Crap on Tap

Nothing except trying to get over this tummy bug. This is getting real old.

Typrose

typo/spell-check du jour: "... ruffles and flounces and little oink onesies .."

Thank you, male chauvinist swine ...

Today's Early Shuffle

1. Dead Man's Curve (Jan and Dean)
2. You Better Sit Down, Kids (Cher)
3 Everybody Loves a Lover (Doris Day)
4. Turkish Delight (Village Stompers)
5. My Life Is Good (Randy Newman)

Typrose

typo/spell-check fail du jour: "They also swerve who only stand and wait."

But they have real drive.

Today's Early Shuffle

First five on the ol' Rhythmbox:
1. Somewhere That's Green (Ellen Greene)
2. Where Did Our Love Go? (D Ross, Supremes)
3. Lovecats (The Cure)
4. You're a Liar (Lucille Ball, Keith Andes)
5. Be My Love (Mario Lanza, Kathryn Grayson)

Typrose

typo/spell-check fail du jour: " ... that weird noise had me spooled ..."

All wrapped up in yourself again, I see.

Today's Early Shuffle

1. You Can't Eat Ooba All Night (Lou and Peter Berryman)
2. Razzle-Dazzle (Jerry Orbach)
3. Particle Man (They Might Be Giants)
4. Midnight in Moscow (Village Stompers)
5. American Honkytonk Bar Association (Garth Brooks)

Opera

Just acquired the Decca Barbiere with Florez and Spagnoli. Wow! What a production. There were some cuts and fioriture I didn't care for, but I'd say that it was 98% perfect. Going right up there with my other favorite, the Glyndebourne production with Maria Ewing.

Picky, picky, picky

".. and if you can't speak respectively to someone ..."

(sigh)

Today's Early Shuffle

1. Pace e gioia sia con voi (Juan Diego Florez)
2. Dulcimer Stomp/Other Side (Aerosmith)
3. Slow Boat to China (Bette Midler, Barry Manilow)
4. Ambition (Forbidden Broadway)
5. Saturday Night in Toledo Ohio (John Denver)

Typrose

typo/spell-check fail du jour: "... 'Shake Your Moneymaker' by the Black Crowds ..."

Today's Early Shuffle

Top of the ol' Rhythmbox today --

1. Brother Love's Traveling Salvation Show (Neil Diamond)
2. Be a Clown (Kevin Kline, Peter Polycarpou)
3. Hit the Road, Jack (Helen Reddy)
4. Enter Sandman (Metallica)
5. Willow, Where We Went Together (Beverly Sills)

arrggh

this link:
http://www.salon.com/wires/us/2010/06/24/D9GI1PHG0_us_severe_weather/index.html

header refers to storm damage in "Connecticut's largest city."
graphic is of a damaged fire station in Ohio

FINALLY in third 'graf they say Bridgeport.

This sort of thing angers people like me, people with no geographic sense whatsoever.

Typrose

typo/spell-check fail du jour: "... finally heard the last of 'Pop and Circumstance' for this season ..."

You mean "Land of Hop and Glory"?

Today's Early Shuffle

FIrst 5 to greet me on my musical shuffle:
1. There is a Fountain (Hopeful Gospel Quartet)
2. Duetto di due gatti (Felicity Lott, Ann Murray)
3. Java (Al Hirt)
4. Dirty Boogie (Brian Setzer Orchestra)
5. Dancing in the Streets (Martha and the Vandellas)

Parenthetically on "Typrose"

I claim invention of that word. I have been using it for seven years and I don't see it all over the place on Google.

Typrose

typo/spell-check fail du jour: "The rest of us ordered fish, but Lee insisted on chicken flingers."

Go long! Go long!

On-tap crap

Stuff I have to look forward to today:

Mux and I plan to watch the last episode, first season of "Warehouse 13" on On Demand.

Need to call the dentist. Whee!

Reading-aloud progress on Green Hazard: tonight we'll start with chapter 11, "Green Flash."

I won an auction on eBay for some Manning Coles books in fair shape.

Sort of looks as if I will also win an auction for a vinyl album of Norman Treigle arias.

Making veggie-stuffed burgers tonight. Maybe some brownies or a pecan pie for Henry

Today's Early Shuffle

First 5 on my MP3 player today:
1. Cast Your Fate to the Wind (Sounds Orchestral)
2. Una voce poco fa (Maria Ewing)
3. King Chanticleer Rag (Johnny Maddox)
4. Hardware Store (Weird Al Yankovic)
5. Brand New Key (Melanie)

Typrose

typo/spell-check fail du jour: "Gorge H W Bush"

Yum. Shrubbery.

Library report

Current read-aloud project is a re-read of Manning Coles' 1945 espionage thriller, Green Hazard. One of my all-time favorite books that M is just discovering. [We read A Toast to Tomorrow aloud back in '86, but it's. y'know, been a bit.]

I got Dean Koontz's Frankenstein: Lost Souls from the library last week for myself, but I have only managed the first few pages. It's evidently part of a series of four, so I may want to go back to the beginning. While I'm not anal about story order, M and I found that we liked the "Odd Thomas" series read sequentially.

Today's Early Shuffle

1. Annie's Song (John Denver)
2. O Holy Night (Tennessee Ernie Ford and Gordon MacRae)
3. Erie Canal (Bruce Springsteen)
4. Would You Believe It? (Phil Leeds)
5. My Truly Fair (Guy Mitchell)

Paging Dr. Freud

typo/spell-check fail du jour: "Client comes from a sibship of four sisters and two bothers."

(Your slip is showing)

Today's Early Shuffle

1. Ballad of the Greenland Whalers (Mitchell Trio)
2. Janie's Got a Gun (Aerosmith)
3. Big Spender (Peggy Lee)
4. Lead On, O King Eternal (Haven)
5. Butterball (Tijuana Brass)

Today's Early Shuffle

1. You Must Have Been a Beautiful Baby (Bobby Darin)
2. Stuff Mart Rap (Veggie Tales)
3. Milord (Harper's Bizarre)
4. Yakety Sax (Chet Atkins)
5. Money-Money-Money (Cabaret film soundtrack)

(note: the last two songs have a lot in common rhythmically and melodically!)

typrose du jour

typo/spell-check fail du jour: "... and there to tremble before your Gold ... "

Want to say something here about gilt by association, but, meh ...

Today's Early Shuffle

1. What Did You Learn in School Today? (Mitchell Trio)
2. Siyahamba (Inanna Sisters in Rhythm)
3. Wave to Wags (Wiggles)
4. Tower of Strength (Gene McDaniels)
5. On Broadway (Coasters)

Oopsie

typo/spell-check fail du jour: ".. . first under her own name was The Stranger Beside Me, about notorious serial killer Red Bundy..."

Whom they finally caught Ted-handed ...

Today's Early Shuffle

Top Five on my iSomethin' this morning ...

1. When You Care (Steve Schalchlin)
2. Soily (Wings)
3. February March (Lou and Peter Berryman)
4. Karma Chameleon (Boy George)
5. I Need a Nap (Kate Winslet and Al Yankovic)

Top 5 today

From the top of my shuffle:
1. Not Ready to Make Nice (Dixie Chicks)
2. I Play Chicken With the Train (Cowboy Troy)
3. I Guess That's Why They Call it the Blues (Elton John)
4. Fur (Sesame Street Muppets)
5. Darktown Strutters' Ball (Jo Ann Castle)

it's about crime

sort of obscure typo/spell-check fail du jour: "window-peeping was reduced to simple trespass and the frontage charge was dropped."

Like Voyeurs of the Dawn Treader?

And again, Oh dear ...

typo/spell-check fail du jour: "... Christopher Robin's continued adventures with Tigger, Pooh, and Eyesore."

No wonder he looks grumpy.

Starting anew

Really enjoyed posting my top five in my profile yesterday. Believe I'll delete that and start making daily top-five reports again. It's always fun to look back.

So, for June 16, 2010, the top five songs on my iSomething shuffle this morning are:
1. Too Close For Comfort (Sammy Davis, Jr.)
2. Blues my Naughty Sweetie Gives to Me (Jim Kweskin Jug Band)
3. Softly and Tenderly Jesus Is Calling (Hopeful Gospel Quartet)
4. King Rene's aria from Tchaikovsky's Iolanta (Nicola Ghiaurov, I think) <-- yeah, that's where the "Yolanda" brainfart came from
5. Friends in Low Places (Garth Brooks)

Waiting for Wednesday list

We may finish The Historian tonight. We sure left off on a cliff-hanger last night!

Criminal Minds? Meh. Seen it and it isn't one that I care for.

I anticipate, but without enthusiasm, dusting West View Water Authority's fluffy li'l ol' butt for failing to notice that I have not only already paid them, but that it has cleared my bank account.

Also classified under anticipation, but not the yippee-skippy department: Monthly flea treatment for the quadrupeds.

[Facepalm du jour: How did I get to this age without realizing that Iolanthe/Iolante is "Yolanda"? Just struck me during this morning's baff-time.]

Tuesday library list

Still plowing through The Historian in our read-aloud hour in the evening.

Other than that, I am rereading (and I still don't much like) Brian Morgan's Strange Child of Chaos, a biography of Norman Treigle. I don't think it's the author's fault. I was, and still am, 35 years after his death, a huge, huge fan. I don't think this book could satisfy me unless it were cloyingly teh awesum sauce. Srsly.

Ohhhhhh dear

typo/spell-check fail du jour: "Fifties pop icon Fats Domingo ..."

A quick chorus of Ho trovato la mia emozione sulla Blueberry Hill, anyone?

Perfect description of the Ken Russell "Faust"

I have seen a lot of goofy interpretations of opera over the years. This production is the first to sink below the notorious Das-Rheingold-in-a-Steambath. How bad is it? Someone offered me the DVD and I refused it. If I had had a sword, I would have brandished it, singing, C'est une croix qui de l'enfer nous garde!

Happy Monday to me

typo/spell-check du jour: "... I will concur, but with string reservations."

Is that like being mentally tied up in nots?

Buncha stuff

Reading highlights this past week:
Strange Angel: The Otherworldly Life of Rocket Scientist John Whiteside Parsons, by George Pendle

and Mux's and my current read-aloud project, The Historian, by Elizabeth Kostova

Stuff to anticipate tonight: Cm rerun, turkey and dressing, starting a new series with the New Testament course.

typo/spell-check fail du jour: "Madison, Jefferson, and Adams were the principal farmers of the Constitution."

Whew. That sort of catches me up.

amazing sale

http://www.thehungersite.com/clickToGive/home.faces

Banner says "15% off entire bags and purses."

Wonder what they're charging for partials.

Or -- does it mean that each bag will become a partial when they snip 15% of it off?

Anatomical feat

typo/spell-check fail du jour: "... wringing her hands as huge teats ran down her cheeks, she wailed, 'Dear me, no!'"

I would probably wail, too.

Top priority

I intend to have a wonderful 63rd birthday.

Period.

Just a shift of the left hand

And this morning in the dark, when I went to welcome our friend Terry back to Pittsburgh, my hand wandered, and he became Tweet.

Too bad it was on Facebook; would have been sooo appropriate on Twitter. :)

eagerly anticipate writing a vicious review

Saw a production of Gounod's Faust that managed to make me give up in despair after the Kermesse scene, and operatically speaking, I'm no quitter.

So I guess that's most of what I'm anticipating today. Roasting that DVD on Netflix and IMDb.

That, and I'm gearing up for my annual rendition of "Ode to Billy Joe."

Shocking!!

typo/spell-check fail du jour: "... but they inevitably harbour some traumatic ackstory .."

I feel your pain. Or surprise.

Yum

typo/spell-check fail du jour: "One elegant alternative is to substitute Cointreau for Triple Sex"

Frankly, I don't see the improvement.