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Welcome from Pennsylvania and New York.
I’m looking forward to seeing the repair on the Meerschaum pipe once you get it back.
Are you a big fan of The Shadow? I saw one of your posts in WAYS that mentioned you were listening to a couple of episodes. I have fond memories of listening to rebroadcasts of the radio show at 1:00 a.m. on WOR Radio with one of my older brothers in the top bunk of his room at home when I was a little boy. It got me started on collecting LPs of The Shadow radio broadcasts years later during college, along with Maxwell Grant/Walter B. Gibson paperbacks, and first edition books (I stayed away from the original pulps due to fragility and sheer number x cost).
I’m looking forward to seeing the repair on the Meerschaum pipe once you get it back.
Are you a big fan of The Shadow? I saw one of your posts in WAYS that mentioned you were listening to a couple of episodes. I have fond memories of listening to rebroadcasts of the radio show at 1:00 a.m. on WOR Radio with one of my older brothers in the top bunk of his room at home when I was a little boy. It got me started on collecting LPs of The Shadow radio broadcasts years later during college, along with Maxwell Grant/Walter B. Gibson paperbacks, and first edition books (I stayed away from the original pulps due to fragility and sheer number x cost).
Gilbert O’Sullivan, on the other hand, peaked in 1972 and has been in free fall ever since.
Wouldn't say a big fan, but I saw some hype for the old pulp stories on youtube and thought I'd check it out. Its been pretty great, and has yet to disappoint me.
Not to be confused with Dark Shadows, which went downhill somewhere around episode 250. Think I made it up to 680 or so, before I realized that the show was never going to be about Victoria, her mysterious past, and her love life ever again. So I stopped watching. Maybe some day I'll give it another chance.
I can never decide which of the operas is my favorite (today, I think, its Patience). But I do know that I'm always disappointed in Utopia, Limited. "Monarchy restructures itself as a corporation" could have been so much funnier than what we got.
Can't win them all. I find the music sparkling and irresistable, the patter songs a treat in the right hands, and much of their satire is as relevant today as when it was written. Chicanery is timeless.
Maryland isn't Japan, nor vice versa, but I'm glad to hear from Maryland. I used to haunt Bethesda, the mother church campus of NIH, from my branch of NIH in N.C. It was fun to ride that tallest Metro escalator in the entire D.C. system, a little scary the first ride or two.
Gilbert and Sullivan are always great, surely the height of satire in opera. I had some musical colleagues at work who sang G&S with the local troupe. Anyone who has been in a bureaucracy or certainly in a navy has a deeper understanding of what is being parodied.
My first boss had been at the Bethesda campus for years and took me on the grand tour of the place the first month I had my job. He knew everyone from the front office in Building One to the greatest eccentrics on that huge campus, and I met scores of a large cross-section.
Gilbert and Sullivan are always great, surely the height of satire in opera. I had some musical colleagues at work who sang G&S with the local troupe. Anyone who has been in a bureaucracy or certainly in a navy has a deeper understanding of what is being parodied.
My first boss had been at the Bethesda campus for years and took me on the grand tour of the place the first month I had my job. He knew everyone from the front office in Building One to the greatest eccentrics on that huge campus, and I met scores of a large cross-section.