Hurried out after the cartoon ended for a run to the Collingswood Farm Market. Even at 11 AM, and despite the chilly and cloudy weather, they were busy with people buying produce for last-of-the-season barbecues and back to school dinners. It took me less than 20 minutes to buy tiny Gala apples, fat peaches, and tart black grapes. I got out so early, I went across the street to WaWa and bought a chocolate banana smoothie.
Began 13: The Musical when I got home and had lunch. I go further into this Netflix coming-of-age tale about a boy who just moved to Indiana and is trying to fit in at my Musical Dreams Movie Reviews blog.
Ran out to work before I even finished the movie. I was surprised at how busy we were today. We're past the beginning of the month, between holidays, the kids are fully back in school, and the Eagles don't play again until Monday the 16th. Maybe people just wanted something to do in the bad weather. The wind picked up mid-way through my shift and it got even colder. It even showered briefly but hard at one point. I had to clean up a broken jar of tomato-onion Goya sauce and fell behind with the carts until it was almost time for me to leave.
Confirmed my schedule here as well. In good news, still a lot of hours with a more spread-out Monday and Friday off. However, most of those hours are still really early. The head bagger wanted Tuesday off and has spent more time lately in a register replacing a morning cashier who retired.
Dashed straight home and upstairs after that. Finished 13, then listened to records for a while. The Cinderella story and songs record is pretty typical of the genre. I believe it's a later recording from 1980 that doesn't use any of the original voices, but does have most of the original songs. The stepsisters are a bit too shrill, but the fairy godmother has a deep, inviting voice, and Cinderella herself isn't bad.
Trane: The Atlantic Collection features John Coltrane numbers from his albums released by Atlantic Records. "My Favorite Things" was the hit here and is still occasionally heard on the radio at Christmas. Other iconic stand-outs include "Giant Steps," "Equinox," and "Naima."
Finished the night at YouTube for tonight's late Match Game marathon. Tonight's theme was episodes the channel's owner deemed "Gold Star," significant or especially funny. And given the bent of the show, there's a lot of them.
Some shows featured goofy questions, like Orson Bean's hilarious answer to a question about getting a man to propose. There was also the time Polly Holiday's microphone bent over and wouldn't work and Richard held a mock funeral for it. Or the one shortly after the set was remodeled and the Star Wheel brought in when Gene brought a woman on the set to see the show better and commented that the new question holders sounded like Star Wars when they moved up and down. Gene once attacked a cameraman when he wouldn't get off Avery Schriber eating his answer.
Syndicated episodes had their fair share of wacky shenanigans, too. Brett and Barbara Rhodes drooled over a handsome young man from Maine who towered over Gene. Brett and Fannie turned up in another syndicated show on Gene's arms in blonde wigs. Patty Duke got help for a sore knee from a physical therapist contestant, while Jack Jones flirted with the other. There was also the overly excited woman in a later week with McLean Stevenson and long-time soap actress Melody Scott-Thomas who went so crazy every time she won, she practically attacked Gene, and the PM episode with contestants who were so inept, the man only won because Charles matched each of them once, then matched him in a tie.
Check out some of the funniest Match Game episodes ever in this gold star marathon!
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