songbird's crazy world

  Sunday, by  the blue, purple, yellow, red water On  the green, purple, yellow, red grass Let us pass Through our perfect park Pausing on a Sunday By the cool, blue, triangular water On the soft, green, elliptical grass As we pass through arrangements of shadows Towards the verticals of trees,  forever By the blue, purple, yellow, red water On the green, orange, violet mass Of the grass In our perfect park Made of flecks of light And dark And parasols People strolling through the trees Of a small suburban park On an island in the river On an ordinary Sunday Sunday, Sunday, Sunday

 

 Another “your choice” week. And this week finds me in mourning for one of Broadway’s finest.  Stephen Sondheim passed away this weekend at age 91. So today we salute Sondheim with some of his best. I’m sure you’re familiar with this song, sung here by the great Zero Mostel. A performance by the incomparable Bette Midler. Meryl Streep as a witch…    We must include a Angela Lansbury. And Barbra Streisand     And you can’t think of Sondheim without mentioning Bernadette Peters.    Here’s a surprising version of “Losing My Mind”.    Ladies who lunch    Mandy Patinkin But Sondheim works best on stage. Here are a few of his moments.          Thank you, Stephen, for all the glorious music.

 And this year’s treat from a cappella group 613

 

 So Brian Laundrie committed suicide.  No surprise there.  Maybe now everyone involved can have some closure.  Horrible tragedy. I weep for the people of Waukesha.  What a terrible tragedy, to have a criminal drive his car through a Christmas parade.  6 dead, over 60 injured.   Maybe I should stop reading the news for awhile, so much tragedy around.

 Driving home from Drew’s house on Sunday, I couldn’t help but notice one house that was still decorated for Halloween, a handful of houses decorated for Thanksgiving (mostly those inflatable turkeys) and more than a few houses with Christmas lights. Hanukkah begins Sunday night.  I will have to look for the house that goes all out with Hanukkah decorations. It’s going to be very busy around here for the next few days.  Tomorrow night we’re taking Jen out for her birthday.  We have three Thanksgiving celebrations, brunch with an out of town friend, and then Hanukkah.   We are going to have to start thinking about where we are going out for Christmas and New Year’s. Though my supervisor at work just told me that I’m getting a new laptop and two monitors, meaning I’ll be working from home for the indefinite future.  I wouldn’t mind a hybrid schedule, part time in office and part time work from home.  But I’m not happy working from home full time.  I miss the social interaction with cowor

Leading up to Thanksgiving, today's theme is  Songs that celebrate things we are thankful for Well, the first thing about Thanksgiving is ... the food. And more important, family And friends Especially a best friend If you count your blessings You realize how much you have to be thankful for

  Time for Sunday Stealing again! Thanksgiving   Hi! I'm your host Bev Sykes of the blog " Funny the World ". . Welcome to Sunday Stealing. This feature originated and published on WTIT: The Blog. Here we will steal all types of questions from every corner of the blogosphere. Our promise to you is that we will work hard to find the most interesting and intelligent questions. Cheers to all of us thieves!     Stolen from  Daily Good 1) What teacher are you most thankful for and why?  What  did you learn from him or her? 10th grade Social Studies -- European History.  Mr. S had us conduct the trial of Napoleon Bonaparte  for crimes   against the  people of France. And I was one of the defense attorneys.  Shades of future  career?  Well, all these years later, I am an attorney... 2) What’s the season you’re most thankful for, and what’s your favorite part of each season? I am thankful for the change of seasons, because each season brings its own special times.  Well, except f

  Somewhere Welcome to  Saturday: 9 . What we've committed to our readers is that we will post 9 questions every Saturday. Sometimes the post will have a theme, and at other times the questions will be totally unrelated. Those weeks we do "random questions," so-to-speak. We encourage you to visit other participants posts and leave a comment. Because we don't have any rules, it is your choice. We hate rules. We love to  answer the questions, however, and here is today's questions! Saturday 9: Somewhere (1983) Unfamiliar with this week's tune? Hear it  here .   1) This song is from the hit musical  West Side Story .  It has just been remade by Steven Speilberg . Are you interested in seeing the 2021 version? West Side Story is one of my favorite musicals.  I am anxious to see what Spielberg has done with it.  I've seen the trailers and it does look interesting. 2) Growing up, Crazy Sam thought this song was called, "A Place for Us." Tell us about a

 Drew found a great new takeout restaurant.  They have a full Japanese menu and a full Chinese menu. And a handful of Thai dishes.  Great option when we can’t decide what to order.   Duchess had her annual “well cat” visit at the vet the other day.  You would have thought she was being murdered, that’s how loudly she complained when Drew put her in the carrier.  She got a clean bill of health, thank goodness. That’s a happy cat.  She rules over her kingdom from the top of her cat tree.  I still have an entire jar of candy corn on my kitchen table.  Yes, it’s all in the infamous pumpkin …  I’m still dealing with Halloween leftovers and it’s almost Thanksgiving. Our Thanksgiving plans are starting to come together.  And with the first night of Hanukkah falling on the Sunday after Thanksgiving, it’s going to be a very busy weekend. And Thanksgiving means I’ve been in this apartment for a full year.  I am so happy I found this place.  I am enjoying living alone.   Winter weather is coming.

 And it's "your choice". Things are starting to get back to normal in NYC.  Billy Joel took the stage at Madison Square Garden on November 5, the first time since February 2020. Broadway is back! The Thanksgiving Day Parade will be back in full. And what's is Christmas in New York without the Rockettes?

 Yesterday afternoon the skies darkened, the wind picked up, and rain and hail fell.  We lost power at Drew’s house.  Scary. And just about a mile from Drew’s house…a tornado.  Confirmed by the National Weather Service. It uprooted an ancient tree.  The tree landed on a house and did tremendous damage.  Fortunately no one was inside … the house was undergoing renovations at the time. Scary …

  Favorites 1   Hi! I'm your host Bev Sykes of the blog " Funny the World ". . Welcome to Sunday Stealing. This feature  originated and published on WTIT: The Blog. Here we will steal all types of questions from every  corner of the blogosphere. Our promise to you is that we will work hard to find the most interesting and intelligent questions. Cheers to all of us thieves!   Stolen from  Ned the Duck         Name Your Favorite…     Place: Walt Disney World, Orlando, Florida     Color: purple     Smell: roses     Magazine: I don't have a favorite.  I occasionally read Good Housekeeping, Rachel Ray and                                Food Magazine     Texture: velvet     Thing to do when bored:   play with my iPad     Precious stone: amethyst     Animal: cat     Time in history: Middle Ages and the   Renaissance     Font: I don't have one     Sound: purring     Fruit:  pear     Vegetable: Brussel sprouts     Store/shop: Amazon     Quote:   “ There is a cult of ignora

  Without You Welcome to  Saturday: 9 . What we've committed to our readers is that we will post 9  questions every Saturday. Sometimes the post will have a theme, and at other times the questions will be totally unrelated. Those weeks we do "random questions," so-to-speak. We encourage you to visit other participants posts and leave a comment. Because we don't have any rules, it is your choice. We hate rules. We love memes, however, and here is today's meme!     Without You (1972) Unfamiliar with this week's song. Hear it  here . 1 ) Nilsson sings that he can't forget this evening. Did anything happen this evening (or last night, if you're answering during the day) that you expect you'll recall for a long time? No, nothing spectacular.  We picked up fast food for dinner, watched Jeopardy! and Diners, Drive-in and Dives before ending the night with Bill Maher. 2 ) In the 1960s, he worked in a very "un-rock-star" job: computer programmer