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[ChasSmith]

I hope BK's visit and repast with Richard Sherman is as lovely and wonderful as I'd imagine it to be. I certainly hope he is doing well.

[John G.]

Good oops spelled backwards is spoo doog. Just sayin’.

[Jrand74]

DR CHAS SMITH is looking for Mr. Ed.

[elmore3003]

DR TCB here are a couple of paragraphs that talk about what I was mentioning....woke wise.

Carlyle and Zaks spent several days at the Lincoln Center Library for the Performing Arts researching Willson’s documents. Zaks notes that Willson — who wrote The Music Man’s book, music, and lyrics — “must have written over 35 drafts of it, and we looked at most of them along the way.” While staying true to the show’s spirit of good-natured satire, the director says, “We needed to identify what made sense then that might be confusing today.”

New lyrics were provided, for example, for the giddy dance number “Shipoopi.” As originally written, the song opens with the line “Well, a woman who’ll kiss on the very first date is usually a hussy,” and contains morsels of advice, such as “Squeeze her once when she’s isn’t lookin’ / If you get a squeeze back, that’s fancy cookin’.” Musical comedy veterans Marc Shaiman and Scott Wittman were enlisted to craft lyrics more in keeping with post-#MeToo sensibilities.

This is very interesting, and I need to look at Mr Dominic McHugh's book about Willson, becauase I would swear the Willson collection is at the Juilliard School.

[elmore3003]

Pardon me while I break wind all over that argument.

There used to be a time when people simply staged the show, no fuss, no muss. For the past twenty years or so, it's all futz, all mess.

[bk]

I'm up, I'm up - maybe seven hours of sleep.

[KevinH]

Good afternoon!

[KevinH]

Have a wonderful time with Mr. Sherman, BK!

[KevinH]

Wordle:  5/6

[KevinH]

Continued property selling vibes for DR elmore!

[bk]

I shall shortly be on my way to lunch.

[George]

So, the Internet is out at my work, but they're not letting us go, yet.

[George]

Something happened, and our IT people and Comcast are going to where "the event" happened, and if it can be fixed quickly enough, we'll have to be able to finish our work day.

[George]

And we can't just choose to leave now and use vacation, because it wouldn't have been "pre-approved."

[George]

So, I'm at lunch now.

[Ginny]

Friday evening greetings!  I don’t have much to say, but wanted to make an appearance. 

[Jane]

I hope they either fix the problem or send you home.

[elmore3003]

This day has contained too much angst to suit me.

[John G.]

Elmore, I just got out of work and have settled in at African Village Restaurant where I am enjoying a bottle of Asmara, an Eritrean beer. Maybe you need an ice-cold beer.

[John G.]

Work was a Friday fright.

[John G.]

I would have run screaming from the building, but I was listening to Sandy Bainum’s It Might Be Fun. Great songs. Very pacifying.

[John G.]

Where’s Singdaw to take us to page four?

[John G.]

Of course, we have to get to page three first.

[John G.]

Details!

[John G.]

I’ve started listening to Geraldine Brooks’ Horse.

[John G.]

I was interested because it is partly set in Lexington, Ky., where I went to college.

[John G.]

But the book is getting depressing.

[John G.]

And I think I knew it would be bad.

[John G.]

But I had to let it get its hooks in me.

[John G.]

Let’s move on …