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Today's Answer to SchoolHouse Rock - except it's for kids a bit beyond the lower grades (up to college...and beyond): Hip-Hop Neurology.

This summer the Troubies present: The Maternal Musical that mashes up Sophocles’ “Oedipus the King” with the music of the King of Rock & Roll, Elvis Presley. Oedipus has a Burning Love and he Can’t Help Falling in Love with his Mama. So Don’t Be Cruel and miss this musical parody by the theater company the Los Angeles Times calls “The Masters of Musical Spoofery." ( OEDIPUS THE KING, MAMA! )

Their winter holiday show: Get Ready to Take a Chance Again on a new musical that melts together the holiday classic “Frosty the Snowman” and the sounds of Barry Manilow. Could It Be Magic when Frosty wakes up Somewhere in the Night on a winter Weekend in New England? Don’t miss this family fun because Frosty Can’t Smile Without You! Yes, it's ( FROSTY THE SNOW MANILOW )

A legacy lives on: Great MJ Tribute! I guess it's clear now which side ultimately won that huge debate I remember raging during one particular Junior High school bus field trip over Who's Better: The Jackson 5 or The Osmonds. ;-)

Happy B-day!

So, I'm finding myself these days buying/sending more cards for Sympathy than Congrats. Saddest of all, today I must put the Congrats on Your Impending New Baby card back into the stack and replace it w/one for Condolences On Your Loss. My heart goes out to them.

Today's accomplishments included weeding the corn patch, weaving the soaker hoses all throughout the corn for ease of watering, planting beans/peas next to the corn (2 of 3 sisters now in place), planting the 3rd wave of lettuce/spinach/mustard, watering corn 'n' new beans/peas, new lettuce/spinach/mustard, and the greenhouse, photo-documenting the garden some (Clickie for Some Pickies of the CopperMoon Garden), doing misc other weeding, helping lightfoote create drainage and more paths 'tween beds, updating on-line garden log, and finally harvesting broccoli, mustard greens, cress, and garlic tops out of which I made numbly slaw for dinner along w/leftover turkey soup and garlic bread. It feels really good 'n' productive 'n' healthy 'n' nice working together to grow a garden and feasting from it. Sleep now beckons...

My w'end was bookended by musical outings: VNV Nation & Duran Duran. Last Wed night, after dropping off wildwoosi and her traveling companion LJ-less C at SEA-TAC, lightfoote and I headed up to Seattle for VNV Nation, where we got to spend some quality time chatting and hanging out w/inkandalchemy, jibb, skarlett, and LJ-free M, amongst others. Thursday = gardening and racquetball. Friday found us driving up to Bellingham (all on back roads) for a gorgeous grand fun day sailing around Lummi Island w/friends. After a delightful Saturday morning at the Bellingham Farmer's Market (where we had local bison sandwich and numbly ice cream from Mallards), we drove back - still mostly on back-roads - and in the evening opted to skip downtown Seattle altogether in favor of enjoying local cul-de-sac and above-the-racetrack fireworks and good company courtesy of the Village People chez vonvoncake & dillenger69. Today featured gardening and napping at CopperMoon and then a really nice BBQ w/Tiki House (blot, philkensebben, quetz, LJ-free A, and Her Cuteness JudyPants. One thing led to another and we found ourselves enjoying a lovely evening outside at Marymore Park, enjoying a free (for us all anyway) Duran Duran concert. Clickie Here For A Few Pics From Today.

From all over my FL. Nothing surprising 'bout this. ( My Results Here )

Student Loan Payments Getting You Down? Relief may be in sight.

EDIT: And one more: Justice Dept Not Appealing Transgender-Ruling.

Heading out in a bit w/kittenheads Fargo & Havana to spend three (3) weeks or so at CopperMoon, llama/doggeral/garden/ALF-sitting (HEE!) whilst the luckiest of ducks wildwoosi heads to Europe (her 1st time!) to visit her daughter & son-in-law, friends, and a nice assortment of countries. (Her travel blog w/itinerary and stuff is HERE.)

Gonna have a great time! No longer freaking out 'bout driving w/the kittenheads. It's gonna go just fine and we'll have a swell sojourn up yonder. I'm particularly looking forward to SAILING (on Fri), Fireworks & Ice Cream (on Sat), and oh-so-much-more. Whee-zoom!

NOTE: Being at Peace (BAPAMAP) does NOT necessarily require Being At Rest...

From yesterday's visit to the 81st Annual Scandinavian Midsummer Fest here in Portland (complete w/Viking reenactors).

From Sat, 6/20/09's Fremont Solstice Festival. And here're wildwoosi's pics as well: CLICKIE!

From Sun, 6/21/09's handfasting of jormundgan & elocinnuala at Sidhehaven. Trying to upload to FaceBook as well, but FB's being annoying 'bout it.

From a recent Silly involving moi-meme and lightfoote. I DO wish I could remember what triggered this!

Had trouble falling asleep last night, so resorted to doing what I've done in the past which eventually worked. I shifted around 180 degrees so my head was at the foot of the bed and my feet at the head. This was slightly tricky as I'd actually tucked in the sheets when I remade the bed, but as I thrash around in my sleep anyway 'twas fairly loose so quickly ended up with a huge mass of coverings (kittenheads included) atop me. Ended up sleeping quite well, as this shift often does for me - amazingly it's the 1st time I've done it here at the Hive - with loads o' good/fascinating dreams in the wee hours of the morning.

Which Verdi opera or operas do you think I'd like best (and which recording(s))?

Come One, Come All, but please note that the annual tossing of the old/unneeded/no-longer-serving-you stuff into the fire to make room for the new has shifted from Sat, 10/17/09 to Sat, 10/10/09 at CopperMoon, likely from mid-day to dusk, w/potluck feast before/after ritual. And drumming. Definitely drumming.

Whoo-hoo! Particularly interested in Portland Taiko on 8/11/09 @ Washington Park Amphitheater.

So, after numerous attempts to garner interest in having someone join me for an OSF outing, today I said "to heck with it." Now I'm set for Tu, 9/8/09 with a night at the Bard's Inn, Ashland, OR and a good ticket for the Scottish play on September 8, 2009. Whoo-hoo! ( Read more... )

Good day today w/Mom (and eventually J, when he ret'd from the quickie day-trip to Sacto). They'll leave o'morrow. I do so like many of my blood- (and pseudo-) relatives and miss spending more time w/them. At least I'll once again get to spend some time w/various rels around my b-day in the Bay Area this September, which'll be nice.

And now, to sleep...perchance to dream.

OBIT

Good grief!

OBIT & HERE & all over the freakin' place...

Okay, they tend to come in threes, so who's next?

EDIT: Yes, you're so right - MJ = #3, w/Ed McMahon being #1: OBIT