When I began this post, I was coming at the Christmas season with a very bah humbug attitude. The wet weather and the winter darkness tend to push my cynical buttons and before I know it, I’m grumbling like an old grampus and complaining about all that I have yet to do. This seems to [...]
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Bah-humbug?…Maybe Not
Posted in Holidays, Music and Movies, observations cynical or otherwise, tagged A Christmas Carol, Alistair Sim, Christmas, Christmas music, Christmas recipes, It's a Wonderful Life, John Denver, John Lennon on December 19, 2008 | 3 Comments »
Remembering the Fab Four
Posted in Music and Movies, tagged Concerts, Maple Leaf Gardens, Sonny & Cher, The Beatles on February 3, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Recently, I was rummaging around my box of treasures looking for something and came across something else, ticket stubs from the Beatles concert I went to in 1965. The ticket stubs are worth nothing really because they are torn in half and not in the best of condition. I guess I kept [...]
The Beautiful Queen Latifah
Posted in Music and Movies, tagged Chicago, Inside the Actors Studio, James Lipton, Mama Morton, Queen Latifah on January 29, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
While sitting at the table eating lunch today, I was channel surfing and came across James Lipton interviewing Queen Latifah on Inside the Actors Studio. Up until this point I hadn’t really spent a lot of time thinking about her, with the possible exception of her very noteworthy performance as Mama in the movie, [...]
The Joy of Wednesday Mornings
Posted in Music and Movies, tagged aerobics, Dancing, exercise, hobbies, joy on July 16, 2005 | Leave a Comment »
I love Wednesday mornings. Wednesdays are my dancing days. On those days I join a class full of mainly middle-aged women who gyrate with varying degrees of skill and equal measures of unbridled enthusiasm. We are hot. We are cool. And for a little more than an hour on Wednesday mornings, we are young.
The gym [...]
