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[Laura]

I think someone must have hacked into Vixmom's account. There were no typos in that post.

[vixmom]

http://cocktails.about.com/od/atozcocktailrecipes/r/marg_cktl.htm

Margarita~!

'hmmm I like whisky sours so maybe I would like this too

[vixmom]

I think someone must have hacked into Vixmom's account. There were no typos in that post.

must be the maragritas

[elmore3003]

I just finished reading a large chunk of Ron Moody's new autobiography which arrived from London today. It's very wonderful, particularly his accounts of learning to be an actor in the 1959 London production of CANDIDE with Denis Quilley, Mary Costa, and Victor Spinetti - he was a 36 year-old clown and revue comedian with no concept of acting - and his huge success in 1960 in OLIVER! He and Georgia Brown hatedeachother and his telling of their feud and her bad behavior onstage is quite interesting. She and Lionel Bart, who never wanted him to be Fagin, appear to be the most rrsponsible for his not playing the role on Broadway. The wonderful Vivienne Martin, who played the Queen in JUBILEE in 1999, shows up a lotin the book since she washis girlfriend at the time. She's a wonderful lady. She and Denis Quilley were my favorites in the 1999 broafcast.

[vixmom]

John G. I just looked up the book on Amazon --- my sincere condolences- the acknowledgements  were  overwritten and pretentious - it seems the author must have been getting paid by the word - not exactly a motivation to move into the main body of the book


I was interested, however, to see that the author, rather like Merlin, is living backwards in time.


http://www.amazon.com/Schools-We-Need-Dont-Have/dp/0385495242/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1298432244&sr=1-1#reader_0385495242

In the introduction to the paperback version he writes that this book was met with praise in 1966 which signalled to him that a change had occurred in educational thinking since he last published in 1987....

[bk]

Rehearsal went very well and I need to now sit on my couch like so much fish.

[vixmom]

everybody left to drink margaritas

[Cillaliz]

It's been almost 3 hours since Danise signed off.  Hope all is well with her

[Cillaliz]

I must get some sleep.  I'm worried about Danise.

[Laura]

If she had to sit in the ER, it could be hours.

[John G.]

I haven't had a margarita since dinner.

Then it was back to the book. I made it through another 115 or so pages today. I will finish it up tomorrow and then start on the paper.

Vixmom, it must have been their typo. The book originally appeared in 1996, though it reads closer to 1966. So much of it is dated or the author was just willfully blind to the education system, especially when it comes to standardized testing. He's so in favor of them that he really has no idea that, at least in San Antonio, the tests are taught because the school districts' money depends on how they score. So, they do nothing but teach the tests in those grades that are forced to take them. That's not education.
 

[John G.]

And with that little sermon, I'm off to bed.

Loved the notes on Ron Moody's book, Elmore.

[Sam]

Vibes for everyone who needs them.

 

[Sam]

Goodnight.

I'm tired.

 

[George]

Time for me to leave work, go home and do some laundry.  It's been just a bit too long since I've done some, so I MUST do at least a couple of loads.

Until later!

You could have that margarita in between loads.

If only I drank.