This is just a good moment of television. I am too tired to write anything right now. Thank God for Curb Your Enthusiasm bringing the cast of Seinfeld back together for a reunion show. The season finale was a week ago, and it was amazing. I miss Seinfeld (the show), but also Seinfeld (the man).

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A Book, My EXTRA Time, From Steven SPIELBERG To Clint EASTWOOD, By Mike FULLER, PhD To Write The Fred VIDAL Acting Memories 2003-2009 As FRED KELLY, New AKA Of Fred VIDAL, Is on Stage For Sketches (COMEDY IMPRO) Beginning Next Week, In Los Angeles!

The Comple Text ASAP.

On TWITTER FV, http://twitter.com/fredvidal

As He Prepares the WritinG Of A Post Of MEMORIES Of His Acting Best Days: My Working Days on A Set With SPIELBERG And EATSWOOD,  Fred KELLY ready To IMPRO onstage.

W-FV: A Book, My EXTRA Time, From Steven SPIELBERG To Clint EASTWOOD, By Mike FULLER, PhD To Write The Fred VIDAL Acting Memories 2003-2009!

EASTWOOD , It was In 2005 or 6? BUT It Was For A Movie From The FUTURE Due To QUALITY WORK, So 2009!

MY EXTRA TIME WITH SPIELBERG AND EASTWOOD? I Like That! (a publisher) Fred’s Mr. SPIELBERG Friend On MYSPACE!! I checked! Good! Congrats!

Before To Begin A General Writing Of My 6 Years SETS Memories, I Want To Express My Gratitude To EverybodY, Including YVONNE STRAHOVSKI Of The CHUCK TV-Show Serie (and not series). On the Set Of this OnE, I Felt Not guilty To find Her LOVELY!! Fred VIDAL, November 27.

FRED KELLY onstage IMPRO tour 2009 Holiday Season: Will Be, Not As BILLY CRISTAL’s A. Awards HOST, But a Non-Singing BOB DYLAN freewheelin’!

But BILLY CRISTAL (also seen In Long Beach in the Past) aNd Jerry SEINFELD Will Be The TOP MASTERS Of Fred VIDAL Game & PLAY!! onstage Only!

He Plays Well THE GUITAR, He Has A GOOD VOICE (even if criticized), He’s Writing His Lines ON TWITTER ALL THE TIME, So Y Not On Stage Too?!

CHARLIE CHAPLIN featured AS THE GREAT DICTATOR, Featured In Article’s NEWSPAPER ‘IMPRO-MEMORY-COMEDY’ Now Blog To InforM Subject FV Stage!!

It was Chaplin’s first true talking picture, & more importantly was Only major film of its period 2 bitterly satirize Nazism & Adolf Hitler!

NO CONFUSION: CHARLIE CHAPLIN Is THE 1st IN THE MOVIE INDUSTRY Who Criticized A DICTATOR, And It Was A TRIUMPH 4 His Masterpiece In The 30’s

The Great Dictator is a comedy film written, directed, produced by, and starring Charlie Chaplin. First released in October 1940. Music Too!

It was Chaplin’s first true talking picture, & more importantly was Only major film of its period 2 bitterly satirize Nazism & Adolf Hitler!

The Great Dictator is a comedy film written, directed, produced by, and starring Charlie Chaplin. First released in October 1940, it was Chaplin’s first

Thanks WIKIPEDIA! Some don’t Agree because There was Also The Dictator Himself Showing He was a BEST CLOWN IN TOWN, In Germany, fortunately!

FRED VIDAL Acknowledges He’s FAN CHARLIE CHAPLIN. Even If Thomas SPEARS Met CHAPLIN In Hollywood (+ PARIS, one told me), FRIENDS Vs NAZISM!

In Alternate HISTORY You never Sure About WhO You Meet, You OnlY KnoW That you’re NoT in Another Dimension, You IN ANOTHER SPACE! scientific

PARALLEL OR ALTERNATIVE?? THE TWO OF THEM, A PLANET!

TOM CRUISE Had PROBLEMS 2 PRODUCE Valkyrie, VIDAL TOO For SILENCE THOMAS SPEARS But He Has Not The MONEY Of TOM, So NO FILM, A One Man Show!

When You Want To KILL A DICTATOR, You Must WAKE up EarlY & BUILD A STRATEGY. HERO FILM VALKYRIE Do ThE Same The Best He Can, V. Good Movie!

In Silence Thomas Spears ONSTAGE (He already Did It In 30’s After Betrayal HITLER), You part of ALTERNATIVE AND PARALLEL PlaneT, Not Earth!!

In Silence Thomas Spears ONSTAGE, It’s A Ticket To An ALTERNATIVE (or Alternate) AND PARALLEL Earth! A PREMIERE, the 2 Concepts TOGETHER!!

When You OUT The Theater/Music Hall, You BACK ON Your earth!!!

It’s LIKE CRISS ANGEL, For A PLANETARY CRUISE/TRIP!! (CyB, H. Blvd) Parallel-Alternate, Nice Place!! SAD SPEARS couldn’t Kill HITLER Here!!

YES, sure, BuT On The Other Hand, HE KILLED HIMSELF (Hitler)!! But a little too late!

But THE JEWS Will Find HIM And Kill Him A SECOND TIME, Back In The 1930’s, In The GERMAN SPY Universe!! another chapter of the book

DON’T KILL HIM Too Much, PUT ONE In NUREMBERG, To Give Information!! (FAN STS) laughs

It’s In The MOVIE, if a movie one day

Basically HITLER Had probably Several PHOTO DOUBLES. Consequently We Are sure Only That Real ONE Died In 1945 In our Reality (not P&A Earth)

Fred VIDAL Was On The P&A (Parallel & Alternative) EARTH last Summer! He Found Nothing Interesting, BUT It Was in 2009. SPACE-TIME Explains!

I often wonder how people survived in the past without a cell phone. It is such a necessity in daily life. With a cell phone, you are so easily accessible to the world and I think it has made us unbelievably impatient.

I was watching an old Seinfeld episode called The Movie. Jerry’s plans get all mixed up because he couldn’t make his spot at the comedy club, so he has to go to the movie theater to let the gang know that he can’t make the movie. Before Jerry gets there, the movie gets sold out so they have to go to another movie theater, so George, Elaine, and Kramer separate and a chain of events assues. Here is the first part of the episode. The link to the other 2 parts are on the side.

NEVER would have happened if they had a cell phone.

Another example. Sex and the City. Carrie turns 35. She shows up at the restaurant. No one is there. Hours later, she gives up and goes home. When she gets home, there are messages on her machine. So and so is late. There’s another restaurant with a similar name. Traffic is insane.

NEVER would have happened without a cell phone.

Of course, these are fiction. But it happens all the time, or at least, it used to. Now, if someone’s late, you pick up your cell phone, call them, and see where they are. Because of cell phones, no one would bother to wait hours to see if someone will show up or not. You will know within minutes if you will be stood up. It’s brutal.

I lost my cell phone less than 24 hours ago. It hasn’t been insufferable. I’m getting a replacement phone this Friday. I don’t necessarily feel unconnected. With the internet at my fingertips, it’s hard to feel unconnected. I can access my phone numbers online, so I can call people on my home phone if I need to.

I think tomorrow will be a different story. I will spend the majority of my time at my aunt’s house and not having a cell phone will be a bit difficult. It will just have to happen.

I was able to have breakfast with my friend Jia before she left for California! Even without a cell phone, I was able to get ahold of her. It was amazing to catch up with her. I hadn’t seen her in over a year, so it was nice to catch up. She’s definitely one of those friends who don’t have to know every single detail about each other’s lives, but when we get together, we talk about it, and it’s like we never spent 1.5 years apart.

Amazing ♥

In case we haven’t made it clear yet, we’re pretty big fans of Curb Your Enthusiasm here at NPI, and we were rather excited for Season Seven. Now that Season Seven has concluded, though, it’s worthwhile to go back and compare our expectations to what we actually got.

Back when F.P., Josh and I went over our expectations for this season, I mentioned that I thought Larry’s relationship with the Blacks would be the main storyline of this season, with a potential Larry/Loretta/Cheryl love triangle developing; the Seinfeld reunion, I said, would be more of a secondary plotline. Well, I was right that the Seinfeld reunion was not the primary story: the show was only central to three episodes, and incidental to two others. But I was way off on the Blacks. Loretta and her family were sent packing in the second episode of the season, “Vehicular Fellatio.”

I can’t say I was upset by this development. I thought there was a lot of potential in the Larry/Loretta pairing, but, as Josh and F.P. each pointed out, there was also the tendency to do trite or obvious jokes with them. Season Six and the first two episodes of this season gave Larry plenty of opportunity to flesh out his dynamic with the Black family. And while the first two episodes were very strong—particularly the second episode (“Do you know what it’s like to have cancer?” “No, but I know what it’s like to be with someone who has cancer.”)—I never really missed Loretta or Auntie Rae during the rest of the season.

What made the decision to ditch the Blacks even more palatable was the decision to keep Leon. Leon’s announcement that he did not plan on leaving with the rest of the Blacks was one of the best lines of the season:

Larry: “So I guess this means you’ll be…”

Leon: “—going upstairs and eating this fucking Chinese food in my fucking room.”

Leon is probably the best character added to the show since Marty Funkhouser, so keeping him around was a smart move. But Leon must have spent a lot of time eating that Chinese food. For some reason, he only appeared in two episodes after the show made a point of keeping him. Hell, Jeff’s daughter had almost as much screen time. I don’t think it’s a coincidence that the two episodes in which Leon did appear (“Denise Handicapped” and “The Table Read”) were the best of the season.

“The Table Read” was a particularly brilliant episode, as it gave Leon the opportunity to interact with the Seinfeld cast, and Michael Richards the opportunity to address his controversy. The show handled this rather delicate scenario rather well, showing that Richards was contrite, but willing to poke fun at himself. It also led to one of the funniest scenes of the season, with Leon pretending to be Danny Duberstein.

Besides Leon’s scene with Richards, though, the penultimate episode of the season was strong from top to bottom. It was the rare instance of pretty much every joke working, from Larry getting into a texting relationship with a nine-year-old (“NO I DON’T WATCH WIZARDS OF WAVERLY PLACE! I’M AN ADULT!!!!!!!!!”), Marty Funkhouser’s lurking around the set, to Larry David stand-by jokes about tipping and germophobia. It also gave us the first look at what the fake Seinfeld reunion show looked like.

One of the recurring jokes throughout this season was other characters repeatedly saying that a reunion show could “make up for the finale,” despite Larry’s adamant insistence that the Seinfeld finale was a good one. I’ve always been on the fence with regard to the Seinfeld finale: On the one hand, there were almost certainly funnier ways for the show to end. On the other hand, I feel like there would have been no ending for a show as plotless—even by comedy standards—as Seinfeld that would have satisfied everyone. Most sitcoms have a romantic plot that the finale can conclude (Friends, Cheers, The Wonder Years) or some other natural endpoint, such as a radio show ending (Frasier), kids moving out/away (Fresh Prince, Boy Meets World), or criminal charges being dropped (Arrested Development). Seinfeld, though, was a show about nothing, so having a finale in which “something” happens would betray that ethos. At the same time, though, a finale in which nothing happens would seem anticlimactic.

The Curb quasi-reunion demonstrated the kind of bind a finale/conclusion puts Larry and Jerry in. The plot of the reunion show is George’s attempt to win back his ex-wife, but this is clearly just an excuse for the Larry of the show to write about his own life (as he did by putting elements of his “life” on Curb into the fictional reunion, including the plots of “The Doll” and “The Car Pool Lane” in the Seinfeld script) and cast Cheryl in the show as part of his plot to win back his ex-wife.

I’m quite confident in saying that, were this a real reunion show, I would be pretty underwhelmed. For one, the plot we get to see reveals a Seinfeld universe that is more or less the same and yet jarringly different. Jerry lives in the same apartment and they’re all still friends, but Elaine has a kid? And Jerry was the sperm donor? And George was briefly a millionaire? Even more out of character, the fake reunion included jokes about Bernie Madoff and iPhone apps; one thing that made Seinfeld great was its resistance to doing anything for the sake of appearing “edgy” or “relevant” or “contemporary”—the show just was those things, without taking jokes from the headlines. And as for the romantic plot of the finale, well, Larry probably put it the best in the finale: “We don’t do endings like that. It’s all bullshit. What couples get together at the end?”

I’m not quite sure if this was intentional—the Larry of Curb seemed satisfied with the reunion show—but the message of the finale-within-the finale seemed to be, “See? You wouldn’t really have liked any finale I could have given you.” That doesn’t mean it didn’t lead to some very good Curb moments, though. Adding Jerry into the mix allowed us to see the clear rapport between he and Larry fuction somewhere besides the commentaries on Seinfeld DVDs. The tension between Larry and the rest of cast also led to some great moments, such as Larry calling Jason Alexander’s book (Acting Without Acting) a pamphlet. And even if the episode they were filming wasn’t one I wanted to see, getting a look at what it was like to film and create one of the greatest shows of all time added some excitement to the last two episodes.

The final two episodes also brought the central story of this season—Larry’s attempt to win back Cheryl—to a natural conclusion. For a while, it almost seemed like Larry David’s take on a pedestrian romantic comedy, as Cheryl overhears Larry confess his love for her through her car’s tinted windows (the very windows Larry himself had chided earlier in the episode) and comes to Larry’s house for the finale. But, of course, Larry can’t leave well enough alone, and he interrupts their make-up scene to ask Cheryl to call Julia Louis-Dreyfus and admit that she was the one who left the ring stain on her coffee table. It’s open to interpretation whether or not this is just a return to form for Larry and Cheryl, or if this will be enough to prove to Cheryl that Larry has not changed at all.

Overall, Season Seven started very strong, with the conclusion of the Black storyline and the introduction of the Seinfeld reunion, and ended very strong, with the casts of both shows coming together. Unfortunately, there was kind of a lag in between. The middle of the season featured only one standout episode (“Denise Handicapped”), with two average ones (“Officer Krupke” and “The Black Swan”) and two sub-par episodes (“The Hot Towel” and “The Bare Midriff”); for a show as consistently great as Curb Your Enthusiasm, this was a rather disappointing stretch. I’m going to resist making broad judgments like “Worst Season Ever” or “This Show’s on Its Last Legs,” because Curb is a show that often watches better the second time, and because the last two episodes were so satisfying overall. We probably won’t see Curb on again until 2011 at the earliest, but if and when an eighth season comes around, you can expect another epic NPI preview.

Lunes 23 de noviembre

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Curb your enthusiasm HBO 2009 "the reunion"

Larry se rehusaba por completo a una reunion del programa SEINFELD, pero cuando se da cuenta que esto le puede ayudar a recuperar a Cheryl, accede a la idea. Larry se molesta con Jason Alexander cuando este se rehusa a compartir consejos importantes, así como cuando consiguen boletos para los Lakers.

The Curb Your Enthusiasm/Seinfeld reunion culminated in what is certainly to be one of the most iconic moments in television history. After accusing Jason Alexander (a.k.a. George Costanza) of having an affair with his ex-wife, Cheryl, Jason quit the Seinfeld reunion – leaving a gaping hole in the cast.

Who was to reprise George’s role?

Well, Larry David fanatics can all rejoice. Our curiosity regarding the actual similarities in character between George and Larry has now been satisfied. This scene literally made me jump from the couch in gleeful laughter. Brilliance. Utter brilliance.

Confira vídeo com uma cena da season finale de ‘Curb Your Enthusiasm’, com participação de Jerry Seinfeld e Jason Alexander.

Well I’m big enough to admit when I’m wrong.  I had predicted that somehow Larry would screw up the Seinfeld Reunion show and it wouldn’t happen.  I was partly right, but in the end the show must go on.  It was a great way to end this season, and possibly the series of Curb Your Enthusiasm.  I’ll get to that later.

The rehearsals are still going on and Cheryl is rehearsing with Jason Alexander in the diner.  Everyone things Cheryl is doing great, especially Larry.  The two ex’s are starting to hit it off again and make plans to get together later that night at Cheryl’s house after the party that Julia is throwing for Jason Alexander’s new book, “Acting Without Acting.”  As Larry is leaving he see’s Mocha Joe, the lot coffee guy who Larry asks for a favor.  At the party Jerry Seinfeld tells Larry that Mocha Joe was a little upset that Larry didn’t tip him.  At that point Julie Louis-Dryfus pulls Larry aside and asks him if he left a ring on her table.  Larry proclaims his innocence,but Julia isn’t buying it.  Larry spots Mocha Joe outside and confronts him about what he was just told by Jerry.  In order to make it even Larry agrees to do a favor for him, going to pick up his coffee beans in West Hollywood.

Larry get’s stuck in traffic and is going to be late to Cheryl’s so she cancels.  Larry was also late picking up the beans and the place is closed.  The next morning Larry finds out that Cheryl had Jason Alexander over in his place, and starts to get jealous of the time they are spending together.  This obviously is the beginning of the end.  Larry does all he can to catch the two of them together just to confirm his suspicions.  At the same time he’s looking for who really left the ring on Julia’s coffee table.  At one point Larry even catches Jason in Cheryl’s dressing room, but Jason escapes through the bathroom window before Larry can confront him.  Larry tells Cheryl, “You’re not attracted to him, you’re attracted to George! I’m George!” In the end Larry ends up writing a new script for the show that gives Cheryl and Jason less screen time together.  This outrages everyone and Jason quits.  Larry offers to play the part since it is based on him anyway, and it doesn’t go so well.  For the betterment of the show Larry quits.  He tells Jeff (at least I assume it was Jeff on the other end of the phone) that since he did this all to get Cheryl back and that didn’t happen he decided to quit.

Larry is sitting at home watching the show as it airs, and he seems happy.  When Cheryl is supposed to come on screen Larry is shocked to find out that Virgina (played by Elizabeth Shue) is playing the part.  At that point the doorbell rings and it’s Cheryl holding some Mocha Joe’s coffee.  The two make up and Larry might have also discovered who left the ring on the table.

Like I said it was a great way to end.  No one is really sure if the show is coming back or not.  Larry David is mum on the thought of a 7th season, and HBO hasn’t said anything either.  I personally hope it comes back, but if it doesn’t it’s nice that Larry ends on a high note for once.

Thoughts and Observations:

• “Act without Acting.”  Brilliant.  It’s almost as if they were summing up Jerry Seinfeld’s acting style.
• “I respect wood.  I revere wood!”
• Jerry explaining why Larry can’t play George, “He’s an icon. She’s an icon. He was an icon. [points to self] Icon. [points to Larry] No-con!”
• It would have been great if Leon showed up in the final episode.  He was underutilized this season.  I love Leon.
• Was it cruel that Jason Alexander left his dogs in the hot car all day long?
• I really didn’t think the finale was that bad, but boy they kept bringing up how bad the cast thought it was.  That’s the problem with things like finales, they will never be as amazing as you want them to be.
• Jerry and Larry really are just the same.  Jerry Seinfeld could have played Larry David on Curb Your Enthusiasm and it might have been just as good.  The scene where Jerry gives Larry Larry’s stare to tell if he was lying was great, and dead on.  Jerry even describes them as “twins in the womb.”
• Michael Richards really was under utilized in this episode, and maybe all season.  I hope this helps vindicate him after the trouble he got into.
• We got to see almost 15 minutes of the fake Seinfeld Reunion show on Larry’s TV.  It really was great.  For a while there I thought we would see the whole episode.
• I complained a bit about the whole seaosn being a little far fetched, but I really did love it.  It was great seeing the whole cast back together again for the first time on TV.  This really was almost as good as a real Seinfeld reunion and in someways maybe it was better.

Voicemail message from my father, approximately 5 p.m., as New England took a 21-0 lead:

“Why don’t you leave the bar, go home, talk to your wife, have a nice dinner, anything else but watching this.”

The man is a fountain of wisdom. I was sitting at Houligan’s, having just finished off a nice pulled pork sandwich (Mmm, pulled pork), and I was watching the Patriots systematically take apart the New York Jets.

The Pats ran on the Jets. They threw on the Jets. They stuffed everything the Jets tried to do on offense. They completely befuddled and confused Mark Sanchez (more on him in a minute).

So, I left. It’s not the first time I left a Jets game, and it won’t be the last.

Course, I get home, and I check the score, and it’s 24-14, so I start watching again, and of course they never got any closer and lost, 31-14.

Very few positives to talk about in this game, so let’s deal with the negatives, shall we?

– This defense is not only not good, not only can’t they tackle well, but they can’t cover a bedspread right now. What happened to Kerry Rhodes? Guy used to be great. Bart Scott, anytime you want to earn that contract, go right ahead. The pass rush was OK, but never there when it was needed.

– How does the Jets coaching staff come out SO woefully unprepared for the first half? They got outgained 273-34. That’s insane.

– I know Mark Sanchez is a rookie. And I do have faith that he’ll be a good quarterback one day. But man oh man, the kid keeps making the SAME mistakes over and over. Trying to throw into triple coverage. Throwing off the wrong foot. I just get worried that he doesn’t seem to be making any progress here. But I don’t want to bench him. Look, Peyton Manning was awful as a rookie, too.

– Four and six wouldn’t feel so bad if they hadn’t started 3 and 0.

Some more Monday NFL thoughts:

– I know this will never happen, but let a sports fan dream for a minute: Indianapolis is 10-0. New Orleans is 10-0. Wouldn’t it be incredible if they met in the Super Bowl, after BOTH having gone 16-0? I think the Internet might explode if that happened.

– Two more reasons I never, ever wager on NFL games individually: Kansas City 27, Pittsburgh 24.  Oakland 20, Cincinnati 17.

– I think Jack Kent Cooke and Tom Landry were spinning wildly in their graves Sunday, as the Cowboys and Redskins combined to play one awful football game. I knew it was bad when the Cowboys fan sitting near me whooped at one point, really loudly. What happened, I asked.  Skins missed a field goal!, he exclaimed.

–Who’s that guy in the picture above, you ask? Daytona Beach’s own Eric Weems, now an Atlanta Falcon. He caught at TD pass Sunday against the Giants. He’s a great kid; I’ve interviewed him a few times and he just never put on the attitude some guys have. He’s a great story; 5-foot-9, undrafted out of Bethune-Cookman University, makes the Atlanta practice squad for a few years, and now finally is getting his shot. Good stuff.

Finally, the “Curb Your Enthusiasm” season finale aired Sunday night. It was pretty funny, especially the stuff when Jerry Seinfeld and Larry David were just riffing off each other. I also loved that they finally addressed the whole “George Costanza really is just Larry David” thing; that was always out there but never talked about.

Last week’s episode was still this season’s masterpiece, the equivalent of “Crazy Eyez Killah” and “The Producers” episodes from years past.

Anyway, good to see Cheryl back, and the still-pretty Elisabeth Shue, too.

For you “Curb” fans, here’s a little best of video I found on YouTube.

Also known as “Favorites of the Week”:

TV: Gotta say Curb Your Enthusiasm. Sunday night’s episode was really just top notch. I’m a recent convert to the Curb cult, but with episodes like “Table Reading”, I’m pretty sure that I’m in for life.

Music: “The Dark End of the Street” by Dan Penn and Chips Moman. Holy shit that’s an amazing song. I’ve probably listened to 5 different versions of this song within the last week and, even though I’m a little embarrassed to admit it, the Commitments and Cat Power versions are my favorites. There seems to be two different ways to play this tune: really digging into and embracing the minor chord built off the 7th scale degree in the verse, and shying away from it. These two versions own that chord and the melody around it so hard, and it makes me shake to hear something that beautiful.

Books: Kurt Vonnegut’s Hocus Pocus. This is a book that I’ve probably read 5 times in as many years, but every time I read it I get a little more out of it. That man has an uncanny skill for tackling pretty much EVERYTHING in one book while still providing a really entertaining and focused plot.

Food: Trader Joe’s Mac’n'Cheese. A blend of 4 non-dairy gourmet cheeses on top of delicious noodles. Who’s gunna argue?

Bar: SkyBar. It’s not really too fancy, and the gimmick of the telescope is not too in your face. That’s why I dig that place. Also $2 wells are pretty sweet too.

Restaurants: B-Line. Eat one of their carne asada breakfast burritos with their salsa and tell me it’s not love. I dare you.

Here’s a video cause that’s how I roll:

Here’s the best:

Here’s the worst:

Jesus, I love Ryan Adams but this is one of the most horrible things I’ve ever seen!

-Zach

Cher has returned to the Caesars Palace – Colosseum in Las Vegas now until 12/20. Jerry Seinfeld will perforn two nights before Bette Midler returns on 12/30 and will perform a New Years Eve show on 12/31 at 7:30p.m. leaving plenty of time for a New Years party on the Las Vegas strip.

Jeff Dunham will perform two nights 12/11 and 12/12 giving Cher a two day break and the Gallows as well for one night only.

The UFC 106 is on though champion Brock Lesnar had to bow out recently against top contender Shane Carwin due to an illness the UFC 106 will go on. The UFC will headline a rematch between former UFC champions Tito Ortiz and Forrest Griffin on Nov. 21. The Lesnar vs Carwin fight will be rescheduled to a future date in 2010.

Santana is at the The Joint – Hard Rock Hotel now through Feb 2010 and Avant will perform at Planet Hollywood Fri, Nov 27.  Vicente Fernandez will be at the Mandalay Bay – Events Center on Sat, Nov 28 at 9PM followed by KISS at the Palms Casino Resort on Sat, Nov 28 at 8PM.

It’s a great time to visit Las Vegas with the National Finals Rodeo heading to Vegas in December and Metallica to perform on 12/5 also at Mandalay Bay.

Tickets for all events available online at Click2Vegas.com

My wife Loran bought me tickets to see Jerry Seinfeld who recently came to Minneapolis. The tickets were a birthday present, my birthday was in September, so I’ve been waiting a little while for this show! It was at the Orpheum theater in downtown mpls, surprisingly. I had never been to this theater. It was really nice – authentic, hand panted details and the seats where rickety yet still comfortable. Although we just about had the “worst” seats in the house int he second-to-last row in the balcony, they were still  good. I could hear and see everything that Jerry did (and his smirk that he always has when he’s telling a joke). We met one of my coworkers and her husband across the street for dinner at the Rock Bottom Brewery beforehand. There was an opening comedian, I forget his name – he was pretty funny. Then the lights went out and the place was black, the next thing I knew the man himself was literally running out onto stage, sliding on his feet as he approached the microphone. JERRY!!! I thought to myself, it’s actually him! The next hour and a half was filled with non-stop laughing, clapping and slapping of my wife’s leg to clarify that she heard each joke and realized how hilarious they were. Maybe you’re not a fan of the show Seinfeld, but I am and I don’t think that Jerry has changed a bit from who he was on that show… still the same ol’ Jerome Seinfeld, but older. Midway through the show with my perm-a-smile and all, I thought to myself, this is so much fun, almost perfect. Everyone of Jerry’s jokes was a typical Seinfeld classic because his jokes are based off of the everyday-things that we don’t think are funny. You could tell that every single person in the sold-out theater could relate somehow to his jokes. One after another, without a stutter or a lapse in memory, Jerry killed it. Even when the disruptive hecklers would randomly yell “Kramer” or “Shout House”, he would handle it so well and keep moving without any hesitation. The show came to an end, I found myself standing up with the rest of the standing ovation in the theater clapping my hands as fast as I could. Out came Jerry for an encore, he walked up to the mic as said “Now is the time for questions if you have any”. There were some good questions, and then there was the lady yelling “Kramer” again. Jerry shared that his favorite Seinfeld episodes were the one where he steals the rye bread from the old lady and the episode where Kramer hits a golf ball into the whale’s blow-hole. With my stomach muscles aching from laughing so hard, we left the theater and met-up with our friends to discuss how good it was. I would definitely say that we got our money worth. This was an opportunity of a lifetime and I am never going to forget seeing Jerry! The day after the show, I was thinking about how awesome it was and I was trying to remember some of the jokes that he said, like his bit about automatic toilet flushers, pop tarts and iphones. Even though I was 100% completely satisfied with the show, it made me realize that even experiencing one of my dreams-come-true, it really had no true value to me. I get the same amount of happy feelings when I go out to coffee with a friend, or when I have a deep conversation with someone, but these interactions bring me true joy, joy of the heart that the God’s love is a part of. Theses interactions have the ability to draw others closer to the truth, and I know for sure they definitely motivate and help me to try to live a life of love. Basically, what I’m trying to get at is that the best shows, cars, apple computers, etc. aren’t of any value when you understand life’s real purpose. I’m not quite there yet, but I feel like I understand what seems to me to be the tip-of-the-iceberg when it comes to life’s purpose and what that really entails, aside from “living for Jesus” or some other vague, christian phrase that gets thrown around.  With that being said, if you ever have the opportunity to see Jerry Seinfeld, do it!

peace, kevin.

I want to preface this blog hailing Larry David as a genius. I love him. I love him. I love him. I admit I was a bit worried with the plantation genre and the stereotypical ending in Season Six of “Curb Your Enthusiasm”, but he managed to dodge that lingering bullet almost effortlessly in Season 7. Vivica A. Fox’s character Loretta Black  and Larry break up in the second episode of the season, “Vehicular Fellatio” and it had nothing to do with race. Larry was planning on dumping her because she got cancer. He is so unsympathetic and sympathetic you just have to love him.

So Larry’s project in Season 7 is winning his wife’s affection by letting her play the role of his actual wife in a “Seinfeld” reunion season. And everyone is on board. We get to see Julia play Elaine, Seinfeld play himself, Larry’s mirror image George Costanza, Jason Alexander ironically as Larry’s complete opposite….and there is….. Michael Richards….. as Kramer. Ehhhhhhhlllllllllllll.

the pink elephant in the room-racist richards

We know he had to be on the show to fulfill the myth of the reunion season, but there is just this bad taste in my mouth when I see him on screen. I’m sure most of you remember his infamous racial fuck-up. It was a fuck-up so bad it wasn’t even excusable. It was the fuck-up heard round the world, Lexington and Concord style.  Here’s a link to his comedy routine.

Okay I just watched it again I am pissed!!!! Arrggggh! When will it stop? Here are just a few unsettling savory bits:

“Fifty years ago we’d have you hanging upside down from a tree!”

“They’re going to arrest me for calling a black man a nigger?”

“Throw his ass out! He’s a nigger, He’s a nigger, He’s a nigger!”

oh LAWD

After a while the black man he was talking to called him a cracker, which I discuss in my earlier blog, is embedded with a notion of racial superiority on the part of the white person who is being called said name.

I’m not really sure what pissed Michael Richards off so much. But I am gonna assume it was some loud mouth Negroes, yeah I said it, talking too much during a performance which is why he told them to shut up. And yes, really my brothers and sisters, you know who you are, you need to stop talking through movies, it’s annoying. I wanted to cut a bitch the last time I was in the theater.

But there is no reason to say what Richards said. I mean come on. A good shut the fuck up would have sufficed. He didn’t need to offend everyone in the place. And he forgets, black folk actually paid to see him perform. I mean can you imagine, taking your lovely black boyfriend or girlfriend on a date to a comedy show, and thinking wow, we get to see the guy who played Kramer, I’m so excited, and while you’re sipping on your Long Island Iced Tea you get taken back to 1865 with some white dude talkin bout hanging niggers from trees. NIET KIEL DAWG.

Hence, the icky taste in my mouth. But in the last episode of Curb Your Enthusiasm, Larry addresses the issue of harboring a known racist on the show. He does this in three ways.

1. Michael Richards looks like crap compared to everyone else in the show. Even though everyone has aged, they still look the same. Maybe they have led healthy lives, maybe it’s the make-up job, but clearly they skipped over Richards. Additionally, the hair that made Kramer so noticeable is almost all but gone. Larry wants him to look that way. By presenting Richards as visually unattractive, his appearance clearly faltering since his racist comedy routine, Larry is reflecting on the accepted myth that sin is written on the body. (A topic heavily discussed in Oscar Wilde’s Picture of Dorian Gray and The Libertine)

if you hadn't been fucking all those whores, maybe God would have spared you leprosy

2. To reify this idea, Larry also gives Richards a life threatening illness, Groat’s disease(a fictional illness) that may cause his death. He is literally paying for the sins externally and internally that he committed when he pledged his allegiance to supremacy on that unforgettable day.

3. He cleverly has a scene with Leon and Richards, in which Richards has a valid reason to be pissed at Leon (he lied about his identity and duped him into giving $200,000). While he is screaming a crowd of people are watching Richards yell at this black man and we laugh because ironically he an actual reason to be pissed. It is really funny and makes it a bit more acceptable for Richards to be part of this season.

However, I recently read a blog, by the African American Environmentalist Association-Hollywood, and while I agree Larry made a smart move in the “The Table Read”, it really doesn’t redeem or reform Richards as a person. It only redeems Richards within the fictional world of “Curb Your Enthusiasm” that Larry himself has created. And then we have to think, well if Richards’ previous act of racism had to be addressed to us, how will it be addressed to the fictional audience that would be watching the Seinfeld reunion season? And, ignoring the fact that humor on a fictional show doesn’t excuse an act of racism in the real world, we were too busy laughing at the scene to deconstruct what it fails to address. When Richards says “if there were any word i could use to show how angry i am…,” David seems to be juxtaposing valid reasons to be pissed off (leon lying/getting 200g) against using racial slurs without a valid reason. But is there ever a valid reason to use racial slurs? And I say valid reason cuz clearly the heckling at his comedy show did not warrant “nigger,nigger, nigger”, but because Leon lies it might? And are we ignoring the real irony in this scene, that Richards could have “slipped up” again because Leon did what a white man told him, and most likely Leon had to lie because his livelihood (living in Larry’s mansion) depends on it?

Larry also depicts this representation in “The Anonymous Donor,” Season 6, when a dry-cleaner loses his baseball jersey. He then has Leon approach a man wearing the similar jersey(we don’t know if it is Larry’s or not) and from then on the white man Leon has robbed may engage in stereotyping of black men as criminals. But the crazy thing about it is that Leon himself didn’t care about the jersey, he stole the jersey because Larry, the white male, wanted him too. Is Larry making a statement, by having Leon bear the brunt of his iniquities, that blacks are unfairly stereotyped not by their own acts, but the acts that are guided by the white man. Basically, are whites are hating blacks because of whites. I mean that is why Richards gets pissed at Leon, Larry doesn’t take the rap for the incident, at least we don’t get to see it.

If so, whoa Larry, and Bravo, Bravo. I now love your show even more, can we be best friends?

Of course, it is not up to Larry David to rectify Richards fuck-up. He shouldn’t have to alter his whole season cuz Richards can’t keep his mouth shut. I think David makes amends to his avid black fans by at least addressing the issue, and I thank him for it. But Richards has a long way to go. A fictional confrontation on the issue will not redeem his racist soul. And although most black folk are forgiving, sorry Richards, you don’t get my vote.

Thoughts?

P.S.

J.B. Smoove on the scene with Michael Richards:

“I can’t see someone being so upset with it that they’d never want him to be on TV again. You can pass the blame along, or you can accept your responsibility, and he accepted his actions. Sometimes, when you get a girl pregnant, you blame the condom. His condom broke that night.”

All season long I’ve complained about Curb Your Enthusiasm being a little hard to believe.  At the same time I’ve also talked about just how funny and great this season is.  The fact of the matter is, that it’s both.  It’s far-fetched and hilarious, and I forgive it.

All that being said, tonight both the funny and unrealistic were out of control.  It’s time for the table read of the Seinfeld Reunion, and all the cast and crew are gathered at the studio. Larry makes the rounds of the cast members.  Julia-Luuis Dreyfus is asking Larry about Cheryl.  She seems surprised that Cheryl got the part.  A few moments later Jason Alexander asks Larry the same thing, and then asks to borrow Larry’s pen.  Michael Richards seems to be worried because he might have Groats Disease.  He remembers that Funkhowser’s friend Danny Duberstein had Groats, and Larry promises to put Michael in touch with him.  Before the read starts, Larry spots Funkhowser at the craft services table loading up.  Larry doesn’t want him there, but agrees to let him stay if it’s ok with Jerry.  Funkhowser tells Jerry a filthy joke and Jerry takes a liking to him.  Before the table read begins Larry is introduced to a crew members daughter, who tells Larry that she will be late after lunch because she is talking the little girl to the doctor, because the girl has a “rash on her pussy.” See what I mean about being un-realistic?  What mother of a nine-year-old talks about her daughter that way?  The answer is NO MOTHER OF A NINE-YEAR-OLD TALKS THAT WAY.  Larry doesn’t even thin it’s that strange, and continues to repeat what’s wrong with the girl throughout the episode.

The table read is going well, and seems like it would be a very funny episode.  The premise is that George made millions off an iPhone app called iToilet, and then lost it all investing it with Bernie Madoff.  His ex-wife, played by Cheryl didn’t lose her money since she pulled her money out, and now George wants to marry her again so he can get his money back.  Larry is the only one that doesn’t seem to be enjoying the read because he is concentrating on Jason Alexander putting Larry’s pen in his mouth and ear, and scratching his back and chest with it.  Larry is disgusted and when Jason tries to give him the pen back Larry refuses.  While working on the script Larry receives his first text message from the 9-year-old he was introduced to.  Turns out her mother gave her Larry’s number.  Larry begrudgingly texts her back which opens the floodgates.

At lunch Larry asks Jeff how he can get in touch with Funkhowser’s friend Danny Duberstein.  Jeff informs him that Danny is dead, and Larry wonders what he’s going to do with Michael Richards.  The restaurant they are in is packed, but since Larry slips the maître d’ $20 every time he goes in, Larry and Jeff are seated right away.  Larry get’s a few more texts from the little girl, and looses his cool with her sending her a text in all caps.  When he arrives back on the set for the reunion the little girl’s mother confronts Larry and tells him that he has to make it up to her by taking them both to lunch and giving the girl a present.    Inside Jason and Larry continue to argue about the pen after Jason gives him a replacement that Larry feels isn’t as good as the original.

At the news stand with Leon, Larry convinces him to portray Danny Duberstein and they agree to meet Michael Richards the next day at 2 after Larry’s lunch with the mother and daughter.  As Larry is going up to pay for his magazine, cash in hand he encounters the maître d’ and the guy takes the cash right out of Larry’s hand.  Larry is shocked, but doesn’t do anything about it.  At lunch the next day, larry doesn’t tip the maître d’ because he took the $20 the day before.  The guy is offended and Larry get’s horrible service causing him to be late to his meeting with Michael and Leon.

Forced to work alone Leon convinces Michael that he is Danny Duberstein, and that the only way he beat Groats was by wearing his lucky hat which he gives to Michael.  Larry is standing watching the rehearsals with Leon and Larry is itching all over.  Looks like he may have gotten that rash from the little girl.  Michael Richards is wearing the  hat Leon gave him, when Funkhowser crashes the set again, this time with the real Danny Duberstein’s widow.  When Michael finds out the truth he storms out and confronts Leon in front of a huge crowd a la a few years ago when Michael Richards screamed and yelled some racial slurs at some audience members, nad of course just as it happened before the crowd is filming it with their cell phones.  I told you last week that I didn’t think this reunion would happen.  I still have my doubts.

Larry is having a doctors look at the rash when he tells him where he got it from, his nine-year-old friend with a “rash on her pussy.”  The doctors leaves the room as Larry is texting the little girl and tells his receptionist to call the police.

Wow, that was a long re-cap, but a lot happened in that episode, and it was a little longer than usual.

Thoughts and Observations:

• “No, you gotta do that once every 13 years. You gotta recharge the mitzvah.”- Leon on being Jewish.
• “You don’t loan Jason anything that can be inserted.”- Jerry’s advice to Larry about loaning Jason Alexander a pen.
• I love the fact that Michael Richards can talk about the incident that pretty much destroyed his career a few years ago.  I was wondering if it would come up during this whole reunion show thing.
• Am I the only one that was completly surprised at just how dirty Funkhower’s joke for Jerry was?
• In the reunion episode, Jerry donated his sperm so that Elaine could have a kid.  They’d had sex many times before, do you suppose they did it the old fashioned way or did Jerry use a jar?
• How long is this episode going to be is, Kenny Bana, George’s mom, and Newman are all worked into it somehow?  I guess the finale did have almost every episode that was ever on the show on it.
• George’s iPhone app the iToilet is brilliant, especially if you’ve ever tried to find a bathroom in NYC.  There was actually a Seinfeld episode where George claimed he knew of a good public bathroom anywhere in the city.  Good to know he finally put that knowledge to good use.
• Just FYI, Groats isn’t real disease, but a disease that Curb Your Enthusiasm made up in its second season.  Nice to see them bring it back.

1998 has the special honor in Twenty-Three to represent something that is probably worthy of a SPECIAL FEATURE.

Quite frankly, I could not have less of an idea about what to say regarding the greatest television show of all time. Seinfeld was a game changer. Born in 1989, it defines the 1990’s, defines (what is left of) sitcoms today, and has become so ingrained in our culture that we don’t even realize the impact it has had.

Jerry Seinfeld and Larry David produced the show about nothing, and it was top notch from the very beginning. Comedy at its finest. Never forced or contrived, simply there for the taking. The audience could tune in every single week and expect simple self-absorbed story lines about Jerry, George (Jason Alexander), Elaine (Julie Louis-Dreyfus), and Kramer (Michael Richards). They never learned a lesson, never grew as people, they were just funny to watch and probably represented a greater portion of yourself than you’d like to admit.

An excellent article from Time Magazine from shortly after the end of the show was announced reads:

Just as Seinfeld is quick to give his co-stars and collaborators the lion’s share of credit for the show’s success (“My real talent,” he says, “is in picking people”), he is loath to ascribe any cultural significance to Seinfeld, even while in a somewhat valedictory mood. The show’s aims, he insists, are entirely unpretentious: “I really aspire to The Abbott and Costello Show. That’s my favorite sitcom. We walk down the street and bump into Bania, the bad comedian, the way Lou Costello would bump into Stinky, and then a scene comes out of it. That’s classic. It’s burlesque.” One quickly learns that Seinfeld, like most comedians, can talk about comedy endlessly and with great depth of knowledge of both its history and its craft. He refers almost mystically to “the funny” and cites old masters: “Jackie Gleason said that comedy is the purest element. It can’t be improved upon as a substance. It’s impervious to style, to time. That’s the only significant thing about this show: it’s funny.”

I can’t do this show justice writing about it on my own. It’s genius, it’s excellent, it goes without saying that Seinfeld would end up in Twenty-Three and that it will end up in ps: you’re not dying again.

Because I cannot even dream of touching the show, its cultural significance, or its general wit, I will leave you with a viewer chosen 10 Greatest Moments of Seinfeld, and allow the show to speak for itself.

I believe this captures the essence of the show pretty concisely.

Author: Rick Williamson
Source: ezinearticles.com

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“Can I say f*** in a temple?”

Susie made sure she signed each and every book (which I believe numbered well over 100)./Photos by Ava Gacser

Ladies and gentlemen, Susie Essman is in the building – a Jewish temple in bucolic East Brunswick, N.J., as a matter of fact.

“Now I’m here with all you lovely Jews,” she said last night with a smile.

The “Curb Your Enthusiasm” star’s appearance included a Q&A and book signing to promote her recently released memoir, “What Would Susie Say? Bullsh*t Wisdom About Love, Life and Comedy,” at Temple B’nai Shalom. The event, coordinated by the Friends’ Health Connection, was $35 and included a copy of the book which Susie graciously signed at the end of the evening.

Naturally, much of the conversation – which was artfully moderated by Susie’s good friend, comedian/actor/former “Saturday Night Live” writer Alan Zweibel – revolved around Susie’s experiences playing her “Curb” alter ego, the wonderfully foul-mouthed Susie Greene.

She admitted that when hired by Larry David to do the show, she was reticent when “LD” (as Larry refers to himself) instructed her to curse out her co-star and “Curb” husband, Jeff Garlin, in an episode called “The Wire.”

“Rip Jeff a new a**hole,” she recalled was the only direction Larry gave her. And after a bit of cajoling, this was the result:

“He let the genie out of the bottle,” Susie said with a laugh.

She revealed that she and Larry have never had a discussion about who Susie Greene is, and that she was the one who came up with Susie’s crazy taste in clothes.

“Susie is a very simplistic character,” she explained. “You don’t cross her, and you definitely don’t cross her kid.”

She said she’s pretty good at holding it together during filming and doesn’t laugh, but that this week’s episode, “Officer Krupke,” sent her over the edge.

When Larry dropped his pants, “just seeing those spindly legs” was enough to crack her up.

Her favorite episode, though, is “The Doll.” She said that was the first time the “Spaghetti western music that’s become my theme song” (I love that music!) was used.

“I don’t know what’s funnier than (screaming), ‘Get me the f***ing head!’” she laughed.

Susie said that despite the fact that most of actors on the show go by their own names – Ted Danson, Mary Steenburgen, Michael York, Jason Alexander, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Jerry Seinfeld, Michael Richards (you get the picture) – they’re not necessarily playing themselves.

“The only one who is who you think he is is Richard Lewis,” she said.

(Which is a pretty interesting statement, considering his actions in the funniest episode so far of this season, “Vehicular Fellatio.” Clip please:)

“People don’t understand that it’s not reality TV,” Susie added.

Alan agreed, saying that he was just out with Jeff Garlin this week, and people were coming up to Jeff and cursing at him for cheating on Susie – Susie Greene, that is.

Although Susie enjoys being on “Curb,” she said she would like the opportunity to explore different roles… like perhaps on “Mad Men.”

“It’s so beautifully written,” she gushed. “Those characters are so fully drawn.”

You hear that, Matthew Weiner?

One thing is for certain: When Larry originally contacted her about “Curb,” she had no idea it would turn out to be anywhere near as popular its become.

“I never planned to make a living telling people to go f*** themselves,” she said.

A bit about Alan

When Alan Zweibel first came out, I realized my friend Mary Ann and I (who I was again with last night) had seen him perform earlier this year in “Celebrity Autobiography” (also with Susie Essman!) in New York City. He read a hysterical passage from Motley Crue drummer Tommy Lee’s memoir, “Tommyland.” Alan, it turns out, was one of the original writers for “Saturday Night Live” and was good friends with Gilda Radner, for whom he wrote her iconic character, Roseanne Roseannadanna. In fact, he’s written a book about that relationship, “Bunny, Bunny: Gilda Radner, A Sort of Romantic Comedy.” Just the little bit he recounted last night was enough to make me want to read the book (and thanks to Franklin Township Public Library, I soon will be!). Alan also talked about his life working in the biz (he’s good friends with Billy Crystal) and his own experiences with Larry David (he was a consultant on “Curb” for a couple of years).

“We all knew that someday the rest of the world will catch up with him,” Alan said, explaining that audiences didn’t seem to appreciate Larry’s sense of humor back in the days when he worked comedy clubs.

Susie agreed, recalling that she and her best friend, Joy Behar, used to hang out with Larry and listen to him complain about women and dating.

“It was all the George stories,” she said and confirmed that “The Phone Message” episode (clip above) was straight out of Larry’s life.

At the end of the evening, Alan hung around the lobby as Susie signed books. He also took the time out to talk with people, signed several of Susie’s books himself and was nice enough to pose for photos, like the one below with me.

And here’s another photo of Susie at the signing:

(Let’s begin by saying that we’re grateful for your comments.  They give us ideas for all things Joyce and we appreciate any topic suggestions you care to make.  We love your stories and will happily re-tell them and offer you our witness protection plan–an alias.  You are Joyce and Joyceland is better for your stories and comments.) 

There was BIG FUN to be had watching Jerry Seinfeld do his ’schtick’ live and in person over the weekend.  He doesn’t rip on anyone’s religion or politics.  And he doesn’t drop the f-bomb, but you walk out with sore cheeks from laughing non stop.  This is a beautiful thing.  We absolutely love sore cheeks from laughing . . .

Seinfeld made us laugh so hard that we really couldn’t even remember anything he said.  (This made us feel worried about ourselves.)  We also love it when the comedian laughs just a little bit at his own jokes.  And we were tickled to learn of  friend TomJoyce’s life philosophy which is modeled after Radio Shack:  don’t just buy stuff, do stuff.  Do. Do. Do.  And have fun while you’re out doing stuff.   

We have a celeb update from K-Joyce who was recently an audience member on . . .

(BTW–this is the closest we’ll get to the publication of JoycePeople magazine–so enjoy.)  K-Joyce’s view of The View was that Whoopie wasn’t friendly at all, but Elizabeth and Sherri were very friendly.  Now, we like Whoopie, so we were disappointed to learn that she’s a little bit with the nose in the air.  Martha Stewart, one of the guests that day, was a bore and needs Joyce very muchly.  And K-Joyce said they are all quite small in person.  Even the ones who look big on the telly are small in person.  Tiny.  The lesson:  if you want to look smaller, don’t go on a diet, just get yourself on the telly.  A little insider celeb scoop like this always gets our week off to a good start. 

And by the way, we think PennyJoyce, our mail lady, stole our copy of this month’s Vanity Fair.  Here’s what we think happened:  she saw our VF while on her delivery route and thought, “This one’s goin’ in my bag.” 

Breaking news:  Joyce has joined a choir with her friend, Joyce.  Two Joyces in one choir.  God help the director.  Joyce 1 shared with us that she and Joyce 2 are finding the demands of the choir to be stressful.  She said they have to sing in four-part harmony and do some parts a capella.  Joyce 1 has long dreamed of making her debut in an adult choir.  Back in the day she had high hopes of joining The Good News Singers at church.  They were an absolutely irresistible musical group because they were filled with all the good news.  And people respond well to good news.  They were peppy, had a trumpet player and drummer, and got your toes tapping.  But, alas, the demands of boiling cod for dinner (we called it Poor Man’s Lobster) and doing Father Cooper’s laundry postponed the start of Joyce’s career in the music industry.  Stay tuned for updates on more choir fun from the Joyces.

Oh, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday, bring us a little fun and excitement this week.  Pretty please.

Wale

Monday, November 9, 2009

NEW YORK,NY – Wale’s album Attention Deficit will be available in stores and on-line at Midnight on Tuesday, November 10, 2009. Recently, the album was leaked on the Internet. Still industry executives expect the leak will not affect sales. The album release party will be held at Marquee on Monday, November 9, 2009.

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