Topic: MANCINI'S FRENZY (Read 1605 times)

John G. · « **Reply #120 on:** May 03, 2025, 07:40:58 PM »

Five!

John G. · « **Reply #121 on:** May 03, 2025, 07:52:28 PM »

Charley Chase is wearing out his welcome.

John G. · « **Reply #122 on:** May 03, 2025, 07:52:48 PM »

Time for bed.

Rodzinski · « **Reply #123 on:** May 03, 2025, 08:56:34 PM »

Quote from: Freddie on May 03, 2025, 05:32:22 PM

Quote from: Rodzinski on May 03, 2025, 05:11:38 PM
Good evening. Spent the morning digging up the septic tank covers so we can get the tank cleaned out. Fun!

Remembering this Erma Bombeck book title

"The Grass Is Always Greener over the Septic Tank"
https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/the-grass-is-always-greener-over-the-septic-tank-erma-bombeck/1000112952

My mom had that book!

ChasSmith · « **Reply #124 on:** May 03, 2025, 08:58:08 PM »

I am: BACK.

Back from the soggy foggy spongebottom.

And you know what? The drive home from Norwalk was soggy and foggy. Fancy that. We apparently had some rainstorms or thunderstorms come through while I was holed up in the UN-air-conditioned auditorium, which was soggy enough - no matter who you ask - cast, crew, orchestra, audience. Thankfully, it wasn't raining while I was out driving, because I hate nothing worse than that at night. But it is DANK.

bk · « **Reply #125 on:** May 03, 2025, 08:58:30 PM »

Should have had Marco's.

bk · « **Reply #126 on:** May 03, 2025, 08:58:39 PM »

Oh well.

bk · « **Reply #127 on:** May 03, 2025, 08:58:47 PM »

Finished a movie.

bk · « **Reply #128 on:** May 03, 2025, 08:58:56 PM »

Making some pasta now.

bk · « **Reply #129 on:** May 03, 2025, 08:59:03 PM »

Not too much.

Rodzinski · « **Reply #130 on:** May 03, 2025, 09:00:04 PM »

In Canada they say “pasta” in a way that rhymes with “Shasta.”

ChasSmith · « **Reply #131 on:** May 03, 2025, 09:00:46 PM »

I hear about bad pizza pretty much everywhere, from people who are from the northeast and are trying to find decent pizza in other regions.

And I don't understand the problem. You need an oven -- presumably, or preferably, a brick one -- and

(wait for it)

a recipe. One that's proven. One that works. Why can't there be great pizza ANYWHERE?

Rodzinski · « **Reply #132 on:** May 03, 2025, 09:01:01 PM »

I had a bolognaise pass-ta dish myself. Bulked it up with some meatballs. I did not go hungry.

Rodzinski · « **Reply #133 on:** May 03, 2025, 09:03:09 PM »

In Canada, did I mention this? There’s a chain called Boston Pizza. Now whoever associates Boston and pizza in the states? Nobody. Yet Boston Pizza is rather good. Generous, anyways.

ChasSmith · « **Reply #134 on:** May 03, 2025, 09:03:43 PM »

Disclaimer: When I lived in L.A. I didn't know from pizza. I ate wherever a group was going to eat. I did takeout from Domino's when one was close to me. I had no expectations. I liked it all.

When the Chicago deep-dish style came to L.A. I dutifully had some and probably liked it fine. But I didn't care. All pizza was good.

I'm sure I wouldn't be saying that now, but that's how it was. When life was simple. And serene.

Rodzinski · « **Reply #135 on:** May 03, 2025, 09:05:19 PM »

There is also a chain called “Pizza Pizza” that looks like Little Caesar’s but there are also Little Caesar’s, which are forbidden from using the phrase “pizza pizza.” Go know.

ChasSmith · « **Reply #136 on:** May 03, 2025, 09:05:41 PM »

Was that in the late 1970s? The deep-dish invasion? Was it Numero Uno or something else?

Rodzinski · « **Reply #137 on:** May 03, 2025, 09:06:17 PM »

I’m like you, Chas. Pretty much enjoy most pizza.

Rodzinski · « **Reply #138 on:** May 03, 2025, 09:06:33 PM »

Pizzeria Uno.

Rodzinski · « **Reply #139 on:** May 03, 2025, 09:07:18 PM »

I must say I grew up near Chicago and never really heard about deep dish until much later.

Rodzinski · « **Reply #140 on:** May 03, 2025, 09:08:04 PM »

The quality of frozen pizzas you make at home has improved quite a bit in recent years.

ChasSmith · « **Reply #141 on:** May 03, 2025, 09:08:57 PM »

I hear tell that "deep dish" isn't necessarily a true Chicago style. But I didn't live there long enough to get into pizza and learn all of that. What I did learn about was the hot dogs and Italian beef sandwiches. Lordy, I could eat a couple right now.

Rodzinski · « **Reply #142 on:** May 03, 2025, 09:13:46 PM »

My distaste for SpongeBob is well known to my children. Thus I cannot imagine enduring as much of that as you recently have, Chas. But maybe live people make it better somehow.

Rodzinski · « **Reply #143 on:** May 03, 2025, 09:16:57 PM »

Hot dogs were definitely a Chicago thing. Real Vienna beef!
In another branding oddity, there was a small chain, Bozo Hot Dogs, but because Bozo’s Circus was big on WGN, they made one of the letter “o”s into a happy face and said they were “Boz Hot Dogs.” But everyone still called them “Bozo’s.”

MichaelG · « **Reply #144 on:** May 03, 2025, 09:27:25 PM »

7 hours of rehearsal today (3 hours of chamber chorus, 4 hours of opera staging) so I'm tired. Followed by 4 more hours of opera staging tomorrow. The staging rehearsals are so much fun - our principal singers are amazing. It gets pretty loud in our rehearsal space.

MichaelG · « **Reply #145 on:** May 03, 2025, 09:30:03 PM »

We have two children supers for one scene and both are children of present or past chorus members. One of them is a veteran - she's supered at San Francisco Opera after playing Trouble in our last production of Butterfly. For the other it's his stage debut.

ChasSmith · « **Reply #146 on:** May 03, 2025, 09:47:44 PM »

If no one has mentioned this, here it is: The attempt at preserving the cottage near Charleston, SC where Porgy and Bess was conceived:

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/03/arts/music/porgy-bess-house-south-carolina.html

I think if we all kicked in a few mil...

Rodzinski · « **Reply #147 on:** May 03, 2025, 11:30:02 PM »

Still on page 5 after all these years?

Rodzinski · « **Reply #148 on:** May 03, 2025, 11:30:58 PM »

That will not do.

Rodzinski · « **Reply #149 on:** May 03, 2025, 11:31:15 PM »

Nor will it stand.

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