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Endy, Great to see you, my friend, and, of course, we all like David Bowie.

Well, listeners. It's wonderful to see everyone in here and from all different countries.

I must do stuff, now. So it's time for a...............

Station break:

This is cyberspace, WA2K radio.

Good Morning WA2K!

Today's Birthdays:

1624 - Jean Renaud de Segrais, French writer (d. 1701)
1647 - Denis Papin, French physicist, mathematician, and inventor
1679 - Pierre Guérin de Tencin, French cardinal (d. 1758)
1760 - Pope Leo XII (d. 1829)
1764 - Charles Percier, French architect (d. 1838)
1771 - Henry Maudslay, English inventor and tool-maker (d. 1831)
1800 - William S. Harney, U.S. general (d. 1889)
1802 - Gurdon Saltonstall Hubbard, American land speculator (d. 1886)
1854 - King Milan I of Serbia (d. 1901)
1860 - Paul Nipkow, German inventor and television pioneer (d. 1940)
1862 - Claude Debussy, French composer (d. 1918)
1867 - Maximilian Bircher-Benner, Swiss physician and nutritionist (d. 1939)
1874 - Max Scheler, German philosopher (d. 1928)
1880 - George Herriman, American cartoonist (d. 1944)
1893 - Dorothy Parker, American writer (d. 1967)
1900 - Sergei Ozhegov, Russian lexicographer (d. 1964)
1902 - Leni Riefenstahl, German film director (d. 2003)
1904 - Deng Xiaoping, leader of the People's Republic of China (d. 1997)
1908 - Henri Cartier-Bresson, French photographer (d. 2004)
1915 - Hugh Paddick, British actor (d. 2000)
1917 - John Lee Hooker, American guitarist and singer (d. 2001)
1920 - Ray Bradbury, American writer
1920 - Doctor Denton Cooley, American heart surgeon
1924 - James Kirkwood Jr., novelist (d. 1989)
1927 - Honor Blackman, English actress
1928 - Karlheinz Stockhausen, German composer
1934 - Norman Schwarzkopf, U.S. general
1935 - E. Annie Proulx, American author
1938 - Paul Maguire, American football player
1939 - George Reinholt, American actor
1939 - Carl Yastrzemski, baseball player
1940 - Valerie Harper, American actress
1941 - Bill Parcells, American football coach
1942 - Kathy Lennon, American singer
1947 - Cindy Williams, American actress
1955 - Will Shetterly, writer
1956 - Paul Molitor, baseball player
1957 - Steve Davis, English snooker player
1958 - Colm Feore, American-born Canadian actor
1958 - Vernon Reid, American musician (Living Colour)
1960 - Debbi Peterson, drummer (The Bangles)
1961 - Roland Orzabal, singer and guitarist (Tears for Fears)
1963 - Tori Amos, American singer, songwriter, and pianist
1964 - Mats Wilander, Swedish tennis player
1967 - Layne Staley, American musician (Alice in Chains)
1970 - Charlie Connelly, English travel writer
1973 - Howie Dorough, American singer (Backstreet Boys)
1978 - Jean-Francois "Jeff" Stinco, Canadian musician (Simple Plan)

Dorothy Parker:

" Some men break your heart in two,/ Some men fawn and flatter,/ Some men never look at you;/ And that cleans up the matter."

Now I know the things I know, and I do the things I do; and if you do not like me so, to hell, my love, with you!

Ducking for apples - change one letter and it's the story of my life.

Sorrow is tranquility remembered in emotion.

The two most beautiful words in the English language are "check enclosed.

Wit has truth in it; wise-cracking is simply calisthenics with words.

You can't teach an old dogma new tricks.

The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity.

I require only three things of a man. He must be handsome, ruthless and stupid.

I don't care what is written about me so long as it isn't true.

Oh, life is a glorious cycle of song,
A medley of extemporanea;
And love is a thing that can never go wrong;
And I am Marie of Roumania.

This is not a novel to be tossed aside lightly. It should be thrown with great force.

(When a friend asked her how to get rid of his cat)
Have you tried curiosity?

You can lead a horticulture, but you can't make her think.

Ms. Letty, congrats on the 1000 page milestone. it's so apropos it happened on the birthday of so many celebs. Claude Debussy, John Lee Hooker, Ray Bradbury, Dorothy Parker and Leni Riefenstahl are major celebs for me. Time permitting, it would be nice to hear "The Girl with the Flaxen Hair" by M. Debussy.

Hey, Mr. Turtle. It's wonderful to see you again. Right listeners?

Ah, yes. The Maid With the Flaxen Hair. I love it.

Raggedy, you are so dear to keep us updated on the celebs, and it does seem to be French day today.

Dorothy Parker was one sharp lady, and we definitely salute her.

Dorothy: men never make passes at girls who wear glasses.
Ogden: Girls who wear spectacles quite often get their necks tickled.

I do want to read more thoroughly the background information, and I shall.

Well, listeners, I did read through dys' and Bob's bios, and much to my chagrin, some of the names illude me, but they know we all appreciate the information, right?

More information on DeBussy:

eight tunes were waxed, amongst them the classic "My Reverie". The original melody was written by Claude Debussy in 1896, and bandleader Larry Clinton had added words in 1938 to produce a sizeable pop hit (with vocal by Bea Wain) which propelled Clinton to stardom. Eugene changed the words slightly, but the effect, underpinned by a simple piano and David McNeil's metronomic bass vocal, is deeply effective:

Our love is a dream,
But in my reverie,
You can see that this dance was meant for me.

Only a poor fool, never schooled in the whirlpool
Of romance, could be so cruel
As you are to me.

My love
Is as worthless as tin to me
Without you,
Life would never begin to be.

Please love me
As you loved me in my reverie
Make my dream a reality
Let's dispense with formality
As you loved me
In my reverie.

Dys, thanks for some great bios.
I was lucky to meet "Papa" when we opened for Earl Scruggs and Hot Tuna. He was a very well spoken musician.
I treasure my Specialty LP of Don and Dewey(They wrote "I'm Leaving It Up To You") They were even wilder than Little Richard.

La Fille au Cheveux de Lin?

(? That right, Francis ?)

I can offer a more modern version of the play, without all that old-fashioned talkin' stuff. It is Shakespeare for text messaging:

Rom + Jul by Wil Sh@kspr



Act 1



Romeo : R u awake? Want 2 chat?
Juliet: O Rom. Where4 art thou?
Romeo: Outside yr window.
Juliet: Stalker!
Romeo: Had 2 come. feeling jiggy.
Juliet: B careful. My family h8 u.
Romeo: Tell me about it. What about u?
Juliet: 'm up for marriage f u are.. Is tht a bit fwd?
Romeo: No. Yes. No. Oh, dsnt mat-r, 2moro @ 9?
Juliet: Luv U xxxx
Romeo: CU then xxxx



Act 2



Friar: Do u?
Juliet: I do
Romeo: I do



Act 3



Juliet: Come bck 2 bed. It's the nightingale not the lark.
Romeo: OK
Juliet: !!! I ws wrong !!!. It's the lark. U gotta go. Or die.
Romeo: Damn. I shouldn't hv wasted Tybalt & gt banished.
Juliet: When CU again?
Romeo: Soon. Promise. Dry sorrow drinks our blood. Adieu.
Juliet: Miss u big time.



Act 4



Nurse: Yr mum says u have 2 marry Paris!!
Juliet: No way. Yuk yuk yuk. n-e-way, am mard 2 Rom.



Act 5



Friar: Really? O no. U wl have 2 take potion that makes u look ded.
Juliet: Gr8



Act 6



Romeo: J-why r u not returning my texts?
Romeo: RUOK? Am abroad but phone still works.
Romeo: TXT ME!
Batty: Bad news. J dead. Sorry m8



Act 7



Romeo: J-wish u wr able 2 read this...am now poisoning & and climbing in yr
grave. LUV U Ju xxxx



Act 8



Juliet: R-got yr text! Am alive! Ws faking it! Whr RU? Oh...
Friar: Vry bad situation.
Juliet: Nightmare. LUVU2. Always. Dagger. Ow!!!

bravo, McTag.

Not an original, I confess. It was sent to me by my brother.

Panz, you opened for Earl Scruggs? Well, folks, our panz is the manz, all right.

McTag, whoever sent it to you, it was fantastic, and I see you are also learning French.

Please carry on listeners and contributors. I must keep a doctor's appointment.

Back later.

:wink:

On my, folks. Now Walter's cell phone plays a soliloquy from Hamlet.

A quick weather report from Florida:

It is dangerously hot here, listeners, and I hope it's better where you live.

Song: Something Cool
Lyrics for Album: Completely
(Kim Williams/L. David Lewis)

Something cool, hey, won't you pour me
Something cool, set one up for me
Anything will do
Just make it something cool
Something sad, hey, won't you play me
Something sad, play one that slays me
Play me something blue
To go with something cool

There's an old flame burning in me
Like the sun in a July sky
Seems to me, I'm always thirsty
Since she left me high and dry

Something cool
Something cool

There's an old flame burning in me
Like the sun in a July sky
Seems to me, I'm always thirsty
Since she left me high and dry

Something cool, hey, won't you pour me
Something cool, set one up for me
Anything will do
Just make it something cool

McT:

"La fille aux cheveux de lin ("The Girl with the Flaxen Hair"), based on the poetry of French writer Charles Marie Leconte de Lisle (1818-1894), tells of a young Scottish girl singing in the morning sunshine of her simple, unaffected love."

Merci, mon ami.

.... and can be heard as MP3-file via this website ("La Cathedrale Engloutie" and "Feux d'artifice (Fireworks)" as well to be downloaded there.)

Walter, we would all love to hear DeBussy's maid. I'll try it out on our studio's boom box.

In the interim, has anyone seen or heard from RexRed?

Yes, at Politics.

ah, yes, Walter. Absolutely beautiful, and the pianist was very subtle.Thank you for connecting us. I had forgotten how simple and yet how surprising DeBussy can be. I didn't listen to the fireworks, however, because I think we have enough going on right now in our audience. :wink: