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[Freddie]

Page Four!  (and reasonably early in the afternoon)

[Freddie]

MichaelG, thanks for sharing the photos and reviews of your performances.  It's great to see them!

[Freddie]

I called my doctor about Paxlovid. Office is closed for the holiday.

CVS can prescribe paxlovid. I have a voicemail in and waiting for a response.

Hope they call you back soon! 

Good to know CVS can be a prescriber for some prescriptions.

[Jane]

At least while I am stuck home sick I can spend more time appreciating my new appliances

That's looking on the bright side!

LOL, or you can tell that I am bored

[Jane]

Today is also National Cabbage Day.

If I have another salad tonight it will be made with cabbage.

For some reason, I don't usually like cabbage, but when it's in a deep-fried egg roll from the Chinese restaurant, cabbage is really tasty.  Maybe ordering an egg roll is called for on National Cabbage Day.

That works.

You didn't like stuffed cabbage when you were young?

[Freddie]

At least while I am stuck home sick I can spend more time appreciating my new appliances

That's looking on the bright side!

LOL, or you can tell that I am bored

OK, that explanation works, too. 

[ChasSmith]

Wait a minute. How many people in this jernt have covid now? Is this 2021, or what?

Everybody get better!

[Freddie]

Today is also National Cabbage Day.

If I have another salad tonight it will be made with cabbage.

For some reason, I don't usually like cabbage, but when it's in a deep-fried egg roll from the Chinese restaurant, cabbage is really tasty.  Maybe ordering an egg roll is called for on National Cabbage Day.

That works.

You didn't like stuffed cabbage when you were young?

IIRC, I liked everything it was stuffed with, so I ate the inside when it was served.

I'm trying to think whether my parents ever actually made stuffed cabbage, or if we just brought it in from outside.  My grandmother (Dad's mom) made stuffed cabbage, though. 

[ChasSmith]

I'm still ketchuping (if not on a hot dog) here...

DR MichaelG, great photos, etc., on the production. That whole experience must have been so gratifying. Congrats!

What's next?

[Freddie]

Wait a minute. How many people in this jernt have covid now? Is this 2021, or what?

Everybody get better!

If everyone getting Covid is a trend, maybe I can push my "That Ain't Containment" series of videos again!


"It's Gonna Take a Lotta Gloves" - a parody public service announcement
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P92NrXCxMBw

[Freddie]

And the title song "That Ain't Containment" tune of "That's Entertainment"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EuSeE_KIcVc

[John G.]

I'm really enjoying the movie. It's pro-American propaganda. But it's intelligently made. And well acted. The Franz Waxman score is great.

[singdaw]

All this talk of food is making me hungry.

[singdaw]

All this talk of song is making me songry.

[singdaw]

All this talk of lawn is making me laundry.

[singdaw]

Laundry and a nap. That's the ticket.

[singdaw]

I am not buying anything that is on a Presidents' Day sale. George Washington would not have endorsed bidets.

[George]

In the meantime, you dear readers can, of course, order the book the other way by just going directly to PayPal.com, clicking on "send money" and putting in the total you're sending, which is $38 (includes priority postage) for the signed copy. It's easy as pie. Just make sure your address is showing and put what it's for. Many of you have done this many times. So, go.

Book has been ordered!

[George]

And now for something completely different...and not in a good way:

Amazon are changing the way you own your Kindle books - you have 10 days to react

[Jane]

Wait a minute. How many people in this jernt have covid now? Is this 2021, or what?

Everybody get better!

Two of us.

[George]

Here's the musical from the SNL show about 50 years of New York
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l8GbTZ8v1-w

Given today's HHW TOD, is it coincidence that the SNL musical starts with John Mulaney calling out "Hot dogs and heroin, get your hot dogs and heroin here" describing NYC in the 1970s.

Thanks for the link, Freddie!

[George]

DR George, thanks for the terrifying YouTube link. These Tennessee MAGA Morons - well, all Trump fanatics in political office, actually - should be executed or jailed for treason. Every day, the news on the Trump administration's crimes horrifies me.

Me, too!

[Jane]

Today is also National Cabbage Day.

If I have another salad tonight it will be made with cabbage.

For some reason, I don't usually like cabbage, but when it's in a deep-fried egg roll from the Chinese restaurant, cabbage is really tasty.  Maybe ordering an egg roll is called for on National Cabbage Day.

That works.

You didn't like stuffed cabbage when you were young?

IIRC, I liked everything it was stuffed with, so I ate the inside when it was served.

I'm trying to think whether my parents ever actually made stuffed cabbage, or if we just brought it in from outside.  My grandmother (Dad's mom) made stuffed cabbage, though. 

I thought most Jewish families ate it.  I rarely made the vegetarian version when the kids were young, more because I lost the recipe for my mother's sauce than the lack of meat.  When Craig lived in Romania it was very popular there and he created a delicious vegetarian version.

[Jane]

And now for something completely different...and not in a good way:

Amazon are changing the way you own your Kindle books - you have 10 days to react

Wow.  I hope this doesn't mean I will have a problem the next time I download one onto my Kindle ap on my Samsung tablet.

[Freddie]

And now for something completely different...and not in a good way:

Amazon are changing the way you own your Kindle books - you have 10 days to react

Thanks for pointing that out, George! 

[elmore3003]

Elmore, you are our resident Victor Herbert expert. Have you seen this Red Mill TV production with Nichols and May that's been discussed on castrecl? Sounds fascinating in a way that train wrecks can be.

Here's the IMDB info on the show:
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0352767/?ref_=nm_flmg_job_1_cdt_eps_tt_1

I would say this broadcast is to the original Victor Herbert m,usical co,medy as Donald Trump is to a person of ethics and decency.  The original musical was about two "Broadway" New Yorkers - almost Damon Runyan types - stuck in Holland with no monery to get home. It's very funny with them in various disguises such as waiters and tour guides while they help a ship's captain and his fiancee escape her father's disapproval, rescue the fiancee from the supposedly haunted red mill; fall in love; and meet Sherelock Holmes.

Since I cannot find a list of what sonmgs were used in the 1958 broadcast, I have no idea what they did to the score.

[elmore3003]

I was 11 in April, 1958, sixth grade in school, and this Red Mill broadcast was something I wanted to see. I vaguely remember the advertising for it. It was one of those 9-11:00 things, as I recall, and my bedtime was something like 8:30. I think my mother would have liked my brother Macbeth and me in bed by 4:00 if she could manage it.

I digress. There was no way the Red Mill and my bedtime could coincide so I missed it.

[John G.]

Back to Billy. This time it's The Front Page. The soundtrack from Billy May is wonderful.

May also wrote one of my favorite Kritzerland releases, The Fuzzy Pink Nightgown.

[John G.]

Sorry about that, Elmore. I share similar stories of all the shows I missed due to bedtimes and a misunderstanding mother.

[John G.]

One of these days I will forgive her. I hope.