Have a gander at the employment history of her sister, her brother-in-law, her niece, and her niece’s husband. Strong odor of Eau de Nomenklatura around all of them.

During a fencing class, I met a guy who was taking it for dramatic purposes. You have to be able to do everything from ballroom dancing to fencing to riding. He was Peter and I guess I was pleased to be asked to attend. College audience laughed with, it is my guess, relieved tension and suprise.

That was so rewarding that I keep thinking I ought to see if that Godot guy ever showed up, but, man, it seems like a drag.

Then, bless his heart these sixty years, he got me to attend Charles Laughton’s cutting of John Brown’s Body. Wish I could find it someplace.

How very American to think that.

Introverts need not be shy. I’m both extremely introverted — I get tired around people, can go for weeks without speaking to a non-family member and prefer books to people. Yet I am also the exact opposite of shy — I have no issues speaking in public and am considerably more self-confident than most people. (Not loudly self-confident, I am an introvert.)

Given that she passed the bar exam, Kamala Harris isn’t stupid. But she’s not particularly wise, at least in the areas politicians need to be. She seems to need other people to steer her.

I go for an underlying lack of confidence.

Kamala is ceaselessly fascinating!

These are incorporated into their distribution credits and you can place out of them with your achievement test scores, AP scores &c. (All the schools named are selective research universities, btw).

LOLZ. More than ten, dude. More like 30 (the 30th Anniversary edition is available). Yer datin’ yerself. 😛

The actual stage play is not available in the USA, apparently it would give us ideas, or something… kinda like Song of the South…?

It IS available on a DVD and/or BR, but only in Euro-region formatting, so you need to have a player which can handle it (one person suggested, if you had a PS4, you could play it on that while leaving your main DVD/BR set for region 1 [USA] formatted disks).

https://www.amazon.com/Waynes-Musical-Version-Krieg-Welten/dp/B00H8KRWGK

The MUSIC however, IS available on audio CD, Streaming, MP3, and for the absurdists, *vinyl*

https://www.amazon.com/War-Worlds-JEFF-WAYNE/dp/B077BL1383/

Note to all, it is a MUSICAL version of War of the Worlds, and it is, indeed, pretty good… despite the apparent absurdity of it.

Burton, of course, has one of these magnificent stage voices — different from, but equally remarkably notable, as Gregory Peck’s, or Orson Welles’**. Comparable also to Morgan Freeman or James Earl Jones.

As for Jeff Wayne:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeff_Wayne

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If you want to know what Orson Welles would sound like doing the same kind of thing as Richard Burton does here, hunt down the CD version of Alan Parsons’ Projects’ “Tales of Mystery And Imagination”, which has a connecting voice part of Welles doing some of Poe’s prose, tying the different songs together.

This was recorded in the original studio, but was not included in the original vinyl release at that time. It was added in when it was released on CD years later.
https://www.amazon.com/Tales-Mystery-Imagination-Alan-Parsons/dp/B000001FN3
(There’s also a deluxe edition)

You want playoff heartbreak, try being a Phillies fan. Some years back, before the Red Sox ended their WS drought in 2004, the NYT ran an opinion piece on the woes of the Boston faithful. The article included a remark to the effect that the only baseball fans who really understand the diehard loyalty of Red Sox Nation are Cubs and Phillies fans. It’s been 13 years since 2008, but hope springs eternal at Citizens Bank Park.

Meanwhile I’m waiting for another NL team to go full William-Tecumseh-Sherman on Atlanta.

This is an interesting page regarding crystal sets: http://www.hobbytech.com/Practical%20Tips%20for%20Crystal%20Radios.htm

I intend to go back later and digest it better when I have more time, but I think the author is describing the type of radio you had, one without a battery or AC power source. I have a friend who used to build such radios, but don’t fully understand how they work.

Speaking of transistor radios, yesterday I watched the Astros humiliate my White Sox and eliminate them from the MLB playoffs. The White Sox don’t make it to post season play often, and the first time they did during my school days* I spent may hours cutting out the interior of a few hundred pages in a large book to conceal a portable, transistor radio to listen to the games during school. My teacher eventually figured out what was going on and my radio and book were confiscated. My parents were not happy that I had destroyed a book. I assume the teacher gave the radio back to my parents. I don’t recall seeing it again.

*I just searched on their record to try to place the year this took place. They weren’t in the playoffs during my entire, grammar school tenure! (Nor High School!) Now I remember. It was the opening day game. Likely 1975 or 1976.