February 14, 2011

    Last night I went to a Games Meetup at the Fox & Fiddle. (I played the Amazeing Labyrinth and Scrabble.) On the way back I lost my glasses case!

    Dreamed of Jack Palance saying "Believe it--or not!" on the actual 1980s TV show.

    Dinner was pork steak.

    I also dreamed of pulling out a few of my teeth, which were the worse for wear (far more so than in real life).

    At choir practice we got into the second act of Rigoletto. (Beatrice has called for a meeting to discuss Coro Verdi's future.)

February 12, 2011

"I can't do without him."

"You are doing without him!"

--The Fighter

    Baked multigrain bread.

    Donald came over for dinner, which was churrasco chicken.

    Saw David O. Russell's The Fighter at the Revue.  I was afraid it would be like Black Swan [which I couldn't sit through], but it was quite good.

February 11, 2011

    Left some Toronto City Opera flyers around the neighbourhood libraries.

    Dinner was the rest of the stew.

    Went to Mary's games night.  I played a new game called Gold Digger (won the first game by one point!) and Settlers of Catan.  Thirty people came despite the cold weather.

February 10, 2011

"Say, kid, does you do this constantly?"

"No, sir, I does it all the time!"

--The Bingo Long Traveling All-Stars & Motor Kings

    Dreamed of a non-existent story that young Mickey Rooney was on a Little League baseball team that got to scrimmage with a major league team, but the coach wouldn't include Rooney, and the Little Leaguers went on to appear in a movie!

    Went to see my shrink Dr. Hassan.

    Dinner was stew.

    Saw the DVD of John Badham's The Bingo Long Traveling All-Stars & Motor Kings.  It's an engaging comedy about a black baseball team in the age of segregation.

February 9, 2011

    Dreamed of a young South African dissident who was exiled to the far east of the country and got drawn into a cult of sexual training.

    Went shopping.

    Saw an early Ken Burns documentary about the making of the Brooklyn Bridge.

    Dinner was rice and chicken and several leftovers.

    Rehearsed Die Fledermaus.  Women in bustle dresses reduce your room for maneuver!  When the curtain comes down on the second act, I'll be the one on stage right making sure it goes smoothly there.

February 8, 2011

    At last night's choir practice we started Verdi's Rigoletto.

    Dreamed of a place known as W.W. [like B.C. or P.E.I.]; trying to figure out what the initials stood for.

    Helped unload the Toronto City Opera costumes at the Bickford Centre. (I also tried on my Die Fledermaus costume, which includes white gloves!)

    Dinner was sausage and mash.

    Rehearsed Madama Butterfly. (I tried on my kimono first.) I've ended up carrying in the table with Pinkerton's photo during the first intermission.

February 6, 2011

    Dreamed of a movie where a planeload of people landed on a Swedish island and got taken hostage; the Russian in Rocky IV (Dolph Lundgren) saying "I must break you."

    Baked raisin bread.

    Dinner was lobster rolls.

    Finished the fame issue of Lapham's Quarterly.  For the first time since getting the first issue two years ago, I'm all caught up!

    Started reading Merchant of Dreams, a biography of MGM studio head Louis B. Mayer.  In the first chapter it calls New Brunswick a "state"!

    Our Coro Verdi concert had to compete with the Super Bowl, and there were more people in the choir than in the audience!