I have a little prize for the first reader to correctly identify the allusion in my entry title. No foolin’! Try not to cheat, but hey, who am I to stop you? Anyway, it’s apt today, because it’s April and it’s raining. Like, coming down hard. Happy second quarter. For some reason, I’ve been thinking about “to do’s.” I need to either cancel or scale down my cable TV subscription at my apartment that I’m never at. And I’ve been telling myself, by April I’d get back to the gym, so I can be all toned and ready for summer, but here I am putting it off a few more days. Next week, I promise. And how ’bout them taxes? This weekend, I promise.
[Update (2 Apr): What, no takers? Avril Raines is a character in the 1989 Broadway musical City of Angels (music by Cy Coleman, lyrics by David Zippel, and book by Larry Gelbart). In our college production, yours truly played the role of crooner Jimmy Powers. And by the way, today here in the D.C. area the April rains continue.]
3 replies on “Avril raines”
If by not cheating you mean don’t look it up, then I’m out of luck, because I didn’t know it off the top of my head. I’m not the theatre queen some of us are.
But I don’t need a little prize since the best prize of all is coming home from the city to my little angel every day.
And yes, you do need to do something about that apartment you’re never at, or should it be that apartment at which you’re never, or is that the kind of errant pedantry up with which you will not put?
Oui, il pleut en avril. Cependant, j’adore la pluie.
Such an obscure reference… Eep.
Sorry Jeff! I did remember the song you sang:
“I’m in a sentimental way…” (everybody) “SO STAY WITH ME…”
At least that’s how *I* think it went…
P.S. Larry Gelbart… sigh, my hero!