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[Jane]

Question:  Have any of our readers ever purchased a Chia Pet?  If so, was it a gift for someone, or did you buy it for yourself?

Question:  Have you ever received a Chia pet as a gift?

No & No.

Thank you, Jane.  At least I know that you read my posts.  At first I thought I had turned into JMK.

It was so easy to respond to.

[TCB]

Question:  Have any of our readers ever purchased a Chia Pet?  If so, was it a gift for someone, or did you buy it for yourself?

Question:  Have you ever received a Chia pet as a gift?

No & No.

Thank you, Jane.  At least I know that you read my posts.  At first I thought I had turned into JMK.

It was so easy to respond to.

I know, but they must sell millions of them every year.  Wh buys them?

[TCB]

G'night!

[Jane]

Question:  Have any of our readers ever purchased a Chia Pet?  If so, was it a gift for someone, or did you buy it for yourself?

Question:  Have you ever received a Chia pet as a gift?

No & No.

Thank you, Jane.  At least I know that you read my posts.  At first I thought I had turned into JMK.

It was so easy to respond to.

I know, but they must sell millions of them every year.  Wh buys them?

Not me, that's for sure!

[Jane]

'night

[FJL]

Have a good night, Jane!

[John G.]

First bad review for BONNIE & CLYDE just landed in Terry Teachout's for THE WALL STREET JOURNAL:

'Bonnie & Clyde' isn't the worst musical to open on Broadway in the past decade. It isn't even the worst Frank Wildhorn musical to open on Broadway in the past decade. (That would be "Dracula.") It is, however, quite sufficiently bad enough to qualify for the finals of this year's What-Were-They-Thinking Prize. Why would anyone not obviously deranged put money into a show with music by a composer whose last three Broadway outings tanked? And who thought it was a good idea to write a commodity musical whose title gives the impression that "Bonnie & Clyde" is based (even though it isn't) on a 44-year-old movie that is no longer well remembered save by upper-middle-age baby boomers? Nor have Mr. Wildhorn and his feckless collaborators managed to beat these long odds: "Bonnie & Clyde" is so enervatingly bland and insipid that you'll leave the theater asking yourself why you ever liked musicals in the first place.

Maybe this is why they haven't played up the starring role of "Newsies." They probably knew they'd get the guy back.

[Ron Pulliam]

It's a tired Thursday night in Oakland CA.
"Bones" just started and I' m contemplating bed, instead.

Thank goodness I can record it for later.

Thing is,  I just discovered  how to write this email by speaking into my phone. This is much easier than doing one key at a time with my rubber-tipped pointer!

Oh, well!  I can play some more tomorrow.

[Sam]

Sometimes, the things I think are problems in my life seem sooooooooo small and unimportant.

This morning my boss's wife was struck by a hit and run 18 year old driver while walking her dogs.  When I left work she was in surgery, 2 broken legs, broken hip, skull fracture, coma, etc. etc.

 

The driver drove home and then turned himself in. 

[Sam]

Goodnight everyone.

Don't know if I will be able to make the show Friday night.

 

[Sam]

Sweet dreams.

 

[JoseSPiano]

Good Evening!

Well...

We had two shows today. The first one went well.

The second one, well... just went.

That is all.

[JoseSPiano]

DR Sam - Take care of yourself.

Goodnight.

[bk]

Back from our two-show day.  Show one, our matinee was fantastic - great audience, almost full house.  Evening was a small house of about thirty-five people - VERY quiet, yet the applause for numbers was great with whistles and woos.  We lost about eight people at intermission - later I was told those people didn't speak English.  Go know.  The good news is I survived doing two shows in one day, made a little harder by the fact that they were less than two hours apart.  Saturday will be easier - four hours between.

[JoseSPiano]

First bad review for BONNIE & CLYDE just landed in Terry Teachout's for THE WALL STREET JOURNAL:

'Bonnie & Clyde' isn't the worst musical to open on Broadway in the past decade. It isn't even the worst Frank Wildhorn musical to open on Broadway in the past decade. (That would be "Dracula.") It is, however, quite sufficiently bad enough to qualify for the finals of this year's What-Were-They-Thinking Prize. Why would anyone not obviously deranged put money into a show with music by a composer whose last three Broadway outings tanked? And who thought it was a good idea to write a commodity musical whose title gives the impression that "Bonnie & Clyde" is based (even though it isn't) on a 44-year-old movie that is no longer well remembered save by upper-middle-age baby boomers? Nor have Mr. Wildhorn and his feckless collaborators managed to beat these long odds: "Bonnie & Clyde" is so enervatingly bland and insipid that you'll leave the theater asking yourself why you ever liked musicals in the first place.

Maybe this is why they haven't played up the starring role of "Newsies." They probably knew they'd get the guy back.

I actually like the Bonnie & Clyde musical that Hunter Foster and Rick Crom wrote. I saw it at NYMF a few years ago, and when I first heard that "Bonnie & Clyde is heading to Broadway" I had thought, had hoped it was their production. Ah, well.

[bk]

Good Evening!

Well...

We had two shows today. The first one went well.

The second one, well... just went.

That is all.

Actually, they both went well - the cast was really good about not letting the weird audience get to them.

[JoseSPiano]

DR Jose--I was surprised to see an ad in today's "Express" for Arena Stage's production of The Music Man, which opens next May!

DR KevinH - It's all about drumming up those advance ticket sales. -Especially in light of the projected budget shortfall due to a lack of government funding which has already resulted in the postponement of one show from this season, as well as the cancellation of the musical version of "Like Water for Chocolate" later this season due to a major change in the creative team.

[JoseSPiano]

Question:  Have any of our readers ever purchased a Chia Pet?  If so, was it a gift for someone, or did you buy it for yourself?

Question:  Have you ever received a Chia pet as a gift?

I've purchased one as a gift before.

I do know people who have purchased them, and use them to grow salad sprouts. Otherwise, I'm guessing there are a lot of them stuck at back of the top shelf in lots of people's closets.

[JoseSPiano]

DR Jose - I knew you'd have some good app suggestions!

You're welcome, DR Ginny.

Other cooking apps you may want to look into: Epicurious, How To Cook Everything and Ratio (which DR FJL's ever-lovin' Skip knows about).

[JoseSPiano]

DR JoseSPiano:  D'Oh!  I apologize for not reading your post yesterday more completely.  I had it in my mind that this new job was one you mentioned last week that would have kept you in LA.  Totally did not see "Richmond VA" until I looked again this morning.

Oh, well.   Maybe somebody else will invite you over for spaghetti.

DR Ron Pulliam - Or I could just make my own spaghetti.

[JoseSPiano]

And since I've already nodded off twice in the past 15 minutes...

Goodnight.