Things that keep Nana up at night, and no this is not one of ‘those’ kind of blogs!  Keep your minds out of the gutter or no cake for you later! 

1.        I do not understand what the show the Fantasticks is about?  I mean I know that if you plant a radish you get a radish but what does the have to do with anything?  Let’s face it it’s the longest running show in the history of American theater because everyone is still trying to figure out what the Hell it’s about!  This is what it says about the plot on Wikipedia.com “Elements of the play are ultimately drawn from the story of Pyramus and Thisbe, its story winding its way through Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet and A Midsummer Night's Dream as well as Donizetti's L'Elisir d'Amore and Rostand's play.”  Does that clear it up for you?  Well it doesn’t for poor old Nana.  That is like saying it is Sunday in the Park with George and West Side Story as well as The Odd Couple and Hedwig!  Make up you minds please!  ….And don’t even get me started on the Rape Ballet!  Now Nana is trying to remember why she started this diatribe in the first place.  Get it?  Nana kills Nana!

2.        Fur Elise, Ludwig van Beethoven's toe tappy piano piece was written for Elise?  How clever!

3.       It took Nana years to learn that “Kumbayah” the song she and many others sang around a Girl Scout campfire is Gullah for come by here.  "Come by Here" = "Kum ba yah"!

4.       Nana overheard this conversation the other day.

                            Tourist #1” Excuse me how do we get to Green Witch Village?

                            Tourist #2 “It’s not Green Witch it is Gren witch!”

                            I hope they don’t have to find Houston Street!

5.       No one really knows why New York is called the Big Apple.  Ask 10 different people and you’ll get 10 differing answers.  The explanations vary form talk of brothels, jazz musicians, and farmers.  Nana thinks maybe we should just call it New York.

6.       To end this sleepless talk today Nana would like to say that she doesn’t care the Meadowlark was blind, the lark was blind.  She also did not know that Dolphins bark and may be considered cold when she says that she never cried when the meadowlark died.  Even though it is a nice rhyme.  

7.       Oh, one more thing, Nana Hopes Taylor the Latte Boy is at least a store manager by now.

Sorry if Nana was cranky today but these things, well, and world peace lay heavy on her heart.  Now eat your vegetables.