dagblog - Comments for "A Pre-Xmas-y Friday Afternoon at the Haikulodeon"

Like holiday fruitcakes,

MrSmith1 — Sun, 02 Dec 2012 16:55:59 +0000

In reply to Oh, I should have emailed you

Like holiday fruitcakes, Christmas Classics never spoil, they mature.

Oh, I should have emailed you

wabby — Sun, 02 Dec 2012 12:35:40 +0000

Oh, I should have emailed you privately instead of blurting it out in comments. Now I've spoiled the Christmas Classic! My sincere apologies. But, I'm glad you like the idea and am looking forward to the unfolding saga.

It's hard to believe that

MrSmith1 — Sat, 01 Dec 2012 16:41:29 +0000

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It's hard to believe that Casablance premiered 70 years ago this week and that on the same day 50 years ago, the Beatles recorded, "Please, Please Me", one of their first hits. The cultural distance between the two seems much wider to me. Then again, it was only 19 years between landing on the beaches of Normandy on D-Day and JFK's assassination.

Time flies, yes it does,
'here and now' will soon be 'was'...
and that's a fact, Jack.

re-write:

Time flies, yes it does,

'here and now' will soon be 'was'...

But why? Just because ...

Hmmm ... a prequel? Or

MrSmith1 — Sat, 01 Dec 2012 05:30:12 +0000

In reply to Not anything to do with

Hmmm ... a prequel? Or perhaps ... Two new neighbors share a love of Chutney?

I like it! I'll start work on it right away ... well, almost right away.

P.S. I was waiting to re-post the original "holiday classic", (FYI, everything written about Xmas is automatically a "holiday classic" after the first year it's written), until December, but it's December now isn't it?

Not anything to do with

wabby — Sat, 01 Dec 2012 01:31:42 +0000

In reply to A Pre-Xmas-y Friday Afternoon at the Haikulodeon

Not anything to do with haikus, but,

"When Charles Met Sally"

Hinting.
Could be a salty conversation in a workplace lunchroom, peppered with innuendo.
And Charles was so lonesome talking to ketchup and all.
And Sally had to work on Christmas Eve....
And Charles didn't want to go home and talk to food.....
And the lunchroom fridge has such an odd selection of condiments. I mean, what's a little soy sauce between co-workers?
And, well, you know....
it could happen.
But, I'm just hinting. If you have the time and the inclination.
I'm just hinting.
And hoping.

I was thinking about

Richard Day — Fri, 30 Nov 2012 20:50:02 +0000

In reply to A Pre-Xmas-y Friday Afternoon at the Haikulodeon

I was thinking about generational 'shifts' and Casablanca and The Beatles; I think about this subject a lot.

When I was a kid I was told that Sinatra would last forever.

Hell, the Stones have lasted longer than Frank!

Frank and his crew surreptitiously 'stole' the Black musical culture; albeit with more aplomb than some white pop singers including Pat Boone of the 50's.

The Stones and the Beatles and so many rock groups of the 60's worshipped the Black musical culture and there was little surreptitious about how they included that music in their deliveries.

We can certainly look back and laugh at Boone.

But who the hell would look back and laugh at the Beatles?

My son when he was twelve turned to me in the car and said he was sad because no one of his generation would ever achieve the rank and wonder of my generations music! ha

I guess I was better at indoctrination than I had thought. haha

I am just wandering here. hahahah

Great poetry once again.