Wednesday, September 18, 2013

Another Super-Excellent Doubleheader!!


Wednesday==>Your favorite blogger here in The Big Apple, The Greatest City In The World, is more than happy to report that yesterday’s entertainment doubleheader, something rather unusual for a Tuesday, was terrific and it made for a great day/evening ... so, my loyal and faithful readers and followers ... let’s get right to it with the details ...

First, in the afternoon, was the staged reading of the musical that I saw with my friend Scott Wojcik, who is co-owner of Wojcik/Seay Casting, the casting agency for the show ...

A PROPER PLACE, about what happens after an upper class British family gets shipwrecked on an island==>interesting and thought-provoking, too.

As you know, Billi Pod usually doesn’t assign letter grades to readings.

The cast was excellent and all of the performances were good, especially considering the limited rehearsal time.

It was an enjoyable time and I hope that the show will live on in an Off Broadway venue somewhere, sometime.

Thanks, Scott, for thinking of me.

Then for the evening it was ...

NEW YORK PHILHARMONIC @ Avery Fisher Hall - “The Art of The Score: For Alfred Hitchcock”==>totally AWESOME!

The event was narrated by Alec Baldwin and was a tribute to the interrelationship between music and the plots of Hitchcock’s classic thrillers.

Scenes from his movies “Vertigo,” “North by Northwest,” “Dial M for Murder,” “Strangers on a Train,” and “To Catch a Thief” were shown on a large screen as the orchestra played the score.

My discounted ticket was in the first tier and that was very nice.

Yes, it was totally AWESOME and an excellent way to end my entertainment doubleheader.

What wasn’t excellent was the Yankee/Blue Jays game up in Toronto because the Yankees wasted an excellent outing from Andy Pettitte, with dead bats in a 2-0 loss.

These are the headlines in today’s papers ...

“BLANKS FOR THE MEMORIES - End looks near as Dickey, Blue Jays shut out Yanks.” - back page of The New York Post.

“THAT ‘KNUCKS - Wild-card hopes keep fading away as Dickey, Jays shut out Yanks.” - back page of The Daily News

“Yankees Are Flat as Situation Grows Urgent.” - front page of sports section of The New York Times

Tonight @ 7:10pm is game 2 of the 3-game series against The Jays. On the mound for The Wankies will be Phil Hughes (4-12), who is winless over his last 11 starts vs. J.A. Happ (4-6) for The Jays.

Oh, yes ... we really need Phil Hughes on the mound in a critical, season-saving situation.

Yep ... The Fat Lady is waiting in the wings.

Moving on ...

Tonight I am having dinner with John Scott Reed aka Fabson. Around 8:00pm we will meet up at my apartment, do some much needed/wanted catching-up and then have a bite somewhere in my Hell’s Kitchen ‘hood.

As many of your loyal and faithful readers and followers know, Scott recently made a major upward career change when he joined the Facebook Team at their New York office located on Madison Avenue.

In closing ...

On Tuesday I lost another one of my longtime friends, Dexter Douglass of Tallahassee, FL, one of the giants of the Florida legal community.

Dexter was nationally famous as a member of the team of lawyers who represented Vice President Al Gore in the controversial 2000 presidential election. He was renowned in Florida as being a lawyer’s lawyer and the Chairman of the 1997-1998 Constitutional Revision Commission.

Dexter and I have a long history. He was the emcee for the 1959 Gator Growl that I directed at The University of Florida. In 1962 my then wife, Donna, worked on his campaign staff when he ran (unsuccessfully) for Congress and he and Tom MacDonald represented me in my hearing before The Judicial Qualification Commission back in 1991.

Dexter was 83.

Yesterday’s Pedometer mileage==>3.46 miles (or, 7,569 steps)

Total mileage since 7/1/13==>289.45 miles (average 3.66 miles per day)

GO YANKEES!! 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.”

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