From: owner-lucy-list-digest@smoe.org (lucy-list-digest) To: lucy-list-digest@smoe.org Subject: lucy-list-digest V5 #49 Reply-To: lucy-list@smoe.org Sender: owner-lucy-list-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-lucy-list-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk lucy-list-digest Wednesday, March 5 2003 Volume 05 : Number 049 In this issue: [lucy-list] 3/4 [lucy-list] Benay said this would be OK... [lucy-list] yes, and now Benay says Re: [lucy-list] yes, and now Benay says [lucy-list] but Sharon... Re: [lucy-list] but Sharon... [lucy-list] the filming before the filming ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Tue, 4 Mar 2003 07:17:47 EST From: GL91297@aol.com Subject: [lucy-list] 3/4 March Forth! March Fourth! March FORTH! March FOURTH! ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 4 Mar 2003 11:27:32 -0800 (PST) From: Libby Wiebel Subject: [lucy-list] Benay said this would be OK... And well.... we all know that if Benay says it.... then it goes! *grin* I know I've been kind of quiet on the list lately... but that's because I've been busy with my big project... I'm writing to let everyone know that I'm very close to having my very first, official, full-length debut CD recorded! I've been very busy in the studio for the last couple of months, and I'm so excited about the product. Anyone who's talked to me in the last few weeks has had to put up with incessant babble about what kind of packaging to use and who's going to do my artwork and blah, blah, blah... it's a big dream that's becoming a definite reality. The only thing that remains is... in order to actually have it duplicated, I need to sell some albums... i.e. pre-orders. The plan is to have everything out and ready to release in May... so I've started the pre-order campaign now. If you're interested (and I don't mean to pressure or anything like that... but if you are), there is information available on my website. The album is called "The Wait-a-While Estates." Check the "music" section for ordering info. Lucy related content... I'm actually covering a lucy-tune on the album! I've always been a fan of "Five In the Morning" and have been performing it as part of my regular repertoire for quite a while. The other night we finished it up in the studio... and just this morning I sent in all the information to get the licensing taken care of (so Lucy gets her royalties!). It is, perhaps, my favorite track so far. So... if you're interested... that's my sales pitch. And I'd love it if you'd want to sign up for my mailing list, too... that's also on the website... I send a once-monthly newsletter called "Libby's Lowdown." That's also where I'll be broadcasting details about performances... including a really cool CD release party sometime in May or June! So thanks for letting me share my excitement with you!!!! I think most of you know that I don't ordinarily do this self-promote thing beyond what's in my email signature... so I promise this will be the rare exception! This is just such an amazing thing for me... I almost can't believe it's real. But it is... so thanks for any pre-orders... and for passing the word along to any other music fans you know who might want to indulge! Libby (whose website is mentioned in her signature) ===== - ----------- libbywiebel@yahoo.com http://www.libbywiebel.com "I took myself to The Wait-a-While Estates, down on Transition Boulevard, you'll make no mistake." Album available in May, but pre-order your copy of "The Wait-a-While Estates" today! (http://www.libbywiebel.com) Yahoo! Tax Center - forms, calculators, tips, more http://taxes.yahoo.com/ ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 04 Mar 2003 19:40:57 -0500 From: "Benay Bubar" Subject: [lucy-list] yes, and now Benay says I feel compelled to make several points: 1. Indeed I did tell Libby I thought it would be perfectly OK for her to plug her upcoming CD here, since she is an esteemed member of the Lucy-list, and the Lucy-list is about Lucy, but in its own way it's (fellow grammarians, please note proper usage of both "its" and "it's" right there---I'm quite proud of that) about US too. And the woman is covering a Lucy SONG, for heaven's sake, and going through the proper channels to do so! All this makes Libby's CD Lucy-list-worthy in my book. 2. Libby is cool. Libby's CD is cool. Buy Libby's CD. 3. Note to anyone who is saying, "But shouldn't we on the Lucy-list, instead of plugging other CDs, be encouraging each other to buy all of LUCY's CDs?": WHAT? You don't already OWN all of Lucy's CDs? If you bought all of Lucy's CDs, you would immediately become a much happier, much more successful, much more fulfilled human being. (That, or you would immediately consider suing me for false advertising...but by the time you went to all the trouble of hiring a lawyer, paying the court costs, and discovering that I didn't have the money to pay a big settlement, you would probably figure you shouldn't have bothered.) Anyway, yes, of course, buy all of Lucy's CDs. But buy Libby's CD too. 4. I hereby announce that I will also be taking pre-orders for MY upcoming CD, "(Hope You) Don't Mind Me: The Lucy Song Parodies." Due to the fact that this CD is expected to come out...oh, maybe around 2048...and given to the need to adjust for whatever inflation there's been by that point, and also given the need to allow for the EXTREMELY limited press run of approximately seven copies, I will be required to charge roughly $1,752.43 per CD. (But if you buy two, shipping and handling will be free.) And I should note that since it is a tad unrealistic to actually attempt to pay any production costs 45 years before the fact, any funds raised now will be used to purchase items which will enhance my continued creative life, such as Diet Vanilla Coke and cheesecake. 5. As excited as I am about my upcoming CD, you should probably buy Libby's instead. It's a much better deal. Benay ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 4 Mar 2003 20:11:26 EST From: Sdgold60@aol.com Subject: Re: [lucy-list] yes, and now Benay says hey benay if i buy your cd do i get an air guitar .... ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 04 Mar 2003 20:23:45 -0500 From: "Benay Bubar" Subject: [lucy-list] but Sharon... >> hey benay >> if i buy your cd do i get an air guitar .... You won't NEED an air guitar then...having been part of my band and one of my backup vocalists for the CD (yes, my CD will feature Air Singing too), you'll already have one! ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 4 Mar 2003 20:41:13 EST From: Pashonfish@aol.com Subject: Re: [lucy-list] but Sharon... having been home all day grading papers (this is called a mental health day), thank you all (especially Benay) very much for the laughs and for not grading my grammar! I love this list! Sarah ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 04 Mar 2003 21:35:45 -0500 From: "Benay Bubar" Subject: [lucy-list] the filming before the filming Not to distract us from today's truly important point (Buy Libby's CD!), but as we all wait with frenzied anticipation (or, for some of us, mere frenzy) for my ill-advised hair-highlighting-for-a-national-audience, I might as well mention to you all, my de facto therapy group for these matters, that I had a sort of, um, trial run for my television career today, having agreed for some unknown reason to be filmed as part of a group tasting different brands of lemonade. The actual, official taste test had been done several weeks back, but I was part of the thrilling re-enactment for television (LOCAL television, thank heavens for small favors!). It was particularly unfortunate that the work day was hectic enough that I did not manage to have lunch before showtime, which was nearly 3:00. When one has not eaten since 8 a.m., one is not necessarily thrilled to find oneself in midafternoon staring down six color-coded cups of various varieties of packaged lemonade...and that was only AFTER the Official Pouring of the Lemonade (while we tasters sat in breathless anticipation), which took 15 or 20 minutes to film because it was deemed important to capture, with a special microphone, an Appropriately Realistic Pouring Sound. Anyway, as they moved the cameras and lighting in preparation for the big tasting, I stared ravenously at the four saltines I'd been given for palate cleansing, sadly determining that it would likely be inappropriate to devour the crackers immediately. Finally, lemonade before us, having been instructed on the rules for the tasting (three times in a row, so as to capture the instructing from the appropriate angle) as we nodded soberly, we were encouraged to begin. ACTION! Pick up cup...sip...look thoughtful...pick up pencil...scribble on rating sheet. Pick up second cup...sip...look thoughtful again...scribble. Pick up third cup...stomach growling...wonder if I can eat a saltine...but nobody ELSE is eating a saltine...they all look more thoughtful than I do...whoops, probably not supposed to look at them...whoops, probably not supposed to look at the camera either... Although I had liked several of the lemonades in the official, non-filmed taste test, this time I found myself disliking ALL of them. Again, when one is really, really hungry and is getting a major headache (and when it's not only not summer yet, but not seeming anywhere close to SPRING), it is very, very difficult to appreciate even the IDEA of six plastic cups of lemonade, let alone the reality. And after being required to drink some of each of those six cups of lemonade, it is very, very difficult to EVER want lemonade agan. But hey, well, look, they're turning the camera off...hey, made it through THAT! Saltine time...hey, I wonder if the others want all of THEIR saltines... "...and now we'll do the tasters' interviews." INTERVIEWS? Nobody had said anything about interviews. Sure enough, interviews...they started at the other end of the table. And my mouth dropped open as I realized that the four other women seated at the table with me had clearly obtained Ph.D.'s in Lemonade Studies somewhere along the line. When asked about their feelings on a particular lemonade, each immediately gave a calm and succinct yet well-reasoned DISCOURSE on the particular strengths and weaknesses---including flavor, color, and texture---of the color-coded sample being discussed. And then...last, of course...they got to me: "What did YOU think of the blue one?" I tend to think I lose 60 or 70 percent of my speaking vocabulary when I say hi to Lucy after a show...but well, let me just say that I am a veritable walking dictionary in front of Lucy compared to what I am in front of a camera. I couldn't remember what I thought of the blue one specifically, but I did know I was starting to feel dizzy from all the lemonade on an otherwise empty stomach. I think that I said basically: "I didn't like the blue one. At all." Major frown from the interviewer. Long pause. "Hmmm...that one came in second in the taste test. Does somebody ELSE want to comment on the blue one?" At which point one of the other testers brightly offered a detailed analysis of how very good the blue one had in fact been...or perhaps they had a panel discussion of the excellence of the blue one...I lost track. Before they let us go, they filmed over our shoulders as we scribbled further lemonade-related comments on our ratings sheets. By this point, I had lost my writing vocabulary too, and was pretty much just writing over and over again, "Not very good. Not very good. Not very good." In the moments before departure, I was finally able to lunge at the saltines. At least I was going to get my four saltines, small comfort as they were. I had just about finished downing the third one when I heard a voice from behind me: "Hey, can I have one of your crackers?" Without waiting for a response, the cameraman grabbed my last saltine and popped it in his mouth. Enough...really, ENOUGH...said. Benay ------------------------------ End of lucy-list-digest V5 #49 ****************************** This has been a posting from the Lucy Kaplansky mail list digest To unsubscribe send mail to Majordomo@smoe.org with "unsubscribe lucy-list-digest" in the body of the message