Thanks Robyn! As a chubby little girl, I wanted so badly to be Gwen, but couldn't master ballet. By the time Madonna showed we didn't have to, it was too late. But my love persists.
Dating site is running an ad about finding the one ‘that gets you’. That was Fosse & Verdon. Yet, before I fell absolutely in love with their style, I used to stand in front of my grandparents’ TV and try to emulate the peerless moves of the Peter Gennaro dancers on the Perry Como Show. He was Fosse before Fosse was cool.
If you haven't seen Foose, executive produced by LMM with Sam Rockwell (who has a new movie I just saw the preview for) and Michelle Williams, you're missing out 😊
Thank you Robyn! I adore Bob Fosse's choreography and Miss Vernon was always fabulous. I remember Bebe Neuwirth explaining that much of Fosse's work was made up of tiny, nuanced, and precise moves that made a big impact. "All That Jazz" is a great example, with the shoulder rolls and hip and hand movements.
Ta, Robyn. Gwen Verdon is a goddess of dance, and she could act, too. I'll always love her.
Good day, beloved Wonketteers. I love and appreciate you all and I bless us all with love, health, peace, and grace. Meccalopolis just got back from taking the dogs out (they behaved!) and we're sipping coffee and choosing songs from 1968 to play on A Jet Age Sound on wioxradio.org tonight.
Please, please stay safe. Wear a mask or two, wash your hands, sanitize when you cannot wash and let the sanitizer dry completely, stop touching your face, take Vitamin D, get one of the new vaccines, avoid indoor and crowded outdoor gatherings and when you must meet, remove masks only to eat, drink, and take quick photos, and stay the fuck away from me and everyone with whom you do not share a roof. Do this because you love yourself, and because I love you, too. Do this in memory of dear departed Treg among over seven million dead worldwide (with 1,500 Americans dying of COVID every week now). Do this to honor the nurses and other frontline medical personnel, especially ICU Hera Mrs Land Shark RN. Stay safe.
Hajahaha. I was fucking obsessed with Mexican Breakfast a few years ago. The art of the 'tiny gesture' in full force.
I looked and looked and looked for a quality 'print' of that segment because all the ones I found are terrible...if ANYONE can link me to a nice crisp copy of it I will owe you for life!!!!
Have just finished cleaning off the counter, and I fell confident in saying that no resident of this abode has ever once thrown away one of those little plastic clips that closes bread bags.
Coldest we've seen it since we moved here in 2004. Coldest I've ever experienced. Wife lived here when she was a kid in the 70's, it was -30 several times. So she has me beat. Still cold AF.
The daughter and BF just had a 'Rick' (face cord) of firewood delivered AND they stacked it, otherwise it would have been me and the BF (mostly me) doing the stacking...fuck that.
Y'all. This is disconcerting, but I actually agree and empathize with Donald Trump about something. In his recent insane rambling about how he puts on his pants in the morning, he said he doesn't think about it, because if he thinks about it, he might not WANT to get up and put on his pants.
Although my existential dread doesn't stem from the possibility of facing the consequences of criminal behavior, I totally get not wanting to overthink getting up in the morning.
I'm transitioning to semi retirement. My ex-employer is supposed to be paying me to work part time from home for them. I intentionally put pants on in the morning like I'm going to work. I could easily do this in sweats bit, one, my office is in the basement which is hovering around 57F currently, and 2) my wife keeps ordering stuff so there's a delivery van appearing most days. Our basement is 'walk out' so I go out to say thanks and receive the shipment de jour and prefer not to look like some crazy weirdo living out in the sticks, even if I am.
Funny you should bring that up - I thought roughly the same thing when I heard it. Not that I feel that way personally, but I've been there. Except I don't own any pants (just skirts and dresses, in full compliance with Wonketariat rules even outside Wonkette hours), so I'd have to tweak the sentiment, but YES, I too have avoided thinking about shit because I had to get up and don the fabric coverings of my choice and get on with things.
It was a rare moment of him sharing normal human vulnerability. Very rare.
Tonight's dinner is going to be a chicken and ham pie with a side of peas (and maybe sweetcorn). I'm reducing the calories by using filo pastry rather than shortcrust for the lid, I'm also using low fat creme fraiche, and extra stock instead of wine in the cream sauce. It should end up being a relatively healthy meal.
Thanks Robyn! As a chubby little girl, I wanted so badly to be Gwen, but couldn't master ballet. By the time Madonna showed we didn't have to, it was too late. But my love persists.
Dating site is running an ad about finding the one ‘that gets you’. That was Fosse & Verdon. Yet, before I fell absolutely in love with their style, I used to stand in front of my grandparents’ TV and try to emulate the peerless moves of the Peter Gennaro dancers on the Perry Como Show. He was Fosse before Fosse was cool.
If you haven't seen Foose, executive produced by LMM with Sam Rockwell (who has a new movie I just saw the preview for) and Michelle Williams, you're missing out 😊
Paulo loves the snow !
https://substack.com/@brawlatthepoetscafe/note/c-47249696?r=insr
He's absolutely right
About both things
Thank you Robyn! I adore Bob Fosse's choreography and Miss Vernon was always fabulous. I remember Bebe Neuwirth explaining that much of Fosse's work was made up of tiny, nuanced, and precise moves that made a big impact. "All That Jazz" is a great example, with the shoulder rolls and hip and hand movements.
Neuwirth is a fabulosity herself and was WONDERFUL in Chicago.
Love, love, love, love Gwen Verdon in anything.
If you have access to it and an interest, the Fosse/Verdon mini series is VERY good.
a great excuse to gorge on Fosse numbers!
Is it on Netflix, Hulu, or...?
Hulu and/or any bundle that carries FX shows
Ta, Robyn. Gwen Verdon is a goddess of dance, and she could act, too. I'll always love her.
Good day, beloved Wonketteers. I love and appreciate you all and I bless us all with love, health, peace, and grace. Meccalopolis just got back from taking the dogs out (they behaved!) and we're sipping coffee and choosing songs from 1968 to play on A Jet Age Sound on wioxradio.org tonight.
Please, please stay safe. Wear a mask or two, wash your hands, sanitize when you cannot wash and let the sanitizer dry completely, stop touching your face, take Vitamin D, get one of the new vaccines, avoid indoor and crowded outdoor gatherings and when you must meet, remove masks only to eat, drink, and take quick photos, and stay the fuck away from me and everyone with whom you do not share a roof. Do this because you love yourself, and because I love you, too. Do this in memory of dear departed Treg among over seven million dead worldwide (with 1,500 Americans dying of COVID every week now). Do this to honor the nurses and other frontline medical personnel, especially ICU Hera Mrs Land Shark RN. Stay safe.
Slava Ukraini. 🌻🇺🇦💙💛
This choreography is like the American approach to landscaping: Natur[e][al movement] under totalitarian control.
Two guitar malfunctions on this one. The switchover at 1:00 is professional AF, and the one starting at 5:10 slightly less so.
https://youtu.be/trqdqP5HGrk
Looks like I need an ark if I plan on going outside today.
Are you in the PNW? because we're getting to ark levels of wetness around here too.
we need a big snow blower here in E WA
I’m at the bottom of the PNW. And really getting tired of waiting for the estimate to fix my roof.
I'd need a lightsaber and a Tauntaun.
"And I thought they smelled bad...on the outside...."
Hajahaha. I was fucking obsessed with Mexican Breakfast a few years ago. The art of the 'tiny gesture' in full force.
I looked and looked and looked for a quality 'print' of that segment because all the ones I found are terrible...if ANYONE can link me to a nice crisp copy of it I will owe you for life!!!!
Have just finished cleaning off the counter, and I fell confident in saying that no resident of this abode has ever once thrown away one of those little plastic clips that closes bread bags.
The metal twist ties can be found with magnets! So it is easy to find them.
But leave it to the BIg Plastic cartels to ruin that with their dreck.
I thought the point of them was to save them, snap them in half, and flick them with your finger for the cats to chase.
You might have somehow acquired the dozens I've laid down and never seen again.
I believe they are hanging out with all the lost socks somewhere.
Never going to be a teenth as awesome as Ms. Verdon. Fine. I've had second breakfast and some barley sodas. I'm off to pay down my sleep debt.
Spokane Wa: -11°F on the poncy South Hill.
Coldest we've seen it since we moved here in 2004. Coldest I've ever experienced. Wife lived here when she was a kid in the 70's, it was -30 several times. So she has me beat. Still cold AF.
We're in the balmy low twenties, but, after all the rain yesterday, the storm door was frozen shut.
fun times!
It was -13f when i woke up this morning. Saw ice on the inside of the front door and went back to bed
Good choice.
The daughter and BF just had a 'Rick' (face cord) of firewood delivered AND they stacked it, otherwise it would have been me and the BF (mostly me) doing the stacking...fuck that.
That's what kids are for. Firewood warms you two to three times.
Y'all. This is disconcerting, but I actually agree and empathize with Donald Trump about something. In his recent insane rambling about how he puts on his pants in the morning, he said he doesn't think about it, because if he thinks about it, he might not WANT to get up and put on his pants.
Although my existential dread doesn't stem from the possibility of facing the consequences of criminal behavior, I totally get not wanting to overthink getting up in the morning.
I'm transitioning to semi retirement. My ex-employer is supposed to be paying me to work part time from home for them. I intentionally put pants on in the morning like I'm going to work. I could easily do this in sweats bit, one, my office is in the basement which is hovering around 57F currently, and 2) my wife keeps ordering stuff so there's a delivery van appearing most days. Our basement is 'walk out' so I go out to say thanks and receive the shipment de jour and prefer not to look like some crazy weirdo living out in the sticks, even if I am.
Funny you should bring that up - I thought roughly the same thing when I heard it. Not that I feel that way personally, but I've been there. Except I don't own any pants (just skirts and dresses, in full compliance with Wonketariat rules even outside Wonkette hours), so I'd have to tweak the sentiment, but YES, I too have avoided thinking about shit because I had to get up and don the fabric coverings of my choice and get on with things.
It was a rare moment of him sharing normal human vulnerability. Very rare.
I have the same empathy for the PAB that he has for anyone who is not the PAB: Zero.
Funny that the “no pants” doesn’t equal “one of us” like it normally does.
Pants aversion, also too as well.
Tonight's dinner is going to be a chicken and ham pie with a side of peas (and maybe sweetcorn). I'm reducing the calories by using filo pastry rather than shortcrust for the lid, I'm also using low fat creme fraiche, and extra stock instead of wine in the cream sauce. It should end up being a relatively healthy meal.
so wish we could get creme fraiche in the diary aisle here. it is a luxury item and I wont pay the cost
MMMMMMMMMMMMMMMmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm
Sounds like you saved enough so you can have a box of Little Debbies for dessert!
I would never eat Little Debbies. I might bake something small next week, but for now I'm being good.