topped with a mound of delicious whipped cream!
This is what I was sipping last weekend at Hart’s Alley, Laramie’s wine and martini bar.
We were there with friends to see the Albany County Acting Troupe perform several of Shel Silverstein one-act vignettes.
A good time was had by all…
Now, for a bit of Shel Silverstein trivia you might not know...
He wrote the lyrics to a “Boy Name Sue,” of Johnny Cash fame, for which we won a Grammy.
He wrote the lyrics and music for most of Dr. Hook & the Medicine Show songs, including “The Cover of the Rolling Stones,” and Sylvia’s Mother, which is purported to be autobiographical, "Boa Constrictor," of Peter Paul & Mary fame and "Sarah Cynthia Sylvia Stout (Would Not Take The Garbage out)."
He was one of the leading cartoonists for Playboy in the 1950s.
He was nominated for an Oscar and a Golden Globe for the title song from “Post Cards from the Edge,” and wrote a slew of other songs and hundreds of one-act plays, some of which we saw last weekend.
Some prolific guy, that Mr. Silverstein.
Wonder what he’d be doing today, if he was still around…
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