I can find no detailed specifics on this meal you have eaten in today's posts. You talk about wanting to eat something fabulously fabulous and always ending up eating the same old thing, but that's all I could find. God! Am I going Blind! Or just illiterate!
Jose, I'll drink the Veuve Cliquot when I can get it (or someone else is paying for it); but I never turn down the cheaper stuff. After a glass or two, it all starts to taste like Veuve Cliquot.
Yeah, BK, and you can also play a size five and walk in heels!
the first time I became aware of the power of the near-rhyme
Yeah, BK, and you can also play a size five and walk in heels!Which is much better than walking in a size five and playing a heel. Not our esteemed BK's style, anyway.
DR TD - I haven't seen EDUCATING RITA. Do they deal with near-rhymes in that play?
August 21, 1980:Either that, or you could mentally listen to the Forbidden Broadway parody, "Poor Warbling One!" (Three cheers for Norma Mae Lyng!!!)
Today in Musical Theater History:
Linda Ronstadt makes her Broadway debut with the Gilbert & Sullivan production "The Pirates of Penzance."
I'll be hearing "Poor Wandering One" in my head all day now. :o
Rita asks Frank what assonance means. When Frank gives her an example of assonance, he asks her if she has heard of Yeats the poet but Rita confuses Yeats the poet with Yeats the wine lodge. This shows that they are completely different people. When Frank tells Rita what assonances means, she reacts by saying "oh. It means getting the rhyme wrong".
Either that, or you could mentally listen to the Forbidden Broadway parody, "Poor Warbling One!" (Three cheers for Norma Mae Lyng!!!)
Lena Horne's performance of "If You Believe" had one of my favorite almost-but-not-quite rhymes. When she sings "Believe what you feel, and knows you're right because/ The time will come around, when you say it's yours." I remember that when I heard her sing it live, she made a point of hitting that rhyme, rhyming "because and "yaws" (instead of "yours"). ...I thought the line was "The time will come around, when you say it yaws." It's a flying reference (http://www.nasm.si.edu/galleries/gal109/NEWHTF/YAW.HTM), usually trioed with roll and pitch. (Since there are three terms, it can't be paired with them, can it?)
I wonder if Willy Russell got all the rhymes right in BLOOD BROTHERS.
The screening was actually very crowded, and Hisaka's favorite, Mr. George Chakiris was there and we had a lovely chat.
It's all about assonance. Rita has some clever ideas regarding poetry which doesn't rhyme.
I almost bought that DVD last Thursday, DR TD. Hmmm, maybe I should have!I was going to rent it from NETFLIX, but when I went to the corner mom & pop record store on Friday (to pick up my copy of THE POGUES' RUM, SODOMY & THE LASH) they had it USED for $10.00!, so I figured, whaat the heck, I can always sell it back it if I don't like it.
DR Jrand - how did PIPPIN go last night? Out with a whimper or with a bang?
Okay, technophiles.
I am getting no sound from the two front speakers of my 5.1 home theater system. The connections are sound, I checked the receiver & the speakers.
When I play a CD in my DVD player - I get nothing when I play it on the MUSIC setting, but I get sound from my CENTER and my two rear Surround Speakers.
Could it be because I am using connectors that are red & white and have a third yellow connection that is not connected to anything? If I get a "Y" connector that connects to just the red and white inputs on the receiver will I get sound from my two front speakers?
It's About Assonance - that's the title of my new novel.
Thank you for asking, DRTD. It was a sold out house and fine performances by all. I had a good time last night, and strike was fairly easy. ;D
Goodbye, Pippin! Your magic will live on for a long time....there is GLITTER from the costumes embedded into the stage! :P
TCB is answering a siren call?
Or is he the siren?
;)
I have also just gotten bored silly, listening to her whine about how she got screwed out of playing Julie in the M-G-M version of SHOW BOAT (the part that went to Ava Gardner). Sorry, Lena, but you didn't get screwed out of the role. The part is not that of a black woman, but of a black woman who PASSES for white! So stop belly-aching about losing a role for which you were never right in the first place. There was no veiled racism, there was no studio politics, you were just wrong for the role. Simple as that!
So we splurged and went to Old Spaghetti Factory. Jed had spinach torteliini with alfredo sauce, while i had baked Greek chicken and pasta with Mizithra...so very yummy!
I don't believe it's the computer that's causing grammatical and spelling errors, of which I can be occasionally guilty, but the general dumbing down of America: I was a tv series the other night...
Is "I was a tv series" an example? :-*
der Brucer
Okay, technophiles.
I am getting no sound from the two front speakers of my 5.1 home theater system. The connections are sound, I checked the receiver & the speakers.
When I play a CD in my DVD player - I get nothing when I play it on the MUSIC setting, but I get sound from my CENTER and my two rear Surround Speakers.
Could it be because I am using connectors that are red & white and have a third yellow connection that is not connected to anything? If I get a "Y" connector that connects to just the red and white inputs on the receiver will I get sound from my two front speakers?
It's all about assonance.
Don't jump the gun, td: "assonance" is tomorrow's Word of the Day!
der Brucer
Is "I was a tv series" an example? :-*
der Brucer
Using just the MUSIC setting puts the sound through the two front speakers. And I get NOTHING. But putting it on 3-way or Pro-Logic takes the CD sound through the three other speakers.
Tried everything....nothing is muted, BUT NO SOUND EVER ON ANY SETTING FROM ANY SOURCE ON THOSE TWO SPEAKERS.
Maybe I blew a fuse in the receiver or something. Oh well....I have CENTER and SURROUND in the back....so that's better than nothing. And I changed the position of the television/vcr/vcr/DVD/surround receiver sets so it's more convenient, and everything is dusted. So it wasn't a total loss.
Thanks for the help, though!
I know my grammar, I just can't type! That should have been "I saw"
Yesterday bk said that Princesses includes references to girls waxing their bottoms.... why oh why ?!
vixmom, I don't know what's worse - the fact that they make the reference in Princesses, or the fact that some girls DO that. I mean, what has the world come to when early teen girls have to wax ANYTHING.
After cooking lunch (Philly Steak Hoagies)
The problem was that I got to Trader Joe's at 7:30 in the morning and they don't open until 9:00 in the morning. So, I drove across the parking lot and to Coco's and had breakfast. I had a three-cheese omlet, hash browns and two pancakes.
Next you'll be telling me all those piccolos in "Fine and Dandy" should have been sousaphones! 8)
der Brucer
A. Trader Joe's sells a passable caviar at about $2/ounce - great on top of sour cream on your favorite omelet (or just plain scrambled eggs).
B. Does Coco's still serve their great biscuits with breakfast?
der Brucer
It's all about assonance. Rita has some clever ideas regarding poetry which doesn't rhyme.
Yes that is quite the re-creation of the past isn't it, DRGINNY. Only was there once, but it was like stepping back in time - except for the prices!
I prefer to write for ophecleids!
I don't think men should wax ANYTHING!!
Unfortunately, Pogue won't be able to delight you with his phrase, what with this being a family site and all.
I pray you don't use Velveeta!
I don't think men should wax ANYTHING!!
I never met a Harold Arlen song that I didn't like!Ohh! We've got MBarnum singing a Cy Coleman song. ;D
BB6 - I think I'm getting tired of it. I really don't care anymore. I do like James and Ivette more than I used to.
Let' s put it this way - I don't find the thought particularly appealing that post-pubescent girls and women are doing things so that they look PRE-pubescent. It's not only teen girls and women, baby, it's men, too, and I find it all completely nauseating.
How ironic! I just watched my first compelte episode last night! At this point, with the remaining houseguests forming the jury, I think I could now get involved.
I've sort of kept up by reading things here and on other sites, and reading the episode summaries on Zap2It.
Julian Beever is an English artist who's famous for his art on the pavement of England, France, Germany, USA, Australia and Belgium. It's particularity ? Beever gives to his drawing an anamorphous, his images are drawn completely diforms which give a 3D image when viewing on the right angle!!!
Either that, or you could mentally listen to the Forbidden Broadway parody, "Poor Warbling One!" (Three cheers for Norma Mae Lyng!!!)
I've been listening to the new recording of Bernstein's score for PETER PAN with Linda Eder, who is much more wonderful than I would have predicted. Around 1994, I was working for the Bernstein estate on 1600 PENNSYLVANIA AVENUE....
I had a waffle cone with creamy cherry ice cream with burgundy cherries and dark chocolate bits in it. It was fabulous
We shall see what DRs tomovoz and TCB have to say about that. :-XIs that something to do with ass o' nance boy?
Agree- but at least that bit of body manipulation is not (usually) thrust in my face in a public place. The more appalling trend is the movement toward body mutilation - lip piercing, tongue piercing (better than splitting!), etc. I was amazed to see a waitress strutting across a chain restaurant (TGIF, I think) with her omphalic piercing proudly on display. (At least it distracted attention from the lint.)
der Brucer
"I have crossed the ru-bi-cund..."With Michael I suppose. See post #7. Why do I bother?
I don't think men should wax ANYTHING!!
Now that is funny. :D"I Was a TV Series"Wasn't that the book that CABARET is based on?
Come wane or come shine.
I don't think men should wax ANYTHING!!
So Larry, whatever happened with 1600 PENNSYLVANIA AVENUE?
It will never have a good book; Indiana University did a production of the piece in a revised book by Erik Haagenson, but it wasn't a success. Alan Lerner's original book is a mess and it needs someone with a sassy sense of humor and politics, like Gary Trudeau, to redo it. The lyrics are better. The piece has been recorded as "White House Cantata." It's a fantastic score
Good evening folks! Wow! I stayed up LATE last night, didn’t I?
I have something I want to share with you all but I don’t want to do anything wrong so I will ask BK before I post them.
Someone I know e-mailed me the most amazing 3-D drawings!
This is what the e-mail said:They are wonderful!
BK, is it ok if I post a couple of them?
DR Jason: Take heart. The theme from "The Golden Girls" also has the line:
"And if you threw a party...invited everyone you knew...you would see the biggest gift would be from me...and the card attached would say, 'Thank you for bein' a friend.'"
Kind of sad, how the song is so associated with that show, but never with the guy who wrote it, Andrew Gold.
And he didn't write it for the show, either.
Mr Gold's song is quite popular here - for funerals. His song "Lonely Boy" charted here but nothing else.
For the trivia minded (who isn't) - Andrew Gold is the son of "Exodus" composer Ernest Gold and Marni Nixon!
Those pictures are incredible!
Is that something to do with ass o' nance boy?
I try to please. (Which is fraught with difficulties).
Fraughter than I thought.
You have mail - in a few minutes
Of course as a studier of the language of OZ you would know that we would write "practising".
Agree- but at least that bit of body manipulation is not (usually) thrust in my face in a public place. The more appalling trend is the movement toward body mutilation - lip piercing, tongue piercing (better than splitting!), etc. I was amazed to see a waitress strutting across a chain restaurant (TGIF, I think) with her omphalic piercing proudly on display. (At least it distracted attention from the lint.)I don't think waitrons should ever have lint.
der Brucer
No, you're thinking of Cabaret II: Frau Schneider's Revenge."I Was a TV Series"Wasn't that the book that CABARET is based on?
...Unfortunately, today's Eggs Benedict was almost inedible....Danged traitorous eggs.
We spent the rest of the afternoon with Dear Niece Laura driving us around in her new Saturn Vue - we saw the houses where my great grandparents lived, where my mom lived as a teenager, where our great-uncle lived (and his barbershop), and where my parents lived when my sister was born. We also went to Crown Hill and brushed grass clippings off the headstones of my mother's parents and her grandfather and step-grandmother.
I don't think men should wax ANYTHING!!
I don't understand the reason behind some of the piercings. I saw one with a gold ball high in her cheek. I thought it was a pimple. Silly me.
For the last hour Keith has been having a grand time at http://earth.google.com . Using the satellite images he has found our house, town, Bucharest and many more. It really is cool. He can even tip the globe for a better picture.
I don't think men should wax ANYTHING!!
Unfortunately, Pogue won't be able to delight you with his phrase, what with this being a family site and all.
DR MBarnum - Does this mean you would like me to send more pics of our book writer, Josh? And I may even have some pics of some of the other people at the theatre festival you might be interested in.
::)
Plus, I was a little disgusted when CBS had the live feeds down for so long. That's the part that is fun to watch.
DR MBarnum - Does this mean you would like me to send more pics of our book writer, Josh? And I may even have some pics of some of the other people at the theatre festival you might be interested in.
::)
Yes, thanks, DRMATTH, I tried a few CD's and DVD's. Not sure what I have done OR what it is wrong....
BUT my home theater system is a handy dandy Emerson that I paid $149.00 for about 9 years ago, so perhaps it should be replaced!
DR Cillaliz - Did they have Twinkies ice cream there? They had it at Lickety Split in Williamstown, MA.No, but that sounds interesting. It's all Blue Bunny Ice Cream.
:)
DR Jose,
I am joining the group going to NYC the first week in Oct. I'll be there Monday the 3rd to Friday the 7th. I'm looking forward to joining your walking tour!
I am sleepy, it's probably the ice cream and the caramel apples and the nutty bar and the...... let's just say my mother and I splurged on total summertime junk food all weekend.
Yesterday bk said that Princesses includes references to ...Do these peopele do it for the shock value or do they really think that its appropriate for kids? Are they so out of touch with main stream American as to think that parents don;t care what their kids see and jhear or are Vixdad and I so out of touch that we are the only ones who still do?
No, Vixmom, it's just that you have turned into a Republican.
...a role that requires a woman who is supposed to be black passing for right.
Danise, I think I got that same e-mail! Those pictures are incredible! We've all posted pictures here before, so I don't see why it should be a problem. But we certainly can post links to websites: click HERE (http://www.rense.com/general67/street.htm) and you'll go to a site with a few photos of his drawings...and one of photos was taken from the wrong side! (If you've never seen them, you'll understand when you see it.) ;D
And HERE (http://users.skynet.be/J.Beever/) is his website and HERE (http://www.thegreenhead.com/watercooler/2005/06/amazing-sidewalk-art-by-julian-beever.php) is another site with more pictures. The man has talent!
Sorry, Der Brucer, Lena is a lovely-looking woman, but she cannot PASS for white by any stretch of the imagination Yeah, it was easy to let her sing a Julie number in one of those specialty number song-fests because the songs have no context.
It wasn't racism, latant or blatant, it was just wrong casting for the character to cast a woman who is obivously black (no matter how light her skin)in a role that requires a woman who is supposed to be black passing for white. As far as I know, it has always been played by a white woman.
The NY get-together sounds faboo, but we'll be here having our own wonderful get-together with dear reader Hisaka at the same time. What fun we shall all have. I, for one, will be wearing a kimono.
Well, BROADWAY'S LOST TREASURES III finally made an appearance on one of our PBS stations. I looked at one "act" until the pledge break came on, and then I flipped it off. The DVR is getting it so I can skip through those lengthy breaks tomorrow when I watch the whole thing.
It was nice to see "Step to the Rear" from HOW NOW DOW JONES again.