Topic: JUST FOR THE HALIBUT (Read 5019 times)

TCB · « **Reply #120 on:** June 13, 2015, 10:21:03 PM »

Page Five!

TCB · « **Reply #121 on:** June 13, 2015, 10:32:52 PM »

I can't believe I am still awake.

TCB · « **Reply #122 on:** June 13, 2015, 10:33:36 PM »

I only got three hours of sleep last night.

TCB · « **Reply #123 on:** June 13, 2015, 10:34:23 PM »

I had a few catnaps today, but not much else.

TCB · « **Reply #124 on:** June 13, 2015, 10:36:02 PM »

Tomorrow I am going to the closing performance of CABARET.

TCB · « **Reply #125 on:** June 13, 2015, 10:38:00 PM »

And next weekend I have to go see EDWIN DROOD, or I will have some unhappy friends.

TCB · « **Reply #126 on:** June 13, 2015, 10:41:12 PM »

My ex is leaving on Monday for Toronto. They are doing a special event to the memory of Oscar Peterson at some music festival. His niece is the widow of Oscar Peterson.

TCB · « **Reply #127 on:** June 13, 2015, 10:43:43 PM »

It is going to be in the 80's on Monday for the first practice round at the U.S. Open.

TCB · « **Reply #128 on:** June 13, 2015, 10:45:21 PM »

Positive and healing vibes to DR Cilla for the entire bat caper!

TCB · « **Reply #129 on:** June 13, 2015, 10:47:33 PM »

Good bye vibes to all the noisy neighbors (including mine) of all effected Dear Readers!

TCB · « **Reply #130 on:** June 13, 2015, 10:49:04 PM »

I really wish I could move to a mobile home. The noise upstairs is driving me crazy.

TCB · « **Reply #131 on:** June 13, 2015, 10:52:30 PM »

Where I lived in Puyallup, we had fruit bats in the summer. I would walk down the block to get my mail when it would cool down after dark. It was like having the entire cast of THE LOST BOYS flying over my head.

TCB · « **Reply #132 on:** June 13, 2015, 10:53:56 PM »

I kept waiting for Kiefer Sutherland to fly down and give me a hickey.

TCB · « **Reply #133 on:** June 13, 2015, 10:54:27 PM »

Never happened .

TCB · « **Reply #134 on:** June 13, 2015, 10:55:24 PM »

It was a cool place to live. My house faced this big green belt.

TCB · « **Reply #135 on:** June 13, 2015, 10:55:53 PM »

Good night.

bk · « **Reply #136 on:** June 13, 2015, 11:26:49 PM »

And if you didn't have enough reasons, here's another one for loathing Facebook and how dumb people are (even some of my quote friends) - Gene Wilder is dead posts everywhere - oh, no, says everyone. And like 80% of the death posts, it's not true. Who are these ASSES who perpetrate this crap and why can't they be held accountable - yes, they get their clicks and you read an article - a fake article. Better yet, why can't people just take the four damn seconds it takes to Google and see that it's a hoax before just automatically sharing the damn lie? How bloody hard is THAT?

George · « **Reply #137 on:** June 13, 2015, 11:55:37 PM »

Quote from: George on June 13, 2015, 03:40:47 PM

Looking at the volunteer sign-up website, they have one concessionaire, but it's not difficult for one person to handle concessions at SPSCC. However, they only have two ushers signed up, when they want eight! I e-mailed the volunteer coordinator that I could do either concessions or ushering at either venue. Now, I'm just waiting to hear back where I am wanted...but I need to get ready.

Have a good rest of the day, all!

All went well. The one person who had signed up for concessions had never done it there before, and not by herself, so she ushered and I worked concessions.

George · « **Reply #138 on:** June 13, 2015, 11:55:51 PM »

And shortly after I started setting things up for concessions, another person came in to help, so I didn't have to sell by myself. We chatted the whole time and it was all good.

George · « **Reply #139 on:** June 14, 2015, 12:00:33 AM »

After intermission was over and we cleaned up the concessions area, I went down to the Washington Center for the Performing Arts to wait and watched the last number of Masterworks Choral Ensemble. I went because my friend Margo was ushering for that and we were going to go out afterwards, which we did. We went to McMenamin's Spar restaurant...very good.

George · « **Reply #140 on:** June 14, 2015, 12:01:01 AM »

The MCE were doing "Songs of Broadway," which is what I had originally signed up for, but I noticed that they weren't doing only Broadway songs. Well, all the songs were performed on Broadway, but they weren't all written for Broadway...or even musicals.

George · « **Reply #141 on:** June 14, 2015, 12:02:28 AM »

Their last number was a big ABBA medley of songs that were used in "Mama Mia," which ended with "Waterloo." I thought that that was a strange song to end on, but the audience seemed to like it all.

Okay.

George · « **Reply #142 on:** June 14, 2015, 12:03:25 AM »

They also did a Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons song that was used in "Jersey Boys."

George · « **Reply #143 on:** June 14, 2015, 12:03:32 AM »

So, it wasn't pure Broadway, but oh well. I had nothing to do with it.

George · « **Reply #144 on:** June 14, 2015, 12:04:36 AM »

Quote from: bigbuck on June 13, 2015, 04:11:53 PM

I'm about to play a wonderful tune on my 30 year young electric guitar, sorta like a little gig but the kiddy giddy version, I guess. The kids can feel free to jam if they want. Like they can play a wee bit of guitar too. I consider myself to be a guitar god.

I nicknamed myself Goddes Guitar for when we go out for a gig or two. Usually instead of having the guitar singing or just a singing guy we make the drummer sing. It never works out so I end up having to sing it, so guess who the default singer is?

Just a curious question, are/were any of you in a band at one point of time.

I was never in a band, but I was in choirs for quite a few years. That's one of the reasons that I wanted to usher for the Masterworks Choral Ensemble. I don't want to get back into choir singing, but I enjoy going to their concerts once in a while.

George · « **Reply #145 on:** June 14, 2015, 12:05:09 AM »

Quote from: Jeanne on June 13, 2015, 04:42:02 PM

Speaking of noise, there was a manila envelope taped onto the Noisy Neighbors' door yesterday, with the apartment manager's handwriting on it. Eviction papers, I'm hoping.

Good luck with that! Hopefully, it'll all be resolved...and quietly!

George · « **Reply #146 on:** June 14, 2015, 12:07:08 AM »

Quote from: Michael on June 13, 2015, 05:24:58 PM

Cindy Williams new memoir Shirley, I Jest!: A Storied Life is coming out.

I'll buy it for the Bruce Kimmel chapters

I put in a purchase request for the Kindle version. My library has ordered the book, and there are requests for that, so maybe they'll buy the e-book, also. It's entirely possible. They haven't gotten to the point of either/or with physical books versus e-books, yet.

George · « **Reply #147 on:** June 14, 2015, 12:08:43 AM »

Quote from: bk on June 13, 2015, 06:03:48 PM

Quote from: Michael on June 13, 2015, 05:56:28 PM
That's a disappointment

As you know, Cindy plays a prominent role in my book. I'm reduced to one line in hers. I'd say one of us is a real writer and knows storytelling, and one doesn't. I don't know how you reduce someone you've known for fifty years, have worked with repeatedly, had romance with, and been through a lot with, the guy you always turned to when the TV show was bugging you, and reduce that person to one single line in a book about your life. I'm not the only one, however.

That's really too bad.

George · « **Reply #148 on:** June 14, 2015, 12:12:29 AM »

Quote from: Jane on June 13, 2015, 08:30:32 PM

I hope we have more tv viewing options when we change hotels. It is strange how the same shows play over and over and over and over again.

I hate it when that happens!

George · « **Reply #149 on:** June 14, 2015, 12:12:38 AM »

And since we're so close...

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