Bloody hell. The air conditioner's broken.
Of course, this is the great thing about being a renter. The air conditioner breaks and I call the landlord and say, "Yo, man. This shit ain't blowing cold or nothing. What're you gonna do about it?"
They're coming to fix it tomorrow. But in the meantime, it's too darn hot.
I tried to find a clip of Ella singing this one, but, alas! 'Twas not to be found.
So, we're either blessed or cursed with this version from the movie version of "Kiss Me, Kate".
Now, I kind of hate musicals (A lot, actually. I'd rather eat glass than sit through some Judy Garland screech-fest. Ditto the ever-awful Liza.) so I've never seen "Kiss Me, Kate" and I have no idea what's going on in this scene. It makes about as much sense to me as anything that ever seems to happen in a musical, though. I mean, of course this woman has dropped in on somebody's cocktail party in a red fringed thong to gyrate and sing (with a portable full band!) and tap dance on the coffee table. (And my, isn't she a lithe little thing?)
The only thing that could make this clip campier would be a cameo by Divine.
Great song, though.
And it's too darn hot.
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TRex
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off to read
Hi Trex,
One of your relatives had hit the bit time and has his/her own show!
http://www.theage.com.au/news/…..78025.html
Comey that what the zed is suppose to say!
Aw TRex! I hope you have a fan…no AC is awful!
Thought everyone might enjoy this video of the Tulsapeace protest during Dick’s visit to raise money for (gag) Inhofe last week. I think they also offered the people going into the $250 a plate dinner baloney sandwiches (because there was going to be plenty of baloney during the speeches) and suggested they send the $250 to Katrina victims.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Za3OWpGGXhw
Too darn funny……Bush, The Musical.
Howdy everybody!
Been in Canada for the last five days. What’s left of the constitution?
And great clip – my favorite version of that song is Mel Torme’s…it just swings.
lolo, queen of the zed, perhaps you are not familiar with the other fdl zed custom – of announcing the new thread downstairs.
since you got the zed, you wanna let the folks downstairs know?
Suzanne, I took care of it — hope I didn’t break protocol! ;-)
Suzanne @ 11
Oh, I got it.
God, I have to do everything around here.
Suzanne @ 11
sure!
lolo @ 6
Bwa Ha HA Here’s me EPU’d
‘K, pups. Bedtime for me. See you all in the live-blog thread tomorrow. Cutie Comey at 9:30(course I would prefer Foxie Fitz; but I get my pleasure wherever I can); right lolo?
G’night Helen, see you tomorrow!
LoudonLib, not a problem at all. I like to think of it as the responsibility of the one who gets the zed but anyone can announce the new thread.
TRex @ 13
‘Cept fix the AC. One of the great things about being an owner is that there’s an AC in the next room; or the next one over from that!!
Is that an adjective?
Here is a story that should be passed around:
http://adoredbyhordes.blogspot…..widow.html
It is about a female soldier who came back from Iraq. Her soldier husband came back on leave and she became pregnant. Before her husband could come home again, his tour of duty was extended and now he is coming home in a box. She posted her feelings about the war, GWB, and everyone on Craig’s List. Check it out.
Cooler here in Sausalito….
This article caught my eye… (domestic wiretapping part deux).
With all the shit they have to worry about, why is the admin pumping this now?
Funny story. I tell people about the problem with this slide to authoritarianism and they think I’m a paranoid whacko. But I think they are the whackos because they don’t know this path has been approached before. Seriously approached. By people who had close ties to the preeminent believer in the unitary executive.
But again… why now?
I’ll think about that while I await closing arguments tomorrow in the Al Jazeera memo case.
Evening, folks!
I think after tomorrow it will be, TRex.
Mutant Poodle @
10
Constitution?? Constitution??? Hmmm. Let me think.
uhhh lolo we’re here already – juslin’s grinning broadly…..
That was very nicely done, lolo.
Helen @ 15
Night night Helen I wanted it to say Comey for the early birds first thing. :( Who jinxed me?
Alicia @ 22
Howdy Alicia.
Suzanne @
11
Lolo is a girl?
I don’t like musicals myself. When they start singing to each other as if they’re having a conversation, phhhht. I’m gone. Same with opera. But then I saw ‘Dreamgirls’ last night. Holy shit.
Central air, baby. And when it works, it pumps. Back many, many months ago a friend of mine came over on a particularly brutally hot night and was like, “Oh, my god. Can I stay on your couch tonight? It’s like a freaking meat locker in here. I can see my breath!”
And it’s an efficiency unit. I rarely break $100 a month, even in the dog ass days of summer.
Helen @ 18
i did it silly
TRex @ 31
Ok – you win – stop bragging.
ohhh its nice and breezy here t-rex – come on up to joisey sometimes
Mutant Poodle >
Shredded bits & pieces but some folks in Congress seem to be workin on patchin it back together supoena by supoena.
“Once you go through something you think will kill you and it doesn’t, every day is like a present.” – Elissa B. Terr
Texas Betsy @ 29
yes
I’ve never seen “Kiss Me Kate” but I have a vague recollection that it’s based on “Taming of the Shrew”.
I have the best ocean breeze coming through my window right now.
Kiss Me, Kate is a Tony Award-winning musical with a book by Samuel and Bella Spewack and music and lyrics by Cole Porter. It won the first Tony Award for “Best Musical” in 1949.
Inspired by The Taming of the Shrew, it tells the tale of two once-married, now-divorced musical theater actors, Fred Graham and Lilli Vanessi, who are performing opposite each other in the roles of Petruchio and Katharine in a Broadway-bound musical version of William Shakespeare’s play. Already on poor terms, the pair begin an all-out emotional war mid-performance that threatens the production’s success. The only thing keeping the show together are threats from a pair of gangsters, who have come to collect a gambling debt from the show’s Lucentio, Bill Calhoun. In classic musical comedy fashion, slapstick madness ensues before everything is resolved
Snort! You have no idea how much you’ve made me laugh with this, TRex. Having sat through way too many campy musicals in my life, especially with the false melodrama and often rather chauvanistic themes, I can lose my patience at times. However, since I’m paid to be there, I find ways to amuse myself.
I actually have fond memories of “Kiss Me, Kate”, mainly because the first time I played it professionally, I brought a bunch of toys into the pit orchestra. I created some choreography for dolls and a subplot with various childrens toys in order to kill the monotony of a monthlong run of shows. I don’t even remember the storyline we came up with – all I remember is that it started out silly and ended up lewd. I just remember some choreography with these little soldier toys that hung from a string, and you could yank a string to make the legs & arms go up in the air. I hung it from the roof of the pit and tried to see if I could get my colleagues to start laughing when they needed to play. it might sound highly unprofessional, but I’ll tell you that a LOT of gags and silliness goes on in the pito orchestra of musical theater. Otherwise, the musicians go nuts, spacing out and getting frustrated as heck.
I also make sure to keep a good stock of classical CDs in my car. Bach, Mozart, Mahler or Strauss are often wonderful diversions for me after hours of cheezy tunes.
I must admit to having a certain soft spot for “Purple Rain”. As deeply, deeply flawed a film as it is, at least all the music is in the context of actual performances.
The club they played in Minneapolis is a great venue. I played there in 1993. Of course, the crowd was about a hundredth of the size.
I couldn’t help but wonder if there were microscopic traces of Prince-sweat embedded in the boards of the stage.
lolo @ 36
And both Fitz and Comey give her the vapors. I told her she’s spreading her vapors too thin, but she did not care and she did not listen
Best musical I’ve seen in recent memory was Reefer Madness The Musical on HBO. Laughed my ass off.
juslin @ 34
Oh, yeah? Which exit?
Woot! Red Wings win in overtime! (I really thought they were gonna lose this game. San Jose looks quite good).
No breeze here, too close to the humid Potomac. Windows shut, AC on. (Sorry TRex!)
TRex @ 44
ROFL – yup
Preview is my friend…arghhhh
“…supoena by supoena.” = “…subpoena by subpoena.”
“Being called partisan and vindictive by Tom DeLay is like being called ugly by a frog.” – Ronnie Earle
LoudounLib @ 46
Thunderstorms have passed for now. House still shut up tight.
Texas Betsy @ 49
Hope the t-storms are over for you tonight!
“Your kids are gonna love it.” ~ Michael J. Fox in Back to the Future
Johnny B. Goode (2:42)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v…..mp;search=
landofthefree @ 40
Now that is a fascinating glimpse into a world I’ve hardly even thought about. Now if I am forced to go to a musical (that isn’t being accompanied entirely by some overwrought piano-playing choir teacher), I will have something to wonder about. “What’s going on down in the pit?”
Well, goodnight everyone. Even though I’m just a girl who cain’t say no, I really must go. This place is trouble with a capital T, and it’s too darn hot in here. If ever I should leave you, it will be at 1:23am ET.
;)
ohhh pups got jokes at juslin’s expense i see – lol i’m at exit 14 – newark airport – i can feed y’all – come on up…..
Having seen this movie several times… hey, I’m old and I happen to like movie musicals (it got me through my childhood), in this scene, Ann Miller — dancer extrodinaire — is in the show but is wanting another song to feature her (she is not the lead). But this particular song and dance is just so that Ann can show off her dance work… It serves no other purpose than that really… doesn’t move the story along… it’s just a place where Ann can dance… Sorry about the Heat… but here in AZ, I don’t really have much sympathy… lol
51 outside and a nice fire blazing at the little cottage by the creek in the redwoods in the Santa Cruz Mountains of California.
LoudounLib @ 46
You’re in DC? My sis wants me to come down for a Mets/Nationals game in August and I’m like, DC in August? I don’t think so.
juslin @ 54
My folks are 20 minutes from you. I’ll let you know if I head that way this summer.
juslin, just save a hot fudge sundae for me ;-)
Ya got the wrong TRex @ 44
165 is where I come from. Haven’t been back in a gazillion years. Is The Fireplace still open?
Those storms are supposed to start pulling in here tomorrow. God, we need the rain. Unfortunately by the time the storm get this far north, lately, all they do is spit on us and disappear. Georgia is having the largest wildfires in its recorded history right now.
extraordinaire*
Helen @ 57
I am making my entire family come to Texas in June for 3 days. But not making them stay outside.
Oh, Helen! Do. Not. Come. To. DC. In. August. It is horrendous!
Texas Betsy @
49
You sent them east, to me. 10 day forecast, t-storms every day.
TB@58 it’ll be my pleasure to have you visit and loudonlib that sundae will be waiting for you – i even whip my own cream…..
Geesh I thought all gay people liked musicals. I liked musicals long b4 I knew I was gay. I also liked Bach organ music.
I still hum show tunes any time I can get away with it, like when I am mowing the lawn or in the shower.
LoudounLib @ 64
Yup – that’s the plan. She tried to convince me that it’s not much worse that NY and I did not buy it.
Helen, you are correct. IIRC, there is always the hint of a breeze in NYC, but none whatsoever in DC in August.
Hey, here’s what I’m having for dinner.
RexMama’s Kalamata Pasta Salad
Medium pasta shells, cooked.
Sliced roma tomatoes.
Pitted Kalamtata olives.
Shredded fresh basil.
Chopped vidalia onion.
Albacore tuna.
Really sour, tangy vinaigrette.
Toss, add sea salt and cracked pepper to taste. Serve with toast points or crackers.
Perfect hot weather food, although the fan is making it downright airish in here. I’m going to need to put on a sweatshirt.
Thank god the AC pooped out now rather than in the middle of July when it’s still 80 degrees at night.
Now, I kind of hate musicals…
kindred spirit!
pretty f*ckin weird ….
in NYC tonight, coke whores … haven’t seen anything like that in a long time. Guess I figured everyone learned that lesson a long time ago … apparently not true.
fwiw, I still hate the boy king and his boot licking enablers …
Plots were never the point of the old movie musicals. The plot was just filler to put breaks between the musical numbers and the dances, which were the whole point of the things.
Bollywood has the same concept: when the music starts suddenly the lead actor and actress are on a mountain in a different country or something.
And what’s the deal with not liking Judy and Liza, TRex? How are we going to keep our unfair stereotypes straight, um, that doesn’t seem like the right word?
Geoffrey Swenson @ 67
I know, I know.
They’re going to revoke my membership.
Texas Betsy @
24
as i believe Dear Leader said, the consitution is just “a goddamn piece of paper”…
I think I am going to try to get some sleep. Y’all keep things going in case I can’t sleep, OK?
moi – i cantake or leave musicals – tho i do like bye bye birdie
Oh f*** — getting to bed late once again…g’night all, looking forward to Comey in the AM!
i’ll stick around for a bit TB as i had a nap earlier
Ann Miller RAWKS!!!
What talent, and what a hottie!
Who CARES what the temp is!
it’s too darn sexy!!!
Victor/Victoria is a great musical.
and what fuckery do we have here – stick around pups…. lol
Enjoy your midnight snack.
TRex @ 74
I hated musicals until I met my bestest friend Jonathan 10 yrs ago. Yeah – he’s gay and I may be his, um, you know, fag hag. – WHO SAID THAT?? But the point is, I Lurrrve musicals now!!
Texas Betsy @ 76
Night Betsy. Sleep well see you in the morning at the hearing: ) (dreaming of james)
Oh TRex, the stories I could tell…
Part of the fun of being in the pit is doing things and trying to be undetected by the audience. Sometimes you’re more obvious – like the people who put a paper cup of water on someone’s chair when the conductor takes his bow (and the orchestra stands), so the pranked player sits down on the cup and has a wet butt for an entire act. Audience can’t usually see that one.
Another good one is when people put something in a person’s instrument – not something that would prevent them from playing, but something that might make them confused for a moment or two.
Then, there is the “false entrance”. This is when you’re in the middle of a long rest (dialogue or just a time where your instrument doesn’t play). You quickly grab your horn, take a deep breath and pretend like you’re gonna play, so your colleague grabs his/her horn and jumps in. If you ever hear a stray note out of the blue, you can guess that’s what may have happened.
These types of pranks are most often done by brass players. They are the most likely pranksters in any bunch of musicians.
More than likely, if you go to a pro show, you might notice many people in the pit with their head bowed or that they’re looking intently at their music stand for long periods of time. They’re usually reading, doing sudoko, playing games on a handheld computer, or surfing the web. Heck, even at symphony concerts, many musicians keep a magazine on their stand when they’re playing a non-demanding concert (like pops stuff).
Don’t get me wrong – it’s not that the musicians aren’t appreciative of the audience or the work. It’s just that if you do a long run of the same job, it can get mind-numbing, which makes it difficult to play. If you’re playing 8 shows a week for several weeks in a row, often two shows a day, you need to get your mind elsewhere at times in order to perform well. That might sound odd, but a distraction and a light moment occasionally helps you to be able to focus well when you really need to. Then, you remember things like “I already took the repeat”, “the understudy is playing tonight, and he sings this phrase with different lengths of notes, so I must adjust and anticipate”, and “I need to bring this particular note up in pitch to fit this chord”. If you’re concentrating for 2.5 to 3 hours nonstop for eight shows a week, and you don’t get a little downtime, your brain turns to mush. And musical mush is ugly!
Okay, must go to bed. Gnite, and I hope a cool breeze heads your way soon!
ok anyone want a rum and fresh lemon drink? – no? ok i’ll drink alone
Like porn.
Man, don’t be dissin’ Ann Miller.
gee thanks TB! it’ll go well with my drink….
Favorite musicals:
Carousel — incoherent story, but the male characters get incredibly cool stuff to sing.
Funny Girl — has any musical ever had three songs as good as “People,” “Who Are You Now,” and “The Music That Makes Me Dance?”
Chicago (the original Broadway production) — the best thing Bob Fosse ever did, and that’s saying something. Jerry Orbach, Gwen Verdon, Chita Rivera. Unreal. The movie pales by comparison.
As our own ET says, “Don’t look at the trombone players. It only encourages them.”
dead last @ 20
I’m at a loss for words…what can one possibly do or say to make this woman whole again? Nothing. Now, not even ending the war could make it right for her.
I hope this lands on the desk of every Rep who vetoed the bill today. Good work.
it’s too darn hot.
is it now? as hot as the very, very hot place that awaits mistah bush and mistah cheney and mistah rove?
I think not — slightly warm, maybe . . but not hot at all, in the grand scheme of things . . .
from All’s Well that Ends Well — Act 4 Scene 5
Unka Karl and the brainstem have led the GOP home — down the flow’ry way, to the gilded path, and the great fire.
ol’ scratch sez — welcome home, boyz . . .
Oh hey, I’m just catching up and realized i threw a stinkbomb into the room. sorry.
excuse for a bit firepups – i go to clean up the kitchen – a bit messy from all the sundaes i prepared brb i hope
I think the only version of Too Darn Hot I own is on the Red Hot Blue tribute to Cole Porter CD and the song is done by Erasure… the whole CD is good..
It’s supposed to be in the mid 80’s in both temp and humidity this weekend and I am not ready for it at all, AC or no AC..
The only semi-old school musical I ever really liked was Fiddler On The Roof.
btw, anyone want to come over and kill this opossum on my porch?
tek
ES, don’t tell me you are a’scared of a puny lil possum?
g’nite y’all. I seem to have keyboard in mouth syndrome right now.
Peace.
burnspbesq @ 91
I love Carousel it’s one of my favorites. I love The Damn Yankees too.
do-si-do, please don’t think anyone was upset because YOU posted that – we are upset at the content – not the messenger.
have to include the Wizard of Oz, which did have a plot besides the music.
ES, possums are creepy looking and weird when they hiss and show all those teeth, but they’re really harmless. Scare them and they play dead (play possum) and then you can scoop them into a trash can and remove them. My dog keeps dragging one in from the back yard every couple of nights, and I’ve learned to scoop it into the trash can before it comes to. The first time, I thought it really was dead, ‘cuz the dog had drooled on it, and I thought she’d chewed it, but then it started waddling around my living room. Pogo was much cuter.
Suzanne @ 99
It’s acting very strange, I think its sick. Like a neo republican it’s hard to tell. Anyway, there’s no food or trash on the porch and though I am not scared of em I don’t think I will confront it in a big ole screened in porch face to face….) Call it, cautious.
TRex @ 92
I say it, but Richard Strauss wrote about it a century ago.
I’ve played in
Fiddler
Gypsy
Gigi
Oklahoma
Sweet Charity
Annie
South Pacific
West Side Story
…others
i’ve directed
Gypsy
Midsummer Nights’ Dream
I want to direct
Pal Joey
Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny
The first film I ever saw was The Red Shoes and though purists may not consider it a musical it remains my favorite film & musical soundtrack.
And on musicals, “Into the Woods” has some great songs which really resonate with me as a mother whose kids are going off to college. One of the lines in “Children Will Listen” is
“Children will grow
from something that you love
to something you lose.”
Of course, it helps to hear it in Bernadette Peters’ amazing voice.
HI All! Haven’t been in awhile. My son and I saw “Spamalot” a few months ago, was brilliantly cheesily Monty Pythonesque silly! We loved it.
too much thunder to sleep. i am back.
Lake is open 24/7, TB. Welcome back :)
My other personal favorites are “Pippin” and “Hair”
Suzanne @ 112
Thank you dear.
Suzanne @
104
Here’s an amazing performance of “Over the Rainbow” for you, Suzanne.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cm7xueB0buk
Freon Nation….
OMG, how could I have forgotten Hair?
Dee Loralei @ 110
My son saw that with my parents and they all loved it.
burnspbesq, thanks in advance. dialup takes soooo long to load up utubes.
Suzanne @ 117
Me too! but I was thinking a bit further back…and OZ should have crossed my mind. Still musicals in general…well
Symptomatic Persian Gulf War Vets Show Brain-Volume Deficit
From Scientific American:
Soldiers returning from Iraq in the early 1990s with several health issues display difficulty in learning and memory, new study says
According to preliminary results from a study probing the possible effects of chemical exposure during the Persian Gulf War, soldiers displaying multiple health-related symptoms upon their return from combat have decreased volume in two brain regions intimately linked to learning and memory.
This morning at the American Academy of Neurology’s 59th Annual Meeting in Boston the study’s senior investigator, Roberta White, chair of the department of environmental health at the Boston University School of Public Health, revealed early findings based on brain scans and memory tasks administered to 36 veterans.
“This study came out of a bunch of prior studies,” says White, who has published multiple evaluations of both the health and cognitive state of Gulf War vets since the early 1990s.
In one study, she noted significant cognitive deficiencies in soldiers exposed to the plume resulting from the destruction of a suspected chemical weapons depot at Khamisiyah in southeastern Iraq in March 1991. Overall, 100,000 soldiers were informed that they might have encountered the nerve agent sarin in the blast. Exposure to the poison can result in loss of control of bodily functions as well as death.
continues
I also love Man of LaMancha, am I blanking on the name, because that looks funny? Anyway… 5 years ago I saw a musical version of Scarlet Pimpernel that was great and I’ve been looking for a dvd of it.
texas Betsy, did they use some of those depleted uranium bombs in Gulf War 1?
Cats are smarter than dogs. You can’t get eight cats to pull a sled through snow.
Texas Betsy @
111
The one thing I never thought I’d miss here in California is thunderstorms. I left Florida partly on account of them. I hate driving in rain so heavy you can’t see the car in front of you or the lines on the road – and I still don’t give a rat’s ass about the rain, but the thunder and lightning? Kinda miss it.
What was the musical where Clint Eastwood sang? The one about a wife with two husbands in the old west.
Dee Loralei @ 123
yes they did
Texas Betsy @ 124
No, they would just look at you like you were insane for going out in that weather.
I’ve long maintained that cats are smarter even than we. I mean, who’s smarter, the race of creatures who invent home heating or the race of creatures who move in with them and never have to lift a finger?
Still, though, I do want a dog someday.
TRex @ 128
A little dog or a big dog?
Token, the cutest dog in the world, changed me from a cat person to a cat/dog person. Of course, he is only 8 lbs and thinks he is part cat due to considerable cat exposure when he was young and impressionable.
In fact, I want a big black lab named Luther.
Cats are the only authoritarians I like.
Hi TRex, sorry your air is out :-( I hate sleeping when I’m too hot.
TRex @ 131
I want a dog that someone else will take care of.
Eureka Springs @ 132
They can’t even be bothered to be proper fascists. You can’t be a totalitarian and take luxurious, six-hour naps. In fact, the two things are kind of mutually exclusive.
burnspbesq @ 115
what a beautiful voice thanks burnspbesq.
Oh TRex, that just made me laugh…thanks…)
TRex @ 135
… oppurrsive ….
So who is going to help me build an ark? Animals optional. It is REALLY coming down out there. Thunder very close.
Suzanne >
Paint Your Wagon
“All animals except Man know that the ultimate purpose of life is to enjoy it” – Samuel Butler
Suzanne @ 126
Paint Your Wagon.
Great song from that one is I Was Born Under a Wandrin’ Star. (IMO)
lolo @ 136
You’re welcome, Lolo. I do love me some Jane Monheit.
Here, Aunt Besty, hold my tiny forelimb. It’s going to be alright. Take it from this thunder-lizard. Storms are mostly just a lot of water and noise. It’s going to be alright. Drink a glass of water and concentrate on each swallow. That always helps calm me down.
TRex @
74
Then does the guy who “recruited” you have to give back the toaster oven?
Life isn’t fair. It’s just fairer than death, that’s all.
– William Goldman
TRex @ 143
Thank you TRex. That helps a lot.
Thanks, all. Paint Your Wagon and The King and I are added to my ever increasing list. Guess I like musicals more than I thought I did.
Evening, all!
From the WaPo:
The inspector general who uncovered cases of waste, fraud and abuse in the U.S.-led reconstruction effort in Iraq is under investigation by a presidential panel, according to the White House.
I *would* guess that this is one of those rare instances where someone was doing too good a job on (eventual, long delayed) oversight, or else he got too near Halliburton. But –
Any of our more knowledgable-about-guvmint folks around here have any suspicions?
Heh, well, given my own contributions to the ranks of at least part-time volunteers (Would those guys be the gay equivalent of the National Guard? You know, “weekend warriors”?)(Could we even go so far as to call them the “Rear Guard”?), I think they’ll let the toaster-oven go.
Wait! The President has a council onIntegrity and Efficiancy? Hahahahahahahaahah, they must have had so little to do these last 6 years. Remeber he was gonna bring integrity back to the office. Maybe that’s how he did it, by setting up this committee. (snort)
I got to do Guys and Dolls, West Side Story and Camelot in high school and had a blast, but my fondness for musicals faded after JC Superstar back in the day.
Lot’s of good show tunes to hum from those three…
Dee Loralei @ 150
I found that particular detail hilarious as well.
In fact, I think I made the same snorting sound when I heard it.
Brigadoon.
It must be our lizard brains Trex :-P
meep! @ 148
I *would* guess that this is one of those rare instances where someone was doing too good a job on (eventual, long delayed) oversight, or else he got too near Halliburton. But –
Any of our more knowledgable-about-guvmint folks around here have any suspicions?
Oversight Hearing Haliburton/Iran working for the terrorist
http://www.crooksandliars.com/…..errorists/
Eureka Springs @ 132
Ding!
This afternoon in Dallas/Fort Worth:
http://www.star-telegram.com/5…..89269.html
Central Texas radar:
http://www.statesman.com/weath….._anim.html
kirk murphy – If you are out there.. Were you looking for something like this earlier? It also mentions Freds involvement with Libbys defense fund on his wiki page, iirc.
Ed*ard Teller @ 107
i’ll volunteer to help with Mahagonny! i saw a production of Three Penny Opera by the Waldorf Schule here in Dresden a couple of months back. it was brilliant.
i’ve done Fantasticks, West Side Story and How to Succeed in Business. Conducted Camelot, Man of La Mancha….
meep! >
I don`t know that I am any more knowledgable about guvmint stuff but that story sure sounds like Bush Handlers, Inc. striking back.
“I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use.” – Galileo Galilei
Yea meep, that sounds like Rove had the goods on this guy at least as far back as 2004, but kept it, uninvestigated, unless he needed it for blowback someday. That is sooooooooo Rovian. The bastid.
Meep, that reads as if they knew this stuff back in 2004 and Rove kept it handy in his dirty stash, waiting in case he needed it later for blowback. That sounds Rovian
Both Olmert and Livni survived the night. But will they be able to look each other in the face this morning?
Public Security Minister Avi Dichter on Thursday counseled Prime Minister Ehud Olmert against firing Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni after she publicly called on him to resign over the damning report into the handling of the Second Lebanon War.
Dichter said Livni had expressed her views with integrity and courage, and added that he was pleased Olmert had not heeded calls to fire her.
“Woe betide us,” he told Israel Radio, “if heartfelt statements are twisted into a sharp-edged sword against those who make them.”
Olmert won a tactical victory Wednesday in the power struggle at Kadima, rallying the majority of party MKs to his support, even after Livni’s press conference in which she urged him to quit.
TRex @ 152
Okay, I have to confess that I *completely* missed that little detail. Thank you!
OK. one more good night. hope this one works. :)
kirk murphy @
188
Other Pat @ 181
Fred Thompson is on the Scooter Libby Defense $$$ board.
Bless you, Bless you, Bless you.
May that which you hold most sacred smile upon you.
Bright Blessings.
Happy Beltane*.
Happy Full Moon.
Thanks for your research!
PS – linky, please? ;)
(* edited: for those moved by the original, Happy Bletane.)
The above is from the “Sex and Politics” link, but because I crashed early, I missed Kirks response. (It is 1:45 a.m., and this system still will not let me type contractions. hmmm.) Anyhow, I found this information when I clicked on the link to Tucker Carlsons dad. It is at http://www.scooterlibby.com. On the home page is the “Advisory Committee” with the Honorable Fred Thompson included. Hope this helps.
Texas Betsy @ 164
Night night dear Betsy.
The Israeli public can basically demand the end of a horribly run war in what 5 weeks? They can get an official “after action report” in 6 months. The Israeli’s have a better democracy than we do, alas.
Texas Betsy @
139
Sorry I’d like to, but I’m too far away. Just remember to keep an axe in your attic in case the floodwaters get too high and you need to punch through the roof.
But then you’re in the hill country of central Texas, so that shouldn’t be necessary???
I’m off to beddy-bye now. Comey-time tomorrow is 3:30 AM here.
Bob in HI
Woo Hoo !
Lakers lose & go home till next season. No offense to Jane or anyone but YES !!!
“…Ambition must be made to counteract ambition…” – Federalist No. 51
daCascadian @ 160
I thought so too — except that the bit about not showing up to work for long periods and then, when he *did* show up for work, impeding his employees from doing their jobs — that also sounds like typical BushCo. So I’m not sure *what* to think.
fahrender @ 159
I missed playing in Man of La Mancha last year ’cause of a shoulder injury. I saw the songs from Mahagonny 30 years ago and fell in love with it. Never seen a stage production, but have heard it over the radio a few times over the years. Very intriguing.
Texas Betsy @
157
Those spots of red on the radar concern me, hon. It looks like that was about a half hour ago, though and the overall patterns seem to indicate that the storm is spreading and becoming less intense. I’d keep an ear out for another half hour or so. Do you have cookies?
(Back when I smoked a lot of weed, I was addicted to the weather channel. I would watch it for hours and hours. If you ever have weather questions, I’m your dino.)
speaking of shoulders, ET, how’s your’s doing?
Betsy, I do wish you’d keep your Texas t-storms in Texas, rather than send them up here to Missouri. I need it dry so I can mow!
meep! >
Scum vs Lesser Scum ?
Guess we`ll have to let it play out & see what happens.
“Envy is thin because it bites but never eats.” – Spanish proverb
Dee Loralei @ 167
In some ways. Such a small country. Almost as small as Lebanon. Parliamentary Democracy has its advantages. Another interesting thing about Israel is that all the major newspapers’ web sites have comments under every major article and many minor ones. How different would the NYT and WaPo be if the comment sections in those American papers were as transparent and easy to find as they are in the Israeli papers.
We could sure call them out on some of the more egregious stenography they do. Or better yet, We could type in what a valid follow up question would be, instead of the pablum they ask. I know I’d sure love to do that on Chris Mathews or MTP on a Sunday.
Strange genre, musicals. Was going to say that there are maybe 8 or 10 that wind up justifying it. Then someone upthread mentioned Victor/Victoria, reminding me of The Music Man. OK, 10 or 12. So, Mahagonny is considered a musical and not an opera, huh? 13. Then I recalled recently seeing Pennies from Heaven for the first time (I’m sure the original tv miniseries is great, but the movie will more than do if that’s all you’ve got, especially for the beautiful production design and the knockout dance numbers by Steve Martin, Bernadette Peters, and Christopher Walken.) Well, around 14 …
Gang, all the tap dancing wore me out. I think I’m going to hit the sack.
Good night!
well now good people its time for me to turn in and hope to follow the live-blogging later this am… see all in a little while – night all ;o}
Suzanne @ 173
Doctor and physical therapist discharged me last week. I’m throwing baseballs to my dog at about half the distance between before the rotator cuff injury and after, increasing it about 5 feet a week. I’m hoping to play a bit of tennis Saturday, paintball at Nikegrad next week.
Ed*ard Teller >
American papers don`t have the intestinal fortitude to put up with that kind of environment. They would wilt immediately.
“The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.” – H. L. Mencken
TRex @ 179
Does he have taps on the tail? That would be really, really coool…
Texas Betsy @ 145
I love the fact that the Stargate: Atlantis writers had a character quote that in the recent seasons. XD Proving once again, the hotshot pilot is a bookgeek.
Thanks for leading by doing TRex and Juslin and Betsy, too. I’m following your lead – waving g’nite to all.
egregious -you have mail.
That’s good news about your shoulder, ET. Thanks for the update
No, I have to disagree here. Kiss Me Kate is one of the least-stupid musicals produced by the least-stupid unit at MGM, and it’s lots of fun to watch (not least for Bob Fosse as an ingenue sidekick).
It’s also a lot more fun to watch in 3D (it was the only musical produced during the short-lived 3D fad, which was over by the time it was released, and the release prints were mostly not 3-D. I was lucky enough to see a 3-D print at the Eighth St Playhouse).
I protest. This was a fun movie.
Let’s Misbehave!
Dee Loralie @122
You like Man of La Mancha???? No accounting for taste.
But then I hate Amy Winehouse. Can I stay?
Chetnolian @ 189
It may be more that I love the story of Don Quixote, but there were a few good songs in there too :-)
prostratedragon @ 178
So many “musicals” fall into indistinct categories. Mahagonny, Blitzstein’s stuff from the 30s, one or two Gershwin musicals. Some of Cole Porter’s stuff . Scott Joplin’s Tremonisha.
You’re right that most are forgettable. But audiences flock to and are entertained at decent musicals when they are performed with integrity.
That’s about it for me tonight, firepups. G’nite all.
Yea for me too. Night all, I can’t wait to see the Comey testimony tomorrow. Has anyone else noticed how less boring C-Span is since the Dems took over, and began actually doing, you know, oversite? Making the Republicans actually do their jobs? (g)
Man of La Mancha makes me cry every time. When he sings to Aldonza/Dulcinea, and when he leaves to go face the jailers, and the fellow prisoners chime in to The Impossible Dream….
Suzanne @ 192
And for me. Thanks for the WaPo feedback; I guess I’ll have to wait for more info.
I was in a bunch of musicals through high school/college, but my favorite time has to be watching my twin sons as seniors in high school, in A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum. One played the guy selling virgins, and the other played the soldier trying to buy the virgin who turned out to be his sister.
TRex dahling…you left the garlic out of that recipe…
Oh, T, what a naive therapod you are. Do get hold of the Broadway cast recording. When they made it into a movie they scraped off about 75% of the sexual innuendo that makes the original so much fun. For example, one verse from “Too Darn Hot” goes:
I’d like to fool with my baby tonight,
Break every rule with my baby tonight,
But pillow, you’ll be my baby tonight,
Cause it’s too darn hot.
In the original, stage version, this is raunchy stuff, because it’s not a woman who sings it, like Ann Miller in the movie, it’s a man. If you’re a guy and remember being horny and 14 and in bed after lights out with nothing but a pillow to, well, snuggle with, you get it.
Then there’s the gay innuendo. An old friend of mine, a well respected musicologist, has known Italy well since he first visited as a grad student in the 50s. We were listening to the album together, to the song “Where Is The Life That Late I Lead?”, and he was howling with laughter, saying, “It’s all in code, my dears, it’s all in code!!”
The character who’s singing it, who blends Shakespeare’s Petruchio with the play-within-a-play actor playing Petruchio, is supposed to be lamenting all his lost fun times, all the girlfriends and sexual romps all over Italy he had to give up when he married Kate for her money.
But as my friend Fred told me, the specifics of his lament refer to all the most notorious gay cruising spots of the 50s and 60s. The Duomo. The streets of Taormina. The Pitti Palace. Then there are lines like, “What scandalous doins’ in the ruins of Pompeii?” or, “You brought a new meaning to the leaning tower of Pisa.”
Cole Porter knew all marrying to get what he needed, not what he wanted, in his case the protection of having a wife against the suspicions of being one of us fags. But he also knew all those places he wrote about very well. So did Fred, and so did many of Porter’s friends, and those in the know. Which made it just that more delicious.
Excuse me: “Cole Porter knew all ABOUT marrying to get…”
Guess I didn’t hit the preview button. (Hmmm?)
The Span tv schedule doesn’t show the House judicary hearing with Comey anymore. It did earlier today. Gettin nervous, gang.
Trex, trash the genre generally, but say a harsh word about Sondheim, and you’ve crossed the line.
Steve T. @
200
Great Cole Porter info, Steve T!
When I was nine, my older sister and I saw High Society at the neighborhood theater. The song “True Love” was one of the first pieces that made me want to be a musician.
You know what? I forgot the Judiciary’s web site will have a video feed, so I’m going to bed happy.
I’ll try to join all you firepups in the morning. The coffee maker is loaded and programmed. Sleep well.
ralphbon @
202
Sing out, Ralphbon!
Tzipi appears to have moved too early, leaving Ehud intact but not unscathed when the protest marchers show up later today and tomorrow. Leaving the door open for Bibi. Timing, eh? What are the odds Condi was busy on the phone overnight, padding Bibi’s backing?
rwcole @
39
ha yes
I’ve seen “Kiss Me Kate”
the film is a total retro blast into the sexist past…there are songs such as “I Hate Men”, sung by Grayson as Bianca (a play within a play makes her the shrew)…and there is a scene where Howard Keel spanks Grayson on stage because she insulted him in public.
totally 50s
It’s interesting as an peep into where we’ve come from…and where the wingnuts want us to return.
on the other hand the song “Brush Up On Your Shakespeare” is fun in a retro sort of way.
and the dance numbers are great
Ed*ard Teller @ 205
Yeah, and to prep my 2-year-old for future Sondheim appreciation, I’ve been trying to instill in him my intolerance for lazy rhyme schemes.
So instead of following “Now I know my ABCs” with “Next time won’t you sing with me” (lazy!), I’ve been substituting “Let me into Harvard, please.”
This may create new pathologies, but at least the rhyme is pure.
Good morning, pups. Today it’s Bobo and Bob Herbert in the NYT. Bobo has advice for Wolfowitz, and Bob Herbert says the Iraq war is invisible in New York City.
http://mgpaquin.wordpress.com/
Coffee and tea are ready, and a selection of muffins. It’s a corn muffin for me today… Have a great day.
It’s Ann Miller, Dude!
good morning, Marion! and, of course, all ‘pups. Frost here overnight. Let’s hope for frost on all the hot-house flowers of the Bush maladministration.
Haven’t read absolutely every comment, but how can one overlook Little Shop of Horrors?
Seymour: No! I don’t know anybody who deserves to get chopped up and fed to a hungry plant!
(beat)
Audrey II: Mmmmmm, sure you do!
Don’t we all?
Good morning Marion in S and all
Sure am surprised no mention of Porgy and Bess,,, Summertime Summertime, and the livin’ is easy……
or is that carbon datification as well?
Mornin’ all!
Mornin’ pups
Sorry for all the confusion yesterday the “federal Prosecutor” post was supposed to go up at 5:15 this morning (8:15 EST) but I screwed up putting it in the queu.
Up until recently I was sending my posts to Christy or Pach or some other good Smaritan (hi Rick) who would format them and put them in for me.
This week, I have been trying to learn how to do it myself so as to be less of a drain on resources and I have been making every error possible.
Hmm. Everyone out being gainfully employed, or something like that?
CNN – terror suspect tied to Jill Carroll kidnapping killed
Hi, lhp. Love your name, but what does it mean? And what does time mean, anyway? (now I need to go back and find that “federal prosecutor” post)
lhp
well, i for one enjoyed it
the afternoon *was* an embarrasment of riches
and i had v. little time to peruse/ comment in-between picking the kid up, shuffling her off to knung-fu and picking my wife up from her train
Good morning! The birds are in full chorus. The boy is off to the regional tennis tournament. The girl was up all night writing on African microfinance. Fascinating topic ….I’ve learned a lot as she talks about it. Often and at length. She got hooked on Kiva.org, which is a better way to get rid of money than at the mall.
off to work
Marion, in an odd way I understand both Brooks and Herbert.
Funny how people think listening and fairness more important when they feel their position unlistened to and unfair.
Happy Comey Day y’all!
(I have a good feeling about this one)
Look at this bullshit. They are going to have an “internal investigation” into Goodling and her possible crimes within the DOJ. This, after screaming for a month that just because she took the 5th doesn’t mean she committed a crime.
But the real crime here is that this a blatent attempt to stop her from testifying in the House. Here’s the link.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/…..id=topnews
TRex!
The title of this clip sums up Team Bush brilliantly: Gangsters
Opening line: “why must you record my phone calls?”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zWZzsxgH2gY
I’m shocked! Shocked I tell you! A gay man who doesn’t like Judy Garland? I could take your card away for that! Next thing, you’ll be telling us you don’t like Babs or Bette!
looseheadprop @
214
No apology needed, lhp.
We should all “mess up” so well.
I don’t see anything wrong with an occasional embarrassment of riches.
On topic,
Trex my beloved therapod, I LOVE musicals!
ANs as for Judy Garland Screech fests, well I count “Meet Me in St. Loius” and ” Easter Parade” among my faves.
It’s never about the plot darling, it’s about the music and the dancing. Think of it as pop culture opera and ballet combined.
The stupid plot lines exist only to sting the production numbers together.
Until you get to something like “Contact” which doesn’t even have a single plot line but is rather a series of short story like vignettes.
In my younger days, I was a student at the American BVallet Theatre School (then at Columbus Circle, now at Lincoln Centre).
The school shared space with the Ballet company and the same rooms were used both for instruction and rehersal.
In those days there was a real move away from story based ballets into works tha tmore more abstract–so called “pure dance” productions.
Ballet almost became extinct in America as a result. Audience attendence fell of dramatically.
It was during the same era that classical compusores were taking algorithyms and calling them musical scores.
It is possible to make something TOO intallectual and too abstract that it loses it’s meaning as art.
Art is the ability to evoke an emotional response, and sometimes and intellectual resposnse as well, in another simply through the experience (viewing, hearing, tasting, touching ?smelling?)the artwork.
If the audience for the art is not touched by it, cannot connect to it, the work has failed as art. If it is not evocative, it becomes merely an an exercise in technical skill.
Art can evoke all kinds of emotions, including just plain fun. Have you ever gone to the Bog Apple Circus with a child who is having their very first circus experience? Tell me that is not art?
FWIW, the story book based ballets and operas of Mozart and Tzhaikovsky were derided by some contemporaries as fluff. Well, I don’tthink anyone used the “fluff” in those days, buut you know what I mean.
How’s my favorite Ned the Fighting Koi doin’, you never talk about him anymore.
ixnay @ 217
A looseheadprop is a rugby position in the front row of the scrum. The LHP has the ability, if desired< to collapse the scrum in a way that is very hard for the referee to detect and penalize.<br />
Collapsed scrums are a leading cause of catostrophic injury in rugby. Therefor, when playing that position, I learned that a LHP has tohave both a strong back, and enough integrity to put the safety of both teams ahead of the desire to gain a partisan advantage for my own team.
Thanks for the “Too Darn Hot” clip, Mr. Rex. Brings back a bunch of memories.
I was lucky enough to work with the lady that starred as ‘Lois Lane’ in the original cast of “Kiss Me Kate”. Her name is Julie Wilson and Cole Porter wrote that part for her so she could sing “Why Can’t You Behave?”
Julie Wilson is a damned goddess. She’s got to be in her eighties and she’s still performing. Pure genius.
Hey, lhp, thanks for the explanation. I don’t know much about rugby, but did get hooked on the All Blacks when down in NZ. Richie McCoy? Daniel Carter? Very much worth watching.
Then I come back to find out that, even with the Sports Channel, I can’t see the World Cup here in KS? This won’t do.
lhp: “…enough integrity to put the safety of both teams ahead of the desire to gain a partisan advantage for my own team.”
brilliant.
The Inspector General for Iraq, Bowen, is now under investigation.
I guess the WH didn’t like that finding he made that 7 of 8 projects were crumbling.
Good Morning All,
lhp – thank you for the posts (whenever they’re posted!) and thanks for helping out
if you are still about – announced IG/OPR
‘investigation’ of Goodling – now does she have basis for invoking the 5th ??
NZ ExPat – if you have access to Fox Sports channel (in Central TX, it’s Fox SW) you can usually catch everything from World Cup to Cricket :)
I actually like Cabaret.
BTW, my 225?
I think may be the the typo high point of my career! I just reread it, and it is hilarious!
Thanks. I sort of want wall to wall of the All Blacks, but I’ll see what I can get.
I’ve been over trying to catch up with emptywheel at next hurrah. She had a busy day yesterday. What time does the Comey show start today?
TheOtherWA @ 201
fret not!
it is back — it will be on cspan3.
or over at my joint,
i have live realmedia links to
the house judiciary committee feed.
WAaaAaY too early for popcorn — howza’
’bout some. . . sugar pops cereal???
cbl @ 231
Oh, she has a major basis for invoking the 5th. She seems to have deliberately violated the Hatch Act.
NZ Expat, now in KS @ 234
I think someone said 9:30 EST?
looseheadprop @ 214
that’s how we learn sometimes, by making mistakes. I usually never forget those lessons learned the hard way. mornin’ all. hope there are viewing options other than RealPlayer – cant get that to work here. may have to go find an empty conference room at 930.
New thread upstairs…
thanks lhp! – can’t be anything but cynical about this gang – why wouldn’t that be investigated by Scott Bloch’s office – as that is where Yglesias went with his complaint of
HackHatch Act violations – can’t help but feel they did this so she would invoke the 5th before committees ?while we’re at it Firedogs, the complaint about Bowen ‘away from the office for extened periods’ is one they trot out often – idiots! he has plenty of ‘friends’, hopefully protectors in Congress
thanks for that link Margot
cbl, you’re welcome.
NZ Expat, now in KS @ 228
Wow, Expat, that’s a heckuva geographical and cultural diff between NZ and KS! Welcome to the heartland, and stay away from Westboro and the “Reverend” Phelps. :)
Not to be overly analytical but I was struck when touristing recently (2002ish) in NZ how the entire country is nutso about the All Blacks but that they are also All White (or were then). Oh well…
I’m kind of streaky on musicals. I’ll go through a phase where I’m really into them, and then, not so much.
The problem with musicals is that they tend to be not so great movies with wonderful moments and scenes. KISS ME KATE has lots of great moments. The score has some of Cole Porter’s best stuff.
And… Bob Fosse was one of the dancers. Although Hermes Pan was the choreographer for the film, Fosse did the jazz bit in “From This Moment On.” He’s the guy in orange and white, and it is one of those amazingly wonderful moment where you see what is coming next.
Write Al Gore a letter ~ Ask him to run for president 2008
http://www.dailykos.com/storyo…..83818/8784
NZ Expat, now in KS @
228
A quick Google search is likely to find you some pay-per-view streaming video. I was able to watch last year’s Ashes and this year’s cricket World Cup on a site called willow.tv. My beef with willow.tv is that it only works on real Wintel machines — I have XP installed on my MacBook Pro using Boot Camp, and while it will connect, the video comes through with all of the colors reversed, like looking at the color film negatives. Unwatchable.
Kiss me Kate scoffers ought to take a look at the whole movie – it’s great fun.
By the way, the blonde woman on the couch in the clip is the ex-wife of the man to her right – he’s the boyfriend of the woman in red in the clip.
The musical was also revived on Broadway not too long ago, and here is the musical’s version (not the movie version) of It’s Too Darn Hot from the Tony Awards:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1MLbk7UeWfI
“Nearly all of Porter’s rather risque lyrics had to be “cleaned up” to avoid the wrath of the censors, thus dulling much of the comedy and making the results rather bland. “Brush Up Your Shakespeare”, the most suggestive song in the score, was cut in half to avoid its raciest lyrics, and the song “Too Darn Hot,” also sanitized, was changed from a number performed by several African-American singers to a tap routine for Ann Miller.”
“Brush Up Your Shakespeare”, from the movie:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O-CSb3Xe06s
The DVD has a great bit on how those two (non-singing, non-dancing) actors had to rehearse for this number.
Speaking of Judy Garland, there is an exciting new group on Yahoo called The Judy Garland Experience. The group features amazingly rare audio treasures, great photo’s, lively discussions, and just about the greatest membership a group can have. This week we are featuring rare files of Judy performing in Long Beach with The Rat Pack, as well as an ultra rare interview with Judy, unreleased tracks of Sinatra at Carnegie Hall, and some other odds and ends (including both of Judy’s songs from Valley Of The Dolls).
The group consists of fans of all levels, Garland family members, historians, authors of books on Judy, other entertainers, filmakers, and more. The only thing missing is you!
So, please check out our little Judyville, once you visit us you might never want to leave.
http://movies.groups.yahoo.com…..xperience/
Plus, some great dancing from the movie – From this Moment On, with Bob Fosse:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qt7_G-Zpaqk
You don’t like musicals?!?!
TRex, you’re about to have you Gay Card rescinded!
What’s happening in the scene is that for reasons best known to Jack Cummings, Kiss Me Kate is framed as a movie audition in which the “Too Darn Hot” number — as performed by the great Ann Miller is being performed for someone identified as “Cole Porter” who neither looks or acts anything like the real Cole Porter.
Fosse did his own choreogrphy in the segment of the “From This Moment On” number he dances with carol Haney. ALL of Fosse can be seen in this number in embryonic form.
Kiss Me Kate was originally released in 3-D.
In the stage version of Kiss Me, Kate, this number is performed by the stage hands, etc at the beginning of the show. In the movie version, they decided to make it the scene where Ann Miller auditions for the show in Howard Keel’s apartment…and brings her own combo with her. No, it doesn’t make much sense, but it’s a great show.
FYI: The clip was shot in 3-D, but the trend was over so Kiss Me, Kate came out regularly.
We do a Cole Porter show here in Peru, Indiana each year for his birthday. His birthplace is being opened this year as a bed and breakfast on June 8th.
The show this year is called “Cup O’ Cole” and takes place during an episode of a morning show like “The Today Show.” The weather forecast? “Too Darn Hot.”
More information than anyone cares about on an old thread, but I thought I’d toss it in.
looseheadprop @
226
ixnay @ 217
A looseheadprop is a rugby position in the front row of the scrum. The LHP has the ability, if desired
Um. A collapsed scrum already sounds like a catostrophic injury…
(I know nothing about rugby) :)
Ann Miller had just about the best legs in existence.
To paraphrase what someone once said about the great Joss Whedon: There are two kinds of people; those that think musicals are great, and those that are wrong.