John Baxindine

I've always liked her in that episode, and I had no idea who her father was until just now.

Yes.

“Before deciding that question I had grasped the significance of the silence of the dog, for one true inference invariably suggests others. The Simpson incident had shown me that a dog was kept in the stables, and yet, though someone had been in and had fetched out a horse, he had not barked enough to arouse the two lads in the loft. Obviously the midnight visitor was someone whom the dog knew well."

Later in the story:

From "Silver Blaze" by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle: I could see that Holmes was extremely pleased, for he chuckled and rubbed his hands together. “A long shot, Watson, a very long shot,” said he, pinching my arm. “Gregory, let me recommend to your attention this singular epidemic among the sheep. Drive on, coachman!” Colonel Ross still wore an expression which showed the poor opinion which he had formed of my companion’s ability, but I saw by the inspector’s face that his attention had been keenly aroused. “You consider that to be important?” he asked. “Exceedingly so.” “Is there any point to which you would wish to draw my attention?” “To the curious incident of the dog in the night-time.” “The dog did nothing in the night-time.” “That was the curious incident,” remarked Sherlock Holmes.

Sorry, but that isn't the original quotation. This is:

And don't forget: Summers is married, and his wife's nonprofit received a $110,000 donation from Epstein in 2016.

Charming. I've received recording equipment packed like that, and I've been lucky that so far nothing has arrived broken.

All of June's interactions with people involved in Gypsy must have been pretty weird.

The only weirder case I can think of is the situation with Michael Weatherly, who played Robert Wagner in a TV movie about Natalie Wood's death...only to have Wagner then play his father on NCIS.

Please look again. It's directly below the photo.

I'm suddenly imagining "Let the wild rumpus start!" sung to the tune of "Hunt the wild justice down!"

*took weeks to get used to

(Good grief.)

My Android phone just updated too, with a new layout. At least the icons are recognizable. I don't deal well with icons, and I remember a Windows update that took weeks too get used to because nothing looked the same.

Interesting to note whose name is on the plaque, and whose isn't.

Tausend Dank. Für diejenigen (wie ich), die Deutsch als Zweitsprache können, ist es so ermutigend zu sehen, dass auch Deutsche solche Fehler machen!

I know you're kidding, but that could be effective: Man A sings the Mame song to Woman A; Woman B sings the Passion song to Man B. The second song would serve as a rebuke to the first.

If I did it, it would be far from the strangest arrangement I'd ever been asked to write.

Understandable! You might be amused to know that in some old church records, October got abbreviated as 8ber. November was 9ber, December Xber.

How have I never heard this before?

Skipping around the tracks on YouTube I'm surprised by the keys. No one would dare do "Do-Re-Mi" in E-flat today; even assuming you found a Friedrich with a solid C5, he might not have it tomorrow!

Dance Machine of the 21st Century Imparts Vintage Broadway Steps to a New Generation (Published 2015)

The rehearsal got written up in the Times: www.nytimes.com/2015/12/21/a...

I started looking for Gemze de Lappe before I remembered that she did it in London, with Howard Keel.

Some years ago I was behind the piano for four hours while Gemze taught the Oklahoma! ballet to a group of dancers. It was a remarkable experience.

Jeune vieux, as opposed to being vieux jeu.

Haddock : Quelle semaine, hein ? Tintin : Capitaine, on est lundi, il est 10h

The German word is "stumm." It means silent or mute.

E.g., the German word for "silent film" is "Stummfilm."

They should have stopped at coffee Jell-O and quit while they were ahead.

The audience response was bonkers. We had 45-minute autograph lines after some performances. I've never experienced anything else like it.

Yes, November/December 2010. We visited Tokyo briefly but didn't perform there. The whole trip was fantastic—Kyoto and Sendai in particular, and possibly the most memorable Thanksgiving of my life in Nagoya (two weird performances followed by turkey dinner with our bemused Japanese crew).

I've only been to Japan once, for a six-week tour of the Irving Berlin revue I Love a Piano (I was the pianist). Our last performance was in Nara, and I still have the jacket that one of the deer tried to tear off me while I was opening a packet of rice crackers.

Treating them kindly is easy.

Getting away with your dignity and clothing intact? Not so much.

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Alalai! Alalai!

"And who gets to see it but the birds, the stars, and the chimney sweeps?"