Oopsie-Daisy

Apparently the bitcoin bug bit Stephen. At first he was thrilled but he soon became almost sick to his stomach. He hoped for riches but he may have lost it all. Hard to tell. I am willing to help Stephen out with an alternate money form that I have in a box in the basement family room. In this box I have a supply of colorful money, white ones, pink fives, canary tens, green twenties, blue fifties, buff hundreds and goldenrod five-hundreds. If Stephen will contact me, we can do some trading - my money for his money. One of us is guaranteed to come our richer. But back to bitcoin. Joining Stephen on the show was Adam Davidson of NPR with this advice, "Never buy bitcoin."

Country Music was featured, finally, on the show. Some of the favorite songs by Stephen's favorite singer Brad Paisley include Alcohol, Camouflage, Toothbrush and Chicken Chet.

Note to aspiring Country Music songwriters, if you don't know what to write about, go outside, spin around ten times with your eyes shut. Okay, now stop, open your eyes and say the first thing that you see. Write a song about it. I did this and now I'm writing a song entitled, "There's a Crack in the Sidewalk and Bird Poop in the Crack."

So anyway, Stephen loves him that Country Music. One of the reasons Stephen loves Brad Paisley's music is that Paisley solved racism. He had help from LL Cool J. Stephen gave a real quick critique of the song, "Accidental Racist."

Not to be outdone in the music world, Stephen performed that monster hit single, "Oopsie-Daisy Homophobe." And might I say that Stephen wears that cowboy hat very well and sounds marvelous. He was joined on-stage halfway through the song by equally handsome guest, Alan Cumming. I'm pretty sure Stephen is busy on the weekends working on a new CD of songs to come out soon. (At least I sure hope he is. He's such a great singer with a voice like butter.) He probably is collaborating with all the best talent out there. Time will tell if I'm right or just indulging myself in hopeful wishing. For sure it would be a chart topper if he released a new CD. (Come on Stephen. Start singing.)

Alan Cumming, a man who has the talent to play many varied roles, was Stephen's guest on Wednesday's show. And Stephen was suitablly impressed as he told Alan Cumming, "You clean up real nice." Alan was wearing his Shakespearean actor suit which was in contrast to his earlier gay urban look when he sang with Stephen. The two of them could have talked about a long list of movies, plays, etc. but they focused on the current CD that is out by Alan Cumming - "The Head That Wears a Crown, Speeches for Royal Men by William Shakespeare." I can understand why he would do this. His voice is so nice to listen to. There's nothing quite like a British/Scottish accent to make someone sound regal. In addition to the CD, he is also on Broadway now doing Macbeth. Stephen had thought it was a one-man Macbeth, but he was corrected. There are two other people also in the play, however Alan Cumming does play Macbeth as well as sixteen other parts. (Wow, I would hate to be the understudy for him. Whew.)

We learned that even on Basic Cable there are some things that you just can not say. We did not learn what that something was, but we do know there are some things that you just can not say on Basic Cable. Also interesting was learning what you can't do on stage. Nearly two hours on stage and you have to be careful not to burp or cough or, well, use your imagination.