Sunday, March 23, 2025

March 20, 2010

Mary: "Our first game is called 'Well begun is half done'...

Michael: "I don't like the sound of that!"

"...also entitled 'Let's Tidy up the Nursery'!"

"I told you she was full of tricks!"

--Mary Poppins

Mrs. Banks (trying to dissuade the nanny from leaving): "Think of Mr. Banks! He's almost got used to you"--ibid.

"There's nothing like a good joke, and that was nothing like a good joke"--ibid.

"And shut the window.  That bird's giving me a headache!"--ibid.

"That's just good clean soot, Michael"--ibid.


    Dreamed of a sequel to Dangerous Liaisons in which the John Malkovich character was senile and went back to school; being on a small rocky island in the north Atlantic and walking to its highest peak.


    Went to a Classical Music Meetup at a room in the Northern District library. (I was late because I thought it was at the Reference Library!) We did a talent show, and I tried to sing "Le Veau d'Or" from Faust, but the score was too hard for the accompanist to sight-read, so instead I sang "Il Balen di Suo Sorriso" from Il Trovatore.  Afterwards I talked with the guy who wants to start a combo.


    Dinner was frozen Italian food.


    Saw the DVD of Mary Poppins (for at least the sixth time). It's a lot different from the books, judging by the one I read, and a lot better, though Dick Van Dyke's cockney accent is a little much.  What great songs!

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