Stacy Horn

And Big Bang Theory, but more about that in a second.  I just watched the second Warehouse 13 and it holds up AND gets better.  Please give it a try, you will thank me.  I love Pete and Artie, but everyone is good in this.  It’s as I said, smart, sweet, and funny.  And surprising.  Oh, I wish I was more articulate.

But Big Bang Theory.  For some reason I didn’t watch this show at first and I’m really sorry about that but I’ve been making up for lost time and I’ve been watching the reruns this summer.  How many seasons have I missed, because I want to watch every last epsiode.  Mostly because of this guy, Sheldon (his character’s name).  I just looked up his real name:  Jim Parsons.  Anyway, for some reason one night I watched it, too lazy to hit “fav” on the remote to go onto the next channel?  Maybe the Gods of great television summoned their powers to freeze my hand.  Thank you, television Gods.

It was an episode where Leonard gets Penny’s ex-boyfriend to pay her money back and when Sheldon learns what Leonard has done he tells him, “I was wrong.  Minstrels will write songs about you,” and the episode ends with Sheldon singing a minstrel-type song about Leonard’s bravery. It was just so kind and endearing and you have to have seen the whole episode that led up to that. But I’ve been watching it ever since and EVERYONE is good on this show, but I have fallen in love with Sheldon.  Remembering bits now, him drinking coffee, helping Penny with her business.

For real!!  I went with Dimitra, Barbara and Lily to see Hair and at the end anyone who wants to can get on stage and sing Let the Sun Shine In so I did!  It felt so great, I can’t tell you.  I had started tearing up and crying just before too, because I had flashed back to those days, and I remembered exactly how I felt, the joy, the expectation of life, the fear because of Vietnam, and I remembered what I was thinking then, and I was half sad because it’s over and gone, a certain youth and innocence is just over.  Done.  That’s it.  Not coming back.  But I was also half not sad because I’m not dead yet and certain feelings can be reawakened at any time and here I was with friends having a fabulous time.  And then seconds later they’re urging us to get on stage and sing and there just wasn’t a chance in the world that I wouldn’t get down there (we were on the mezzanine).  I danced, I sang, and man this would be such a fun way to make a living.  I can’t believe some people get to do this every day.

I can’t urge everyone enough to see this. The cast is just so talented and charismatic. You won’t believe their voices!  They’re all so cute and charming and they constantly go out into the audience to sing and interact and it just raises the energy level and the joy for the audience. Go, go, go.  And if you do go, don’t pass up the opportunity to go down on the stage and sing.

Update: Found a video of the cast on Conan the night before which captures the fun!

This is 42nd Street and there was a long line of kids camped out on the street waiting to see the new Harry Potter movie.

We live in great times, people.  Actually, this looks really unappealing.  The design on this truck makes the cupcakes seem like they’ll be Hostess quality or something.

Could it be??

They’re set up in front of the right apartment! And a group of people stood by waiting to see spot one of the girls.  But there wasn’t a lot of activity and trailers that normally accompany a Sex and the City shoot.

UPDATE: I went back for a closer look and they’re actually a couple of doors down from the SATC apartment.  I asked and was told this was for a Jennifer Aniston movie called The Bounty. I stayed for a minute to see if we’d get a peak at any of the stars but no go and I didn’t feel like hanging out.  Although it’s lovely out.  Why not?

I went to a house concert last night and heard these guys. Aren’t they great? They are John (left) and Bill (right), aka the Manhattan Valley Ramblers. Bill told this charming story about applying for a job at Forbes, and apparently Malcolm Forbes was quite the toy collector. As he waited for his interview Bill listened to a waltz playing that was part of what I think he described as a carousel-type toy, and he memorized the song and worked it out on his fiddle when he got back home. Now I want to go over to the Forbes building and see if that toy is still there.