Report Cards on FUTURE ANXIETY and LUCKY GUY and RUBY MORRIS NORRIS

It is a beautiful Mother’s Day in The Big Apple, the Greatest City In The World.

Yesterday’s comedy doubleheader was a total success, so Billi Pod will start this posting with his report cards on:

FUTURE ANXIETY==>B+<==the 23 member company, The Bats, did an excellent job in holding my attention in a future world where nothing is certain and everything seems doomed as China imports American debtors as slave laborers. Yeah, I know ...

But, see it if you are in the mood for something different

And then ...

LUCKY GUY==>B<==funny and well performed by a cast headed by the incomparable Varla Jean Merman.

I probably would have graded it higher if I liked country/western music, which I don’t. The show grew on me as it progressed. I don’t know if it can attract an audience up here, but Billi Pod has no problem in recommending it, again, if you are in a mood for something a bit different.

Today’s entertainment event is ...

5:00==>KEEN TEENS - World premieres of three plays written for teenagers performed by this company composed of ... tada ... teenagers. (Off Broadway - full price ticket)

I have seen them before and they do excellent work and this should be fun.

The Yankees lost a blah game last night to Texas and play the rubber game this afternoon. I will stay in to watch it.

They will return to The Bronx tonight to begin a 6 game homestand on Tuesday, first against Kansas City and then 3 games with the slumping Boston FuckSox.

In response to several questions about my Mother, Ruby Morris Norris==>Born in 1907, she graduated from Bartow High School at age 15, attended Florida State College for Women (now FSU) for 2 years, which teachers could do back then. At the age of just 18 she returned to Bartow and began her teaching career at Bartow HS, where her students were her age or older.

In 1934 she took about a 10 year hiatus to care for me, my sister Ann and our often philandering father, Bill Sr. She returned to her teaching career in 1943/44, this time teaching the 4th grade at Bartow Elementary School. She retired in 1969 rather than join the other teachers who were going on strike. She died in 1978, at the age of 71. The picture was taken in Bartow in 1941.

GO YANKEES AND GO GATORS!!

Billi Pod

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