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[bk]

Well, you've read the notes, the notes just got on with it, and now it is time for you to post until the just getting on with it cows come home.

[bk]

And the word of the day is: CONVIVIAL!

[bk]

Wasn't Convivial Vance on I Love Lucy?

[bk]

How many here actually watched I Love Lucy when it first aired?

[bk]

Raise your hands.

[George]

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[Freddie]

George, interesting story in last night's posts on tracking down that movie for the library!

And thanks also for posting that link to "Into the Fire" from Scarlet Pimpernel! Most enjoyable seeing Douglas Sills performing the song in 2020 and Christine Andreas' opening reminiscences about the song in the original show - and of course that BK's own Robert Yacko was in it is a plus, including his own fun spoken contributions during the video's closing credits! 

[Freddie]

Regarding the TOD, is Chik-Fil-A considered high end as far as fast food goes?

If so, maybe Jersey Mike's is too - and I like Jersey Mike's a lot.  I've really enjoyed their Philly Cheesesteak and their Roast Beef sandwich.

Chipotle also seems high end, and very fresh ingredients, and almost always quite good.

[Freddie]

From BK's notes: "Not enough sauce, way too much dough and the pepperoni was kind of skanky."


It occurs to me that Skanky Pepperoni can be sung to the tune of Fascinating Rhythm, if they ever need a jingle that tries to sell the Skanky Pepperoni.

[Laura]

Good morning.

[Laura]

I think the doorbell sensor woke me up. I didn't hear it, but I had a notification that there was movement at the front door a minute before I checked the phone. (I was looking at the clock to see what time it was.) Must have been an insect or something crawling.

[Laura]

TOD: Chipotle.

[Laura]

Are we still boycotting Chik Filet?

[Laura]

I am.

[elmore3003]

Good morning, all!

[elmore3003]

I slept solidly, with Stella next to me, from 9:0-3:30, when it was time for a bathroom break. At that point Thatch moved in, and I spent over an hour trying to get back to sleep. When I finally slept, I had a very strange dream, which I'll describe shortly, which was ended by the alarm. I was so groggy, I lay down again with Annabelle and Thatch and dozed for 45 minutes.

[elmore3003]

When I moved to New York, my best friend at thew Drama Book Shop was a young composer and former paramour of Mr Steve Sondheim named Thom Heinrichs. He was living in Queens in a huge apartment he shared with his boyfriend David and two young actors and I  lived with them, sleeping on a sleeping bag under a grand piano, for several weeks in November until I could move into my first apartment on West 94th Street. I had spent June-December 1979 crashing at various friends' places. Around 1982, Thom met a young actor, Ken Bryan, in the cast of the Broadway production of Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dream Coat, and, after Ken was cast in the dreadful Galt McDermott The Human Comedy. When that folded, they moved to Los Angeles, Ken was diagnosed with AIDS and died, and Thom lived for a few more years as his health deteriorated and he went blind before the plague mercifully killed him. I occasionally received letters from him, which I answered, and one day they finally stopped. For years I wondered what had become of my friend. Computer searches pulled up a few remnants of his AIDS activism and little else.

All of this is prelude to last night's dream.

[elmore3003]

I do not remember much of the dream now except that I was wandering about NYC, and I was on a subway at one point. I ran into Thom and David - I think - or maybe they were with me. I remember saying to David, Where are you these days? I've looked and looked for you for years. After Thom and David parted ways, I never heard from David again; I've always wondered what happened to him. My last memory of seeing him was in the Drama Book Shop one day. He had spent the weekend on Fire Island without Thom, and I thought, this relationship isn't going to last. Mt last memory of seeing Thom was in late 1984 or early 1985. I was then working for Classic Books, and he stopped in to tell me goodbye. He and Ken were moving to LA.

[Freddie]

I've mentioned that there's a HUGE Broadway-aimed musical called OTHER WORLD, which has the same plot framework as THE LAST STARFIGHTER, a video game player being swept into the real-life game.  OTHER WORLD is written by the "[title of show]" writers Hunter Bell and Jeff Bowen co-writing with a musician named Ann McNamee, who "happens" to be part of a billionaire couple (Roger and Ann McNamee known for prior involvement with Facebook), so their musical has the money to be on Broadway whenever they decide they're ready.

I'm wondering whether if OTHER WORLD becomes a Broadway hit, what this means for pushing for productions of the LAST STARFIGHTER musical, if we'll be able to use an approach for local productions of  "while you can't get the rights to OTHER WORLD, do our show" instead, even maybe for large theaters.

[elmore3003]

In November 1980, my first Thanksgiving in this apartment, I had a Than dinner for my friends living in and around NYC and employees of the Drama Book Shop who had no place to go. This photo of the day, taken by my friend Snooky Barton, I believe, popped up oin my Facebook memories. Perhaps this triggered last night's dream.

The people down front: Sally Netzel (DBS), David Panella (DBS), David Dreyfoos (DBS);
Next row: Thom Heinrichs (DBS), Karen Eifert (college(, Me, David Erwin (Thom's boyfriend) Richard Newman (Middletown friend), and a stranger with a moustache;
Behind them Nancy Corporon (conductor of the NYC Gay Communiuty Marching Band), John Schneidler (Middletown friend).

Thom and I had co-written a march for the NYC Gay Community Marching Band; he and David Dreyfoos had written a song for the cabaret act I worked with, "Doggy Walkin' Boy"; Sally Netzel was a playwright, Karen Eifert, a friend since college, was wardrobe mistress on The Best Little whorehouse in Texas; David Dreorked for years with the Westbury Playhouse, I think.

[Freddie]

STRANGER WITH A MOUSTACHE - sounds like it should be the title of something, maybe a movie? an opera? a painting?

[ChasSmith]

Good morning, all.

[ChasSmith]

I'm playing for a voice lesson this afternoon and I'll stop at the supermarket for a few items. I think that's the extent of my travels today.

[ChasSmith]

I had my usual strange dream, much like the last one combining a few unrelated life segments, but this one wasn't as clear and distinct as that previous one. DR Elmore's has mine beat, for sure. Not to mention, photographic evidence!

[ChasSmith]

If I Love Lucy ran from 1951 to 1957, then we probably watched pretty much the whole thing as it first aired. I don't know how early we began watching it, or how regular we were from week to week, but I believe we had our first TV - a Muntz, I think - in 1951.

[ChasSmith]

I would have been about two when it began, and I certainly can't swear to what all we were watching then, though I do have a few memory flashes of programs seen in that first place we lived after I was born.

[ChasSmith]

I reread DR Elmore's dream. I have those, in which I'm finding people previously lost, or who weren't lost but I'd been separated from them, and I can remember at least one such dream I had back in the late 1970s - so there have probably been more than I'm recalling at this instant. I also kind of lump those dreams in with the ones about people who have been dead for years. All of these are fascinating and compelling.

[ChasSmith]

Dreams in general are just endlessly fascinating.

[John G.]

Good morning, all.

[John G.]

I don’t want to stir.