Haines His Way

Good Morning!

I'm up, I'm up... And I was awakened by the scrape, scrape, scrape of the handyman scraping the sleet and slush from the front walk.

I'm listening to Jennifer Jones singing an odd little tune in her first encounter with Joseph Cotton in "Portrait of Jennie", playing right now on TCM.

I'll be departing in a skosh to join my mother and aunt at church for the Christmas Cantata.

PORTRAIT OF JENNIE was my late partner Steven's and my favorite movie to watch together (well, apart from MAURICE).

So what's the next John Waters movie to be turned into a Broadway musical?  Will it be "Pink Flamingoes"?

Or might it be "Cry Baby"?

It IS CRY-BABY! Already written. Does it open this season?

Cry Baby is currently running out at La Jolla, and scheduled to come in this Spring.  "Scheduled" is the key word if you get my drift.

DR Ron Pulliam - ....But do you have iTunes?

Cry Baby is currently running out at La Jolla, and scheduled to come in this Spring.  "Scheduled" is the key word if you get my drift.

Is it also a musical?  I hadn't heard...it only just "seemed" to be something that would happen.

...And there were some rumblings about a musical version of "Serial Mom" a few years ago, and I also seem to remember a very bargain-basement version of "Female Trouble" being presented in Baltimore sometime in the past.

I need to gather things together and head toward the church.

See youse guys laters...

And the word of the day is: MOIL!

Bertram the Chaffeur would MOIL in the LIMO day after day, hopelessly waiting for his lottery numbers to come in so that he could have someone else do the driving for a change.

I don't, won't, never will DO iTunes.

I record my CDs onto my iPod.

There are tunes on my iPod Shuffle.  And while I have access to a computer, I can listen to them any time I like.  

They just won't play independently of a helper source.

Ah, then since you don't have iTunes, you can not use you iPod Shuffle then.  The iPod/iTunes/Mac/Apple format is proprietary.

I guess I should point out that iTunes can be used solely as a "Music Library".  You do not have to take advantage of the online buying features.  So, if that is your reason for not using iTunes...  

Did you get that?  I said "Read it and WEEP".  Cry Baby... Weep... Get it, huh?

I'm listening to Jennifer Jones singing an odd little tune in her first encounter with Joseph Cotton in "Portrait of Jennie", playing right now on TCM.

I'll be departing in a skosh to join my mother and aunt at church for the Christmas Cantata.

Is that a one-seater skosh or a two-seater skosh?

Well... It is still sort of raining outside, however, the wind really seems to be gusting this morning... Causing chunks of ice and sleet to fall of the trees and roof...  Yikes!

I just checked in with Carlos, and it turns out he rebooked their Amtrak tickets, and they are about to head back down to DC on the 11:00am Acela.  They were going to take 1:05 train, but it was already running at least 40 minutes late.  And since it is originating in Boston... And since Boston and parts of Connecticut had a bit more bad weather than NYC did, well...

It was great seeing them again, and I really had a wonderful time being able to show my niece where I work and live, and what I love doing.  And I was especially encouraged by the fact that she actually followed almost all of what was going on in Mary Poppins - which for a soon-to-be nine-year old is quite a feat considering some adults can't keep track of that plot over the course of it's 2 hour and 45 minutes!  She also said she liked Mary Poppins more than The Radio City Christmas Spectacular.  -Although she did think the live animals at RCMH were very neat.