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We’re recording early this week, but it’s still a good time. More medical talk, a bit of banter, and then lots and lots of compliments. Enjoy!
QUESTIONS:
What’s one of the best compliments you’ve ever gotten? –Jas
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Allo! Allo! Long time listener and lurker. Love hearing y’all each week. 🙂 I had to actually listen to Starry Starry Night again, like, REALLY listen to it and not just the melody (or whatever music term that would be). Holy cats, that song made me cry. Kept thinking about the Doctor Who episode about how Van Gogh’s work and legacy affects a bajillion people long after he died. 🙂
It’s one of Don McLean’s best, for sure.
Huh… that’s always what I think of now when I think of Van Gogh. Less his paintings, and more that Doctor Who episode. I’m not sure if that’s a good or bad thing. 🙂
The Dr. Who episode is also the first thing that springs to my mind. Overall, I think its a good thing ’cause it focused less on his tragedy and more on what he gave to people.
Also cuz Tony Curran is a great actor. 🙂
Yes, indeed, I was on vacation. Well sort of vacation–went to Florida to stay with my Mom and to figure out some legal stuff, but also had a really good time visiting with her. My brother came down too and we all just hung out and cooked and watched tv.
I got an addition to my family stories collection as well as my Mom told us a bit about being in Paris after WWII and I never heard about that much before. My Mom’s family got out of the Soviet Zone of Germany (illegally) in about 1946 with the Bouglione bros. Circus. During the winter they played with the Circus Medrano. (Toulouse Lautrec’s circus pictures are of the Medrano). They also played at the Moulin Rouge.
They lived on the upper floors of a hotel in Montmarte; the lower floors were rented out to prostitutes. My Mom, who was 14, was really curious about why these people stayed in rooms for such short periods of time until her brother explained it to her (he was 13, so how he knew, I don’t know). She and her sisters couldn’t walk anywhere by themselves, so the same brother had to walk with her when she was going anywhere in the city. Apparently, this cramped his style of possibly meeting girls so he made my Mom walk on the median strip while he walked on the sidewalk. This is the same brother who my Mother would pay off to leave her on her own when they were in NY on the Ringling show, which is how it was possible for her to meet up with my Dad.
Dammit, Jas, the world NEEDS a movie about your family’s life. Some sort of cross between Mi Familia and Big Fish.
I strongly identified with the story in Big Fish.
New dress: $20
Bribe payment to brother: $30
Birth of first child: Priceless.
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I enjoyed participating in tech for various high school theatre productions and I think they were pretty good.
I went to a neighboring school’s production of something and it was so terrible that the applause at the end did not last until the curtain closed. I bet it wouldn’t have lasted as long as it did if people weren’t there to support their kids and friends. Woof.
See, that’s why I love it. Good school plays are good. Bad school plays are frequently AMAZING.