Wilfrid Posted February 11, 2024 Share Posted February 11, 2024 Hey, she doesn’t need 11 vodkas. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sneakeater Posted February 11, 2024 Author Share Posted February 11, 2024 2 hours ago, small h said: I'm working on "herring in a fur coat" this week. I always assumed they said that in English. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
small h Posted February 11, 2024 Share Posted February 11, 2024 Oh, sure, you COULD. It's time I reacquainted myself with the Cyrillic alphabet anyway. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cinghiale Posted February 14, 2024 Share Posted February 14, 2024 The poet Gabriele d’Annunzio created – apparently at the behest of Mussolini – a number of neologisms in Italian to expunge foreign words from the language, particularly English ones (much like Hitler did). So “lo sandwich” became “il tramezzino”, from the Italian “to partition”. Other inventions, like for basketball and boxing, haven’t survived anglification. But a big one did: in football, the top team doesn’t win "the championship" (with a trophy, I guess), but instead “lo scudetto”, or the badge, whose design he also apparently created. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wilfrid Posted February 15, 2024 Share Posted February 15, 2024 I have read much D’Annunzio and an amazing biography of him, but I did not know, or had forgotten, that. This is so good: https://amp.theguardian.com/books/2013/feb/04/pike-gabriele-d-annunzio-biography-review Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wilfrid Posted March 3, 2024 Share Posted March 3, 2024 Louis Comfort Tiffany has an extensive oeuvre in painting and drawing, never mind the glass. I saw a lot of his work at the Nassau Museum of Art today. Maybe I knew but forgot, who knows? I did not expect some vast Serra pieces in the sculpture garden. (Yes, it was the best possible weather to be wandering around a sculpture garden in March, even if the grass was a bit squelchy.) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wilfrid Posted March 16, 2024 Share Posted March 16, 2024 Paul Laurence Dunbar and Orville Wright were buddies at their (just recently desegregated) Dayton, Ohio high school, and for some time after. Reading Jarrett’s 2022 bio of Dunbar. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sneakeater Posted March 17, 2024 Author Share Posted March 17, 2024 That’s amazing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
splinky Posted March 17, 2024 Share Posted March 17, 2024 in his very short life Dunbar's influence was great. "...I know why the caged bird sings, ah me..." Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sneakeater Posted March 22, 2024 Author Share Posted March 22, 2024 Stephen Sondheim and Andrew Lloyd-Webber share a birthday (day not year) (today, as it happens). What a difference! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Simon Posted March 23, 2024 Share Posted March 23, 2024 2 hours ago, Sneakeater said: Stephen Sondheim and Andrew Lloyd-Webber share a birthday (day not year) (today, as it happens). What a difference! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
splinky Posted March 23, 2024 Share Posted March 23, 2024 On this date, for many years, Broadway's Tommy Tune would accidentally call my cell. It took me forever to figure out he must have been trying to call Sondheim to wish him a happy birthday. The calls stopped after Sondheim's death. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sneakeater Posted March 23, 2024 Author Share Posted March 23, 2024 Wow. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sneakeater Posted March 23, 2024 Author Share Posted March 23, 2024 Wow. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Diancecht Posted March 23, 2024 Share Posted March 23, 2024 seen five minutes ago at an andronico’s (basically a slightly pricier safeway) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
small h Posted March 23, 2024 Share Posted March 23, 2024 Gotta compete with the goyim and their delicious Easter bunnies. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Diancecht Posted March 23, 2024 Share Posted March 23, 2024 47 minutes ago, small h said: Gotta compete with the goyim and their delicious Easter bunnies. oh, you mean these? jello salad with peeps 🧐🤣😉 2 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Diancecht Posted March 23, 2024 Share Posted March 23, 2024 when i showed the jello mold to hubby, he exclaimed “Peeps are for putting in the microwave and making them blow up real good” 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
small h Posted March 23, 2024 Share Posted March 23, 2024 3 minutes ago, Diancecht said: jello salad with peeps I think that might be a sign of the apocalypse. As if we don't have enough already. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
voyager Posted March 23, 2024 Share Posted March 23, 2024 54 minutes ago, Diancecht said: jello salad with peeps 🧐🤣😉 There are no words Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StephanieL Posted March 24, 2024 Share Posted March 24, 2024 On 3/23/2024 at 1:51 PM, voyager said: There are no words There are, but they're not printable. 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sneakeater Posted March 25, 2024 Author Share Posted March 25, 2024 It's incredible to me that I didn't know until a few minutes ago that Lou Reed's college roommate was Elizabeth Swados's older brother. I'm sure everybody else knew it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bloviatrix Posted March 25, 2024 Share Posted March 25, 2024 On 3/22/2024 at 9:40 PM, splinky said: On this date, for many years, Broadway's Tommy Tune would accidentally call my cell. It took me forever to figure out he must have been trying to call Sondheim to wish him a happy birthday. The calls stopped after Sondheim's death. I wonder what Sondheim's phone number was. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wilfrid Posted March 25, 2024 Share Posted March 25, 2024 My first residence in New York, Sondheim lived on the same floor while having his Turtle Bay place renovated. So I didn’t really need his number. But my fun story, same place, after I moved in I had a lengthy voicemail (land line) from Tony Franciosa, thinking he was speaking to a producer or agent about an opportunity. And it was so much his voice. It never occurred to me to record it as we didn’t expose everything on line back then. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
splinky Posted March 25, 2024 Share Posted March 25, 2024 1 hour ago, bloviatrix said: I wonder what Sondheim's phone number was. must have been close for Mr Tune to keep making the error year after year Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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