Haines His Way
Archives => Archive 2 => Topic started by: bk on August 02, 2004, 12:01:30 AM
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Well, you've read the notes, you know that I am mad as hell and I'm not going to take it anymore, and now it is time to post until the boycotted cows come home. To it, my pretties.
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Guess I'll Hang My Tears Out To Dry
The Song's Gotta Come From The Heart
It's Magic
Teach Me Tonight
September Of My Years
Call Me Irresponsible
Five Minutes More
(I could probably list another 50 or so!).
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As for boycotts... I still have yet to eat at a Cracker Barrel restaurant - no matter how many times I'd find myself at one when the bus stopped on while on tour. *I'd usually end up walking across the street and/or highway to Waffle House anyway. And even though I don't even recall the specifics of the whole anti-gay Cracker Barrel issue, I'm just not interested in eating there. Home cooking is truly available in a home. When I want "greasy spoon", I go to a greasy spoon.
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I have boycotted a particular road system here in Melbourne - I object to paying tolls for roads that were toll free to start with and incorporated into a toll road.
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By the way (BTW, in Internet lingo), Jose is doing a bang-up job, both of playing the show and putting up with my weirdnesses and unyielding pickiness.
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Guess I'll Hang My Tears Out To Dry
The Song's Gotta Come From The Heart
It's Magic
Teach Me Tonight
September Of My Years
Call Me Irresponsible
Five Minutes More
(I could probably list another 50 or so!).
Ditto. ;)
I remember falling in love with "Guess I'll Hang My Tears Out To Dry" when I was around nine or ten years old. It appeared in an issue of Sheet Music Magazine - which I think was featuring Jule Styne songs - or maybe it was Sammy Cahn? Just such a "neat" melody, and the verse has always been a favorite of mine too.
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By the way (BTW, in Internet lingo), Jose is doing a bang-up job, both of playing the show and putting up with my weirdnesses and unyielding pickiness.
Thank you.
However, that begs the question: Is their such a thing as a director who is NOT weird and picky?
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OH!!! And the stuff we recorded earlier today... I think you'll like it very much. VERY much. I should have a preliminary copy for you tomorrow/today. -And I'll even try my best to bring you some pie too! Although, I don't think the extra whipped cream would hold up too well on the Metro ride over.
-Sorry for the tease, all you DRs.. you'll just have to come see the show! ;D
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There is a Cracker Barrel restaurant here in Rehoboth Beach. Der Brucer and I have eaten there once. That was quite enough, because the food was just plain boring. It would have been better if it had been seasoned with sawdust.
It is time for me to dogcott. The dog, Buster, is waiting for me to get to bed, the cott. Actually, he isn't so much waiting as already snoozing in the exact center of the bed. I will have to sleep around him.
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PIE! The whipped cream will hold up fine, plus you can get extra in a cup. PIE!
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I'm talkin' about PIE. Now I won't be able to sleep on account of I'll be thinking about pie and that pit bull person.
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Welcome four GUESTS. We're talkin' about PIE. We're talkin' about Sammy Cahn. We're talkin' about boycotting.
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Pie? Did I say pie?
PIE!
Extra Whipped Cream (in a cup)!
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Coconut Cream, right?
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Well, I guess I could always stop by there for breakfast since it's on my walk/way to the Metro stop... Hmmm...
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PIE. Coconut Cream, OF COURSE. Why, if there were to be PIE, that would be my lunch and dinner foodstuff. I would eat PIE all the livelong day and night whilst running lighting cues.
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We got us some late-night denizens, baby. We got us some postin' goin' on. Now if only Tom Poston would do some postin' we'd really be going strong.
I am fading, however, but I shall hang around for another five minutes before heading off to bed. Of course, I could also be footing off to bed or kneeing off to bed, but that's another story.
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Well, if I'm to get up in time to have breakfast at The House of Pies and pick up some Pies at the House of Pies before heading to the theatre...
Goodnight.
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I was asleep. I woke up. Here I am.
I've done lots of girlcotts in my time. One of the more dramatic ones was at the Emmy Awards one year. I was nominated, along with the movie I wrote. The movie won, the director won, the co-star won, a number of other wins, but in one of those stupid "huh?" moments, the writer didn't win. Although I was disappointed, I actually could have lived with that. (I've posted about this before, but my fellow losers in the category were Neil Simon and Robert Bolt, so I was in excellent company.) But I couldn't live with what I conceived as the height of rudeness. Which is where the girlcotting came in. -- When the movie won for best of the year, the producer went up and thanked everybody from the caterer up, but left out the writer (me)! I was so livid that I got up - a seat filler immediately joined my husband - went into the lobby and never returned for the rest of the show. Refused to go back in, despite entrities. Paced around the lobby with smoke coming out my ears.
Now that I look back on it, it was a silly thing to do, but there you go. I was mad as hell and I wasn't going to take it any more. End of story. (Except that the producer and I are now working together agian for the first time in ten years and all is forgiven.)
I'm going to try to end the girlcott of my bed now and get back to sleep.
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Jose - While you're at it pick me up some pie, too, please.
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It's me again. Up again. Can't sleep. Plus I've been driven from the bedroom by Wonderdog's farts. I gave him some leftover turkey meatloaf earlier last night. He's never had turkey meatloaf before, so I guess his tummy is trying to figure it out. I don't think the producers will buy "I'm late handing in the script because the dog's farts left me too tired to write." :P
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In a hurry, as always but had to say how much your dog fart post cracked me up, Panni.
I have two of them and sometimes..............
Well, some things are better not said. Or smelt. :D :-X ;D
Everyone have a nice day.
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Best wishes with the ASSociate Producer. :o That attitude is so strange to me. But then perhaps she does know more than anybody else, which is why she got the job....even though she is a good friend of one of the stars...oh well. I will be interested to hear the outcome.
New stuff on the personal front....things happening. Well we can hardly wait to hear! ;D
Sammy Cahn....ah! Well I will leave a few for the other DRs, but just using the word "favorite" well, in NO particular order:
The Tender Trap
High Hopes
Love is a Many Splendored Thing
The Second Time Around
Love and Marriage
And as I said, I will leave a FEW for others to write about. BUT if I had to choose ONE - it would be "High Hopes" which I have loved from the first moment I heard it....and learned to sing by listening to it just a few times!
Boycott? Of course, theaters with rude box office personnel. Forget it - directors, producers, and anyone else (artistic directors, etc) should try calling their own box offices incognito sometime and just listen to how the public is treated. I am sure it will be an eyeopener. And I am NOT a troublesome or demanding patron. I just want tickets to the show!
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No new radio show (at least there is not a new one at 7:45am today)! It's like Charles Nelson Reilly in How to Succeed and Coffee Break.
In the late 70s I stopped drinking and eating all forms of orange juice and other citrus products due to the efforts of Miss Anita Bryant. I have since resumed my intake of said products.
There are a couple of stores which I refuse to patronize here in the city. I would have to be dying and they would have to be the only store in the universe to have the antidote for me to ever darken the door again. It is all due to mean, rude, unpleasant clerks. I'm sure by now those idiots don't even work at the store any longer, but the fact that they were allowed any kind of employment and someone in management didn't look at them and say "how have you survived this long with that attitude" means that they don't give a rat's patootie about the customer and I, therefore, do not give a rat's patootie about giving them my business.
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Oh and of course, "The Faithful Heart" which I love to hear on that CD of all CD's - Jeepers Creepers.
Any new DR who doesn't have it yet, should check it out!
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My absolutely favorite Cahn song is "Teach Me Tonight". I also like "I Guess I'll Hang My Tears Out to Dry".
When I was in college, I got on a high horse about the ticket price of the RSC's Nicholas Nickleby. Our theatre department organized a trip to go see it at a greatly reduced price, but I refused to go along. Stupid! Stupid, stupid, stupid! I will never live down that regret.
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I boycot any project with Will Smith due to some remarks he made when he was cast (mis)cast in the film version of 6 DEGREES.
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DR TCB--your full picture is WONDERFUL! You should try to resize it and use it in total as your avatar.
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JRand (and anyone else who might be interested): The new recording of MAN WITH A LOAD OF MISCHIEF (based on the Mufti version with some re-casting) has just been released. Footlight.Com has it and I assume that it is available on other sites as well.
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I like Teach Me Tonight as a pop song, and Can't You Just See Yourself as a theatre song.
I try to avoid Starbucks at all costs, but sometimes it's impossible. I used to love the individual mom-and-pop run coffee bars, but too many have been put out of business by "the name you know."
For a long time, I felt that Broadway revivals of musicals were killing off the new musicals, and so I wouldn't pay to see one. It's another thing people have argued with me for years: Everytime the Broadway investment community's money goes in to reviving a show, those resources (and that theatre) could have been used for something wholly new. If an art form lets the revisiting of the old elbow out the presentation of the new, the new shrivels up and evaporates. We can't let that happen.
That said, I'm sure I would have had a better time at Little Shop of Horrors than Dracula the other night. And a friend of mine is in the Shop cast! But they can't all be gems, folks. The percentage of new Broadway musicals making a profit is just the same as it's always been, and that means that a lot don't succeed. Generally, revivals are of shows that, it's already been established, people want to see.
Re: Send Me No Flowers. I'm confused. Can someone post the names of the writers of the play version and the movie version? And who's the father of Panni's friend. Wasn't Norman Barrasch involved somewhere?
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Last night, S. Woody wrote: "They were wearing spandex, and you were looking at their CHESTS? "
Yes, believe it or not, that's the biggest turn-on for me (since you seemed surprised I wasn't checking out baskets or other portions of their anatomies). Say what you want about me, but you can NEVER say I'm a size queen.
(Remember, you brought up this topic, not I).
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Of course, false accents abound in Gilbert and Sullivan. It is one of the things that limits their popularity today (and they're still VERY popular...that's how good they were).
Gilbert virtually invented the funny theatre lyric in our language. Before he succeeded in writing operettas, his light verse was frequently published. Amusing rhymes that look good on paper, but don't really register in the theatre, are found in all of his works for stage.
When I wrote my musical in the style of Gilbert & Sullivan, I had to resist the urge to copy this. Yes, there had to be patter songs, and, throughout the show, the rhymes had to come every few syllables (think how many rhymes there are in The Moon and I) . . . but I knew a modern audience wouldn't sit still for lyrics they didn't "get" on first hearing.
The great generation of American lyricists that came of age in the 1920s (Harburg, Hart, Ira Gershwin, Howard Dietz, Porter, Fields, etc.) all loved Gilbert and Sullivan, but, it's clear to me, they knew that contemporary American audiences would need to understand their clever rhymes right away. So, in this great era of American song, false accents are relatively rare.
Just thinking of The Moon and I, now, one of my favorite songs. It begins:
The Sun, whose rays are all ablaze
With ever-living glory
Does not deny his majesty;
He scorns to tell the story.
He don't exclaim, "I blush for shame,
So kindly be indulgent,"
But fierce and bold in fiery gold
He glories all effulgent.
Here in 2004, a lyricist can't afford to accent majesty on its third syllable, (with a long "i" yet!) or use a word as obscure as effulgent.
But, if you want to believe Hampton and Black's Thames/requiems rhyme was an in-period homage to Gilbert, it's fine with me.
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Re: Send Me No Flowers. I'm confused. Can someone post the names of the writers of the play version and the movie version? And who's the father of Panni's friend. Wasn't Norman Barrasch involved somewhere?
The play was written by Norman Barasch & Carroll Moore
The screenplay by Julius Epstein
(And Norman Barasch's son, Marc, a fine writer, himself - Google him and you'll see - is my best male (platonic) friend.)
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I boycot any project with Will Smith due to some remarks he made when he was cast (mis)cast in the film version of 6 DEGREES.
WEL - I've not seen this movie, although I was a big fan of the play.
What were Will Smith's remarks?
What actor would have been right(er) for the role?
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The play [Send Me No Flowers] was written by Norman Barasch & Carroll Moore
The screenplay by Julius Epstein
(And Norman Barasch's son, Marc, a fine writer, himself - Google him and you'll see - is my best male (platonic) friend.)
Ah! That's what I thought.
My parents were good friends with the Barasches before they moved back East
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I don't think Sammy Cahn wrote the lyrics to "Love Is a Many Splendored Thing."
"All the Way" is my favorite of his. I also like "It's Magic" very, very much.
One of the things I really didn't like during Sammy's last years was his habit of taking his songs (and those of others) and plugging new lyrics into them, often lyrics that were so lame and so badly written just to make a joke that it seemed to me to denegrate the song. Obviously, others loved these comic revisions as he was constantly doing them during his last decade of life, but I really despised them.
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Coming later today, another George Eads/CSI pic. I was greatly relieved when he was reinstated on the show (along with Jorja Fox).
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Good morning all
I am still in the burg of Ellen, about to head back to the other side of the mountains to get to work. But I'm up rather early, so I have plenty of time. The reason I was up so early is that my sister called, needing the phone # of the house in Vermont where my parents are staying. And the reason she needed that is that her car was stolen this morning from outside her store in Seattle. Poor kid...I swear, she has the worst car-karma of anyone I've ever met. But this car happened to be one that my parents had lent her...when the one she shares with her boyfriend got in a wreck (for the third time) Since she got the car three months ago, she's had two parking tickets, one flat tire, backed into someone iin a parking lot, and now the car has been stolen...oy.
TOTD - I'll post on this when I get to work.
I actually fell asleep while on the computer last night. I had brought my father's laptop to the bed with me so I could sprawl on my stomach and use it...last thing I remember is chatting with a friend at about 2:15...the next thing I knew, it was daylight. I woke up with my left hand still on the keyboard, and the battery power of the laptop totally drained. Guess I was more tired than I'd thought!
Off to shower and drive...
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WEL - I've not seen this movie, although I was a big fan of the play.
What were Will Smith's remarks?
What actor would have been right(er) for the role?
When Smith was filming Six Degrees, he balked at having to actually do a kissing scene with another actor, although he was playing a gay character. His reasoning was that his fans wouldn't be able to accept it. It's a shame, because he does deliver a pretty good performance otherwise. I would have still preferred Courtney Vance, but I guess he was deemed too old at that point to play a young hustler on film.
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Not only did he refuse to do it (even though he was familiar with the play when he accepted the role), as I understand it, he took the role telling the director he WOULD have no trouble with the scene in question only to balk later, allegedly following friend Denzel Washington's advice, "Don't be kissing no man on screen."
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It's me again. Up again. Can't sleep. Plus I've been driven from the bedroom by Wonderdog's farts. I gave him some leftover turkey meatloaf earlier last night. He's never had turkey meatloaf before, so I guess his tummy is trying to figure it out. I don't think the producers will buy "I'm late handing in the script because the dog's farts left me too tired to write." :P
One thing I have discovered...farts are never not funny! ;D
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It's me again. Up again. Can't sleep. Plus I've been driven from the bedroom by Wonderdog's farts. I gave him some leftover turkey meatloaf earlier last night. He's never had turkey meatloaf before, so I guess his tummy is trying to figure it out. I don't think the producers will buy "I'm late handing in the script because the dog's farts left me too tired to write." :P
My sister has a dog (Murphy) and EVERY time he farts, he surprised himself! It's as if he has no idea what just happened. It's hysterical!
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Sammy Cahn - Some faves I can think of...
Time After Time; The Tender Trap; April in Paris; Three Coins in the Fountain; Pocketful of Miracles; Let it Snow; and already mentioned: September of My Years and I Guess I'll Hang My Tears Out to Dry.
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I'm at work alone because my fellow employees have all abandoned me (who's only in for half a day aujourd'hui) for lunch.
So I'm getting back at them by posting here instead of data-entering in our brand spanking new database. How's that for rebellion? :)
DR Andrea, who does still read the board, is coming to meet me once my shift is over. We shall lunch on cheap drug-front sushi. Mmmmmm....
I don't think I've ever actually boycotted anyone or anyplace. I mean, there really isn't much of a point - especially when it comes to commercial entities (and especially especially when it comes to HUGE commercial entities like Nike or The Gap).
I know that back in the early 90s when the Royal Bank of Canada let my current employer place pro-gun control petitions in its branches that the gun nuts in this country started a boycott of the company. RBC is still around though - so that was one boycott which didn't work :D
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Noel, I believe the original question was the connection between Doris and Burt Bacharach and someone else. The answer was Send Me No Flowers. The title song for the film is by Mr. Bacharach, sung by Doris. Is that the confusion?
Also confusion: the spelling gremlins - is it boycot or boycott?
And, it has been pointed out to me, that I misspelled "principal" in the notes. That is not correct, I did not misspell "principal" I misUSED principal. I meant to use principle but it was late and I didn't catch my mistake. But, this is the problem with the English language - two words which sound alike but which are spelled differently and mean different things. I hate to cadge from Mr. Benjamin Kritzer, but that just bugs me. And I'm not fixing it - I'm leaving it there in defiance. Defiance, by the way (BTW, in Internet lingo) is located a mere twelve miles from Tarnation.
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Good Morning!
Well, I'm about to jump in the shower in order to get ready to head out... And get some PIE!!!
See you there!
I'll most likely be out most of the day... Be sure to have some pie for yourselves too!
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Oh, and as for the "packages" on/of the men in the MAMMA MIA! curtain call/sing-along/dance-along... They always make me laugh - and sometimes the cast laugh too. The costume designers certainly have a creative use of spandex and cotton balls/socks/foam/etc. ;) I even seem to remember one time where one of the guys was making a curtain speech during the BC/EFA fundraising drive season, and he remarked that he had just been given a new "enhancement" by his dresser... Then he stood in profile to show it off! :D
OK... Time to run for PIE!!
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It's "boycott"... And Defiance is FIFTEEN miles from Tarnation. Twelve miles from Tarnation is Disobedience. People often get confused and lost
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I won't eat at Carl's Jr. or purchase Coors beer. Although Carl Karcher and the Coors family are no longer involved in the management of these two companies, they still hold a good deal of their stock. Company profits profit them, and they donate too much of their money to right wing causes to which I am opposed.
Like Dear Reader Ben, I, too, will avoid establishments that do not treat me with the respect that is due a customer.
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TCB not only do you look very handsome in focus but you look much younger.
Thanks for the pic. :)
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And, it has been pointed out to me, that I misspelled "principal" in the notes. That is not correct, I did not misspell "principal" I misUSED principal. I meant to use principle but it was late and I didn't catch my mistake. But, this is the problem with the English language - two words which sound alike but which are spelled differently and mean different things. I hate to cadge from Mr. Benjamin Kritzer, but that just bugs me. And I'm not fixing it - I'm leaving it there in defiance. Defiance, by the way (BTW, in Internet lingo) is located a mere twelve miles from Tarnation.
Just remember what Mary Richards once said: the principal of your school is your pal.
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I boycot any project with Will Smith due to some remarks he made when he was cast (mis)cast in the film version of 6 DEGREES.
He has since appologized for those remarks.
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Glad someone answered my Will Smith question before I had a chance, but that is basically it. He got a lot of flack in the press at the time and never really appologized forhis homophobic attitude.
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Last night, S. Woody wrote: "They were wearing spandex, and you were looking at their CHESTS? "
Yes, believe it or not, that's the biggest turn-on for me (since you seemed surprised I wasn't checking out baskets or other portions of their anatomies). Say what you want about me, but you can NEVER say I'm a size queen.
(Remember, you brought up this topic, not I).
Hmmm. It DOES seem a waste of good spandex.
(Even if "good spandex" is an oxymoron.)
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Welcome eleven GUESTS. We're talkin' about PIE. We're talking about Cahn. We're talkin' about boycotting.
And I'm off to the theater for an entire day of light cues.
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Smith DID appologize. The appology never got the press that the original remarks received. (He also admitted he was wrong to refuse the kiss, and that his doing so hurt the film.)
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That's funny - eleven GUESTS became five GUESTS within forty seconds of my saying hello. Yes, that is mighty funny.
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BK, I love reading about the show. It's sort of like your very own Juliana's Journal. Btw, how is she doing?
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There's a restaurant in these parts called Crabby Dick's.
Yes, that's it's name, Crabby Dick's.
Specializing in seafood, the owners are trying to have things both ways. They are claiming to be a family restaurant, but have a big sign out front, along Highway One, where they have posted some of the worst double-entendre slogans der Brucer and I have seen. (Such as "Pop our crab balls in your mouth" which was then followed by a phrase that was just plain dirty. :P)
Der Brucer thought that he was maybe on the eccentric fringe, finding the signage offensive. Lo and behold, the local paper, the Cape Gazette, printed several letters protesting the sign, and joined in with an editorial of their own.
Crabby Dick's has not appologized, of course, but has toned down their sign, emphasizing their "family" image. But they're still trying to have it both ways, now by proclaiming themselves as "famous" because of the sign controversy.
The problem is, boycotting the place really isn't worth the time. Their food is simply below average, and not worth paying for. (Der B and I sampled their wares on opening day, before the sign showed signs of being significantly sub-witty.) We're just not going back, is all.
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I am eating a nice healthy breakfast of super-extra buttery popcorn and a Cherry Coke. I didn't get out of futon until 10:30 after Arthur was over. I am really living it up until school starts.
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Sandra, if you were in New York, you could watch Arthur at 4pm on Channel 13-WNET and then again at 5pm on Channel 21-WLIW. Sometimes, if I ride the exercise bike in the late afternoon (which I'll try to do if we're going out later in the evening), I'll watch an Arthur. "D DOUBLE U" (you gotta watch the show to know what that means and it's phonentic too).
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Thank you, Panni, for mentioning "Time After Time" which had slipped my mind as a Cahn lyric and is one of my all-time favorites.
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I'm thinking I'll be watching THE ITALIAN JOB later today. Yes, I mean the one with Michael Caine and Noel Coward, not the fairly recent remake with Mark Walhberg (which I understand was pretty good).
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Okay, enough reading of posts. I must write until the moo-things come home. On my walk this morning, I unfortunately decided to change the entire beginning that I've already rewritten. Note to self: MUST STOP THINKING.
...Should I do my errands now or wait until later? Life is complicated. I hear mooing from the pool. I think it's the turtle playing tricks on me, the little devil.
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Sandra, if you were in New York, you could watch Arthur at 4pm on Channel 13-WNET and then again at 5pm on Channel 21-WLIW. Sometimes, if I ride the exercise bike in the late afternoon (which I'll try to do if we're going out later in the evening), I'll watch an Arthur. "D DOUBLE U" (you gotta watch the show to know what that means and it's phonentic too).
Well, that's reason enough to move to New York. That and that whole "Broadway" thing I've heard so much about.
Here, Arthur is on at 10 in the morning and again at 4 in the afternoon. I plan my day around it.
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Imagine poor DR Sandra's fix, if a boycott were called against Cherry Coke!
That's the problem with boycotts: if they aren't against things you would otherwise purchase or enjoy, they really aren't boycotts, they're just excuses.
I never thought much about the Coors boycott, because I was never impressed with Coors beer. Heck, Bud was always too watery for my taste, purchased for the buzz and nothing else.
For that matter, I can't recall any gay bars in SoCal that sold Coors. The bar owners were already boycotting the product, so I didn't have any voice in the matter. And I think part of what was going on at the owner level was that the distributors assumed that the owners were boycotting, and didn't even bother offering the swill. The only time the Coors name was found anywhere near the SoCal gay community was during the Gay Pride Festivals, which they would help sponsor. Not that it did them much good.
No, if I were to boycott something, I'd have to be giving that something up, something I'd otherwise enjoy. There's a local brew called Dogfish Head that I'd miss, if I had to boycott them for some reason. And an organized boycott would have an impact on their business, unlike the national brands.
Maybe I could boycott Lent. Nah, wouldn't work, I'm not Catholic.
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Mame last night at the Hollywood Bowl was thoroughly delightful.
There was a large unit set that reached from one side of the newly expanded Bowl shell to the other. The actors were lavishly costumed and off-book. There was a plentitude of choreography in all the spots you'd expect it. Throughout the evening, I kept thinking about all that effort, all those hours of preparation and rehearsal, all for a one-night-only performance.
Miss Michele Lee was a warm and endearing Mame, and her affection for Patrick anchored her performance. Her very interior interpretation of "If He Walked Into My Life" was a highlight of the evening. The young Patrick (Mr. Ben Platt) was very good, and their "My Best Girl" duet was another bright spot in the show.
Lovely to look at and listen to, as always, Miss Christine Ebersole was a pleasure, but I must say she was rather miscast as Vera Charles. Though she handled the Moon sequence and her other comic bits with aplomb, the role calls for someone a little grittier than she. There even is a reference in the dialogue to Vera's baritone voice, which, of course, does not describe the quality of Miss Ebersole's voice in the least.
Miss Allyce Beasley was perfect as Gooch. I could not tell whether the (at times) screechy singing voice was a put-on or not, but her rendition of Gooch's song deservedly got one of the bigger ovations of the evening.
Mr. John Schneider made for a Beauregard pleasant to look at and listen to.
There was some additional celebrity casting in Mr. Fred Willard as Lindsay Woosley and Mr. Alan Thicke as Mr. Upson. Miss Lauri Johnson was especially juicy as Mrs. Burnside.
Perhaps because of the direction, perhaps because of the size of the shell and the venue, the show's comedy came off as a bit understated. You rarely hear me call for broader humor, but the show could have used some of it here and there, especially in the scenes involving any of the Upsons.
Mr. Jerry Herman--in a white suit and looking like he just got off his shift on the ice cream truck--was in the audience and took a bow with the cast at the evening's conclusion.
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That's funny - eleven GUESTS became five GUESTS within forty seconds of my saying hello. Yes, that is mighty funny.
That happens every time you comment on the number of guests. Are you getting a pit paranoid yet? :)
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I told this story here many moons ago in more detail, but I did boycott Target because they wouldn't exchange a defective telephone (I couldn't find the receipt, but I didn't want my money back, just wanted to get a working phone!). The boycott only lasted a few hours, however, as they had jeans on sale that I wanted to get (I returned wearing different clothes and my glasses so that the manager, whom I had told I would never shop at Target again, with wouldn't recognize me, LOL.)
I also wanted to boycott my brother-in-law because he was advertising on a local radio station during the Laura Schleshinger (sp?) program. He sells insurance.
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I've been thinking all day that I've never intentionally been a part of a boycott, but I did, in fact, stop drinking Florida orange juice all those years ago while Anita Bryant was their spokesperson.
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Imagine poor DR Sandra's fix, if a boycott were called against Cherry Coke!
Don't even say that! *Spitting on my fingers like what's-her-name in Fiddler on the Roof (Is there a word for that?)*
MBarnum, did the manager recognize you?
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Don't even say that! *Spitting on my fingers like what's-her-name in Fiddler on the Roof (Is there a word for that?)*
It's Golde and you spit between your fingers, not on them.
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Oh. Thanks. *Wiping off my fingers*
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Sammy Cahn songs:
Call Me Irresponsible
High Hopes
I Still Get Jealous
It's Been a Long Time
Let It Snow! Let It Snow! Let It Snow!
Saturday Night (Is the Loneliest Night of the Week)
Teach Me Tonight
The Tender Trap [I love Janis Siegel's version of this!]
Thoroughly Modern Millie [this is by Sammy Cahn, isn't it?]
Time After Time
As far as I can remember, I've never boycotted anything. I know that if I did, I'd tell everyone I know so that they could choose to support my boycott and boycott whatever I was boycotting, also.
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Don't even say that! *Spitting on my fingers like what's-her-name in Fiddler on the Roof (Is there a word for that?)*
MBarnum, did the manager recognize you?
Probably! As it turned out when I was standing in line with my jeans that I just had to have and, they were calling for additional cashers, the manager opened up a cash register and the cashier whose line I was standing in motioned for me to go into the line that the manager opened, as it was empty...I was mortified!
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...I returned wearing different clothes and glasses so that the manager...wouldn't recognize me, LOL.
That's our own MBarnum, man of mystery.
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I had a further thought about the intentional use of anachronistic music, such as the vaudevillian sound of A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum.
The first two Andrew Lloyd Webber scores were set in Biblical times, and the creators of Jesus Christ Superstar clearly wanted to make the point that Jesus and the Disciples were not unlike the long-haired hippie youths of today (today being 1970, when it was written). So, the choice was made to use contemporary rock, and I think it's a brilliant choice. Nobody really knows what music sounded like at the time of Christ, anyway. Anachronism was used
just for the fun of it.
In Evita, Lloyd Webber used that driving 12/8 bass and the latin party music of Big Apple (Buenos Aires) - is Buenos Aires called the Big Apple? I'm confused already. These musical styles didn't exist during the life of Eva Peron. And yet there doesn't seem to be any "fun" reason for the choice. It's as if he used anachronism because he didn't know better.
Lloyd Webber's subsequent period pieces baffle me further. In the basement of the Paris Opera, during the 1800's, we hear a pounding 8-to-the-bar disco beat over which is set Kurt Weill's Ballad of the Easy Life. Why? One can only surmise he utilized this anachronism because he wanted a hit record people could dance to.
Thank God Cats and Starlight Express aren't set in a specific time and place. I don't know the show Sunset Boulevard very well. Was it updated to the sixties? I ask this because I've played the song As If We Never Said Goodbye and it trills around on major seventh chords... exactly what one would expect of Newley & Bricusse in the 1960s.
You can say that a lot of people don't notice these things, but having a sense of time and place is one objective measure of music's value. Loewe, Rodgers and Jerry Bock were masters of this. Lloyd Webber, it seems, doesn't try.
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I’m great at boycotting stores with rude service. I get especially annoyed when I have been a regular customer and am treated as if my business doesn’t matter.
Thankfully there has only been one store in Ashland I have not returned to due to rude service. Not that service is always great here, but it was the owner of the store. When we first moved to Michigan I never boycotted more stores in my life. Fortunately there were plenty of wonderful little shops in the area.
It was in Michigan that I even boycotted a Baskin Robbins store. I should have called the corporation to complain. The owner wouldn’t give me a sample of a new flavor, telling me it was just vanilla with whatever the addition was. I turned to my friend and said “let’s leave” and I never returned. Later I heard the owner was not a very nice person and most of his young employees found other employment as quickly as possible.
Speaking of Baskin Robbins I am having some of their chocolate chip right now-delicious. :)
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I want ice cream please!
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On the other hand I do patronize stores that give great service! Particularly, I like to go to Oil Can Henry's for my cars oil changes..the employees wear uniforms and neat little caps and are very friendly and helpful. They even give you a newspaper to read while you are in your car waiting.
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Mr. Moore, how's the back? And, did you resolve your air conditioner problem? It's muggy and uncomfortable. It's worse if you're in pain.
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Sammy Cahn - Some faves I can think of... April in Paris
April In Paris is by Yip Harburg, with music by Vernon Duke. I don't think Cahn ever wrote anything nearly as eloquent.
Has anyone mentioned I Fall In Love Too Easily yet? That's a good one.
I saw Christine Ebersole play Mame (the character) at Paper Mill
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I also go to places that treat customers well. We have a greenmarket in Union Square Park here in New York and even though some of the prices are a bit higher, I always go to Baker's Bounty for good cakes and other treats. The people are pleasant and I trust their opinion of the goods they sell.
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MBarnum we had a similar situation. When Century City first opened it consisted of the Broadway Department Store, surrounded by smaller shops. Most of the shops accepted the Broadway credit card. When we were first married Keith & I went into one of the little shops to purchase me some much needed clothes only to find our credit card was denied. Keith kept protesting but as it was a Sunday couldn’t get anyone of value to speak to. He was horrified anyone would think we had not paid our bill. On Monday the situation was corrected, without an apology. Keith wrote a letter to Broadway along with his destroyed credit card and we boycotted the store. Of course they never acknowledged the letter. Well months past and eventually Broadway had something on sale Keith wanted. He used my card and went to charge the item. I kept saying we don’t have a charge anymore and hid while he made the purchase-silly girl that I was. Broadway had never cancelled our card. ;D
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All the years I lived in Boulder I boycotted a restaurant called Pasta Jay's (a long story). I'm proud that I never caved in because DD always wanted us to go there (she often went there with her friends) and did her best to wear me down. But I held fast, DRs. Which if you knew my DD you'd realize was a heroic thing to do.
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In the late seventies we did boycott products made in Japan to protest their killing of dolphins and whales. We kept to that for a number of years, but I’m sorry to say have not maintained it. It’s difficult to boycott the products of an entire country.
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I just took Abie out to do his business and found a lovely SURPRISE GIFT hanging on the fence that leads to the back where my guest house is!
The producers of the piece I'm working away on dropped off a little gift bag in which are three frogs (porcelain - not real) -- Three Little Muses to inspire me as I write. They hung the bag on the fence with a sweet note for me. I'm quite speechless!
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Sammy Cahn - Some faves I can think of...
Time After Time; The Tender Trap; April in Paris; Three Coins in the Fountain; Pocketful of Miracles; Let it Snow; and already mentioned: September of My Years and I Guess I'll Hang My Tears Out to Dry.
Well, DRPanni has mentioned several of my favorite Sammy Cahn songs but I'd add to that list "Saturday Night is the Loneliest Night of the Week."
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Again, when we lived in Michigan, the rabbi at our temple boycotted Domino’s Pizza and grapes. Neither was allowed in the temple. At home I only boycotted the pizza. There were far better places to purchase from anyway. I did however allow my boys to order pizza delivery, so I guess it wasn’t much of a boycott. LOL
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elmore wonderful song.
Ben asked how your back it? I will second the question.
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I tried to send a picture, but it's still not working. Skammen!
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Well, DRPanni has mentioned several of my favorite Sammy Cahn songs but I'd add to that list "Saturday Night is the Loneliest Night of the Week."
Yes! Add that to my list, too.
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And one for Mahler! (No Sammy Cahn was Gustav.)
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Hey Everyone
The new Broadway Radio Show went up this morning. Sorry for the delay, but I had some DSL problems all day yesterday.
Enjoy!
Donald
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Mr. Moore, how's the back? And, did you resolve your air conditioner problem? It's muggy and uncomfortable. It's worse if you're in pain.
DRBen, I spent all day yesterday in bed. After standing all day Friday and Saturday at Barnes and Noble, I could hardly move. I do think it's improving. I just want and demand instant gratification.
Anachronisms in musicals? It's my observation that a lot of musicals, from Victor Herbert on, may be set in mitter-Europe, anywhere on earth, but they always end up in New York, e.g.:
BABES IN TOYLAND (1903): sort of English pantomime, but a lot of the jokes are topical New York ones, especially the lead-in to "Before and After."
THE RED MILL (1907?): Con Kidder and Kid Conner may be stuck in Holland, but they're New Yorkers and they're taking the innkeeper's daughter back to New York to star on Broadway! The Big song? "In Old New York."
THE LADY OF THE SLIPPER (1912): Cinderella, her stepsisters and prince may live in some foreign land, but the Scarecrow and Pumpkinhead (Montgomery and Stone) are brash New Yorkers.
I MARRIED AN ANGEL (1937?): Set in Budapest, everyone jumps into a New York number "At the Roxy Music Hall."
THE BOYS FROM SYRACUSE (1938): full of anachronisms: set in Ancient Greece, there are references to Romeo and Juliet, the Brothers Shubert (known as "the boys from Syracuse," NY), the Hudson River Night Boat to Albany.
A FUNNY THING HAPPENED ON THE WAY TO THE FORUM (1962): right next door to Minsky's and its burlesque comedians.
Anybody want to add more?
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Yes! Add that to my list, too.
Great minds, dearie!
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Panni how wonderful and sweet. :)
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Again, when we lived in Michigan, the rabbi at our temple boycotted Domino’s Pizza and grapes. Neither was allowed in the temple. At home I only boycotted the pizza. There were far better places to purchase from anyway. I did however allow my boys to order pizza delivery, so I guess it wasn’t much of a boycott. LOL
DR Jane, why did he boycott Domino's? I remember years ago a call to boycott Pizza Hut because they made corporate contributions to right-wing organiziations. But I don't remember hearing anything about Domino's.
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For a good laugh check out this Girlie Man t-shirt site.
http://www.acapparel.com/Promos/girlie_man_tshirts.htm
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DR Panni, nice surprise!
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Dan (the Man) they were (are?) large donators to the antiabortionist groups.
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THE BOYS FROM SYRACUSE (1938): full of anachronisms: set in Ancient Greece, there are references to Romeo and Juliet, the Brothers Shubert (known as "the boys from Syracuse," NY), the Hudson River Night Boat to Albany.
Not to mention the Andrews Sisters (or maybe Boswell Sisters) with "Sing For Your Supper".
Anybody want to add more?
Company (1970) -- the Andrews Sisters, again, in "You Could Drive a Person Crazy".
Pippin (1972) -- The Manson Trio number (just about the entire show, for that matter.)
Might as well add "Two Gentlemen of Verona" and "Your Own Thing", too.
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Dan (the Man) they were (are?) large donators to the antiabortionist groups.
I thought Pizza Hut was the donator to the pro-life groups.
Uh-oh...
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I never heard about Pizza Hut but it doesn't mean they didn't. If they did, I'm glad I didn't know. I liked their pizza. :D
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An essay I wrote in 1999 defined five periods in the history of musical theatre:
1) the operetta era, ending in the 20's
2) the musical comedy era, spanning the career of Rodgers & Hart
3) the Golden Age, which one usually ends around Hair
4) Director's Theatre, when the director was often more important than the writers. Quick, it's whose A Chorus Line?
5) Eurotrash, which seems to have begun with Les Miserables
In the twenties and thirties, musicals were fun romps, and the books merely held together a collection of songs the writers expected to become hits. It wasn't important to them to accurately depict time and place, they were just looking for a hit, so you get September Song in Knickerbocker Holiday, a show set in the Dutch period of New York history.
The Boys From Syracuse is a prime example of a musical comedy, words and music meant to make one laugh, and, in the musical theatre of the 1930s, the genre hadn't evolved, yet, to discover the importance of musically dramatizing time and place.
The composers that are writing today should be aware of the innovations of the Golden Age. My trouble with much that's been written in the past 30 years or so is that they ignore the virtues of coloring time and place with music, eschewing self-pity, including subtext and wit, and rhyming correctly.
Luckily, there are still writers around who value those virtues: Maltby & Shire, Yeston, Sondheim, Kander & Ebb, Larry Grossman, Carnelia & Hamlisch, Strouse & Adams, and Jones & Schmidt, to name a few
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An anacronism: Bruce Valanch making Schwartzeneger jokes in HAIRSPRAY which tkes place in the early 60s...
For those of you who posted that you watch Arthur in the afternoon: is that supposed to be a Kander & Ebb/Liza reference?
Oh another boycott: I won'teat at the restaurant across from my office because they hire waitresses who barely speak English and always get my order wrong: the straw that broke the camel's back: on the menu they have item called "chicken salad melt on pita with an order of potato salad"; list time I ordered it I got potato salad on a pita!
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No, SUNSET BLVD. was not updated to the 1960s. Cecil B. DeMille is a principal character in the second act, and he was dead by the 1960s. The time is 1949, just like the movie.
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Here is today's George Eads picture.
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Zero Mostel used to give results of baseball games and boxing matches during FIDDLER ON THE ROOF and FORUM. I think people thought it was part of the zany fun of FORUM, but it was totally wrong for FIDDLER. I would have been outraged to be taken out of that time and place if I had been there to have him do that to an audience. Some stars think they can do no wrong.
I didn't much care for Pearl Bailey ad-libbing during HELLO, DOLLY either, but I've beat that criticism of her Dolly into the ground.
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I read a review (New York, I believe) praising Pippin's score for its medieval feel. You can hear it best in With You and Spread a Little Sunshine.
Wasn't Your Own Thing updated to the present? Its contemporary music was supposed to reflect the changing sexual mores of the time, when, at last, it was OK to be gay. Wish the Bushies felt the same...
Two Gentlemen of Verona is one of my favorites. Like most of Joe Papp's Shakespeare in the park productions, it was supposed to contemporize the setting and use a cast that reflected the ethnic diversity of New York. Galt McDermott's score does this wonderfully: the samba for Thurio, the country western waltz for the other clown, Proteus' calypso, and the soul numbers for the black characters. Much to be admired in that score.
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I won'teat at the restaurant across from my office because they hire waitresses who barely speak English and always get my order wrong: the straw that broke the camel's back: on the menu they have item called "chicken salad melt on pita with an order of potato salad"; list time I ordered it I got potato salad on a pita!
You won WHAT at the restaurant across from your office?????
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Matt H., fortunately Zero Mostel didn’t add lib sports results when we saw him. We loved him in Fiddler.
WEL was your potato salad on pita good? LOL. I hope you told the management why you would not be returning.
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Pace, DR Noel, but I am going to disagree with you about your various periods of musical theatre. It's my belief, from the turn of the 20th Century to the present, that musical theatre has always comprised three basic forms:
1. operetta
2. musical comedy
3. review
These forms are ever-changing but ever-constant in their attitudes if not their appellations, so in 1903, you might see
1. BABES IN TOYLAND (musical comedy termed "extravaganza") Victor Herbert
2. BABETTE (operetta) Victor Herbert
3. WHOOP-DE-DOO (a Weber-Fields variety show)
1917:
1. OH, LADY! LADY! (musical comedy) Jerome Kern
2. MAYTIME (operetta) Sigmund Romberg
3. ODDS AND ENDS OF 1917 (review)
1927:
1. SHOW BOAT (operetta) Jerome Kern
2. GOOD NEWS (musical comedy) DaSilva, Henderson, Brown
3. THE GRAND STREET FOLLIES (review)
1945:
1. CAROUSEL (operetta renamed "musical play") Rodgers
2. BILLION DOLLAR BABY (musical comedy) Morton Gould
3. CONCERT VARIETIES (review)
1956:
1. CANDIDE (operetta) Leonard Bernstein
2. BELLS ARE RINGING (musical comedy) Jule Styne
3. NEW FACES (review)
In today's terrible economy, there aren't enough shows mounted, but here's what's in the THEATRE WORLD 2000-2001
1. FOLLIES & KISS ME, KATE (operetta)
2. FULL MONTY & ANNIE GET YOUR GUN (musical comedy)
3. FOSSE (Review)
I also don't believe that "September Song" is wedged into KNICKERBOCKER HOLIDAY to have a hit, but I do believe the stories that it was created to give Walter Houston a sentimental moment. KNICKERBOCKER HOLIDAY, like the Gershwins' STRIKE UP THE BAND and OF THEE I SING, Cole Porter's JUBILEE, and Rodgers & Hart's DEAREST ENEMY were clear attempts to Americanize the operas of Gilbert & Sullivan: KNICKERBOCKER's model was THE MIKADO, and that's a pretty good piece to emulate. I also think that the Kern-Wodehouse-Bolton shows of 1917-1920 were rather well put together. A period show will certainly show its age, just as a film or opera will, but that doesn't mean its creators were more naive or unconcerned about the dramatic unities as our smarter and more informed contemporaries.
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I've just spent an hour I can't spare at the AT&T store -- and my phone still isn't fixed! Boycott anyone?
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Zero Mostel used to give results of baseball games and boxing matches during FIDDLER ON THE ROOF and FORUM. I think people thought it was part of the zany fun of FORUM, but it was totally wrong for FIDDLER. I would have been outraged to be taken out of that time and place if I had been there to have him do that to an audience. Some stars think they can do no wrong.
I didn't much care for Pearl Bailey ad-libbing during HELLO, DOLLY either, but I've beat that criticism of her Dolly into the ground.
I've been wondering of late about how bad Mostel really was with the ad-libbing in Forum and Fiddler. I don't remember hearing or reading about such behavior when he was doing straight plays. When I saw him do the Fiddler revival in Philly in '76, he gave a straight-on performance. And don't most stars start to ad-lib and play on-stage games during long runs? Lane and Broderick admit they did it all the time in The Producers. And there's Florence Eldridge and her hippo-dermic needle. I wonder if Mostel is just getting a bad rep through the statements of a few.
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There are so many Sammy Cahn songs to chose from. I tried unsuccessfully to find a complete list-don’t want to miss one. I would be surprised to find a song of his I don’t like.
“Saturday Night (Is the Loneliest Night of the Week)”-worth repeating.
“Ain’t That a Kick in the Head”
“Call Me Irresponsible”
“Come Fly With Me
“Time After Time”
“The Second Time Around”
“Let It Snow”
“I Believe”
“Love and Marriage”
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I've just spent an hour I can't spare at the AT&T store -- and my phone still isn't fixed! Boycott anyone?
This reminds me of Lily Tomlin as Ernestine doing a commercial for the phone company. The tag line was "We don't care. We don't have to--We're The Phone Company."
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I've just spent an hour I can't spare at the AT&T store -- and my phone still isn't fixed! Boycott anyone?
;D Possible, but what a hassel. I know I would not use their cell phone service.
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Dan (the Man) you must have seen the same quality of performance we did.
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"And don't most stars start to ad-lib and play on-stage games during long runs? "
I'm not sure the audience was aware they were playing around with each other on stage. I think they were private running gags they perpetrated out of view of the audience.
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Well, I've got two quotes about Mostel's shenanigans:
One from the book BROADWAY"S GREATEST MUSICAL by Abe Laufe:
"Commentators and critics have written a great deal about Zero Mostel's magnificent portrayal as Yevye, expressing their delight in his dymamic interpretation of the role when the show first opened, and their dissatisfaction with his ad libbing after the show had been running for awhile."
And from SONDHEIM & CO.m a direct quote from Sondheim:
" As far as Zero Mostel was concerned, he was wonderful on the road, but the minute he got to New York and became a star from the reviews, he would begin doing things like announcing the results of the heavyweight fight from the stage . . . wish everyone a happy Halloween. . . imitate the other actors. He did that in FIDDLER, too, which was even less seemly."
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I've just spent an hour I can't spare at the AT&T store -- and my phone still isn't fixed! Boycott anyone?
Get a cell phone...and ONLY a cell phone! I gave up my land line almost two years ago and I've never had a problem. Just do the research about which provider has the best area coverage (I have Verizon and have never lost a call...except for a low battery, which is my fault) and the minutes plan that suits you best. I know several other people who have also gotten rid of their land line. It's the wave of the future! AND if you get the (optional) insurance, they'll replace your phone for any reason...even if you lose it!
A friend of mine has the insurance and she's gotten four (yes, FOUR) replacements within the last two years. She has two children under the age of eight and one time they hid her phone but could never remember where they hid it. She tried calling the phone, but it was turned off. She got another phone a couple of days later. ::) She could've gotten a replacement sooner, but she couldn't get to the store that quickly.
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Just don't get an AT & T phone. At a financial loss, my son in Portland finally switched from them he had so many problems. Come to think of it my other son also had issues with them when they purchased Cellular One in San Francisco. Had he not been leaving soon for the Peace Corps he would have switched companies. The problem with a cell phone is you need to keep it charged and often the connection isn't as good as a land phone.
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Pace, DR Noel, but I am going to disagree with you about your various periods of musical theatre. It's my belief, from the turn of the 20th Century to the present, that musical theatre has always comprised three basic forms:
1. operetta
2. musical comedy
3. review
I just got a kind note from DRJay to let me know I misspelled "review!" I looked in my Oxford-American dictionary and it says "do not confuse review with revue." DRJay, now you know: I can pontificate but I can't spell worth a dam!
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Unfortunately the phone in question IS a cell phone. When it works properly it's a marvel. But right now...
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elmore you were just following Bruce's example from today’s notes. :)
Panni I was afraid you were going to say that. ::)
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elmore you were just following Bruce's example from today’s notes. :)
Jane, Jane, Jane,
You are one of the best!
I've been thinking about boycotting, and I'm sure I have, but at this moment I can think of nothing except what a wonderful person is DR Jane, Jane, Jane!
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I forgot to add this charming vignette at the AT&T store. The fellow who was "helping" me asked for my cell phone number and keyed it in on his computer. He looked very intently at whatever was on the screen and finally said, "My Louisiana Sky, Miss Rose White..." reeling off all my credits, ending with "We saw a preview of Tiger Cruise last night. Looks good." I was, needles to say, speechless. (And angry.) He'd looked me up on IMDB! He said he always does that with Studio City customers, just in case. Because of course he's working on a screenply...
Aaaaarggghhhh!
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Isn't my little girl just so cute :)
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Time to take the Abester for a walk, then back to work. I meant to say "screenplay" above, but won't bother modifying.
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Echo has very similar coloring to Abie! She's beautiful.
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I forgot to add this charming vignette at the AT&T store. The fellow who was "helping" me asked for my cell phone number and keyed it in on his computer. He looked very intently at whatever was on the screen and finally said, "My Louisiana Sky, Miss Rose White..." reeling off all my credits, ending with "We saw a preview of Tiger Cruise last night. Looks good." I was, needles to say, speechless. (And angry.) He'd looked me up on IMDB! He said he always does that with Studio City customers, just in case. Because of course he's working on a screenply...
Aaaaarggghhhh!
Well, DR Panni, the only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about. Your stock went up in his opinion, and I'm sure your name has been dropped more times today than a hooker's briefs.
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This sky was sitting above Echo in her previous picture. Isn't it grand?
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elmore :D and ;D.
Oh no, I didn't listen to my song today-better do so now while I get dinner. :)
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Oh, and thank you Panni. I did notice the color similarity-must be why Abie is such a doll. :)
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This sky was sitting above Echo in her previous picture. Isn't it grand?
Beautiful pic of a beautiful sunset, Jane.
Red skies at evening,
Sailors be leaving?
I forget how that one goes...
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Good evening all!
Is it Friday yet? Why do Mondays always have seem like—Monday?
I have a pet peeve to air after watching the news as I type this. Why do they have to blab what improvements have been made to buildings against terrorism? I mean, hello, just put that kind of information out there for everyone to see/know about. Yes, let's take the right to know and use it against ourselfs. Make it easy for them. Duh.
I’m sorry but that ticks me off. That kind of information should be kept QUIET, End of rant.
On a more pleasant note,
TCB—that is a very nice picture of you! Hear, hear on the fabo picture comment!
George, I positively LOVE your mail idea. I am going to print that out and take it to work with me tomorrow. Starting with my cable bill, I will start sending all the junk that comes with it back to the companies who send me that stuff.
BOYCOTTING
I never go to the circus when it’s in town.
I never eat tuna. To be honest, that’s not hard—you know how I feel about sea food. ;D
Jane, I LOVE the picture of Echo. How nice to finely see what she looks like.
Elmore, I hope your back is doing much better. If you could stand for hours at the book store it must be getting somewhat back in shape. No pun intended.
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Wasn't Your Own Thing updated to the present? Its contemporary music was supposed to reflect the changing sexual mores of the time, when, at last, it was OK to be gay.
YOT was unabasedly updated to the sixties:
"Your Own Thing" (The title song) - a sixties idiom - contains lyrics phrases like, "tell it like it is", "do your own thing...dig your own soul".
"The Now Generation" contains lyrical references to "mini skirts, polka dotted shirts, dressed from Carnaby, bell-bottom pants, LSD, pot and crew-cuts".
And the haunting anti-moderism ballad "The Flowers" starts with "So much glass, so much steel, what's there to care, what's there to feel. All that glass, all that chrome, can I ever call this place home."
Not to mention, the continuing projections of the Pope, Nixon, etc. all added to the late sixties tone of the show.
der Brucer (clearly a fan of the show!)
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Red skies at evening,
Sailors be leaving?
I forget how that one goes...
Red skies at night, sailors' delight.
Red skies at morning, sailors take warning.
der old salt Brucer
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You won’t find me in the IMBD but if you google my name, you will learn is that I post at HWW (unless I’m mistaken for the Jane who writes books on flower pressing and other handy crafts) and that is all. What do you suppose the AT&T guy would think of me? ;D
Thank you DTM and Danise. Photos by Keith.
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One of my closest friends is an executive at Prudential's headquarters in Newark, N.J. and he tells me it was no picnic over there today.
A lot of the activity, he said, fell squarely into the category of "Photo Opportunity."
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I just got a kind note from DRJay to let me know I misspelled "review!" I looked in my Oxford-American dictionary and it says "do not confuse review with revue." DRJay, now you know: I can pontificate but I can't spell worth a dam!
Dear Reader Elmore:
You spelled "review" just fine. It was "revue" you #$%&ed up.
(Don't I sound like Vice President material when I talk like that?)
;D
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Now to the TOD - and my Make An Enemy Every Day post:
Long Standing boycotts:
Jane Fonda
Red Cross
(Joan Baez removed when she appologized for her egrgious anti-war rhetoric)
Current boycotts:
France
Michael Moore
Pending Boycotts:
Canada
My boycotts are generally personal protests - they make me feel better; I rarely attempt to influence others. The only time I was forced to get really vocal about my "personal boycotts" was when a Military Commander was trying to get brownie points for having his unit have 100% contribution to the Red Cross. He asked couldn't I at least give a dime - and I said "not one red cent"! He said, fine, he'd contribute in my name; I said, "If you do, you'll read about it in the papers!" - the man just didn't comprehend a stand of principle!
der Brucer
PS I have a problem with efforts to hold sponsors accountable for the dramatic content of shows on which their ads appear.
I also think a policy of boycotting Cuba and free-trading with The People's Republic of China is non-sensical.
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This sky was sitting above Echo in her previous picture. Isn't it grand?
Quite grand, Jane! I've made it my computer desktop wallpaper!
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DerBrucer why didn't you take Jane Fonda off the list when she apologized?
Why the Red Cross?
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Dear Reader Elmore:
You spelled "review" just fine. It was "revue" you #$%&ed up.
(Don't I sound like Vice President material when I talk like that?)
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I like the idea of using Cheney as a eupherism for f*ck, as in "Go Cheney yourself" or "Cheney you and the bus you rode in on". If enough people use Cheney that way, it will become synonymous with f*ck. Eventually, Cheney will be one of those words you can't say on TV.
As Kurt Vonnegut said, "Why don't you take a flying Cheney at a rolling donut? Why don't you take a flying Cheney at the mooooooooon!"
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If you google my maiden name you might think I’m a writer, producer, director and have a special relationship with someone with the initials LT.
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After that last post I think I should go read a book, or something. :D
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Dan TM - From now on "cheney" will be my favorite word. I shall be saying "Go cheney yourself" night and day (a Cole Porter reference!).
Der Brucer: Why Canada? And why NOt the Boy Scouts?
My DD has a long list of cosmetic products she boycotts because of animal testing. I'll have to ask her because at the moment I can't remember a single one.
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What's your maiden name, Jane?
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You don't want to guess. I'll give you a clue, LT is a woman and she was mentioned today.
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lily tomlin?
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lily tomlin?
That must be it! Lily's longtime companion (like, for over 30 years now) is Jane Wagner, author of "The Search for Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe" and "Moment by Moment".
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I think Dan TM wins an all expenses paid trip to Ashland.
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If you Google me you'll see that I'm making mission trips to Hungary. (Don't tell the rabbi!)
Also, I coach a girls' soccer team.
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I could do that for DTM, if I still lived in Ivyland, PA. ;)
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Good one, Emily.
I was thinking Lana Turner. Or Lila Tremaine.
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I'm hungry, but I can't decide what to eat. I may go to Gelson's and scope out the place. Or somewhere else... Decisions, decisions...
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PIE!
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Gelson's, Allen Wertz honeycomb or red licorice.
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My favorites among Sammy Cahn songs include "Come Fly With Me," and the joyous "Walking Happy." I like the "Tender Trap," but can no longer hear it without thinking about Billy Crystal's Oscar takeoff ("Those eyes/Those thighs/Surprise!/It's The Crying Game"). (BTW, it was Bruce Vilanch, I understand, who penned those lyrics.) Of his Oscar winners, "All the Way" is by far my favorite. But "Call Me Irresponsible"? I'm surprised it won over "Charade" and "More" (theme from Mondo Cane).
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Warning, following is a post by a proud mother :)
It would be nice if I googled Craig and found something regarding his Peace Corps work, but no such luck. At the end of this month he will be running, with a few other volunteers, a special camp for girls:
"Girls Leading Our World" (GLOW) camp will host 20 young women chosen on the basis of an essay contest held in several local communities. Participants will attend the camp free of charge. They will represent the diverse social, economic, and regional backgrounds of Romania. Participants will be encouraged to network with fellow campers in order to promote the idea of diversity in Romania and enhance resources for participants in the future. All of Camp GLOW programming will be held in English, thus enhancing participants' language skills in order to facilitate a cross-cultural exchange with their American counterparts. In addition to promoting cross-cultural exchanges, Camp GLOW will strive to increase the participants' proficiency in a language that will expand their horizons as Romania moves toward an expanded role in the world community. Camp GLOW will focus on improving leadership, teamwork skills, and self-esteem, while also attempting to improve understanding of the various social issues facing Romania and the world today such as Diversity and Tolerance, Domestic Abuse, Gender Issues, Environmental Responsibility, Conflict Resolution, and Goal Setting among others.”
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Those Google searches are fun - I was 5 last birthday and live in Yorkshire.
Must try for my "birth" name instead later.
Never apologise for being a proud Mother. Warning not necessary at all. Proud sons too I would think.
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Congratulations, proud mama Jane!
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Pace, DR Noel, but I am going to disagree with you about your various periods of musical theatre. It's my belief, from the turn of the 20th Century to the present, that musical theatre has always comprised three basic forms:
1. operetta
2. musical comedy
3. review
These forms are ever-changing but ever-constant in their attitudes if not their appellations...
This is one of the best analysises...analysi...uh, let's start again...
This is one of the best ideas I've come across for analyzing musical theater. Thank-you.
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Red skies at night, sailors' delight.
Red skies at morning, sailors take warning.
der old salt Brucer
Red skies at noon, sailors will swoon?
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Hahaha.....DRPANNI if you email me the turtle pic and the other pic you were trying to post, I will try to post them for ya!
DRJAY thanks for the MAME review! Sounds like it was great!
DRMATTH you are correct - I meant THREE COINS IN THE FOUNTAIN not MANY SPLENDORED THING....whew!
I have Googled myself before....but I will again and find out that....
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Tamale Pie!
:D
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Just as I thought, I am still one of the best rock 'n roll drummers in Key West!
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I hope there are no side effects to googling yourself - just tried it with the name on my birth certificate - nice to know I was stunt bus drive in the latest Harry Potter Film.
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It doesn't hurt.....but sometimes it is surreal!
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I googled my first and last names and only got one hit - an obituary.
Just so that you all know, this goyishe girl's shiva is strictly private :)
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Jane, that sounds like an absolutely great camp your song will be helping to run.
Make sure that his good deeds don't end when/if he returns to the States :)
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Pace, DR Noel, but I am going to disagree with you about your various periods of musical theatre. It's my belief, from the turn of the 20th Century to the present, that musical theatre has always comprised three basic forms:
1. operetta
2. musical comedy
3. revue
But that is my belief, too. Those three types of musical entertainment have existed for nearly 150 years.
My five period of musical theatre are meant to give students an historical perspective, and help them to understand why we insist they perform material that's deeper than Eurotrash, enduring standards (from the musical comedy period) and, the best stuff to act, Golden Age material. The cabarets next week weren't supposed to have anything written after 1980 (but, for good reason, we let a few squeak by).
The clearest difference in periods is from before and after Oklahoma. It truly changed everything. But I also see a great difference in shows that followed the season of Company and Jesus Christ Superstar, and those before.
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Thanks for the pic offer JRand, but I can't email out of my phone-camera. Something is wrong, but I didn't have more than an hour to spend at AT&T, so I left. I'll talk to them again on the phone and fix it when I have time.
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Most of my Google hits are in Norwegian.
Favorite Sammy Cahn:[/b]
LET IT SNOW, LET IT SNOW, LET IT SNOW
THE LOOK OF LOVE
ALL THE WAY
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According to Google, I am an author, a Baroque flute-player, and a jewelry-maker.
Mmm... Ice cream!! This Karamel Sutra is really good.
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Google makes me out to be a guy who is *THE* supply chain manager for Woolworths supermarkets out in the midwest.
All this talk of pie and I forgot all about the apple crumb pie that I have in the fridge. I just wolfed down a slice. Not bad. Maybe tomorrow I'll get a pint of vanilla ice cream and have it a la mode.
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SWW -- Do you have a good recipe for Tamale Pie? My Mother's recipe blended the corn meal into the casserole, and it was wonderful. Unfortunately, all of my Mother's recipes got sold at the estate sale by mistake.
Thank you everyone for the compliments on my photo. Does that mean that you all thought that I was actually out of focus in real life?
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My sister has a dog (Murphy) and EVERY time he farts, he surprised himself! It's as if he has no idea what just happened. It's hysterical!
Minx does that too! Of course she's surprised a second time when she sniffs and decides that the spot she had been sleeping in is no longer her happy place.
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Google makes me out to be a guy who is *THE* supply chain manager for Woolworths supermarkets out in the midwest.
All this talk of pie and I forgot all about the apple crumb pie that I have in the fridge. I just wolfed down a slice. Not bad. Maybe tomorrow I'll get a pint of vanilla ice cream and have it a la mode.
Why would you want to have a pint of vanilla ice cream a la mode?
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td -- I don't suppose you would consider moving to Tacoma for two months? We need a suave and dashing actor to play Captain Lombard in TEN LITTLE INDIANS.
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td -- I don't suppose you would consider moving to Tacoma for two months? We need a suave and dashing actor to play Captain Lombard in TEN LITTLE INDIANS.
Hmmmmm. . .It would get me closer to that land down under, now, wouldn't it? ? ?
Sauve and dashing, eh? Why aren't you playing the Captain?
Jane, Echo is so adorable in that picture! Reach over and pat her for me!
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OZ is in fact part of the State of Washington.
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Good Evening!
I'm back from day of venturing here and there and out and about the environs of L.A. Quite a nice day.
And I just got back from a nice sushi dinner with DR Jay. Kind of indifferent service, but the fish was very good and fresh. And, of course, the company was very nice too. Thank you, again, Jay, for your kindness and hospitality.
Well, time to for me to read today's posts - which I haven't yet (duh!) - I'll be back soon...
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According to Google I am either an ROTC student in Syracuse, an Orthopedic Surgeon in Rhode Island, or a freelance writer in Oregon who just interviewed western actress Beth Marion!
Well, one of those is true! LOL!
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Here are just a few Google sites for "George Patrick Dougherty" (my full name):
George Dougherty c1825-1907 — Irish dragoon, Australian selector (http://www.pcug.org.au/~pdownes/sharp/dougherty.htm)
In three years, I'll have been dead for 100 years! Who knew? But I really am of Irish descent.
George Patrick Dougherty Sr & Mary A Hannon (http://home.earthlink.net/~john.d/WC01/WC01_034.HTM)
And I was married to Mary! Now that's a surprise!
And working under my middle name, I'm a sculptor of buildings (http://www.stickwork.net/dougherty/home.html) (you have to check out this website)!! And according to my resumé (http://www.stickwork.net/dougherty/resume.htm), I have a piece at the Museum of Glass in Tacoma, WA!
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The pleasure was mine, Dear Reader Jose!
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I like the idea of using Cheney as a eupherism for f*ck, as in "Go Cheney yourself" or "Cheney you and the bus you rode in on". If enough people use Cheney that way, it will become synonymous with f*ck. Eventually, Cheney will be one of those words you can't say on TV.
As Kurt Vonnegut said, "Why don't you take a flying Cheney at a rolling donut? Why don't you take a flying Cheney at the mooooooooon!"
Dear Reader Jose and I saw this post, Dear Reader Dan (the Man), before we headed out to dinner and enjoyed quite the laugh over it together.
I plan to start using the C-word in lieu of the F-word at once!
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One more thing I found under "Patrick Dougherty" is the Summit Hill (Pennsylvania) High School Graduation Page (I didn't link it because it brings up pop-up ads and opens the "search" box on the side of the browser window...very annoying). In addition to the aforementioned Patrick, it lists several other Doughertys, including a Frank (1926) and a Joseph (1929). My dad's dad was Francis (and sometimes went by Frank) and he had an uncle Joe who was younger than his dad! I called my dad (who was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania...that's why I wondered) and he didn't think that they were his family, mainly because he thinks that the years are wrong. His dad was born in 1906 and would've been 20 if he graduated from Summit Hill. And he has no idea where Summit Hill is in relation to Pittsburgh. But, you never know.
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According to Google, I am Senior Vice President and Associate General Counsel at JPMorganChase.
Pity about the name of the merged banking houses. Dear Readers of a certain age could have said they had a friend at Chase Manhattan.
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According to Google:
Anthony Dale only produces one wine, a Shiraz Cabernet Sauvignon blend.
hey, the drinks are one me!
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I also am a member of SETI; work for a local school district as a computer technician. I'm 32. Married with four children, three boys and a girl. My hobbies include, but not limited to, model building, hunting, fishing, camping and computers! Currently I have four computers running. A dual processer Dell server and three home computers.
1) I believe life could exist outside our planet just because of the number of stars. I can't really say that we'll ever contact it and if we do, I think we'll have to go find it first. I do know that this project is important because there is the possibility of discovery. 2) We should transmit some kind of beacon on a broad range of frequencies. It should contain the radio frequency we're on. 3) I really interested in the distributed computing. I think it's a cool project!
Far out, man!
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Good Evening! again...
Well, when I Google myself - how's that for a euphemism!!! - I find that I was the employee of the month for some hotel in Arlington, VA - which is kind of scary since I grew up in Arlington, VA.
I also come across a listing for a concert for a Holocaust Memorial that I was scheduled to play for, accompanying a singer. This item, unfortunately(?), is true. It was just a weird, frustrating situation. I had done some work for this organization in the past, and for the lady who was putting everything together. However, her organizational skills and sense of prioritizing were kind of lacking, imho, and I always ended up getting short-shrifted in some way or another. Well, when this concert came up, it appeared she assumed I would say, "Yes," - so much so, that the programs were already printed - and even posted on the web! Well, I had not said, "Yes", yet - I was in the process of trying to safeguard myself from some of the past frustrations when dealing with her - negotiating. For instance, there were two occasions where the singers I were to play for were scheduled to go on at 7:00p.m - but did not end up going on until close to 10:00p.m. due to "scheduling problems") - and then she would balk when I asked to be compensated for my extra (wasted) time - "Oh, this happens all the time. Don't worry about it." What?!?!? So, if you knew I would be on later in the evening, why bother asking me to get there fours hours in advance then!?!?! I even ended up almost missing a late gig one night due to "scheduling problems" - which "happen all the time". Well, my "suggestions" and "pleas" were falling on deaf ears. It just got to the point where I literally just stopped returning her phone calls. And I still remember getting a call from her office the day before the event asking if I would still coming to play for the concert. And she even had someone else in her office call me too!
Of course, I didn't realize that the programs had been printed up in advance, and when I found out that they had been a few months later, I did feel a little bit bad about the whole situation. I just hope they did find someone to play for the singer that day. Heck, I was just going to playing for a few selections, and by the time I had stopped returning her phone calls, it was still a few weeks in advance of the program - why she just didn't get the "clew" and start looking for another pianist is beyond me. And I'm not even really "name" pianist either. But since she assumed... and you know what happens when you "assume"...
Whew! That brought up some past baggage.... next topic...
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Good Evening! again...
<SNIP>
Whew! That brought up some past baggage.... next topic...
Sometimes you just have to vent. ;)
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My day started off with sort of record-breaking jaunt down Hillhurst to Franklin, then over to Vermont, to the House of Pies (coconut cream, with a cup of extra whipped cream (for BK), and an apple pie (for Tammy), then continuing down Vermont to Sunset to get on the Metro to the Hollywood/Highland station, then a walk down Highland, left on Santa Monica, left on Hudson, then a right into the stage door entrance to the theatre. WHEW!!!
I didn't end up leaving the apartment until about 11:05 - and I was at the theare - with pies in hand! - by 11:50. Now that's making good time!!!
I got a little worried that I would be late since the signs in the Metro station kept saying there was some sort of mechanical problem that was causing delays, but I only waited for about two minutes before the next train came in the station.
So... I get to the theatre, present the pies... And wait for the young woman to come audition for the female swing slot. Well, of course, she doesn't show up. I finally leave at 12:30, and head over to Vine to walk up to Hollywood.
-I'll let BK fill you in on the details of the day at the theatre...
As for me, I was a bit frustrated that I ended up going into the theatre today for nothing, but it was nice to drop off the pies, and it got me out of bed and out of the apartment earlier today than I probably would have otherwise. And I did enjoy my walk up Vine to Hollywood. I made note a few places I want to check out, and it was fun walking over and looking at some of the "stars in the sidewalk".
I also now know where I can - and can't - take a picture of the Hollywood sign. I kept thinking, "Hmm... if I go one block further I'll get a better view.... Hmm.. Nope... well, maybe one more... Hmm... Nope... " Ah, well... next time.
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I'm going to lie down and read for a bit. I may even do some thinking. Although I try never to think after 8 PM.
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DerBrucer why didn't you take Jane Fonda off the list when she apologized?
Why the Red Cross?
The closest Jane came to an apology was on 20-20 when she was trying to smooth over problems with a film shoot caused by verterans groups.
Frankly, her alleged actions call for a public trial, not just an apology!
As far as the Red Cross goes, I feel giving aid the to the civilian population of a hostile nation is, in fact, underwriting the government of said nation. I chose not to have my hard earned dollars go to support relief efforts in a Cuba about to harbor Soviet Missiles. Many servicemen hold a Red Cross grudge because of the tales of them charging money to combat soldiers for coffee, etc.
der Brucer
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Der Brucer: Why Canada? And why NOt the Boy Scouts?
Well, an internet search of "Boycott Canada" turns up a whole cottage industry of "Blame Canada" sites. In my case, it's not seals, or the World Bank, or First Nations fishing rights, or Nestle killing babies with formula the is the potentional problem, it is the potential granting of asylum to US armed forces deserters.
Bill O'Reilly (http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,118424,00.html) (NO GROANING!) opines:
Canada is Harboring American Military Deserters...Wednesday, April 28, 2004
By Bill O'Reilly
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But first, Canada is harboring American military deserters. That is the subject of this evening's "Talking Points Memo." Out of 1.5 million Americans currently serving in the military, just two have deserted as far as we know. Army Privates Jeremy Hinzman and Brandon Huey have bolted to Canada, where they apparently are being well received. According to Ron Adamson, who broke the story in "The Christian Science Monitor ," the Canadian media generally speaking has embraced the deserters.
The Canadian Broadcasting Company said, "For more than 200 years, Americans have been escaping war and strife by heading north."
Columnists in "The Toronto Globe and Mail" wrote this: "These young men...are different from the Vietnam lot in that they weren't drafted. The United States itself is different in that it's worse. Such is a huge divide between rich and poor that these young people signed up so they could go to college.
Little did they know that the man who stole the 2000 election would boast with that unnerving, uncertain grin that he was a 'wartime president.'"
The "Globe and Mail" columnist goes on to glorify the two deserters who have now established Web sites and have publicists so in demand they are in Canada.
And guess whose letter appears on the Hinzman Web site? Hey, there Susan Sarandon. Here's what she wrote.
"In times of war there have always been soldiers who have drawn the line, and have refused to follow orders they feel in their hearts to be immoral."
That's right, Susan. They're called conscientious objectors, not a deserter.
Hinzman and Huey have applied for asylum in Canada, which by law can only be granted if a person can prove they'll be killed or persecuted in their homeland.
Since the Iraq war is undeclared, they could not be executed by the military in the USA. And they probably will be sentenced to five years in prison under the general court-martial law if they come back here. That's a prosecution, not a persecution.
If Canada grants these two asylum, that would obviously be a slap in the face to America. Harboring deserters is a serious business.
There's no question that the Canadian press has become rabidly anti-American. "The Toronto Globe and Mail," the CBC and others delight in insulting us. That, of course, is their right.
But if the Canadian government joins in and gives these deserters a home, then "Talking Points" will call for a boycott of Canada. They will join France. Enough's enough. We respect honest disagreement, but undermining our military in the middle of the war on terror by providing sanctuary for deserters, lawbreakers is a hostile act.
A counter-view is expressed by theIntellectual Conservative (http://www.intellectualconservative.com/article3394.html):
Last year, Bill O’Reilly made headlines when he called upon Americans to boycott France due to the efforts of the French government to undermine international support to rid the world of Saddam Hussein at the United Nations. The French government has always had a cozy relationship with Saddam, but in light of the UN Oil for Food Scandal -- where it appears that French politicians and businessmen were bribed by Saddam -- the boycott appears to be richly deserved.
For my own part, I supported O’Reilly’s call for a boycott of France. Mind you, all that really meant for me was not buying Evian or Volvic bottled water. But it was the principle of the matter.
Now O’Reilly is at it again this time, taking aim at Canada. O’Reilly has been teed off with the Canadian government for some time for a number of reasons. He has been critical of their liberal immigration and refugee policies, their unwillingness to address the growing number of terror cells from al Qaeda, Hezbollah and Hamas, that have taken root on Canadian soil, as well as their refusal to send troops to Iraq.
However, when two American soldiers deserted from the Army to seek asylum in Canada, O’Reilly had enough. He was piqued at how the Canadian media (specifically the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation and the Toronto Globe and Mail) have lionized the deserters. He has warned Canadians that he will call for a boycott if the Canadian government grants their request for asylum.
The Government of Canada does not take terrorism as seriously as it should, and granting asylum to army deserters who ought to be before a military court sends a terrible message. Yet at the same time I believe Americans should ignore O’Reilly, should he decide to add Canada to his blacklist.
der Brucer (who will wait 'till the whole story plays out before deciding)
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So, I get up to Hollywood and Vine and descend once more into the Metro system to take the Red Line to Union Station.
My trip to Union Station served two purposes. 1) I wanted to buy a monthly EZ-Pass for the Metro and bus system, and 2) I want to have lunch at Philippe, The Original.
So... I get off the train and walk up in the main concourse of Union Station, and spend some time just checking the place out again. I think it's a neat building, and the little courtyards off the main seating and waiting areas are very nice places to sit outside and relax. And the ceiling design appeals to me too.
Eventually, I get in line, buy my EZ-Pass, and make my way over to my lunch destination. Thankfully, after my trek over to Alameda and Ord last year, I know knew the "short" way over there. Last year, I went out the far end of the station, and ended up having to go through an underpass, through some major construction zone, etc. This time, it was just out the front door, and over to Olvera Street - I just had to take a walk through there to look at all the kitsch and non-kitsch - then over to Philippe, The Original.
Today's lunch was a "splurge" - a double-dipped Lamb with bleu cheese. That set me back a whopping $5.50! ;) -And I also got a side of pickled beets and a lemonade. Everything was quite dee-lish and tasty, and nice way to supplement myself as it were after all the walking and near-sprinting I had done in the morning.
On the way back to Union Station, I made a slight pass through Chinatown - eh... Then it was back over to Olvera Street where I ended up getting some dessert - a churro filled with warm caramel. Yummy!
Once back in Union Station, I sat down and took a breather in one of the aforementioned courtyards and took care of some phone calls. -One of my calls turned out to be a surprisingly pleasant call to Sprint to change my service plan - the customer service rep actually seemed genuinely interesting in helping me out.
Then it was onto the Gold Line to head into Pasadena...
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Well..derBrucer...those tales of combat soldiers being charged for cigarettes and coffee by the cheney Red Cross are true. And it has always gone on. A woman I worked with at the Dept of Labor told me that her brother (during WWII) asked for pack of cigarettes for a dying soldier and the nurse charged him 25 cents...or wanted to.
I also remember more recently, that the directors of the largest cheney Red Cross offices are paid their salaries plus a percentage bonus of the money they collect. The more you give, the more THEY get.
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2002/07/29/eveningnews/main516700.shtml (http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2002/07/29/eveningnews/main516700.shtml)
All of my charitable donations go to local organizations where I volunteer or to the Riley Hospital for children in Indianapolis.
And before you tell me this is an isolated case, and they do great work and this is just an aberration....here is another one. They owe her a million dollars in salary???? :o
http://www.signonsandiego.com/uniontrib/20040622/news_1m22dodie.html (http://www.signonsandiego.com/uniontrib/20040622/news_1m22dodie.html)
Be careful where you give for charity, DRs.
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Der Brucer: Why Canada? And why NOt the Boy Scouts?
And on to the Boy Scouts.
If, as they maintain, the B. S.of A. is a private organization, they then have the right to discriminate based on sexual preference or religious beliefs. However, as a private organization, they do not have the same rights to free public space as do the public non-profits.
I have a real tough time on this issue. Boycotting BSA is punishing an heck of a lot of kids for the myopic vision of the organization's national leaders. In my last home town of Long Beach, CA there was a quiet truce, a "Don't Ask, Don't Tell " environment which served the community fairly well. Before I'm willing to throw the Boy Scout baby out with the Homophobic Washwater I want to see an effective alternative scouting-like organization in place ready to do the fine community duty currently done by the Boy Scouts.
As a grandparent, I cannot see myself arguing to keep my grandsons out of scouting - it just ain't a gonna happen.
der Brucer
PS Please note: the Girl Scouts do NOT have an anti-gay position.
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The trip to Pasadena was very nice. The trains run above ground, and there's some relatively nice scenery along the way.
I deboarded at the Memorial Park station and walked over to City Hall. Some great architecture, and the blending of the old and new seems really well done.
I did some window shopping in Old Pasadena, and did some behind the window shopping at See's Candies. ;)
I also got "lost" in Old Town Music. What a wonderful store. Very well stocked and some helpful staff. Since I used to be a buyer for a music store, I did my usual check of certain items to see how good the store was/is. Lo and behold, that had everything I usually look for - some obscura and some "interesting" editions of some classic repertoire. And all of it was neatly arranged and displayed in this basement level storefront. I think I ended up just browsing for about a good 45 minutes - smiling all the time. I also came across a few items I will definitely need to add to my library at a later date.
Once I made my way back to street level, DR Jay and I finally got in touch with each other via cell phone, and we set up our plan to meet for dinner. Which, as I mentioned before, was very nice.
OH!!! And I also got to meet Roller and Blackjack, Jay's DDs - or DCs - (Dear Dogs, Dear Canines - since DD seems to be reserved for Dear/Darling Daughter). Great animals, and Jay is a great father to them too.
OH!!! (again) I was a bit thrown by the four-way stop/street crossing signs in Pasadena. I kept wondering what the "Diagonal Crossing Allowed" signs meant.. Well, I found out. I eventually realized after some observation that the intersection would come to a four-way stop - this way you could cross straight across the street, or make a diagonal cross from corner to corner. Interesting.
Well... That was my day, more or less...
To quote Time Rice... "Have I said to much?..."
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We made it to 200 Posts....
Oh my, DRJOSE....I keep imagining a scene like that at the end of The Sound of Music - at the lady's non-event.
Announcer: Ladies and gentlemen, Jose Simbulan..... (applause...applause....pause....)....Ladies and gentlemen, pianist, Jose C. Simbulan....(applause....everyone looking around....applause....applause)....Ladies and gentlmen, at the piano Maestro Jose Simbulan....(applause....applause....and the spotlight sweeps the empty stage and eventually lights the empty piano bench).
From offstage a young man in a uniform runs on and yells: "He's gone!"
Whew, it was probably MOST exciting.
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Hmmm... BK has yet to post.. ??? Did I somehow miss a recent post? Is he still at the theatre? Did he finish the WHOLE pie?!?!?!
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Has this link been posted? It's - I guess - the official press release for What If? on some website. ;D
http://allegrophoto.com/whahtif.htm (http://allegrophoto.com/whahtif.htm)
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DR JRand53 - Well, your post reminds me of two things...
Once, when I was hanging out backstage at the Kennedy Center, a very harried young man came up to me and told me I was going onstage in 5 minutes. What?!?! They had just changed the piano, and once the players were back in place, I would be ready to head out to play the Brahms' First Piano Concerto. WHAT?!?!?! Well, as it turned out, the finals of some piano competition were taking place that evening. I was just stretching my legs before a show I was playing over in the Opera House - and I was in a tux.... and the backstages in the Kennedy Center are all connected by one long hallway more or less... So... He thought I was the next contestant since I was in a tux... and was/am Asian/Filipino... I was actually almost tempted to go out there - I knew the opening section of the piece - and it would have been "fun" to sit out there on stage during the whole orchestral exposition... But, alas... I told him I wasn't competing... and he headed down the hall to the other dressing room area... But.. What if...? ;)
-And I think I've this one before: I also used to get this "recital dream" where I would walk out on stage, sit down on the piano and start playing... But every single note on the piano was tuned to the SAME pitch!!! My fingers were playing different keys, but all I could hear in my dream was one note!!! I finish my piece, the audience applauds... and I wake up feeling very strange and displaced.
-Although, if it were possible to do so, that would be quite the prank to play on someone. :D
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time for bed.
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I didn't get home until 11:15! I have now read all your wonderful postings (and thanks for keeping the home fries burning in such a terrific way) and I've just finished the notes, so they'll go up in a mere five minutes.
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LOL....reminds me of the piano Yosemite Sam rigged to explode when Bugs Bunny played "Those Endearing Young Charms."
Bugs kept playing the last note wrong. Sam got irritated and finally said: "No, ya idjit...this is the way it goes." He played the song...and of course blew himself up! LOL
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Five minutes! I think I can last that long....I shall wait.