Wednesday Was An AWESOME Doubleheader!!

It was an AWESOME entertainment doubleheader yesterday for Billi Pod and it is yet another example of why he L O V E S living in The Big Apple, The Greatest City In The World ... so ... let’s get right to it with his report cards on ...

OLD JEWS TELLING JOKES, about ... tada ... Jews telling jokes==>A.

I found the show to be extremely funny but also  poignant, too, as the 5-member cast, in addition to telling jokes, gave the audience a look into the performer’s family history. The cast is uniformly excellent.

The house was sold-out and Billi Pod was by far not the oldest person present, not by a decade. There was a lot of ... “what did he/she just say? ... throughout the performance but never to the level of being annoying.

Yes, my loyal and faithful readers, this was a totally entertaining event and Billi Pod says==>See it!!

When the show was over I came back to the cool and comfortable confines of PHC and settled in to watch game 3 of the YANKEES/SEATTLE series and it was a nail-biter until the very end.

Ivan Nova pitched a decent game, giving up only 2 runs on 2 hits while striking out 5, but he left after 5 innings losing 2-1.

The Yankees continued to struggle with runners in scoring position up until the top of the 8th inning when they exploded for 4 runs started by a clutch 3-run bases-loaded double from pinch hitter Jayson Nix (who??).

David Robertson and Rafael Soriano closed it out and the Yankees won 5-2.

Thank God this West Coast nightmare is over. The Yankees were 2-7, but, thankfully, the teams underneath them haven’t been playing that great either so the Yankees come home to Yankee Stadium, The House That Greed And Ego Built, leading the second-place Orioles by 8 games.

Friday begins a 9-game home stand==>Boston FuckSox 3; Baltimore 3; and Seattle 3. Billi Pod will be at 4 of the games.

The evening’s entertainment event was ... 

DOG SEES GOD: CONFESSIONS OF A TEENAGE BLOCKHEAD, about the ‘Peanuts’ group who are now teenagers==>A.

So, in 10 years what has happened to the ‘Peanuts' gang, I know you are breathlessly asking? Well ... here it goes ...

Snoopy has been put to sleep after killing Woodstock. Linus has become Van, a stoner who smoked the burned remains of his security blanket. Pigpen has cleaned up into a violent homophobic jock named Matt.  Lucy, known only as Van's sister, is a lithium-addled pyromaniac who has slept with, believe it or not, Charlie Brown, or CB, as he's now called, a popular kid with a mean streak. Schroeder is now called Beethoven and he’s gay, sorta, maybe.

The show is bold, funny and thought-provoking with the vulnerability of its characters taking center-stage. The young cast is stellar, particularly Michael Petrocelli as CB.

I saw this with my theater-buddy Marty Kosarik and he gives it a grade of A+. It is presently on the $9.00 TDF through early August, so ...

Billi Pod says==>See this show!!

Tonight is going to be a very special evening for me starting with ...

8:00==>SPRING AT THE WILLOWBROOK INN - “Follows the lives of two men from their first meeting in 1967 at a motivational conference through present day. They develop a deep relationship based on mutual understanding and love as their lives unfold separately.” (Off Broadway)

The play is part of the 10th Annual Fresh Fruit Festival, NYC’s only festival of LGBT Arts and Culture, which will present over 40 performances running until July 29th.

The show itself is the first thing that makes the evening special.

The second thing that makes the evening special is ...

This show is being directed by my friend Scott Wojcik, who will be making his New York City directing debut. Scott is co-owner of Wojcik/Seay Casting and has been involved in casting commercials, TV, theatre and film for almost twenty years.

The third thing that makes the evening special is ...

 I will be seeing the show with Scott’s longtime boyfriend/partner Michael Rodriguez. I have known Michael for years and years. He is a Talent Agent and owns a firm called The Roster Agency. Michael went to college with my niece, Donna Parker, shown in the picture, so we go back a long long way. 

Looking forward to seeing you Michael ... and ...

Scott==>BREAK A LEG!!

Yesterday’s Pedometer mileage==>2.29 miles

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."