Flickr apps

I really like all the things Flickr allows. My brother in law actually works for one of the companies that Flickr uses for comercial products, and he used their tool to create a montage of his wedding, his own wedding album, and a few other neat tricks (they didn't hire a professional photographer). I think my favorite of the tools listed is the speller, because I figured oot quickly how to have a good deal of control over what displayed. In the others, I think it will take awhile before I'm proficient at getting images just the way I want them.
I created a montage of beagle pictures, and it's hard to tell in the tiny frames, but I think my own beagle pictures may have made the cut! I didn't include the link b/c it took an enternity to load and never fully finished. It's pretty cute, though. Previously, I have only used Flickr for the traditional picture posting site and shared photos with my friends and family that way. Lately, I've linked it to my Facebook account and it displays as a random sample of 30 pictures from my account. The thing I find most frustrating is that my mother-& sister-in-law both signed up for completely different photo sharing accounts! Makes it much more inconvenient to keep up on photos... :)

The St. Louis Muny

Muny
Originally uploaded by pitchyourbiz

Since I've chosen to dedicate my blog to musicals, I felt this was an appropriate choice of image to include. For those of you not from the St. Louis area, this is The Muny amphitheater in Forest Park. It's huge and old and every summer it shows one musical each week. When I was in high school, class officers were given season passes to the Muny, and I managed to get my class officer friends to take me there a few times. I've also been with my family and several times when I've travelled back to the area. My parents even went to the Muny on one of their first dates, and saw Finian's Rainbow. So, you see it is unavoidable for me to like this place--it runs in my family.

The Muny is very "St. Louis," and when you go, you see everyone you could possibly imagine. There are free bleachers up in the nose-bleed section, and then the tickets range from cheap (performers the size of ants) to expensive (actually being able to see the performers' facial features). Going there is as much for the atmosphere as it is for the show. It's a great way to spend a sumer night, even when suffering from the unbearable heat and humidity of outdoor theater.

Recent discovery about a favorite musical

I learned from TCM on July 4th that the musical 1776 as I always knew and loved it was missing 35 minutes that had been cut at the request of President Nixon before its release in theaters! One of the cuts was a song about how the congressmen against declaring the revolution were conservative men, moving "always to right, never to the left." In addition, there was some dialogue and an intro to another song cut. Mostly, he requested some scenes that made the founding fathers look excessively foolish be removed. I loved 1776 before and I love it now. It has incredible dialogue, and there is not a single number that I would fast-forward through (which I cannot say about all musicals)!