HAPPY BIRTHDAY GINGER FLOWERS!!

A major shout-out to Ginger Flowers, who lives in Atlanta, GA, and is celebrating her birthday today.

Ginger has lived in Atlanta longer than I care to remember. She is a retired flight attendant.

Our friendship spans decades, beginning back when we dated in high school (Summerlin Institute), in Bartow, FL. We have maintained that close relationship to this day, so ...

HAPPY BIRTHDAY GINGER - Love ya lots and lots!!

Billi Pod’s report card on last night’s THE BODY POLITIC==>A<==very funny, well acted and timely. The story line revolves around a presidential campaign between two Governors: a drawling southerner, who is a liberal Democrat and a WASP northerner who is a bible-banging ultraconservative Republican. See it!!

Billi Pod’s entertainment for today is a doubleheader, which is highly unusual for a Friday --

2:00==>I’D RATHER BE RIGHT - A concert style revival of the 1937 musical by Rodgers and Hart - “Peggy and Phil cannot get married until Phil gets a raise that is contingent on President Roosevelt balancing the national budget.” (Off-Broadway - $9.00 TDF ticket).

8:00==>ROSE - “Part 1 of the Adam Rapp Hallway Trilogy, which spans 150 years. ROSE takes place in 1953 and concerns a young actress who has been struggling with severe depression and whose arrival in a lower east side tenement affects the lives of several of its residents.” (Off-Broadway - discounted TDF ticket).

I have to admit that I have a love/hate relationship with Adam Rapp's work. He is sooooooooooooo talented but sometimes I find myself wanting to bitch slap him after seeing one of his plays. That said ...

I will see Parts II & III tomorrow in another doubleheader.

In the name of fair and unbiased reporting, I have to report to you loyal and faithful readers that Bieber Fever is back, big time, with today’s opening of JUSTIN BIEBER: NEVER SAY NEVER - “Part biopic, part concert film and all crowd pleaser, this celebration of the pop phenom knows exactly what it needs to do to send its target audience of tween girls into a tizzy of giddy screams ... he's preternaturally gifted, freakishly poised and incessantly hardworking. And he genuinely seems like a good kid — it's hard not to like him.” (source - ABC News)

I will see this next week, probably at a before-noon performance to avoid the screaming tweens. I think this film may set all sorts of records, so stay tuned.

OK, got things and stuff to do before I head out to this Friday doubleheader, so, will close with what is, maybe, a slightly controversial musing ...

Musings from THE MIND OF BILLI POD (a memoir in progress):

“A hot looking man will get free drinks in a gay bar but a hot looking woman may be politely ignored. A hot looking man in a dyke bar will be killed.”

GO GATORS AND GO YANKEES!!

Billi Pod

“Don’t pick a fight with an old man. If he is too old to fight, he’ll just kill you.”