Headed out after that to run errands. The Collingswood Farm Market was busy with people buying produce for their 4th of July Weekend barbecues, despite the overwhelming heat and humidity. The summer harvest continues to roll out. Strawberries are gone, but I saw peppers, eggplant, blackberries, plums, local tomatoes, yellow squash, and corn for the first time this week. Bought cherries, peaches, plums, blueberries, and peas for a snack this week.
Took a short stroll in Collingswood next. I had no other plans and really wasn't in a hurry. Stopped at WaWa first for a Propel strawberry-kiwi water. Bought a container of toffee cashews, a bag of matcha chocolate-covered almonds, and sliced cheddar cheese for lunch at Haddon Culinary and yummy coconut macaroons at Dulce Artisanal Pastry. Innergroove Records was too busy with young record lovers for me to do a lot of exploring, but I did come up with three jazz records, one a classic:
Muggsy Spanier & Sidney Bechet - Ragtime Jazz
Dave Brubeck Quartet - Time Out
Jazz collection with songs by Charlie Parker, Stan Getz, and Wardell Gray
(The Dave Brubeck Quartet was the splurge at $19.99, but that's the cheapest I've ever seen it, and it was in near-mint shape. I found it right at the front of the jazz new arrivals bin. The owner said he put it out just yesterday!)
I did go home after I got my macaroons. It was just too hot to do much more walking. It jumped into the mid-90's here. It was supposed to rain yesterday, and then today. I never saw rain. Not one raindrop. It just keeps getting hotter. I'm surprised at how busy Collingswood was. I was far from the only person milling around Innergroove, and a big group of young people came into Dulce Artisanal Pastry just as I was leaving.
Went straight into watching Laff-a-Lympics while putting everything away when I got home. The competition in the "Africa" jungle did not begin well. No one won the jungle boat race, either due to the Rottens' cheating, or them not being able to or wanting to go over Victoria Falls. They all ended up back at the start, with the Rottens in the negative. The vine swinging went better. Dread Baron won this one, though Yogi had some pretty impressive moves, too. Orful Octopus didn't need to cheat to use his 8 legs to make first in the roller skating race through "San Francisco," followed by tiny Pixie and Dixie. The Dread Baron, however, got caught cheating by resident skinny hungry dudes Shaggy and Tinker in the fishing contest. Daisy Mayhem only came up with Jabberjaw, but Auggie Doggie and Doggy Daddy really caught the big one!
Switched to Hello Kitty Furry Tale Theater while having lunch. Kitty is the sweet sister and Catnip her bratty sibling in "Kitty and the Beast." They stay with a pig-penguin (Tuxedo Sam), but leave him to help their father. Kitty, however, realizes how much he means to her and goes back. "Little Red Riding Bunny" is My Melody, a sweet miss who heads out west to visit her grandmother and ends up dodging a hungry wolf (Grinder) and Belle Catnip and her gang.
The reason I did that episode was as a lead-in to Red Riding Hood. I go further into this unusual live-action fairy tale spoof from 2006 at my Musical Dreams Movie Reviews blog.
Did quick cleaning while Red Riding Hood was on. I basically ran the dust cloth over anything that showed. I'm not planning on doing anything major up here for a while. Vacuumed and Swiftered the floors and wiped down the window and electronics.
Switched to records while working on the review for Red Riding Hood. Been wanting to pick up something for Barenaked Ladies for a while. Some of my favorites songs of theirs are on Original Hits, Original Stars, including "Falling For the First Time," "Pinch," "It's All Been Done," "One Week," and the hilarious theme from the long-running sitcom The Big Bang Theory. Ragtime Jazz turned out to be less ragtime and more jazzy versions of songs from the 1910's and 20's. I liked "Sweet Sue, Just You," "Lazy River," and "That's a Plenty."
Finished the night with dinner and the Match Game Saturday Classics marathon on YouTube. Gene Rayburn may have loved his long microphone that could telescope up and down, but it caused him no end of problems. It was perpetually breaking, falling apart, or getting lost. Once, Gene lost the ball off the top. Another time, his regular one wasn't working, and they basically stopped the show so everyone could help him find his spare. It literally broke apart in his hands at the end of a PM episode.
Gene and the stagehands often came up with creative replacements. There was the episode where Fannie drooled over handsome young schoolteacher Ron Valenti that started with Gene hauling around a huge old radio microphone. Someone handed him a lighter old-time radio mic on another show. Another had a paper lightning bolt on his microphone to keep it from crackling. An audience member made him a glitter-trimmed champagne pink microphone. He complained about having to use a short but sturdier microphone in a syndicated episode...but as short and sturdy Arte Johnson pointed out, some people had to deal with a lot more than a microphone being small!
Check out the ongoing saga of Gene and his favorite piece of equipment onstage in this hilarious marathon!
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