Winter Has Returned

Good morning everyone.

Well, my loyal and faithful readers, winter is back in The Big Apple, The Greatest City in The World. Yes, it was 22º and very windy @ 8:30am...burrrrrrrrrr!!!!

Unfortunately, the forecast is for more of the same for the next several days. Oh well, it was nice to have had a brief respite from Old Man Winter, even if it was only for a few days.

I am happy to report that yesterday’s doubleheader was a double A+ for Billi Pod:

First, the matinee performance of BLACK TIE==>A+. Typical A. R. Gurney. Well written and very well performed. The audience loved it. A must-see for you Big Apple theater-nuts.

Then, the evening performance of INVASION==>A+. Weirdly funny, thought provoking, sometimes shockingly gross, with an excellent cast. If you are in the mood for something different and are open-minded, then this is very much worth the trip way downtown. If not, then stay away, far far away.

Billi Pod’s entertainment schedule for today --

2:00==>NEW ENGLAND SYMPHONIC ENSEMBLE @ Carnegie Hall - program will include: Mozart-Overture to The Marriage of Figaro; and, Beethoven-Piano Concerto No. 3. (complimentary ticket)

The evening is open at the moment. I am thinking about a movie and I think it may be the newly released comedy CEDAR RAPIDS with Ed Helms and John C. Reilly.

Now hold on there before some of you start flaming me ... I know that I haven’t seen JUSTIN BIEBER: NEVER SAY NEVER. I have said many times that I will see it, but, Billi Pod wants to see The Biebs' movie during the weekday (and not this holiday Monday) so as to avoid the screaming tweens as much as possible. OK, just calm down ... there ... that’s better ... now ... so ...

Billi Pod will close with another musing, as the countdown to finality approaches ...

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

“It’s your turn to pay, bitch!!”

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.”

Billi Pod Is Under Attack!!

My dear loyal and faithful readers - I am most sad to report that yesterday’s blog posting in which Billi Pod, in the name of fair and unbiased reporting, opined that Bieber Fever was over, generated a fire storm of such proportions that it difficult for me to comprehend just why and how it came about.

I know this to be true:

(1) a certain “person” whom I believed to be a friend and whose name rhymes with Juan Hot Seed, took offense, for reasons I still do not understand, and called my blog to the attention of Team Bieber.

(2) Team Bieber in turn, forwarded the blog to a number of sites including:

www.indefenseofthebieb.com

(3) This site then contacted The Bieber Nation and as a result beginning around 4:00pm yesterday Billi Pod began receiving vile and obscene emails, the contents of which are both shocking and threatening.

When I returned to PHC last night, after my Town Hall concert I, in the name of fair and unbiased reporting, tried to respond to the emails, keeping my responses to one sentence in length. But, around 4:30am I realized that I would never be able to answer all of them, so I went to bed and slept fitfully, at best.

Now, I think it is important for you loyal and faithful readers to understand the nature of these emails and my responses, so I have copied a few below for your consideration:

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To: sarahsue83@aol.com==>no my mother’s name was not Ruby Tuesday.

To: biebjizzonme@msn.com==>I deny being related to Bill O’Reilly.

To: bieberbunny12x@verizon.net==>I refuse to acknowledge that The Bieb’s “junk” is bigger than mine.

To: screamin4bieb@yahoo.com==>What is it with you people, I am really adequately endowed “down there.”

To: iwannabebiebsbitch@hotmail.com==>How did you get my home address and no I don’t have a Wikipedia page, why do you ask?

To: belieberordie1998@aol.com==>You’re just making things up ... my son is not a drug-dealer living in Newark.

To: justin4evermine@hotmail.com==>No, I do not live in Alligator Lake, Mississippi.

To: bieberbmine@newarkhs7.gov==>I am not Justin’s estranged paternal grandfather.

To: ibleedbieb@col.rr.com==>well, f**k you too.

To: justinismyperiod@mac.com==>that was really gross.

To: jrmcdaniel186@gmail.com==>Sir, your daughter used the C-word first.

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This morning when I woke up my nose was running and I was coughing and I felt very much out-of-sorts. My ‘puter had crashed and none of the daily papers have been delivered.

Frankly, I feel that I have been cursed by Team Bieber, for which, I might add, Juan Hot Seed joyfully claims credit.

I will not attempt to answer any more Bieber emails, but Billi Pod will not back down. He will continue with his responsibilities to you readers out there in the hinterlands.

I do ask this of you loyal and faithful readers, however ... if 24 hours pass without a posting from me either on this blog or on FaceBook, please call The Missing Person’s Bureau of the New York City Police Department.

Thanks.

Billi Pod

OMG!! IS BIEBER FEVER OVER?

OK, let’s get right to the point, my loyal and faithful readers ... in the name of fair and unbiased reporting Billi Pod has to advise you that it appears, sadly, as if Bieber Fever is over.

What in God’s Name am I talking about you are no doubt breathlessly asking? Well ... here is it ... in the past 24 hours this is what happened to The Bieb:

1. Some virtually unknown person named Esperanza Spalding beat him out of the “Best New Artist” award in last night’s Grammys. Spalding is a 26yo Jazz bassist and singer; and,

2. His movie JUSTIN BIEBER: NEVER SAY NEVER came in second to the universally panned Adam Sandler movie JUST GO WITH IT, grossing a mere 30.3 million to Sandler’s 31.0 million. Yes, that is right, he lost to Adam F**king Sandler; and,

3. Billi Pod opted not to see the Bieber movie today, choosing instead to spend the afternoon doing mundane errands and stuff.

So, folks, you get my drift? In this cutthroat entertainment environment I am relatively certain that Justin Bieber is history and his 15 minutes of fame is now over. He will soon fade back into the woodwork and became a cliché in game show trivia 20 years in the future. Sad, but true.

There is even internet buzz that support groups are already being formed to assist those who feel betrayed by The Bieber’s lack of staying power.

Oh well, I deeply regret being the bearer of bad tidings, but it is my obligation to you, my readers, in the name of fair and unbiased reporting. So ... sob ... now on to other things and stuff like ...

OMFG!! I can’t believe it==>55º at 2:30pm on this Monday in The Big Apple, The Greatest City In The World. Downside==>the wind is howling. As I was coming back from the grocery store the wind blew my 5 year old Yankee baseball cap off my head and into the street. Luckily, it wasn’t run over and I was able to retrieve it.

I believe it is supposed to be warmer for the next several days -- Hooray!!

Report card on last night’s THE MAN WHO ATE MICHAEL ROCKEFELLER==>B+. Interesting premise and outstanding performances by members of the Asmat tribe. Worth seeing for sure.

Billi Pod’s entertainment event to tonight is --

8:00==>BROADWAY BY THE YEAR 1921 @ Town Hall - “The show will feature the best music from the entire year packed into one night of beauty, sex appeal, comedy, song and dance." (Off Broadway - discounted TDF ticket). These concerts are usually well performed and a lot of fun.

Still have lots of things and stuff to do, so will close with the usual and now much anticipated ...

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

“A carload of platitudes will not make a platypus happy.”

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.”