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[Jeanne]

I had my hair cut today, then did some grocery shopping. So exciting.

[Jeanne]

Just left the doctor's office.

Yesterday's tests showed no significant issues other than age.

Good news!

[Jeanne]

TTFN.

[George]

Just left the doctor's office.

Yesterday's tests showed no significant issues other than age.

Good news!

Ditto!!

[George]

Yes nice story DR FJL.

I was pleased to learn that DR ViXMOM had purchased the Texas Roadhouse....maybe she will have to work fewer hours.

Well, she couldn't work any more hours.

DON'T GIVE HER ANY IDEAS!!

[George]

[bk]

You'll all love this story:  Someone filed a PayPal dispute about an order placed a couple of weeks ago.  Didn't contact us, but filed a dispute - in his missive he rather confrontationally asks if we sent his package to some old address in our computer rather than the current address on file with PayPal.  Really obnoxious.  Now, that's certainly happened in the past on the odd occasion.  But I pulled up his handy-dandy invoice and guess what - his shipment went to the address on it, which apparently isn't correct.  Not our fault, chum.  Not PayPal's fault chum.  Your fault, you stupid peckerhead.  Not only is his "new" address not on the invoice, the old address where the package was sent is right there on the dispute page!  I responded as nicely as I could and said we'd call the USPS and see about rerouting the package.  The helper is on that.  Meanwhile I asked him to please shut down the dispute and that we could communicate via e-mail. 

I went and did my stuff, got back just now to a response asking me to let him know when the package has been rerouted, as if that was our JOB to do.  Obviously he hadn't shut down the dispute so I'm on a long forty-minute hold with PayPal to get them involved.  And I came on a little stronger to the peckerhead, telling him once again to shut it down.  If he doesn't, I'll simply not bother with even attempting to reroute and just wait until the post office takes its sweet time in getting the package back to us.  If, at that point, he wishes to get it he'll have to pay the additional postage, since I'm not going to be out an extra postage charge.  But I want PayPal to be involved and aware of how this is going down.

[bk]

Did the interview for the Smell-O-Vision documentary and that was fun and was shot by the cameraman who did The First Nudie Musical.  Then a fun lunch with Larry Cohen and Laureen Landon.

[bk]

Question for musicals lovers:  Would there be any interest in foreign cast albums of shows - such as a Japanese or German Annie Get Your Gun or a French Sweet Charity - that kind of thing.  I've always enjoyed them and am toying with the idea of releasing a couple.

[KevinH]

Annalene Beechey, my leading lady for the recordings of Dearest Enemy and Roberta, has been cast as Kelli O'Hara's standby for the London production of The King & I.  I am really happy for her.

Good for her!  I remember how much I enjoyed her singing at the Lerner and Loewe concert in the UK several years ago.

[KevinH]

Question for musicals lovers:  Would there be any interest in foreign cast albums of shows - such as a Japanese or German Annie Get Your Gun or a French Sweet Charity - that kind of thing.  I've always enjoyed them and am toying with the idea of releasing a couple.

Yes, I would be interested!

[ChasSmith]

Question for musicals lovers:  Would there be any interest in foreign cast albums of shows - such as a Japanese or German Annie Get Your Gun or a French Sweet Charity - that kind of thing.  I've always enjoyed them and am toying with the idea of releasing a couple.

YES.

[George]

You'll all love this story:  Someone filed a PayPal dispute about an order placed a couple of weeks ago.  Didn't contact us, but filed a dispute - in his missive he rather confrontationally asks if we sent his package to some old address in our computer rather than the current address on file with PayPal.  Really obnoxious.  Now, that's certainly happened in the past on the odd occasion.  But I pulled up his handy-dandy invoice and guess what - his shipment went to the address on it, which apparently isn't correct.  Not our fault, chum.  Not PayPal's fault chum.  Your fault, you stupid peckerhead.  Not only is his "new" address not on the invoice, the old address where the package was sent is right there on the dispute page!  I responded as nicely as I could and said we'd call the USPS and see about rerouting the package.  The helper is on that.  Meanwhile I asked him to please shut down the dispute and that we could communicate via e-mail. 

I went and did my stuff, got back just now to a response asking me to let him know when the package has been rerouted, as if that was our JOB to do.  Obviously he hadn't shut down the dispute so I'm on a long forty-minute hold with PayPal to get them involved.  And I came on a little stronger to the peckerhead, telling him once again to shut it down.  If he doesn't, I'll simply not bother with even attempting to reroute and just wait until the post office takes its sweet time in getting the package back to us.  If, at that point, he wishes to get it he'll have to pay the additional postage, since I'm not going to be out an extra postage charge.  But I want PayPal to be involved and aware of how this is going down.

What a dolt!  What a maroon!

[George]

Did the interview for the Smell-O-Vision documentary and that was fun and was shot by the cameraman who did The First Nudie Musical.  Then a fun lunch with Larry Cohen and Laureen Landon.

That's so cool!

[George]

Question for musicals lovers:  Would there be any interest in foreign cast albums of shows - such as a Japanese or German Annie Get Your Gun or a French Sweet Charity - that kind of thing.  I've always enjoyed them and am toying with the idea of releasing a couple.

Very muchly so!

[ChasSmith]

Did the interview for the Smell-O-Vision documentary and that was fun and was shot by the cameraman who did The First Nudie Musical.  Then a fun lunch with Larry Cohen and Laureen Landon.

Nice.  Was that just a coincidence?  And will the documentary be on a Blu-ray release, or what?

[ChasSmith]

The Addams Family is a fun and busy keyboard book to play (there's one number in which I have a few consecutive measures of rest (I say "wow, look at that, I'll sit back and relax" every time I get to it), the mostly student band is getting it nicely, and my fellow keyboardist is great.  So all is well in Gig Land for the moment. 

[Laura]

Sigh.

[Jennifer]

Well it's not nice out, but at least it's not snow

Unfortunately when I woke up today there was a little "surprise".  It's not much snow. Maybe only 1 cm. But it was supposed to rain NOT snow. Not happy I have to get my boots out again.

DR Jennifer, I know you're anxious for spring, but do you not have a good pair of comfortable boots? I love boots and often wear them even when it isn't wet out. Of course, it isn't always easy to find a good-fitting pair. Have you found some you really like?

I have the winter boots that i have been wearing for 4 months. They are comfortable. But they are heavy. And I do not want to wear them again.

[vixmom]

It's nice to know the Vixter was so well thought of that nearly two years after she left she's still being  asked after

Doing good work, even putting in that extra time, can pay off.  I worked at a summer job when in law school, a really great law firm, and the cases were exciting to inexperienced me at least, so I worked until all hours because I was having a ball work-wise.  The hiring attorney even made a donation to a campus extracurricular group I was involved in, and called me up to have lunch each time he came to campus to recruit in following years.  I chose the CPA-firm route instead, as the CPA firm was giving me a chance to work on the AT&T break-up (which so ended up annoying me as a regular phone customer, but totally fascinated me as one of the great business learning opportunities so i grabbed it; it felt once in a lifetime at the time.  (The CPA firm paid much less but since my parents didn't mind me still living with them at 23, my living expenses were very low).

But years later, a wonderful actress in "The Last Starfighter" premiere (and on the Kritzerland album, so there's a HHW connection) was working at that firm, the firm's name came up on caller ID when the actress called us during her lunch break - and I said to her I wonder if Charlie remembers me from over 20 years ago; she was sitting right outside Charlie's office, so she just asked him, and he got on the phone as if he remembered me from last year.   

That's a great story, you obviously made a great impression

[vixmom]

Larry, such an awful elevator situation.  sorry you're going through that; sounds like it could be terrible workmanship, or is it just a bad elevator?

Val says it was something they had overlooked.  It's back and up running this morning.  Everyone on the third floor was pissed last night.  The attitude was, it was out of service for seven weeks and the new one lasts three weeks?

Hopefully, this is the end of the problems for a while.

Vibes for a continuously working elevator for years to come

[vixmom]

As I left I heard the new fella ask, who is that? Is that one of the owners?!

Weren't some people wondering something like that when you had your best-in-the-house table for one at 54 Below? 

Yes that was really funny too, I am sure I got that table only because I was supposed to be sharing  with your drummers wife and because of the lovely email you and skip sent to the venue.  But then she wasn't able to attend and suddenly I had the only two top , up on its private platform looking over everyone else packed in line sardines...people kept looking up at me trying to figure out why I was so privileged 

[vixmom]

BK, why do you think you were the only person in LA who experienced this Smellovision? Were you alone in the theatre when it played?

I'm confused

Well, let's just say that no one has ever admitted to it since that time and I suspect I probably was the only young person - it had a very short run here and did poorly.  I've talked to many who saw it in the 80s when it aired on TV with scratch-n-sniff cards in a seventy-minute version, but no one has ever come forward and said they'd actually seen it during its run here.  And of course we weren't alone in the theater.  There is a reason I was asked to do the commentary on the Blu-ray just as there's a reason I've been asked to do this interview - but I'll be interested to hear what this other gent has to say.

Thanks for explaining , I was imagining them doing a special presentation and you were the only one to show up

[vixmom]

How did the people doing the film know How to reach you and that you saw it? 

[vixmom]

Had a good phone conversation and the Kritzerland show issues are resolved and we're back on for May and June.  And to address FJL's idea - our audience has been really loyal and likes the fact that we're at the same place, the same time (mostly) every month and we're the only show to have ever done it for this very long period of time.  However, for the past year I've known that my plan is to get to 100 shows, which will happen mid next year and then either stop completely or, more likely, that we'll do three yearly specials, which would keep it alive but me much easier on me.

I am very glad it was resolved amicably

[vixmom]

I want warmer weather for our ANNIE auditions this Saturday and Sunday....but I don't think I'll get my want.

Would you like me to drive out there and play FDR?

[John G.]

Just left the doctor's office.

Yesterday's tests showed no significant issues other than age.

Great news.

[vixmom]

Since Vixdad cannot abide strong scents I took it to work Tuesday

Darn.

No it's fine, I spend more time awake at the office.  I put it on the top of my credenza and it is very  pretty and in the bigger space the perfume is not overwhelming

[Jane]

Had a good phone conversation and the Kritzerland show issues are resolved and we're back on for May and June.  And to address FJL's idea - our audience has been really loyal and likes the fact that we're at the same place, the same time (mostly) every month and we're the only show to have ever done it for this very long period of time.  However, for the past year I've known that my plan is to get to 100 shows, which will happen mid next year and then either stop completely or, more likely, that we'll do three yearly specials, which would keep it alive but me much easier on me.

I am glad you were able to work out the issues.

[Jane]

I hope it stops snowing before I get to Maine at the end of the month.

I hope so!