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DOING THE THINGS WE NEED TO DO
« on: November 09, 2010, 10:44:46 PM »

Well, you've read the notes, the notes did what they needed to do, and now it is time for you to post until the cows come home - they're currently doing the things they need to do, like chewing their cud in a mindless fashion.
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« Reply #1 on: November 09, 2010, 10:45:27 PM »

And the word of the day is: MOUE!
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« Reply #2 on: November 09, 2010, 11:04:35 PM »


Vixdad decided to blog about his recent experience:  It made me laugh and thought it might give one or two of you a giggle:



Agony! Much More Painful Than Yours!

So on Thursday night I started to feel a pain in my lower right abdomen.

I assumed it was just gas, a side-effect of the Metamucil-rich diet Doc Rubberglove insists I partake of, but it didn't stop on Friday, it just got steadily worse until I called Doc Rubberglove's office and begged to be seen.

The trip back onto the island was pure hell, made infinitely worse by the LIRR calling for me to switch trains at Jamaica onto one which started at Penn Station loaded to 150% of its seating capacity. By the time I got to Wyandanch station I was almost in tears.

Doc Rubberglove took one look, gave a grunt of surprise, said "you look really ill, does it hurt when I do this?"

When his hearing had returned somewhat he yelled "It might be appendicitis!", took a quick look at his inch-thick liability insurance policy, hustled me into his own car and drove me to the Emergency Room thereby cutting through about four hours of red tape and getting me to someone with needles and blood-drawing gear in about half an hour. Mrs Stevie hove into theater during the lengthy triage process.

There a man who told me he used to be an electrician but found that people wouldn't pay him on time attempted to mount a hep-lock in the back of my hand and use it to draw blood. The pain of this process was enough to drive the pain coming from my lower bowel from my head and cause me to pass out for a few seconds. While I was out, Mrs Stevie used the opportunity to tell everyone how I'd passed out some years ago when giving blood.

This was a base calumny. I had not passed out. I had told the staff to hide from my sight the bottle steadily filling with my blood as it rocked back and forth on a small device to mix anticoagulants into it, because I thought I might faint. The two other guys I was with had laughed at my squeamishness and called me names. Then with perfect timing one of them took a good look at his rocking bottle o' blood, let out a quavering moan and passed out. Then his muscles relaxed in such a fashion that it took the staff about thirty minutes to clean up the place and he was disinvited from giving blood there ever again. While I and the other guy were waiting for him to regain enough strength to start attempting the commute from the World Trade Center to Penn Station we discussed the problems of navigating a partially disabled person with questionable control of his sphincter musculature through the public transportation system of Manhattan during rush hour. As we pondered the best course of action, a thin, wavering, reedy voice came from behind a screen: "You go on, lads. I'll be alright." I waited about a microsecond for him to request a service revolver and one round before we left, then burst into gales of helpless laughter.

That is what happened that day.

When I woke up the hep-lock agonizer said "So, I hear you fainted the last time you gave blood."

"What? No! It was the other guy who fainted!" I yelled, then screamed as the reflex to sit up to make my point had induced the original reason for my being there.

Doc Rubberglove hove into view. "Does it still hurt when I do this?" he asked, and there followed a couple of minutes of nurses, doctors and patients staggering around clutching their bleeding ears and moaning quietly.

I was made to pee in a jar, then to carry the jar around with me for an hour or so as I was moved hither and yon, ending up in a rather nice, quiet abdominal ER with three patients and about six nursing staff in it.

A very attractive nurse gave me a cup of ice and a bottle of contrast fluid, told me to drink it as quickly as I could and remarked in passing "So, you fainted when you last gave blood?"

"What? No! It was the other guy! I didn't faint!" I yelled as she injected my IV line with something that began with "Z", had four syllables and made my head feel like I'd drunk a pint of Bacardi white rum.

A doctor hove into view. "You don't want to chug that" he said. "Drink it slowly so it spreads out. So, I hear you faint when you give blood."

"Whu? Nnnw. Wuz ovva guy whut fainted." I was having trouble getting my eyes to point in the same direction by then.

"He doesn't give blood anyway" sniffed Mrs Stevie. "He has Mad Cow disease."

"D'n't! Tha's lie! 've g't Prius. Mebbe!" now the stuff that began with "Z" had reduced the pain in my bowels to tolerable levels, everyone around me was attempting to induce a pain a bit lower down. It was all very trying.

"Have you finished that drink yet?" asked the nice nurse who had given me the stuff that started with "Z".

"Doc told me to slow down" I replied.

"Well, the faster you finish the faster we get you into the cat scan and figure out what the hell is wrong with you" she said.

So I chugged it down

Meanwhile, Doc Rubberglove (who has privileges at this hospital) was dictating his notes on my case into a small recording device. I only caught part of it. The part that went "...fainted when giving blood some years before".

Damn that woman!

Another nurse, this one a male biker with a mohawk and tattoos hove into view and demanded more blood. As he was inserting the needle in my arm (the hep-lock was in use) he said "You're the fainter, yeah?"

"B'g p'dun?" I mumbled, attempting to make sense of the world through stuff-that-starts-with-Z-addled senses.

"You faint when you give blood. Everyone says so"

"Whut? No! Wuz other guy!"

"Nope, it was you. I was there" said the ex-electrician as he walked by.

"No! Other time! Not me!"

"I think he's having a reaction to the stuff that starts with "Z"" opined the biker, drawing the thirteenth test-tube full of blood.

Eventually, just as the stuff that begins with "Z" was wearing off I was wheeled down to two guys dressed in black who ran the Cat Scanner. They made me pull down my trousers and lie on a table with my hands on my head, then, just as they were about to start the machine one said "So, I hear you fainted when you gave blood"

"Which time?" I demanded. "Yes I fainted this evening because of all the agony I'm experiencing but no I didn't when I gave blood. That was the other guy!"

The noise of the cat scanner's recorded voice drowned out the last part of my outraged cries but not the unseemly sniggers of the two goths in the control room.

I'd been back in the ER about ten minutes when the nice nurse who gave me the stuff that starts with "Z" told me I was going home because I didn't have appendicitis. This she relayed as "good news". No, what I had was something called "Epiploic Appendagitis" which feels as bad as appendicitis but instead of being susceptible to surgery and quick pain relief it is what doctors call "self-limiting", which is a fifty dollar phrase for "gets better on its own" over an indeterminate number of days but so far longer than four.

Good news indeed, just not for me.

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Re: DOING THE THINGS WE NEED TO DO
« Reply #3 on: November 09, 2010, 11:07:01 PM »

Please sir. may I have some moue?
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« Reply #4 on: November 09, 2010, 11:10:30 PM »

I really need to go to bed
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« Reply #5 on: November 09, 2010, 11:10:54 PM »

goodnight and have a pleasant tomorrow
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« Reply #6 on: November 09, 2010, 11:38:24 PM »

Funny story, Vixmom!  Although, I've never heard of the word "hove" before.  I had to look it up.
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« Reply #7 on: November 09, 2010, 11:58:56 PM »

Continued from yesterday...highlights of HHW for me have mostly been the meetings in person.  The first time was in Portland at JMK's (now former) home.  Being able to meet BK in person after being a regular poster for so long.  Getting to see PennyO perform her very own show, Jewish Thighs on Broadway, here in Washington.  Getting to see the reading of The Last Starfighter in Issaquah AND meeting the writers, DR FJL and Skip...and also meeting DR Julie! 

But the highest highlight was BEING in a production of BK and David Wechter's very own show, The Brain From Planet X!!
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« Reply #8 on: November 10, 2010, 12:54:07 AM »

Good Morning!

I really should be asleep by now since my parents will be arriving at Port Authority in about six hours, but...
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« Reply #9 on: November 10, 2010, 12:55:50 AM »

DR vixmom - I believe the First HHW Eating and Walking and Eating and Walking And Eating Walking Tour took place before "Jewish Thighs On Broadway".
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« Reply #10 on: November 10, 2010, 01:10:46 AM »

And just to refresh everyone's memory, here's the itinerary from that HHW Eating and Walking Tour:


Start at Rockefeller Center.
Train down to Lower East Side.
-Economy Candy
-Katz's Delicatessen
-Russ & Daughters
-Kossar's Bialys
-The Doughnut Plant
Little Italy
-Ferrara Bakery & Cafe
-Italian Food Center
SoHo
-Animazing Gallery
-Broadway Panhandler
-Vintage New York
-MarieBelle Chocolate
-kid robot
-Morrison Hotel
-Vosges Haute Chocolate
-SoHo Apple Store (a.k.a. Bathroom Stop)
-Emack & Bolio's Ice Cream
-Sweet Melissa Patisserie
The West Village
-Jane
-The Burger Joint
-Porto Rico Coffee and Tea
-The Point
-Shopsin's
-Rocco's Pastry Shop
-Bruno Bakery
-Murray's Cheese
-Cones
-John's Pizzeria
-Condomania - I still remember making sure that DR vixter was quickly ushered by this storefront. ;)
-Magnolia Bakery
Chelsea
-Chocolate Bar
-Li-Lac Chocolates
-Mary's Off Jane Bakery
Chelsea Market
-Eleni's Cookies
-Fat Witch Brownies
-Ruthy's Bakery & Cafe
-Sarabeth's Bakery
-Chelsea Thai
-The Barking Zoo
-Billy's Bakery
Midtown/Theatre District
Columbus Circle
Upper West Side
-La Cocina

Sadly, La Cocina closed about two years ago.
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« Reply #11 on: November 10, 2010, 01:15:37 AM »

And...

Earlier tonight, I returned to the Metropolitan Opera for the season premiere of Mozart's Così fan tutte.  It was fun seeing it again after last week's final dress rehearsal.  -And my friend, Bradley - who was making his Met Debut as the harpsichord continuo player - somehow managed to snag me a prime orchestra seat.  I felt truly spoiled and fortunate.

Afterwards, we headed out to celebrate his official debut with another conducting colleague, and while we were there, Mr. Nathan Gunn happened to drop by with his guests too.

All in all, it was a truly wonderful evening, and I was, well, am very proud of my friend.  He played beautifully tonight. -And he has seven or eight more to go - two of which will be broadcast on Sirius XM as well as on the Met's website.
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« Reply #12 on: November 10, 2010, 01:20:11 AM »

OK...

I'm going to need my energy...

But wait...
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« Reply #13 on: November 10, 2010, 01:27:32 AM »

DR vixmom - I just checked the dates, and, yes, you were correct that Jewish Thighs came before the HHWE&W&E&W Tour!

Jewish Thighs was in March-April of 2005. -And then I officially moved up here to NYC about a month later - and then ended up at Williamstown a week after I moved into my apartment!

The HHWE&W&E&W Tour took place in October of 2005.

WOW!!
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« Reply #14 on: November 10, 2010, 01:27:59 AM »

OK...

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« Reply #15 on: November 10, 2010, 02:20:26 AM »

Good Morning All.

That is all.
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« Reply #16 on: November 10, 2010, 02:20:52 AM »

Oatmeal, dried cherries, pecans, cinammon and coffee.
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« Reply #17 on: November 10, 2010, 03:01:31 AM »

Bruce, I'm glad you decided to go to the funeral.
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« Reply #18 on: November 10, 2010, 03:01:55 AM »

Done with breakfast and now it's time to get ready for work.
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« Reply #19 on: November 10, 2010, 03:02:03 AM »

Bye for now.
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« Reply #20 on: November 10, 2010, 04:03:51 AM »

Bye for now.

It reminds me of Stephen Sondheim's song

Yes I know, goodbye for now,
How long? ~ a year, a day?
Yes I love you, yes you're with me,
here now, next to me, and worlds away!
See I free you, and I'll see you when I see you,
fine, OK?
Goodbye for now, again
Goodbye until whenever then
We're free, that's what we said we'd be,
at leave to come an' go, you as well as I,
somehow each "hello" makes it worth "goodbye" for now!
Goodbye for now, again
Goodbye until whenever then
We're free, that's what we said we'd be,
at leave to come an' go, you as well as I,
somehow each "hello" makes it worth "goodbye" for now!
Goodbye . . . hmm . . . goodbye
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« Reply #21 on: November 10, 2010, 04:22:12 AM »

Michael Shayne so nice to see youhere!  How goes your play?
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« Reply #22 on: November 10, 2010, 04:30:46 AM »

well I have to go to work - and then a wake - just read my emails... :'(
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« Reply #23 on: November 10, 2010, 04:34:43 AM »

Good morning!

I have a dental appointment at 9 am and then it's clean, clean, clean to get ready for out-of-town guests--my friend I've known since kindergarten and his wife. 

Gotta go!
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« Reply #24 on: November 10, 2010, 04:42:42 AM »

Hello, I must be going.
I cannot stay,
I came to say
I must be going.
I'm glad I came
but just the same
I must be going.
For my sake you must stay,
for if you go away,
you'll spoil this party
I am throwing.

I'll stay a week or two,
I'll stay the summer through,
but I am telling you,
I must be going.




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« Reply #25 on: November 10, 2010, 04:50:46 AM »

Good morning, all! I have several things this morning, the NYPL and the Frank :Loesser office where we hope to inventory the P/Cs and orchestra scores for THE MOST HAPPY FELLA. A lot of the piano scores are dated in late 1955, but the Big Date in red pencil is 1/24/56, which seems to be the date that scores were released to Don Walker for orchestration. In the case of "Joey Joey" the song was orchestrated in D and later transposed to D-flat. While the show was trying out, Act One Scene Three was completely configured. I don't think much new composition went on, but two things did occur: a lot of sung recitative became spoken dialogue and several numbers were either repositioned (like "Joey Joey") or cut (like the "Rosabella" duet for Marie and Tony).

My meeting on the Appalachian project was postponed yesterday since the director was under the weather. I don't know when we'll be meeting next, but I did send him a list of my free times.

BK, I think it's great you are going to the funeral and I love Marsha Kramer. I'm so happy that she's going with you.

More coffee!
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« Reply #26 on: November 10, 2010, 05:07:23 AM »

Good news re: little Ricky.

Thanks for those who gave vibes. I am feeling almost good as new today. But boy was I scared last night.  I guess the expired pills worked.
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« Reply #27 on: November 10, 2010, 05:10:08 AM »

Vibes of comfort for all of Michelle's family and friends at the funeral today. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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« Reply #28 on: November 10, 2010, 05:17:21 AM »

Thinking of MR BK and The Event today.

You will be glad you attended, as time goes by - in fact, you will be glad before you get back home.
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« Reply #29 on: November 10, 2010, 05:18:10 AM »

I am returning something my mother bought, and the girl at the post office says the zip code the company gave me does not exist - although it is on the website, and a google search for the address turns up the same zip code.
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