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Pleasures:


Seen on a car I parked next to this afternoon.

  • The Nashville Opera's production of HMS Pinafore. The mezzo cast as Cousin Hebe (Jami Rhodes) had a spectacular voice.

    We ran into three other couples from church, and our usher is someone I know from the guild.


  • Sparkling chardonnay and crabcakes afterwards at Rumours.


  • Overhearing parts of a conversation further down the bar that included a woman vehemently declaring, "I'd rather be shot out of a cannon in my Subaru. IN MY SUBARU." (We think she was talking about a trophy wife situation, but we weren't eavesdropping that blatantly...)


  • Revisiting my copy of A Treasury of Gilbert and Sullivan (1941). Lucille Corcos's spot illustrations make me happy.


  • The copy of Florence Teets's She's Going Abroad (1953) that I picked up at a church book sale last spring. I adore this book to pieces, in part because I can read only a few pages at a time before reaching for a stiff drink or doubling over in laughter. Today's gem was


    A good shipmate is co-operative and alert at lifeboat drill. Read and follow directions at a drill as if it were the real thing. There's an iota of a chance that the belittler of safety precautions may find herself left with the sinking ship while you are starting a new life à la Tallulah. By the way, never throw a lighted match or cigarette over the side of the boat. It just might blow into a porthole and start a fire.


  • Third photo down this page, you can see a photo of Miss Teets, dated 1953.


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