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[elmore3003]

I cannot eat or take my meds four hours before, so I will be getting up around 5:15.  That should be a surprise for Stella.

[singdaw]

Yikes, DR elmore3003 - hope all goes well.

[bk]

Ate the meatball pizza - not as good as the pepperoni, but still enjoyable.

[bk]

Picked up a couple packages.

[bk]

Did work on project two for an hour or so, and am now listening to a fun piano concerto by operetta composer Oscar Straus.

[bk]

Listening to Adriadne and Naxos - very appealing.

[singdaw]

If Shakespeare had written "Baby, It's Cold Outside"

Romeo: I really can’t stay.
Juliet: But baby, it's cold outside.
Romeo: I’ve got to go away.
Juliet: But baby, it's cold outside.
Romeo: This evening has been....
Juliet: Been hoping that you'd drop in.
Romeo: So on the mark.
Juliet: That was the nightingale, not the lark.
Romeo: My mother will start to worry,
Juliet: Romeo, what's your hurry?
Romeo: The Montagues all pacing the floor.
Juliet: Listen, it’s my nurse at the door.
Romeo: So really I'd better scurry.
Juliet: Romeo, go—please hurry!
Romeo: Belike I'll stay a half an hour more—
Juliet: Exit through the balcony door.
 
[Fade to new scene]
 
Gertrude: The Danish might think...
Claudius: Gertrude, it's bad out there.
Gertrude: Say, what's in this drink?
Claudius: Laertes was stabbed out there.
Gertrude: I wish I knew how...
Claudius: Your eyes have grown cloudy now.
Gertrude: To break this spell.
Claudius: I'll hold your crown, your face doth swell.
Gertrude: Just wait until Hamlet finds you.
Claudius: Mind if I hide behind you?
Gertrude: At least I had some fun ere I died.
Claudius: What's the sense of more regicide?
Gertrude: I really can't stay.
Claudius: This groweth sadder.
Both: Ah, but it's tragedy.
 
[Fade to new scene]
 
Macbeth: I really should go.
Lady Macbeth: But baby the king's in there.
Macbeth: The answer is no.
Lady Macbeth: Was hope drunk? Your fear's a snare,
Macbeth: His welcome doth speak...
Lady Macbeth: Unmannish and passing weak.
Macbeth: Against the deed.
Lady Macbeth: Screw up your courage, that's what you need.
Macbeth: The nobles will be suspicious—
Lady Macbeth: Seize this moment auspicious!
Macbeth: The porter will be there at the door—
Lady Macbeth: Old and drunk and likely to snore.
Macbeth: Perchance I am too ambitious...
Lady Macbeth: Victory tastes delicious!
Macbeth: Well maybe I'll do it, if you're sure.
Lady Macbeth: Never such advancement before.
 
[Fade to new scene]
 
Desdemona: We're here all alone,
Othello: I hope that you sent your prayers.
Desdemona: I don't like your tone.
Othello: I hope that you meant your prayers.
Desdemona: You'll bring us such grief.
Othello: Say where is your handkerchief?
Desdemona: O, I love thee.
Othello: How could you do this thing to me?
Desdemona: You're bound to feel better tomorrow...
Othello: Think of my lifelong sorrow!
Desdemona: At least wait until then to decide.
Othello: If you played around on the side!
Desdemona: I swear that I'm true.
Othello: I'm just getting madder.
Both: Baby it's tragedy.

[singdaw]

Had an interesting Zoom meeting tonight for the music staff at the church where I work and the logistics of getting all the Christmas music recorded for everything coming up. It will all be digital and woe to the tech wizards who have to sort it all out afterward.

[singdaw]

All the time I have more and more admiration for the tech wizardry of the Kritzerland shows.

[singdaw]

Regina Pizzeria in Boston is open RIGHT NOW.         

[singdaw]

Well, one can dream.

[singdaw]

OK, true confessions time.


A friend of mine hauled out his pre-lit Christmas tree this year to find that only the very top and very bottom of the tree still lighted.

After trying every trick and circuit-breaker, he went out and bought strings and strings of lights to complete the tree.

[singdaw]

You can probably guess where this is going.


After completely lighting and decorating the whole tree around the non-working lights, there was suddenly a loud *POP*.

And, suddenly, the original lights, the ones that had still been working, gave up the ghost.

[singdaw]

I haven't laughed so hard in a long time.


Does that make me a terrible person?

[singdaw]

I did pass along my condolences.

[singdaw]

Hello, 2 Guests!

[singdaw]

Gratuitous post #136!

[bk]

Finished with my viewing, which consisted of lasting through act one of The Cunning Little Vixen in yet another "vision" production that sets the standard for how not to do this stuff.  Then it was a little of a new opera of Pinocchio - not much to my liking, so now I'm back to Adriadne and Naxos, real music, beautifully played and sung and recorded.  Ahhhhhh.

[bk]

That said, I really like Janacek's music, so I'll try a recording and another video iteration that's supposed to be very good - Nicholas Hytner is involved in that one.

[bk]

I gotta tell you.

[bk]

Tomorrow will be a no-pizza day - may go over to Gelson's and see if there's something there to my liking or I'll just get something - maybe Casa Vega - been too long without and it's an easy pick-up for me.

[Jane]

I haven't laughed so hard in a long time.


Does that make me a terrible person?

[Jane]

I did pass along my condolences.

That was kind of you

[Jane]

I can't remember the last time we had Mexican food.

[John G.]

I made it to Louisville.

[Jane]

I am pleased to see you have arrived.  Have a good visit.

[Jane]

Now I know DR John is done with his long drive......

[Jane]

'night

[John G.]

.

In the meadow we can build a snow dog
And pretend that he's a living hound . . .

He’ll say, are you saved?
We’ll say, hell bound.

[TCB]

BK, if you are having trouble getting into that other Richard Strauss opera, I suggest listening to the whole thing when you first wake up.  I have always found that morning becomes Electra.