Month: February 2007

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    1  That was the Super Bowl that I slept through.

    2   Best nap I've had in weeks.

    3   Besides the city of Indianapolis, the only other people who really give a care are the members of the Manning family.

    4  Watching the news last night, I saw that the Queen Mary 2 came to San Francisco yesterday. Even on the television screen it looked huge. If I had known that, I'd have gotten off the couch and gone up to the City to go watch it.

                                queen 1



    Moving on: First year I couldn't really tell you about the Super Bowl commercials.

    6  Part of the reason is that Saturday we celebrated my parents' anniversary. What made it so special is that my mom can't walk, and it's even difficult for her to get into a wheel chair, but she managed to roll into the living room where she held court. My dad sported a nifty corsage.

    7  WE broght in a bunch of their friends and family, cousins, aunts, and all the people who make our lives real. We shared laughter and celebrated the absolute joy of our collective pasts, as well as a happy future for all of us.


    My dad, pondering, my sister Linda standing.
    That's me and my sister Gayle lounging
    "back in the day". Good times at Fern Grove in Guerneville.


    8  There was laughter and singing, eating and joking and warm wishes everywhere we turned.

    9  As you move on in life, those sorts of things take on tremendous meaning. We broke into rousing rounds of songs, ranging from Guys and Dolls to My Guy, to the immortal My Favorite Things. My sisters and daughters did a medley of tunes from Wicked, and we later settled into watching Marlon Brando, Jean Simmons, Frank Sinatra and Vivian Blaine in Guys and Dolls.

     


    10  Million Dollar Babies.

    11  We took it to the streets, where some of them sang to the stars in the chill of the night. Some neighbor yelled at the college set for having fun at 9 p.m. on a Saturday night. HIS baby was sleeping.

    12  Well, everyone just laughed at that. This was my parent's home where they've had nothing but joy, happiness and lovely memories, and this was yet another conquest, and worth every bit of love we enjoyed.

    13  The baby would go back to sleep.

    14  The family will live on and hold on to one another for dear life as we move on and on.

    15  One thing is certain: we all have learned to sing, laugh and  love, no matter what life throws at us.

    16  Many of us have been through very much in recent years.

    17  It was fine time we held together in genuine joy.

    18  It was the stuff of life.

    19  Tonight I feel like the luckiest person in the world to have had the fortune to enjoy a loving, laughing family.

    20  Thanks for letting me let that out.

    21  Some things just need reporting, and that was one.

    22  Just a buncha Million Dolllar Babies from the Five-and-Ten Cent store.

    23  Good times.

    24  Hope you have a lovely Monday.

    25  Peace.

    ~H~





     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     

     

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    1  Ho hum.

    2  Happy Groundhog Day.

    3  Meh.

    4  This day is always more remarkable to moi than it's title because Groundhog Day is not only my late grandfather's birthday, but it's also my parents' anniversary.

    5  So grandpa, Happy Birthday guy. You're still here in my book.

    6  And Mom and Dad, Happy Anniversary. I won't give away which one it is, because I always think of you as newlyweds!

    7  This one is a big-gig one, so we're going to have a big she-bang for them tomorrow night. I can't wait. And you, in the meantime, are just watching a guy pour air out of a Dixie cup.

    Moving on:  I want to remind everyone that the AMTSJ brings in Camelot again this weekend and next, 8 p.m. Wednesdays, Thursdays, Fridays, 2 and 8 p.m. Saturdays, and 1 and 6:30 p.m. Sundays through Feb. 11.

    9  That includes the remarkable Michael York as King Arthur. I'm not sure how that will play, but just being able to see Michael York in person should be worth the investment. I absolutely love his acting. And let us not forget that he worked with the immortal Richard Burton in Franco Zefferelli's Taming of the Shrew,  playing the part of Lucentio.

    10  Yesterday's Eye section in the Merc News gave it a pretty good review. Tickets are $13.75 to $73 and you can get them by calling (888) 455-7459, or (408) 453-7108, or you could go straight to their website which is www.amtsj.org.

    11  The only thing about the review that bothered me is that they took out the beautiful Lerner/Lowe classic I Loved You Once in Silence, one of the loveliest songs ever written.

    12  There is mention in the review of an "overall new retooling by Michael Lerner of his father Alan Jan Lerner's original script." Well, I always felt the Camelot script always needed re-tooling, so this could be a good thing.

    13  On Broadway, it originally opened to terrible reviews, quite possibly because the script leaves a little to be desired, particulary the role of Lancelot. Word has it that the cast members, Richard Burton, Julie Andrews, and Robert Goulet appeared on the Ed Sullivan Show and brought both Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Lowe with them, and that the very next day Camelot became the toast of Broadway.




    14  There never was any denying the strength of the cast nor  Fritz Lowe's amazing score. A quick sidebar about Lowe: he was also a boxer! Who knew, and who cares? I think it's a fun tidbit.

    15  The entire concept of the King Arthur legend looms larger than any film or staging. Just read Tennyson's Idylls of the King and you'll see what I mean.

    16  But the entire concept of "one brief shining moment" maintains its allure. Camelot is the sort of musical where you find yourself leaving the theatre whistling the songs.

    17  Something to do this weekend.

    18  Oh yeah, and there is the little thing of that football game.

    19  It's getting late, or early so I think I'll just take a bow now and see you next time.

    20  Meanwhile, my suggestion to you is that you get the CD of Camelot, listen to it over and over, and then go see it next week.

    21  I'm going to go pop it on and sink off to sleep listening to it, just because.

    22  Arthurian fog and dreams of knights and maidens, and one of the most beautiful legends ever.

    23  See you all Monday.

    24  Peace.

    Gustave Dore, Lancelot and Elaine
    from Tennyson's Idylls of the King


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    1  Last night I found these paper towels that had little slogans on them.
    2  I think the brand name is Mardi Gras.

    3   Like I was just using them to pick up a spill when I noticed that they had messages on them telling us how to live. At first I just laughed. Stupid. Ridiculously absurd.

    Each towel had some dumb sayings printed on it.

    5  They were fortune towels, I imagine.

    6  The sayings were just dumb sayings, very surface.

    7  We've all heard them a million times.

    8  So I imagine they were actually surface towels.

    9  I just enjoyed the fact that when I went into space, some fun pictures came back telling all of us that each saying, as dumb as it is, has things that simplify our lives. Some might enhance our lives. Most will be filled with whatever we spilled and chucked.

    10 No clever quotes. Nothing literary. Nothing deep. An appeal to us being absorbed in our own lunacy is all. They're just doing what they were supposed to do.

    11 Just simple advice from the same people who bring you toilet paper.  

    12  So today's DN is going to be the messages found on the side of towels, and that's it.

    13  Don't be so merciless. If they were in a fortune cookie during a life crisis, or on a poster in a store window on a rainy day, you'd think they were Providence. 

    14  Who knew that something as simple as a paper towel could be so outstandingly philosophical? I put the slogans on google and here are the pictures that came back.

    15  Nothing big. Very corny. I just like them on a Thursday morning. Coffee stuff. 

    16  So just read each, and have a beautiful day.

    17  That's it.

    18  Later. Thanks towels.

    19  Peace.



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