Victor Should Write a Book

Gee, I can hardly wait!

You know a guy that I was married to once wrote a very serious play about "the industrial military complex". this was back in the 60s. He submitted the play to a contest and it won first place. The first place prize was that the play would be performed by the local drama department.

They turned it into a musical. It didn't star Julie Andrews either.

What? a musical? too funny! how did ex-h respond to that?

If Monty Python could make musicals out of what they have, nothing would surprise me!

Maybe we can make a DG musical - complete with singing shrubs and nasty, evil weeds! I mean - they did it with cats, right? Imagine the costumes! And evil Japanese Beetles!

Seandor: I love it. Can I be a camellia? I did learn how to sew theatre costumes as a result of that early encounter.

What happened to the playwright? He won a scholarship to the Stanford Drama department and I never heard from him again. Well I did hear that he was performing pacifist plays in the parking lots of said industrial military complexes and was in a bus with a traveling theatre heading for Philadelphia.

To reprise a joke from earlier in the year, perhaps Yoko Ono is available to play the beetle.

If not, maybe someone can play Yoko Ono.

They'll have to play a "Yoko-lele" of course, seeing that it's a musical!

Good one !

La La La La La. Is this called "Winter Madness".

It's always "madness" on this forum, Gloria!

I think there is an old "Yoko-lele" in a trunk upstairs. It may need to be restrung.

is it strung out?

Merry Christmas to Y'all up there in the frozen north.

gloria

An Alabama camellia blooming now in my yard.

This message was edited Dec 24, 2007 11:55 AM

Thanks Gloria. Same to you! Not bad here. 40's today and tomorrow.

Merry Christmas to all you NE' ers...this is a fun forum and you all crack me up.
BTW...it was close to 80 here today...hee hee
It won't last long though.

Eat, Drink, and Be Merry...for in 3 months it'll be Spring.

Merry Christmas Jasper - we have snow for Christmas!

Merry Christmas Mike!

The snow/ice we had got rained out over the weekend.

And what's not Christmasy about a hot dry wind? LOL !
One of my BIL's is from Mass. and he thinks our Xmas weather is CRIMINAL !

I have a feeling Victor is currently facing "some assembly required" !

The "sugar buzz" has officially started...there are kids all over the place riding their assorted new contraptions and squealing with excitement...and weary parents yelling, "You can ride it AFTER we get back from church !!!"

JasperDale - Earthquake weather! I haven't been outside this morning yet - but I saw the wind and wondered if it was a santana - now I know. Happy sunny Christmas!

Edited to say that I am in Anaheim, CA right now.

This message was edited Dec 25, 2007 8:58 PM

Well folks. Its a long long story about how I wound up here in Alabama.

Not worth telling. But after a life time of traveling around this country I can tell you one day you will cherish those Christmases in California, JD. I always used Christmas vacation to start planting roses when I lived in Santa Barbara.

But, most of all I miss the snow where I grew up in northern Michigan. I talked to someone in Michigan this morning. 5 degrees she says, but a winter wonder land outside her Kitchen window.

Well, I miss the snow, but, boy am I glad I don't have to shovel it!

Merry Christmas, All.

gloria

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year Gloria - omg - planting roses this time of year! What's not to like?

Hello, all! Hope you all had a great Christmas. We did. Mike was right - assembling (this morning also) and spending time with the family yesterday.

I looked out to see a carlos santana but it soon changed to a clapton. You know what they say about the weather in New England...

ok, i'll say it - "Huh?"

Dave47 is working too hard . . .

Such a great Christmas this year! The younger kids were full of wonder and then sugar energy. The grown ups were tolerant (for once!). And I feel very fulfilled. I miss Christmas already!

I don't miss it. I'm a Christmas freak, but once it's over, it's over. Time to move on!

How's that book coming along, Victor?

Waiting for inspiration.

Like we're not inspiration enough??????? Gee whiz . . . . .

i have aspirations...

See your doctor.

I wonder if Victor Gardener has a New York accent?

Absolutely!

The Noo Yawk kind, or the Lawn Guyland type?

I once briefly had a job in New York City in an office at 60 Pine Street. The job was as a dictaphone operator for account executives at Merrill Lynch Pierce Fenner & Smith.

I had to listen to tapes recorded by native New Yorker account executives and type up what I heard into letters that were sent out to clients. The letters gave advice about what kinds of stock to buy, and what to do with the $50,000 some one just inherited, etc.

Oh. Me. There is not much similarity between the way we talk in Northern Michigan (very nearly Canadian) and the way they talk in New York City. I guess I did O.K. though. I had that job for more than a year.

Noo Yawk.

Funny story Gloria. I'll have to bring my NY translator if we get to meet! Didn't know Merrill used to have all those other partners!

You mean he is on his own now?

I think just about everybody who spent some time in New York did some time working at Merrill Lynch. I even met a man here in Greensboro that had worked at Merrill Lynch. His daddy was soooo proud of him!

I was there in 1964. And I remember because there was a ticker tape parade for JFK. Id never seen a ticker tape parade before, and Id never seen anybody like JFK who literally had so much charisma that it engulfed the whole of Wall Street that day.

Yankee thought she saw a santana (post a bit above mine). Mine was a Carlos, maybe a Clapton.

I haven't lost my mind, I have it stored in a safe place.