Haines His Way

I smallerized some photos on the church computer this morning. Here is where I went yesterday -- Mount Ord.

And here is what I saw there:

Thanks as always for the winged creatures Dear Reader Laura.

Keith has needed a new keyboard for way too long.  The keys on our old one were sticking and the backspace didn’t work.  Today we finally went to Circuit City, Sherlock was an angel while we shopped and got loads of attention from the other shoppers, to pick one up.  While we were there I also got a new laptop with a built in wireless.  I’m hoping the built in wireless solves my connection problems & I don’t have to keep re-booting the computer every ten minutes or so.

DRLaura.  I also checked out your new camera, very nice.  Since I got a new computer I’ll wait a bit for a new camera.  I like the camera and the size but I’m not sure I want a camera without an old fashioned eye hole instead of using the screen to take a photo.  It did seem much clearer than with the older models.    

It wouldn't hurt to mention here that the male casting of "Popular" was consistently interesting.

Included among the supporting players were Eric Mabius (Daniel in "Ugly Betty") as the football coach and Robert Gant (of "Queer As Folk") as a very unusual principal (whose mother happens to be the old crone who supervises the school cafeteria).

Christopher Gorham (Betty's current love interest on "Ugly Betty") is terrific, as is Bryce Johnson as the captain of the football team who surreptitiously stars in the school musical "South Pacific"....to his father's utter dismay.

I'm just thrilled, Larry, to have you with whom to share observations about this terrific show!

I'm quite fascinated by all the gender-fuck going on in it, and that's another reason I can't believe such a gay-friendly, she's-a-lesbian-she's-straight-she's gay-or-is-she? attitude ran for even two years and not two minutes! I was surprised the transexual episode had a rather sad ending because Bobbi Glass (is this another JD  Salinger reference along with "Cather in the Rye"?) and her clan, all played by Diane Delano, are totally ambi-sexual; they call Bobbi "Sir," she's seems like a butch lesbian, she's been in that kinky hetero() relationship wth the fried chicken restaurant manager who wasgoing to sell the cute boy students into white slavery, and her brother (played also by Ms Delano) the military man is truly weird.  And yet, she voted down Miss Debby while at the same time Cherry Cherry bought a corporation to change their gay rights policies!  It's insane, totally off the wall and it's become my new obsession.  Of course, having Erik Estrada play himself and Mary Cherry being on E! with a shaved head was also sooooo perverse.

And this morning while watering the flowers, I saw this butterfly, hatched in my very own yard:

DRLAURA the third pic in that post looks like one of the stars from THE BEGINNING OF THE END.

DR JOSE's friend John Kander was just talking about CURTAINS.

John Doyle and Raul Esparza talking now!!

Oh dear, Raul says Company is taking place in Bobby's head.....well at least there's room in there for a Broadway theatre.

DRLAURA the third pic in that post looks like one of the stars from THE BEGINNING OF THE END.

NO! That's the original model for Jiminy Cricket!

At least, that's what Pinocchio told me and we know he never lies!

But who nose?!

Wow I love the GREEN logo on the MUSIC BOX for Angela's show!

OK...riddle me this:

SACCO AND VANETTI is going to be released on DVD in August.

Amazon already has it listed, and has paired it with another movie. Can you guess which one? The answer may surprise you.

Hint: Think "well-known Broadway play"...

My mind is boggled.

I met Quentin not long before he died and I never thought him prim and snarky.  He also never asked me to call him Dorothy.  I liked his writing.

I was trying to work with anagrams.  It's not meant to be taken literally.

Charlotte's dance recital was too long. The lady who is the director of the STEPS ON BROADWAY school is a total bore; she has the personality of wet laundry and came onstage too often to ramble on.  There were some wonderful numbers and several bizarre failures, the most inane being something set to Grofe's "On The Trail," involving three girls in leotards as horses() and a ballerina in classic white tutu wearing a cowboy hat and waving a wand. I laughed myself silly during it.

There was also a wonderful anarchic "school's out" hip-hop number choreographed by one of the music theatre teachers, and some classic ballet by Leslie Browne who played Shirley MacLaine's daughter in THE TURNING POINT.  I saw Charlotte very briefly after the recital; she was of f to dress up for the tony Awards and party.  It's a hard life,

They are only 22 years old...