Wow, Severn, you're back in fine form! (I.e., your form should get you fined for exceeding the pun limit.)

Really sorry I can't flooze it up with the other big-bottomed gals this year. Aside from the $ thing, it looks like I may be about to follow Deckman's lead and do that there hip-replacement thing. In any event, until I get the leg pain thing under control, cross-country flying is something I prefer to postpone. ('Course I guess the cane I use sporadically [when the sporadic pain really acts up] could be used as a stage prop à la Fred Astaire or Judy Garland. But then, Fred never did dress in feathers and a floozy frock, far as I know.)


Next year, Bobert, we gots ta get that blues band scheduled at a less competitive time.

Meanwhile I hope you can get a flock o' floozies to flounce around onstage with you and Amos and LEJ et al.