Topic: ONWARD TO OPENING NIGHT (Read 567 times)

bk · « **on:** January 12, 2026, 12:09:29 AM »

Well, you've read the notes, the notes moved onward to opening night, and now it is time for you to post until the onward cows come home.

bk · « **Reply #1 on:** January 12, 2026, 12:10:23 AM »

And the word of the day is: EXTEMPORE!

Rodzinski · « **Reply #2 on:** January 12, 2026, 12:40:48 AM »

Notes fried. Chickened.

Rodzinski · « **Reply #3 on:** January 12, 2026, 12:42:57 AM »

Kentucky Fried Chicken was always a fast food option for my family. A bucket seemed to go a long way back in those days. They were always changing their style of fries. Sometimes I still crave it, specifically, even though it sure ain’t the best.

singdaw · « **Reply #4 on:** January 12, 2026, 04:09:26 AM »

Good morning, friends.

singdaw · « **Reply #5 on:** January 12, 2026, 04:09:32 AM »

And others.

singdaw · « **Reply #6 on:** January 12, 2026, 04:14:29 AM »

~~~CONTINUED MULTIPLE MODERN MAJOR MIRACLE VIBES~~~ for the likes o' BK!!!

singdaw · « **Reply #7 on:** January 12, 2026, 04:15:00 AM »

Working long hours this week - the final push to the end of Open Enrollment on 1/15.

singdaw · « **Reply #8 on:** January 12, 2026, 04:16:04 AM »

Although if the Senate manages to pass the renewal of tax credits, and miraculously the President signs it, they'll probably extend Open Enrollment further. Oh joy.

ChasSmith · « **Reply #9 on:** January 12, 2026, 04:21:01 AM »

Good morning, all.

ChasSmith · « **Reply #10 on:** January 12, 2026, 04:21:59 AM »

Late to bed last night, and up early this morning for a quick checkup at the dentist.

Freddie · « **Reply #11 on:** January 12, 2026, 04:23:07 AM »

Quote from: singdaw on January 12, 2026, 04:15:00 AM

Working long hours this week - the final push to the end of Open Enrollment on 1/15.

Hoping it's not too stressful, singdaw.

Freddie · « **Reply #12 on:** January 12, 2026, 04:24:49 AM »

More modern major miracle vibes for BK!

ChasSmith · « **Reply #13 on:** January 12, 2026, 04:25:14 AM »

I watched a bit of the Golden Globes last night. Don't remember now what was noteworthy, except for a couple of very weird dresses. No one seemed to have gotten drunk before they had to speak, and I kind of miss those days.

Freddie · « **Reply #14 on:** January 12, 2026, 04:29:48 AM »

TOD: These days, I'm really liking the Korean fried chicken place, Bonchon Chicken - though it's not what you'd think if as "fast food prices."

Skip has always made a pretty amazing fried chicken - though these days I've been more partial to breaded chicken breast or breaded chicken tenders, which (to me) tastes just about the same as fried chicken.

elmore3003 · « **Reply #15 on:** January 12, 2026, 04:30:49 AM »

Good morning, all!

John G. · « **Reply #16 on:** January 12, 2026, 04:31:06 AM »

Good morning, all.

Freddie · « **Reply #17 on:** January 12, 2026, 04:33:10 AM »

Among the fast food fried chicken chains, KFC (back in the old days) and Popeye's were terrific. Nathan's also made a delicious fried chicken.

elmore3003 · « **Reply #18 on:** January 12, 2026, 04:35:20 AM »

The temperatures dropped, and I slept better last night. I had a long, strange dream I do not remember well enough to relate, something about a date with an old flame causing me to stand up a scheduled meeting with a good friend, who was not amused. It all took place around my parents' home where I grew up in Ohio, and my brother Macbeth was in it.

elmore3003 · « **Reply #19 on:** January 12, 2026, 04:37:00 AM »

This morning, I have a session with one of my arranging students. I must get ready for that.

ChasSmith · « **Reply #20 on:** January 12, 2026, 04:37:33 AM »

A very weird dream - I think it was all one dream - if not, it was three or four separate ones that I edited together exceptionally well.

It had to have been influenced by DR Elmore's speaking of his work on Encores! It sort of conflated a couple of musical theeder people and places I know in Connecticut, then seemed to morph into the event of Rob Berman's conducting of Titanic, which then was taking place in some performance space I supposedly had known as a student in Ohio, but I obviously made it up out of whole cloth. Each segment of it was fascinating and worth documenting, but it would be like writing a book to adequately describe it and all of the references.

The opening section also involved a huge array of foods laid out for people attending a celebratory theeder thing, food the likes of which I used to dream of occasionally but I hadn't had one of those in a few years. I'd almost be tempted to recreate the gigantic eggs/cheese/toast thing from the dream, but it would be a grotesquerie in real life.

elmore3003 · « **Reply #21 on:** January 12, 2026, 04:38:21 AM »

The reviews are in!

Freddie · « **Reply #22 on:** January 12, 2026, 04:41:17 AM »

Fabulously funny, Larry!

ChasSmith · « **Reply #23 on:** January 12, 2026, 04:54:57 AM »

I was introduced to Kentucky Fried Chicken at Colonel Sanders's original place in Corbin, Kentucky on one of our family car trips between Ohio and Florida in the early 1960s. My mom and dad had known about it and planned our route so we could stop there for lunch. It wasn't fast food then, at least not at that location, you went inside and ate in a large dining room -- not a fancy place, but already wildly popular and it was always crowded. This was in the early interstate highway days and I believe we were still going through that part of Kentucky on the old highways. I sure wish we had a snapshot from that stop, but I don't remember there ever being one.

I'm guessing that KFC was our go-to place in the years after that. My parents never knew Popeye's, and I'm blank on what other fast food chicken places there were -- except for the Red Barn chain, which we started going to in Florida and there were still a couple left in Ohio in the late 1960s. For me, they were another cheeseburger and fries place, but I think my parents liked the fried chicken they specialized in, and that's what people speak very highly of nowadays when someone brings the subject up.

ChasSmith · « **Reply #24 on:** January 12, 2026, 05:03:28 AM »

This old postcard image is from way earlier than our early-60s visit, but it definitely evokes my memory of how the place looked. I think there were huge billboards hawking the place, and I'm sure there are loads of images out there, but this one will do for now.

DR Elmore, were you ever there in your Kentucky days?

Jrand75 · « **Reply #25 on:** January 12, 2026, 05:24:06 AM »

MMM Vibes for MR BK.

Jrand75 · « **Reply #26 on:** January 12, 2026, 05:26:23 AM »

We had KFC now and then starting when I was in the 7th grade or so.

Mostly it was for events like reunions or company coming.....the last time I had some was at one my niece's high school graduation about three years ago.

I've had Popeye's a couple of times....and the fried chicken at WalMart can be good sometimes. But I hate eating a bit of chicken and ending up with a big pile of bones.

Jrand75 · « **Reply #27 on:** January 12, 2026, 05:27:22 AM »

It is 22 degrees with a feels like of 20 degrees.

High today of 44 degrees. I'll take it.

Jrand75 · « **Reply #28 on:** January 12, 2026, 05:28:41 AM »

DR CHAS SMITH the Dream-O-Matic 6000 says that your dream indicates that you enjoy doing theeder as much for the social aspect as for the work itself.

You especially enjoy being a fly on the wall to see things as they really are.

Jrand75 · « **Reply #29 on:** January 12, 2026, 05:28:55 AM »

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