Goodnight, Glenda 🐢

“…, but I refrain.” 🤌❣️

The shock and awe of the lights going up to sun bright level - and there he was, left an indelible impression; I had the second seat from the center right aisle; one moment sand with the house lights at half, the next blinding beauty.
Only Jack Wetherall in Tamara could ever claim to be his equal.

Annie Lennox, “Into the West” minus unneeded orchestral section at end

Jessye Norman, “O Mensch! Gib acht!”

Elizabeth Schwarzkopf, “Im Abendrot”

They must have changed it before I saw the final Wednesday matinee; the doors opened only five minutes before curtain time and once we were seated, the almost dim lights went off and only a moment later they came on as bright as the sun and there he was with his glorious ass a few feet from me. 🤌❣️

Barbara Stanwyck and William Holden #botd on the 1978 Oscars.

If this doesn't lift your mood, nothing will. #FilmSky

Goodnight, Glenda 🪨

If you see this, quote with a picture of you in glasses.

Now up to 84%:

So excited to be a #ZibbyOwens summer pick!!!
even if my title is #UnseasonablyCold.

"Unseasonably Cold" Brings Noir Intrigue to 1939 New York A glittering Manhattan divided by class and secrets make up Amy Ephron’s new novel with echoes of Wharton and Christie.

this happened thank you @airmail.news
No I'm not getting a swelled head. Just hoping to go on the road!!!

@barnesandnoble.com
I am @indiebound.bsky.social
@powells.bsky.social @vromansbookstore.bsky.social @mysterywriters.bsky.social @dieselbookstore.com

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Cyd Charisse and Gene Kelly * It's Always Fair Weather (1955) YouTube video by chelitang

And Cyd Charisse❣️

Today is a good day. Right wing authoritarianism is not, cannot, and shall not be the future.

Rented a car so that I could drive over to New Jersey to catch the final performance of Follies at the Paper Mill Playhouse. Though I no longer remember the specifics of her performance, I remember the power of it, as she had *earned* the right to sing it, along with the ovation that we gave her.

Thanks @digitaljournal.com.web.brid.gy for having me....new novel! #unseasonablycold @mikesager.net

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#booktalk available in hard cover and digital!!
1939, #NEWYORKCITY #LITFICTION A LITTLE #NOIR...

My lips are sealed, Your Grace❣️

A movie couple who would definitely have a podcast

Virginia Dems listen up:
The GOP is playing dirty and spending a fortune on a deluge of propaganda designed to TRICK voters about the prop about drawing fairer maps—

Vote YES on the ballet, to temporarily adjust the gerrymandered maps.
GOP knows how key VA is.
Please spread the word!

A previous passport photograph:

Oh NO!

Even @fortnumandmason.bsky.social is out of stock. 😭

“What album immediately comes to mind when I say ‘masterpiece’?”

Goodnight, Glenda 🕊️

Tonight in 1990 — David Lynch and Mark Frost's TWIN PEAKS debuted on the ABC Sunday Night Movie. #TwinPeaks #OTD

And now we need a bean club emoji, too, though I guess this will do in the meantime:
🫘♣️

Absolutely❣️

My maternal grandfather, who founded the second largest construction company in Oklahoma, began collecting and restoring vintage automobiles after he retired only one of which was a Fiat - previously owned by Robert Goddard. It is now in a museum looking nothing like it did when I knew it.

I’m late with this one, but I’m home this evening and remembered the day and season and, listening to so some music, also suddenly missed the days of blogging.

In any case, I wrote this once about Palm Sunday and Holy Week (and, as so often, times gone by), and here it is:

The now-deleted video on this post, I believe, was something very much like this one:

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