almost.

Posted by Jrand53 @ 09/13/2003 11:02 AM PST

I'm only slightly embarrassed to admit that I have just gotten out of bed. I'm only slightly embarrassed of that fact because I am feeling slightly under the weather, so I feel it is acceptable to have slept in so late. I think my ailment stems from allergies and the rapidly changing weather here in NYC, but I couldn't say for sure. Oh, no...I could not say at this time (Oh! a MUSIC MAN reference). I have some congestion and a LOT of drainage that is causing me to have a bit of a sore throat and a touch of a cough. Like I said, I'm only slightly under the weather.

My favorite chocolate? Hmm...well, when I lived in England, I simply could not get enough of the Galaxy bar. I don't think it was Cadbury's, but it was always right next to the Cadbury's stuff. Many people complain that Galaxy bars are nothing but chocolate flavored wax, but I do love them so. I had one last year for the first time since the early 80's and a wave of nostalgia came over me like...well, a wave. And at only $1 a pop, I should run back to Tea & Sympathy and get some more!

I am also a milk-chocolate covered cream caramel freak. If you ever wanted to buy me a box of chocolates, that's what I would really like to have--a box of caramels. I love the texture of the caramel while its being chewed. I dunno...I'm a texture eater. If I don't like the way the food feels in my mouth, then I don't eat it. That's one reason that I don't eat tapioca, but that's a topic for another day.

AUDITION ALERT!: I managed to get an appointment for Derby Dinner Playhouse (in Indiana) for Thursday morning. I have to have a 1-minute monologue and two 16-measure songs prepared. The songs are no problem, but can I tell you dear readers how much I HATE, HATE, HATE monologue auditions? I've done two in my entire life and I hated every single second of them. I managed (somehow) to get both jobs that I did monologues for, but still...its nerve-shattering. I found the piece that I'm going to do for the audition, though, and I think its going to work. I forgot how little you actually get to say in one minute, and cutting this thing is proving to be harder than first thought. I managed to cut most of the fat off of it and have it still make sense, but its running about a minute and fifteen seconds, and I don't know how strict they're going to be on this time limit thing. We'll see. There's a possible end that comes right around one minute, so if they cut me off there, it would at least be a clean cut. Anyway, enough about that. If I got the job, I'd be able to stay at my parent's house in Louisville for the duration of the rehearsal/performance time, which would save me a fortune in expenses and it'd give me a chance to see my family, which is (usually) a good thing. Its funny, though...I could never get an audition for Derby Dinner when I lived there, but now that I'm in New York, I got one with ease! Go figure...

Posted by Jason @ 09/13/2003 11:05 AM PST

Dark Chocolate Milky Way(frozen if possible) and Hershey has come out with Dark Chocolate Kisses... Found them in the Hershey Store in New York.

Posted by Arnold M. Brockman @ 09/13/2003 11:21 AM PST

Maya - In yesterday's notes BK mentioned that chat would be Monday this week instead of Sunday.

Jrand---
In regards to a comment you made yesterday, "Pantomime Quize" had celebrities playing charades; "Masquerade Party" had a celebritty desquised and a panel would try to guess who was under the costume and make-up.

Posted by William E. Lurie @ 09/13/2003 11:33 AM PST

Maya, best vibes to you.

I rarely post at 3:37 in the morning and certainly did not expect to be the last posting of the day. Old (Vintage is nice) Laura, Sarah and George, hope you read my post.

Chocolate sounds so much better than the watermelon juice I have been drinking. It is working though. My favorite chocolate in the whole world is Lindt, extra milk chocolate. Unfortunately it doesn't agree with me any more. My second favorite is AlanWertz mint sticks which are no longer available. So I must simply eat my third favorite which is a See's milk chocolate, chocolate cream. I also enjoy the See's scotchmallows and victorian toffee and, Jason, you have also put me in the mood for one of their chocolate covered caramels. I believe Alan Wertz still makes the best honey comb, I just haven't had time to go to Gelson's to check if they still sell it. S. Woody White, you don't need to live in California anymore to get Sees Candy. I would have it shipped to me wherever I lived. A store in Michigan even sold it and valued my opinion as to what Sees Candy to order.

Posted by Jane @ 09/13/2003 11:44 AM PST

There is also a See's Candy store in Renton, which is about 45 minutes from where I live (and it's only 10 minutes away from Ikea). So, whenever my sister has an Ikea craving (even just to walk through the store and eat the Swedish meatballs at the deli) we always stop at See's. And I LOVE fudge, also! No flavored fudge, just plain, normal everyday fudge. Simple, yet elegant. (Okay, with walnuts is the absolute best...but no other flavors.)

Posted by George @ 09/13/2003 12:01 PM PST

OH, my gosh! See's Candy! Yum! We have a See's candy store in downtown Salem and I could go crazy with Chocolate in there, so I usaually avoid it! I looooove dark chocolate, that is my favorite. I am not too crazy about milk chocolate, but put a dark chocolate in front of me and I will not even try to resist. Big Lots has been selling some sort of European dark chocolate candy bars lately and I tend to buy several at a time and stash them in my desk at work...and then go to the gym afterwards in a vain attempt to work it all off!

It is a beautiful day today in the Willamette Valley and I am just gonna have me a lazy day today watching DVDs and working a bit on some magazine articles.

JRand53..allergic to chocolate. You poor, poor man. What a horrible fate!

Posted by MBarnum @ 09/13/2003 12:50 PM PST

Derby, Indiana; Derby, Indiana; Derby Indiana let me say it once again...

Posted by Merideth Wilson @ 09/13/2003 12:51 PM PST

Chocolate is a very bad subject for me! I love practically every single chocolate bar ever made. There is actually one I just discovered last year, which i think is called "wunderbar" which is a really nice mix of peanut buttery stuff. Very good. And I absolutely love Crunchie.

Hey has anyone heard of this updated musical version of Wuthering Heights that MTV is showing tomorrow night. I really want to see it. But as far as I know no cable system in Canada has MTV :(

If anyone is taping it and can make me a copy I would be extremely grateful. Thanks.

Jennifer

Posted by Jennifer @ 09/13/2003 01:04 PM PST

Btw, are any of the other BB4 watchers who peek at the canoe site amused at the mime?

:)

Posted by Jennifer @ 09/13/2003 01:05 PM PST

Well I'm off to suffer through babysitting for about 10 hours, erg. My parents and all of our neighbors are going to see Bruce Springsteen at FedEx Field in DC, and I'm stuck watching kids. I shall be MOST errant and truant, and I'm sorry. Hope you all have a good rest-of-day!

Posted by Sarah @ 09/13/2003 01:08 PM PST

Chocolate? Oh, my. Let's see, I love...

Hot chocolate - homemade, of course, with tiny marshmallows floating on top.

Hershey's Kisses
Breyer's chocolate ice cream
Chocolate chips straight out of the bag
Betty Crocker Supreme Brownie Mix brownies (especially triple chocolate with nuts!)
Chocolate-covered cherries
Chocolate-covered pretzels

I rarely detect much difference between recognizable brands of chocolate. I've had Godiva and it's fine; but it doesn't thrill me, or make me want to pay 10 times more for their chocolate than I would for Hershey's or Nestle's. But then, I'm probably a philistine.

I just watched my brand spanking new Collector's Edition DVD of Somewhere in Time this afternoon. I still have the music going through my head.

Oh, and for those who are interested in these sorts of things...looks like Meg Ryan has just crossed the line, plastic surgery-wise (the line past which everybody whispers and giggles behind their hands about what you've done to your face *this* week). Click my name for a recent pic.

Offhand, I'm guessing cheek implants, botox (forehead, eyes, cheeks), collagen injections in the lips, and did she do something to her chin as well? What are your thoughts, anybody have anything they'd like to add?

Posted by Lulu @ 09/13/2003 01:25 PM PST

Oh, my, Miss Lulu, Meg certainly has had something done. Those cheeks look like walnuts are in there. Part of me is sad for her but part of me is mad at Hollywood for making attractive people think they have to do that to keep working. Even though she hasn't had a hit movie for a while, I would have though she was high enough on the A list that she wouldn't have to do anything (at least for a while). Well, maybe it's because she hasn't been combing her hair regularly. Ever since, I think, that movie with Diane Keaton and Walter Matthau and Phoebe from Friends (I CANNOT REMEMBER HER NAME AHHHH), a not very good movie IMHO, she has fallen into that uncombed, stringy hair look. I guess I'm just too old to appreciate it.

On to Chocolate. I love chocolate and especially love European chocolate. As DR Jason said, there are some wonderful English candy bars. Belgian chocolate is my absolute favorite. I remember the time I took the train to the boat, landed in France and took a bus to Belgium and had some freshly made delicacies. Oh, my, orgasm on the spot.

Posted by Ben @ 09/13/2003 01:36 PM PST

I have very plebian tastes in chocolate. It doesn't have to be the super expensive name brands to please me. I like just about anything. My favorite chocolate candy comes out before Easter: Reece's comes out with their Reeece's Peanut Butter Eggs. It's just a Reece's peanut butter cup but it's egg shaped with more chocolate and peanut butter. I could go through a six pack of those in about ten minutes if I wasn't afraid of giving myself a heart attack. Reece's does other holiday chocolates: Trees at Christmas, Hearts at Valentines, but for some reason it's the eggs at Easter that I really love and can't get enough of.

Posted by Matt H. @ 09/13/2003 01:36 PM PST

Lulu: Please tell me those pictures have been doctored somehow. She looks ridiculous! Like Jack Nicholson as the Joker. What a shame...I always thought she was gorgeous, and then she had to go do that to her face? What was she thinking? I lost so much respect for her after that whole Russell Crowe deal, but now she's practically dead to me. Of course, I jest...but not really.

Posted by Jason @ 09/13/2003 01:37 PM PST

Matt H.: I love those Easter Eggs, too... I'd eat a whole six pack of them, as well, if I didn't think I'd die from my throat swelling shut (I'm allergic to peanuts).

Posted by Jason @ 09/13/2003 01:39 PM PST

DR Noel: Whence came that marvelous chocolate lyric? Is it your own?

I, fortunately, was born without the chocloholic gene; I enjoy it, all right, but I can take it or leave it. I say fortunately, because it eliminates squabbles around here. My Joe, like all Italians, is a rabid chocloholic.

When he went into the hospital for the diagnosis of his EMS, he asked me to get him a Dove Bar (chocolate, not soap) to eat while waiting for the paperwork to be done. A prune-faced nurse came by and told him there was no eating in that room. I replied, "It's all right. It's his doctor's prescription."

Every night, Joe goes through a ritual with his Cadbury Milk Chocolate bar before bed time, opening the gold wrapper, making sure the temperature is just right ("Put this inside your shirt to warm it."), and carefully breaking apart the rows.

About once a month he says, "I really should stop eating chocolate after I brush my teeth." Fat chance! Every morning I use a lint roller to remove the chocolate crumbs from the sheets.

When Cadbury bars are on sale for a dollar, I go from store to store, stockpiling fifty or more. I think the record in our house was 125 once at 88¢.

Did you know that chocolate beans were used as money by the Mayans? That milk chocolate was invented by Mexican nuns? That they spent so much time making and eating it that the Pope had to outlaw chocolate in the convents? As far as I know there is no other food that has produced quite the same reverence throughout the world. Did you know that chocolate contains a chemical that bonds with the same site in the brain as cocaine?

Posted by William F. Orr @ 09/13/2003 02:11 PM PST

Meg Ryan, meet Michael Jackson. Michael, meet Meg.

(DR Jason beat me to the punch as I was going to suggest that poor, misguided Meg might have been separated at birth from the Joker.)

DR Jennifer: Today's L.A. Times review of "Wuthering Heights" called it "Withering Depths" and in so many words said the show redefined the word "risible." Click on my name for the gory details.

Posted by Jay @ 09/13/2003 02:23 PM PST

Bachelor party RSVPs are coming in already! (We've been receiving wedding RSVPs for weeks - in fact, the deadline for those has expired. And yet there's still some we haven't heard from. I suppose that's normal.)

WFO - Yes, I wrote music and lyrics to It Smells Like Chocolate. I'm told people audition with it.

I've just finished the vows, which is a trio for me, the bride and the officient. I'm pretty pleased with this one, but the bride came home exhausted from chores and is napping now, resting up for some shower thing - whatever that is. So she hasn't heard it.

In fact, the woman who inserts hyphens into my lyrics will probably see it first. What the hell am I talking about? My music-writing software needs the lyric to have hyphens in between syllables of multi-syllabic words, so I have a friend do that for me.

Posted by Noel @ 09/13/2003 03:04 PM PST

Hi everyone! Back from the audition and much thanks to those who sent me good vibes! I think they might have worked. I feel like I did a pretty decent job with my monologue (The raven himself is hoarse that croaks the fatal entrance of Duncan...) and the readings, but I hope I didn't overact. I'll find out what part I got on Thursday--til then, I'm just going to have to try and think of everything but that!

Jason--what good news about your audition! I'm sure you'll do a great job, and don't worry too much about the monologue. Remember, they are looking at you as an all-around performer!

Jay--I wasn't able to access the MTV Wuthering Heights review. Is it really that moronic? I think the book is a good source for a pop-operatic musicalization, but something tells me they dumbed it down just a little too much to let Charlotte Bronte rest too much in peace :)

Anyway, I'm off to see Alice Ripley in Shakespeare in Hollywood at Arena Stage (and hopefully meet her afterwards)! I will have a full report when I get back!

Posted by Maya @ 09/13/2003 03:13 PM PST

Well, BK, here it is...the "shank" of the afternoon...and I just got back from the Book Fair...I gotta tell ya, the thrill is gone...Nothing that just set my heart aflutter, same old same old, except for the prices that just keep skyrocketing. Basically, all I did was look at the front flaps of books I already own to see how much they have escalated in price. Might be time to take out more insurance on them. Anyhoo, I came back empty-handed...

Posted by Charles Pogue @ 09/13/2003 03:15 PM PST

Wuthering Heights: Well, TV Guide described it as a "musical update", and Heathcliff has been changed to a "motorcycle-riding rocker whose star is rising due to internet buzz".

Ah! The music is by Jim Steinman. So all of you JS fans out there who were devestated by the closing of Dance of the Vampires (Jason?), here is your chance to see another gem of musical theatre.

What won't they think of next?

Posted by William F. Orr @ 09/13/2003 03:25 PM PST

Here's the description from tvguide.com:

Emily Bronte's classic novel is updated in this music-driven adaptation, which stars Erika Christensen as Cate, who falls hard for Heath (Mike Vogel), the intense young man her father invites to live with them. In an effort to fight her feelings, Cate marries a shy neighbor (Chris Masterson). Meanwhile, her new husband's sister (Katherine Heigl) schemes to seduce Heath. Jim Steinman, the songwriter for Meat Loaf's bestselling “Bat out of Hell” albums, served as executive producer and wrote five songs with Hewitt Huntwork for the project.

I have to admit that I've never seen any version of Wuthering Heights. I really don't know if this should be my introduction to the story ... although I do like some of Jim Steinman's songs. Not all, but some.

Posted by George @ 09/13/2003 03:32 PM PST

DR George...no, it should not be your intro to Wuthering Heights. May I recommend the one that came out in the seventies with Timothy Dalton and Anna Calder-Marshall. I like it better than the Olivier/Merle Oberon one which is a tad polite and pretty for me. Dalton and Calder-Marshall don't mind getting dirty and rolling in the heather and being genuinely perverse.

Posted by Charles Pogue @ 09/13/2003 03:43 PM PST

And for the BB fans among us (That's Brent Barrett, not Big Brother.), I was always under the impression that his official title was SMA (Sexiest Man Alive), not WSM (World's Sexiest Man), as has been quoted here.

So which is it? Which title does he officially hold? Or does he hold both? I am not speaking of People magazine here. Only full-fledged Hainesy/Kimlets are allowed to vote.

Posted by William F. Orr @ 09/13/2003 04:28 PM PST

I think BB qualifies for both.

Posted by Melanie Griffith @ 09/13/2003 04:51 PM PST

I am back momentarily from visiting brother, and from a quick visit to the book fair - apparently I just missed Mr. Pogue. I shall have to go out now and get chocolate - that is, after the exterminators come to deal with my fly problem about which more later.

Posted by bk @ 09/13/2003 05:16 PM PST

Hello all!

I have news. BIG news you might say. REAL BIG NEWS you might also say if you were a character from a certain musical set in the south by a tri-named composer.

My REAL BIG NEWS is this:

Always always listen to the den mother. The den mother knows best.

Susan TOLD me to stop drinking milk and eating dairy products when my eustachian tube was causing me misery. Did it work? Yes. Did I continue to stay away from dairy? No. The results? Incredible pain running down the left side of my face. Last time it was my right ear. HELL AND DAMNATION!!!

There's only one good thing that comes from this - and it's that I now get to take Tylenol with Codeine.

Codeine is illegal in the States without a prescription, is it not? Here it roams freely along the shelves of the corner pharmacy.

Codeine is, after Medicare, Good Hockey and Poutine, the best thing about Canada.

If I'm babbling - it's the codeine. If I think every non-living object in my house is singing to me - it's the codeine.

Woe is me.

Oh hello Mr. Keyboard. What a terribly beautiful voice you have! Maybe BK can produce your solo album!

Posted by Emily @ 09/13/2003 05:16 PM PST

Well NO WONDER them Canadians is so happy.

Posted by Mystified once, but not more @ 09/13/2003 05:45 PM PST

Well, I guess the Wuthering Heights on MTV might end up being moronic. But I would very much like to see it for myself.

If anyone can tape it for me please email me.

And if anyone sees it please post a review.

Posted by Jennifer @ 09/13/2003 05:50 PM PST

Well, I'm back from the play! (Where is everyone...lost in tarnation?;)

I LOVED it! Sure, the characters were 2-dimensional at best, but I didn't stop laughing from the first line to the end of the play. My face literally hurt from laughing so much.

The plot was very cute--Oberon and Puck somehow manage to stumble out of the forests of Athens and onto the set of Max Reinhardt's latest...you guessed it! Romantic complications and bewitchments ensue in both the movie and offscreen..and by the end, two couples have found love. A young starlet and Oberon (or rather Dick Powell, who supplants him) and another young starlet (played by Alice) and Jack Warner! The audience also gets to know quite well such "characters" as Louella Parsons, Joe E. Brown and even Will Hays!

Alice was absolutely hilarious! She played a Lina Lamontesque bombshell who thinks that Shakespeare was one of our "Great Americans." I did get to meet her after the show, and she was very kind and gracious. I'm afraid I came off as a blathering ditz with telling her what a big fan I was but hopefully she didn't think too badly of me for it:) She's absolutely beautiful in person--she just glows.

I wish I wasn't so stagestruck! I've met plently of Broadway stars before, but somehow I never get over being a starry-eyed little schoolgirl when meeting the people I so admire. Are any other DRs as incurably stagestruck as I am?

Emily--don't go overboard with that Codeine, sweetie! ;)

Posted by Maya @ 09/13/2003 08:44 PM PST

Argh! Jason! Allergic to peanuts. Some of us don't realize how lucky we are until we read about people with afflictions like allergies to chocolate and/or peanuts. Of course, we all CAN live without these things, but I'm glad I don't have to, and I'm sorry you can't partake.

BTW, due to all this candy talk, I broke down for the first time in weeks and had some Reece's peanut butter cups today. Sometimes this is a bad place.

Posted by Matt H. @ 09/13/2003 09:08 PM PST

I have just returned, dear readers, from a wedding, that of a former co-worker of mine. (There sure seems to be a lot of marrying going on around here.) It was a little different from any wedding I've been to, as it was held in an Elk's Lodge, was called for 4 pm on a Saturday, and though this was a second marriage for both members of the couple, the bride wore white. (Or have the rules changed while I wasn't looking?) In any event, the couple seemed very happy and in love, it was great to catch up with a bunch of other former co-workers I haven't seen in some time and I got to dance the Macarena. Who could ask for anything more? (Oh, a Gershwin reference.)

Posted by Jay @ 09/13/2003 09:21 PM PST

Three posts in four hours - shame on us all.

Posted by bk @ 09/13/2003 10:32 PM PST

Well, I'm back from my babysitting extravaganza. I really should start putting a time limit on how long I'll babysit, I was there for nine and a half hours. The people were completely wasted too, so I had to call my dad and have him come pick me up, I wasn't about to get in their car. I can't even see how they got all the way from DC here without crashing. They couldn't see straight enough to count the money, so I won't get paid until sometime tomorrow afternoon. I'm not sure who the designated driver was, but thank the Lord for them. This is one of the reasons why I don't see the appeal of consuming alcohol in large amounts. They were acting like complete morons. They smelled disgusting, they were making raunchy comments, and the MOTHER was passed out in the back of the van they drove. She has a 3 year old, twin 4 year olds, and a 7 year old to watch in about 5 hours.

Some people should not reproduce.

Anyhoo, I'm shocked at the amount of posts. I expected some good reading material, and I only got about 20 new posts! Where are you people? Ho hum...

On a lighter note, I got to see many episodes of some favorite shows, most importantly "Three's Company" and "The Cosby Show". Lot's of laughs.

Posted by Sarah @ 09/13/2003 10:54 PM PST

Why not combine the terms? Brent Barrett is the WSMA! The World's Sexiest Man Alive!!

Posted by George @ 09/13/2003 11:26 PM PST

I'm now off to sleep to dream of the WSMA!

Posted by George @ 09/13/2003 11:28 PM PST

Jay:

White after Labor Day?

"The rules have changed!"--Patty Hearst in Serial Mom, right before Kathleen Turner kills her for her faux pas.

Posted by William F. Orr @ 09/14/2003 02:23 AM PST