From: owner-lucy-list-digest@smoe.org (lucy-list-digest) To: lucy-list-digest@smoe.org Subject: lucy-list-digest V5 #96 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 Monday, April 28 2003 Volume 05 : Number 096 In this issue: [lucy-list] a bit of serendipity [lucy-list] delivery ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sun, 27 Apr 2003 23:03:46 -0400 From: "Benay Bubar" Subject: [lucy-list] a bit of serendipity OK, really, despite how it might seem on this list, it's NOT as if I spend my life seeking out Lucy-related moments in between concerts...but I swear, occasionally one just falls in my lap. So this afternoon found Sharon and Elaine and me in my neighborhood in Brooklyn, enjoying the sunshine and just basically walking around and hanging out and goofing off. (Although I am rather pathetically un-trendy personally, I happen to live in a trendy neighborhood that is a good place for hanging out and goofing off on a weekend afternoon.) Anyway, we wandered along conversing about various topics, most not even music-related...but at a certain point, standing outside a coffee shop, we WERE talking about Lucy---or, rather, about what I was going to wear to Lucy's show at Symphony Space in a few weeks. This became a conversation topic not because of any sudden vanity on my part, but rather because it turns out (because this is just the way my life goes) I am going to have to leave that show---hopefully not until AFTER Lucy's performance!---and hightail it right over to a friend's birthday party with the theme of..."guests encouraged to dress appropriately"...the beach. So the question becomes, what can I wear in upper Manhattan on an evening in mid-May that will simultaneously say "Lucy show at Symphony Space!" and "the beach!"? A hard question, especially since I've never particularly liked the beach and own nothing remotely beachlike except one tropical-flowered bathing suit, and I wouldn't be caught dead in THAT at Symphony Space (or anywhere else at this point, actually). So there were Sharon and Elaine and I discussing this---what should Benay wear to see Lucy at Symphony Space and then go to a beach party?---and the two of them were helpfully lobbing various clothing ideas at me ("Sundress!"...flip-flops!") and I---already having formed an attitude toward the beach party thing that could be summarized by the Susan Werner song title "Let's Regret This In Advance"---was grumpily protesting, "I don't HAVE that!" at every suggestion. And all through the time we were having this conversation, there was a guy standing talking on a cell phone about six or eight feet away from us. And suddenly Sharon looked over at him, hard, and said, "You know who that is, right?" And then we ALL looked at him hard...which probably freaked him out some...but after a moment we DID know: it was Ben Wittman, Lucy's producer and occasional drummer! Who, poor guy, probably never thought he would randomly encounter Lucy groupies morphing into Ben Wittman groupies in the middle of Brooklyn. We didn't bug Ben; we soon went on our merry way and left him to his cell phone conversation. But turning around in the middle of my a Lucy-related conversation, on a street corner in Brooklyn, and seeing Ben Wittman...it was one of those truly stranger-than-fiction moments. And hey, I may never know anything about Lucy's shows in Chicago today unless somebody reviews them (anybody? anybody), but I CAN say one thing with certainty: one person she did NOT have with her there was Ben Wittman! He's been otherwise accounted for today... Benay ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 28 Apr 2003 02:24:49 -0400 From: peter cox Subject: [lucy-list] delivery Lucy, hi As promised I delivered my three Brookie second draftson Friday. In advance I had asked David Hanson would he be able to sign the acceptances off on Friday and he hoped to be able to. It might be worth a call to see if that happened or to gee it up a bit if not. (Especially with next week including the Bank Hol Bye for now Off to Casualty Thankfully only in the literary sense Peter ------------------------------ End of lucy-list-digest V5 #96 ****************************** 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