Monday, March 30, 2009

I don't make this stuff-New Species

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50 new species of animals were discovered in a remote area of Papua New Guinea. Including this green tree frog, jumping spiders and striped gecko





NEW SPECIES PHOTOS: Jumping Spiders, Odd Gecko, More





NEW SPECIES PHOTOS: Jumping Spiders, Odd Gecko, More

Wednesday, March 25, 2009

The Marx Brothers

Theater Outing -Ferndale apirl 3

Who Wants Cake? presents Killer Joe by Tracy Letts @ The Ringwald Theatre throughout April We’ve always liked Tracy Letts. He wrote Bug, a smash hit for Who Wants Cake? in 2008, and he won a Pulitzer Prize and a Tony for his scathing play August: Osage County. Well, we are going back a few years to present Killer Joe, his sensational first play. Killer Joe, a hardened ex-cop, is hired by the greedy Smith family, a dim witted clan wanting to do away with mother to get her insurance money. With more blood, more violence, and, yes, more nudity, Killer Joe is truly outrageous!

Always a great show at the Ringwald. Killer Joe starts April 3rd and run April 27 http://www.whowantscaketheatre.com/modules/theatre/

Theater Outing -Miller Kalamazoo



he Pajama Game

March 29, 2009

Bright and riotously funny, this fast-paced, frisky tale is theatre at its very best with this sparkling, all-new production of the Tony Award winning, Broadway smash hit The Pajama Game. The feisty employee representative has found her match in the pajama shop superintendent and when the two get together, they wind up discussing a whole lot more than job actions! The high-energy score by Richard Adler and Jerry Ross brims with popular hits and musical theatre standards such as Hey There, Steam Heat and the hilarious Hernandos Hideaway that will keep you humming all the way home. For solid musical comedy, its hard to beat The Pajama Game.

Tuesday, March 24, 2009

Seth Rudetsky

OK..... I'm like addicted to Broadway Satellite Radio. Especially Seth's Big Fat Broadway Show weeknights 3-9 PM. http://images.broadwayworld.com/upload/22126/tn-500_51.jpg

Pictures of my Friend




This is my new friend Bonnie. Judging by reading material I think we will be good friends

Monday, March 23, 2009

Mason Street warehouse

OIN THE FUN- only $35 for each event!
Enjoy a great time amidst the company of good friends and support outstanding theatre in our community! Call Mason Street Warehouse at 269.857.4898 to reserve your tickets for one or all CLUB MSW events today for pick up at the door. Tickets may also be purchased at the door.

SATURDAY, MARCH 28; 7 PMEveryone loves chocolate! Indulge your sweet tooth by sampling a smorgasbord of delectable homemade chocolate delights while perusing fine art at a wonderful new gallery, listening to relaxing music and enjoying some tantalizing libations. Drop in anytime between 7 and 9 PM for this chocolate lover's paradise at Rubinkam Studio/Gallery (20 E. Center Street, Douglas) where you will enjoy good art, music, drinks and of course, chocolate.

Jeff Stryker Doll

At Grant-A-Wish , a doll convention I attended this weekend someone had a signed Jeff Stryker Doll.
Me: Wow where in the world did you get this?

Lady Seller : You know you just get thing

Me: Its signed how did you find it.

Lady seller: omum oh om You know you go through phases in your life



The Bell Jar

I first read the The Bell Jar at the age of 16year. I just finish rereading it today. After the death of
Nicholas Hughes today (Sylvia Plath's son ) I don't have it me to critique it.

Sunday, March 22, 2009

Pictures of my Friends

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Tommy Tune

Tommy Tune has been canceled in Cleveland.

James Purdy passed away last week

James Prudy passed away last week. He was one of first gay authors to get a underground following. Eustace Chisholm and the works is his most famous work-my personal favorite is In a Shallow Grave. His books are a delightful mix of the grotesque, with humor and emotion.
James was born in Hickville. Ohio (I'm not making that up) and then moved to Findley, Ohio. Gore vidal admired this novels.
book cover of   In a Shallow Grave   by  James Purdy

Foto Fun

Wednesday, March 18, 2009

those wacky Devos

Richard and Helen donated 10 million to save a mis-managed christian from floundering. Devos stated " it was the most important gift they could make because it's "something to which most people are unable or unwilling to contribute."
Hey aren't these the people who are upset with government hand out bailing out company. maybe it they hadn't sent job overseas.

Monday, March 16, 2009

Daily walk -Detroit Zoo





I make it

My blogs site is up in readership by a half a million it is now the 2,499,630 it started at almost 3 million

Barbie Cake in Sydney

Sunday, March 15, 2009

Mary Poppins -Chicago

Mary Poppins

Theatre : Cadillac Palace Theatre, Chicago Illinois
Dates : March 11, 2009 - July 12, 2009
Running time: 2 Hours and 45 Minutes

MaryPoppins.jpg picture by Nicbar24

Bumper Sticker at Cemedy Festive

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Wednesday, March 11, 2009

Men's Chorus -Cleveland

April 4,2009 - Sunday April 5,2009

Tuesday, March 10, 2009

Daffy Duck lyric









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My name is Daffy,
There's no other duck like me,
Because I'm so daffy,
And the reason I'm daffy,
And so gosh-derned riff-raffy,
And so screwy and laffy,
Is because those hunters won't leave me alone.

Oh, why don't they hunt some other animal for a change?
So, that I won't have to end up on a kitchen range.
But no, duck hunting's all the rage and they won't let me be.
And I'm so full of bullets, I'm lit up like a Christmas tree.
There's so much I'd like to do if I just had the chance.
I'd like to play and romp and even sing and do a dance.

I would read the latest book
Go swimming in the babbling brook
I'd like to fly the seven seas
Play hide and seek among the trees
I'd play hop scotch and double dutch
And this and that and things and such
I know that isn't asking much
But all these things I daresn't touch

It's bang! bang! here, and bang! bang! there
Bullets flying everywhere
I can't stand it any longer
I get weak and they get stronger

Hunters to the right of me
Hunters to the left I see
Over hill and over dale
Bullets whizzing past my tail

There's no rest and there's no peace
Won't this shooting ever cease
Morning, noon, and through the night
That's why I look such a fright

BANG! BANG! BANG!
I'm only sixteen yards ahead
BANG! BANG! BANG!
They're shooting straight at me

HOO! HOO! HOO!
They won't let up until I'm dead
HOO! HOO! HOO!
Why can't they let me be

Why don't they hunt big wild moose
Or chase a Ranger on the loose
There's possums, chipmunks, caribou
Or rabbits for a rabbit stew
Rats and squirrels, porcupines
Monkeys swinging on the vines
Leopards with or without spots
Wild cats with or without dots
Elephants, badgers, kangaroos
Lions, tigers, cows that moo
Wolf and mice and prairie ox
Red and grey and silver fox

DAFFY! They drive me daffy!
Those hunters with their great big guns
They're all uncles, cousins, fathers, sons
Crazy! They got me hazy
With all that rootin'-flootin'-hootin'-tootin'-high-falootin' noisy
shootin'
Closer! They're gettin' closer
With shot-guns, pistols, bows and arrows, riffles, knives, and other
deadly trifles
Scram now! While I'm still able
You're nuts if you think that I'm gonna end up on somebody's dinner
table

Sooooo, Good-bye!
So long now!
Woo-hoo, woo-hoo, woo-hoo, woo-hoo, woo-hoo, woo-hoo, woo-hoo, woo-
hoo, woo-hoo...
(Morgan)

Weekend Plan

Saturday we will be at Dearborn for the Triangle Comedy fest,
Who Wants Cake? presents The Bad Seed @ The Ringwald
Sunday for the The Bad Seed http://www.whowantscaketheatre.com/modules/theatre/

Lisa Kosh -Comedy fest

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Lisa is the fourth Comedian for Saturday's Comedy Fest in Dearborn.
Picture the triangulated love child of Bette Midler, Lily Tomlin, and Karen Carpenter... and you’ve got Lisa Koch. An irreverent Seattle singer/comedian, Koch (“Coke”) is a deliciously twisted mix of comedy, theater, and demented songs. She has 4 solo recordings, is one-half of hilarious sketch-comedy duo, Dos Fallopia ("My Breasts Are Out of Control"), and is an alumnus of cult quartet Venus Envy ("I'll Be A Homo for Xmas").

Lisa has co-written such warped shows as "The Carpeters: Uncomfortably Close To You," “Two’s Company, I’m a Crowd,” and “Ham for the Holidays: Swine, Women and Song.” She also finds time to work as an actor, appearing in "The Vagina Monologues,” "Dirty Blonde,” and as the Wicked Witch of the West in “The Wizard of Oz” (5th Ave Theatre). She performs regularly on Olivia Cruises, is touring her one-woman cabaret show, “Return to Planet Lisa”, and is the composer of a new musical about Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas (“27, Rue de Fleurus”), which premieried Off-Broadway in March 2008. Koch’s latest CD (“Tall Cool Drink”) contains the internet hit, “I’m a Middle-Aged Woman.”

"...reminiscent of the uproariously tacky mishmash once beloved by the Divine Miss M.... " --Out Magazine

http://www.heylisa.com/bio.html

Monday, March 09, 2009

Saturday, March 07, 2009

Comedy Festive -Dearborn March 14,09

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Ian Harvie- One of the four comedian at this week comedy fest in Dearborn Ian is the world's first Transgender comedian

theater outing -Cleveland Grey Garden

Beale photo

February 27 – March 29, 2009
The Beck center for the Arts

Book by Doug Wright
Music by Scott Frankel
Lyrics by Michael Korie
Directed by Victoria Bussert

The cast features Equity actor Maryann Nagel in the dual role of Edith Bouvier Beale (circa 1941 in Act One) and daughter “Little” Edie (circa 1973 in Act Two) and Lenne Snively as the aging Edith in Act Two.

The supporting cast includes students from the Baldwin-Wallace musical theatre program.

2007 three-time Tony Award winner. Scandalously entertaining, Grey Gardens brings to life the alternately hilarious and heartbreaking story of two indomitable women, Edith Bouvier Beale and her adult daughter 'Little' Edie – the delightfully eccentric aunt and cousin of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, in Broadway's acclaimed musical smash hit with music composed by Cleveland native, Scott Frankel. Once among the brightest names in the pre-Camelot social register, these two women became East Hampton’s most notorious recluses and Jackie O’s most scandalous relatives

Friday, March 06, 2009

I don't make this stuff up - top manliest cities

This is based on such masculine thing as number of hardware stores, sports bars, BBQ and salty snacks. What truly make a man
The upper Great Lakes fared very well grabbing 4 of the top ten spot.
My own Home town was right in the middle at 24 but #1 for Monster Truck Rally. Here is the complete list-oh one more thing combo snacks sponsored this ranking

http://news.prnewswire.com/ViewContent.aspx?ACCT=109&STORY=/www/story/03-05-2009/0004983605&EDATE=

Dunes Douglas/saugatuck

Every Monday is Potluck and euchre at the Dunes

Daily Walk-saugatuck- Oval beach



Uncle Al pasted away


Uncle Al pasted on February 28, 2009. Until I was 5 years old. He was favorite of mine. Interesting how the show got started This from Wikipedia

The show's origins were completely happenstantial. In the summer of 1949, then-General Manager Mort Watters asked Lewis (hired on two months earlier as WCPO's first art director) to host an hour-long filler show called Al's Corner Drugstore, in which Lewis, dressed in a soda jerker uniform, would take phone-in requests for songs which he would play on his accordion, which would later become one of his many trademarks along with his straw boater hat.

At that time, the show was not aired in a closed set, so people could walk in from off the street to watch the show in person. Neighborhood children began doing just that, and Lewis, having a natural affinity for children, invited them onto the stage during the show. The same kids would return on subsequent occasions bringing friends, and they all took to calling Lewis "Uncle Al".

When mothers began calling in to the station requesting tickets to be on The Uncle Al Show, a Cincinnati institution was born again, completely by accident, although Lewis himself never treated it in such a manner; the show's remarkable longevity can stand alone as witness to that. The Uncle Al Show made its official début on June 12, 1950. Having originally started as a 15-minute outing, it quickly expanded into an hour long show airing three episodes daily:

Tuesday, March 03, 2009

those wacky Devos-In laws

Just a couple of weeks after announcing the pull out of American troops in Iraqi, Blackwater CEO is stepping down.Erik Prince the founder of Blackwater has called it a day.


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Erik is the son of Edgar and Elsa Prince. Elsa if you remember gave $450,000.00 to prop 8. Prince Erik didn't fall form the tree as a intern in the White House under George H W Bush he stated I saw a lot of things I didn't agree with—homosexual groups being invited in, the budget agreement, the clean air act those kinds of bills. Prince is the brother -inlaw of Richard Devos.
Erik is all supporter of several conservative groups including Focus on the Family and Christian Freedom International. His sister Betsy is the former chairwoman of the Michigan Republican Party and married into Amway money.

This blond all American boy started Blackwater Worldwide in 1996. Blackwater has been broil in controversies with it involvement in Iraqi war. His employees were sometimes refer ed to as Mercenaries who were involved in shooting and arms smuggling.


Monday, March 02, 2009

Spring Awakening




I seen Spring Awakening in Lansing at the Wharton Sunday. I was curious how much of was from the original German play Frühlings Erwache. I was delighted to find most all of it was true to the 1891 play including the love the love scene between Hanschen (Hänschen) & Ernst.

Mason Street Warehouse 2009 season Announcement



MASON STREET WAREHOUSE
ANNOUNCES ITS 2009 SEASON!

Mason Street Warehouse (MSW), an uptown theatre in downtown Saugatuck, has more reasons to continue celebrating the vitality and infectious enthusiasm of the theatre. We are pleased to announce the 2009 season and to continue bringing entertaining professional live theatre to west Michigan.

Begin your summer season with the timely and extremely entertaining Broadway Hit,

THE FULL MONTY
June 26 through July 19

Based on the 1997 film by the same name, a group of unemployed steel workers comes up with the ultimate money making gimmick. In the process they find renewed self-esteem, the importance of friendship and the ability to have fun. Directed and choreographed by MSW's Artistic Director Kurt Stamm. (Mature audiences)


Chris Blisset, previously seen at Mason Street Warehouse in 2005, returns to lead a talented team in

PUMP BOYS AND DINETTES
July 24 through August 9

This Broadway classic promises fun for the entire family. The pump boys sell high octane on Highway 57 in Grand Ole Opry country and the dinettes run the Double Cupp diner next door. Together they fashion an evening of country western songs performed to unanimous raves on guitars, piano, bass and, yes, kitchen utensils. Larry Tobias is the guest Director.

! ! !
August 14 through August 30

The ink isn't even dry on arrangements for MSW's third and final show in the 2009 season line up. This hot musical has just completed extremely successful runs in New York and Chicago and is currently finishing up its US National tour. Because of this, we are unable to formally announce the title until April. Mason Street Warehouse will be one of the first regional theatres in the country to mount a production of this fantastic show! Call us now to get more information.

Ticket pricing for Mason Street Warehouse productions remains at 2008 levels. Individual show tickets are $25 - $38. Discounts are available for Season Ticket Subscriptions, Seniors, Students and Groups. Tickets will go on sale in early April. Call the theatre, 269-857-4898, for more information about all the 2009 shows.

theater on the Square


I received this postcard from Theater on the square. It playing March 6-7 8pm and March 13-14. I can't find anything about on their website so I thinking it might be playing in the smaller stage