Sleeping Muse and Falling Rocket

Written by John Cleese about a broken toaster, then about a broken car, it was Graham Chapman's idea to make the item being returned a dead parrot. Specifically, a 'Norwegian Blue.'

 I always confuse Strauss' Radetsky March with Sousa's Liberty Bell March.

 Al Jaffee and Will Elder together at the High School for Music and Arts in NYC in 1936.

 The Virgil Thompson opera, Four Saints in Three Acts, with a libretto by Gertrude Stein, in fact involved more than twenty saints.  In four acts. Other lies: Stein claimed that it would "finish opera the way that Picasso finished oil painting." Neither was finished.

 "Bernie Eisenstein died! You remember the dance team of Ramona and Rodriguez? Bernie was Rodriguez."

 " In the human mind, the word  library  seems to sit alongside other pregnant and evocative words such as  garden ,  forest ,  galaxy,  and  labyrinth ."                  --- Stuart Kelly, The Paris Review