Busy weekend. The last chapter of the article on Nursing Homes should be here tomorrow. Or maybe the day after. Or the day after. Time moves at a variable pace when you're in isolation. Every so often, I have a day that must be forty-five hours, given how much I manage to get accomplished in it. But then that's almost immediately balanced by a couple of those nine-hour days in quick succession…the kind where you get up, get out of your pajamas and into actual clothes, eat something…and then it's time to get ready for bed. You've all had them.
This week, my one-on-one podcasts have a theme in common and that theme is Groucho Marx. On Tuesday, I will be talking with my friend Steve Stoliar, who worked as Groucho's secretary for the great comedian's final years and witnessed the antics of the controversial Ms. Erin Fleming. Steve is also a fine writer, a student of non-Marxian comedy and a talented voice actor and impressionist.
On Thursday, I talk with another friend…Frank Ferrante, who as readers of this blog are sick of hearing, tours the continent with his magical show, An Evening with Groucho. Frank is so good, he can even sometimes do An Evening with Groucho in the afternoon…and like Steve, he also does a lot of other things. We'll talk about them, too.
Next Saturday is the third Cartoon Voices Panel and…well, I hope you folks are enjoying these because I am.