Last night I finished State of Terror. I liked the book, but I wasn't keen on the last two chapters. I suddenly felt U was at the end of an Agatha Christie where everything is talked out endlessly.
Last night I finished State of Terror. I liked the book, but I wasn't keen on the last two chapters. I suddenly felt I was at the end of an Agatha Christie where everything is talked out endlessly.
Those folks had a lot of talk in them.
Happy Halloween, everyone! Here's a real treat for you...the new Broadway Radio Show just posted on this site is an interview with journalist/author Barry Singer all about his book EVER AFTER: Forty Years of Musical Theater and Beyond. It's a wonderful conversation and I highly recommend the book. The book also contains a lovely section praising the one and only Bruce Kimmel for his work producing valuable cast recordings!
http://www.haineshisway.com/the-broadway-radio-show-2/
I finally got my books autographed. Even thought I was last in line, Sedaris made time for me.
Jane, I think I missed answering a question you asked me yesterday. I had no reaction to either of the initial shots, or the booster. I take that back, the night I got the booster and the flu shot, I rubbed my arm and it seemed a little sore.
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I made the vegan snowball cookies early this morning. Honestly, that vegan butter is nasty stuff.
The meringue cookies are a fail; I somehow messed up the egg whites and they wouldn't whip up.
Tonight the family is coming over and we'll sit at the end of the driveway and meet the neighborhood kids outside. This will be the first time the whole family will be together sine the Christmas just before the pandemic hit.
By "whole family," I am including Wae-Ling. She hasn't seen GS in almost two years!
Halloween afternoon greetings! We’re ready for trick or treaters, but we don’t expect many. I bought a bag of 80 assorted items and we took out the Snickers for ourselves. Richard says, “Kids don’t appreciate those.”
Manhattan School of Music is staging Offenbach’s Orpheus in the Underworld later this year and Sunday in the Park with George in March. I hope both are available online.
Skyrock Farm (about half an hour outside the metro area) had a Halloween open house this afternoon. It is a stable and horse training facility. With the added bonus that the owner also dabbles in theater organs, and has amassed quite a collection.
There is a separate barn that houses that collection of theater pipe organs, calliopes, and a carousel. And more carnival paraphanalia than I have ever seen in one spot. There are also player pianos and you name it. A lot of the calliopes play from either rolls or perforated thin wooden slats that are strung together in stacks, and "fed" into the mechanisms.
It was all great fun. The kids in attendance were more into the horses. Also, there's a train that runs around the perimeter of the grounds.
All in all, a lovely afternoon.
Happy Halloween!
But there's a nice macaw.
We’re in the middle of trick or treat here and we’ve had about 10 kids so far.
George & TCB, did you mail your ballots? We sent ours yesterday.
And we're not going to play Phase 10, believe it or not. We're going to play Scrabble, which is my mom's game. I've probably only won one or two games ever, so I will NEVER expect to win, which is fine.
Manhattan School of Music is staging Offenbach’s Orpheus in the Underworld later this year and Sunday in the Park with George in March. I hope both are available online.
Manhattan School of Music is staging Offenbach’s Orpheus in the Underworld later this year and Sunday in the Park with George in March. I hope both are available online.
I suspect Orpheus, like most foreign operettas in opera situations these days, will do the spoken dialoguie in English and the sung lyrics in French, which I think is a dumb shit idea.
George & TCB, did you mail your ballots? We sent ours yesterday.
Vegan Teen declined the vegan treats.
Let’s see. I have a new scooter.
And several hundreds of dollars.
I think they gave me a very large trade in on the old scooter.
I guess George left me alone.
BK, have you watched the Rita Moreno documentary? I think it is on Netflix.
I made the vegan snowball cookies early this morning. Honestly, that vegan butter is nasty stuff.
The meringue cookies are a fail; I somehow messed up the egg whites and they wouldn't whip up.
I think vegan mayo is delicious, not so much the cheese. Is the butter similar to margarine?
I am guessing the egg whites were at room temperature before you began whipping them. I wonder if the hole in your ceiling had something to do with them not coming out correctly.
I wonder how a frozen Krackel bar would be?
I really like frozen Milky Ways.
Oh also, on this non-Wednesday question session, BK do you know what seasons and episode numbers you appear in BULL SHIT.