Haines His Way

I've never had one, but I've heard Julie Andrews sing about them!  

Little Debby's Nutty

She's saner than you or I!

I also like Coffee Crisp and Aero Bars both Canadian bars.
There is also candy called Smarties that is different from Smarties in the USA> The Smarties in the USA is closer to what Canadians call Sweet Tarts. Smarties are closer to M & Ms. but they can melt in your hand as well as your mouth. There is anothe favorite whose name I forget at this time but it has chocolate on the outside and carmel in the inside.

We also got Cadbury bars from England that were most exellent.

As for the Topic of the Day...

The one treat that comes to mind are Jolly Rancher Sticks.  Specifically the Green Apple and Cinnamon flavored ones.

When my brothers and I were attending St. Thomas More Elementary, there was a small gas station with a convenience store right across the school's parking lot.  Since we usually had to wait a little while for one of our parents to come pick us up, we would - along with the rest of our classmates - would head on over to the store to pick up a treat to tide us over.

The sticks did not look like this:



The packaging I remember was not as colorful, and, basically, the only way you could tell what flavor you were getting was from the color of the candy - since it came in a clear wrapper.  And that wrapper!  It was sort of a thick cellophane which was always sticking to the candy itself making it virtually impossible not to eat one of those sticks without having to spit out pieces of the wrapper from time to time.  And during warmer, more humid weather, the "tacky" factor increased exponentially.

*Hmm... And after just checking Hershey's site, it looks like the Sticks have been discontinued.

Good morning, all! It's about time for my walk, and I have yet to decide which direction I'm taking.  Tonight I have my first NYMF show, LOVE JERRY, the one I almost worked on, and I'm curious to see it.

I have a day to tackle a lot of projects sitting on my desk, and I wish my damned eyes were in better shape because they're really slowing down the work at the moment.

TOD: Candy is no longer on my agenda.

singdaw will be posting pix of Mrs. Zero from ADDING MACHINE any minute now.  

Thanks for all the Skip-feel-better vibes

And the word of the day is: LIMPET!

And The Song Of The Day Is: UNDER THE SEA

When my brothers and I were attending St. Thomas More Elementary

Oh, my, what a segue.

I saw a play about Thomas More last night. A Man for All Seasons. It was excellent. It's not a stunning production but it's very, very good and worth seeing, mainly for the outstanding performance of Frank Langella. What a phenomenal actor. I remember him from years at the Guthrie (he played Oberon in a production of Midsummer and I still remember it) and his recent performances on Broadway including the amazing Frost/Nixon. Maryanne Plunkett is in the show also as More's wife. She seemed to disappear after Me and My Girl but she has returned recently. It's great to see her again.

I am a self-professed Anglophile but boy they have some dirty history (as do most of us )

The show is on TKTS so if you're in New York and have a chance to see the show, I recommend it highly.

Oh, my, what a segue.

*I have to admit that even though I know I should see the new production of A Man For All Seasons, I'm still "recovering" from the yearly - sometimes twice yearly - showings of the film version when I was in elementary school.  We shall see...

Reminds me of the great New York Blackout from 5 years ago. We were out for 29.5 hours (one of the last neighborhoods in Manhattan to get power back). The most annoying thing about it was seeing buildings on 5th Avenue brightly lit at 9pm while we, one block west, were still sitting in the dark.

...And I was up that week playing auditions for Arena Stage's production of Camelot.  We even finished casting the following morning - still without power - on the sidewalk outside Ripley-Grier.  We even had an actor who saw all the headshots spread out on the sidewalk, and tried to submit himself right then and there for consideration.

However, I fondly remember that whole experience.  Yes, it was a bit scary not having any sort of power, nor any way to find out what was really going on unless you happened to come across someone with a radio - or leaned into someone's car to listen to their radio.  It was a gorgeous day, but, man, was it dark that night.  -And candles could only provide so much light.  I was also staying in Michael Rupert's old place in the Village during that trip too.